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<h1><b>Big Gun: US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Heads to Honduras
Tuesday</b></h1><font size=3>Posted by
<a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/users/al-giordano">Al
Giordano</a> - November 2, 2009 at 7:18 pm <br><br>
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<a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3577/big-gun-us-labor-secretary-hilda-solis-heads-honduras-tuesday" eudora="autourl">
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3577/big-gun-us-labor-secretary-hilda-solis-heads-honduras-tuesday<br>
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</a></font><font size=3><b><i>(perhaps a bit of wishful thinking,
definitely clever move, interesting to know nonetheless)<br><br>
</i></b>With the agreed-upon November 5 deadline for restitution of
Honduras President Manuel Zelaya approaching, the White House has just
sent in a big gun. US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis - arguably the most
progressive member of the Obama cabinet - was appointed today to be one
of four members of the "Verification Commission" that is
charged with making sure all sides comply with last Friday's agreement
signed in Tegucigalpa to end the coup d'etat.<br><br>
The
<a href="http://narconews.com/Issue61/article3910.html">agreement's</a>
timeline is clear as day:<br><br>
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<dd>October 30, 2009<br><br>
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<dd>1. Signing and entrance of the Accord into effect.<br><br>
<dd>2. Formal delivery of the Accord to Congress for the effects of Point
5, “Regarding the Executive Power.”<br><br>
<dd>November 2, 2009<br><br>
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<dd>1. Formation of the Verification Commission.<br><br>
<dd>After the signing of this Accord and no later than November
5<br><br>
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<dd>1. Formation and installation of the National Unity and
Reconciliation Government.<br><br>
</dl>Other members of the verification committee are former Chilean
President Ricardo Lagos, President Zelaya's UN Ambassador Jorge Eduardo
Reina Idiaquez and coup regime lackey Arturo Corrales Alvarez, who will
no doubt be outnumbered by the other three if he tries to join the
anti-democracy extremists of the coup regime in stalling implementation
of the agreement.<br><br>
Lagos is a particularly interesting addition to the Verification
Commission. In 1972, Chilean President Salvador Allende nominated him as
ambassador to the Soviet Union and Congress refused to vote on his
nomination. After the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile he was forced into exile
to Argentina and then the United States. He returned to Chile to lead the
resistance against the coup regime of General Augusto Pinochet, including
the successful "vote no" referendum of 1988 that brought down
the then fifteen-year-old coup regime.<br><br>
That the White House chose Secretary Solis - obviously not from the State
Department, but a cabinet member on equal footing with Secretary Hillary
Clinton - sends a clear message that it means business (and perhaps that
the hemming and hawing that characterized State's mixed-message behavior
toward the Honduras crisis all summer long has come to its overdue
conclusion). Solis is strongly allied with labor union organizations in
the US, which have their own alliances with many of the unions that make
the backbone of the Honduran Civil Resistance.<br><br>
In addition to speaking Spanish, both Solis and Lagos know plenty about
how civil resistance works and how to combat the stalling tactics of
those in power. Solis already bested the stalling tactics of Republicans
in the US Congress earlier this year that attempted to block her
nomination. Lagos has already dismantled one coup regime. He now gets the
chance to dismantle another.<br><br>
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