Hondurans will not soon forgive the administration's efforts to shove ex-president Manuel Zelaya down their throats.
Many, amongst the poorest of Hondurans, were exploited and paid to march in contrived rallies.
No wonder Hondurans rarely say anything to the authorities, for fear of reprisals.
Clearly no one in Washington expected it to be so hard to break the will of Hondurans.
Hondurans, like the Iranian resistance, saw that they could not count on the U. S. for help.
The need to dictate to Hondurans how to run their country has been the problem from the start.
That said, even the Hondurans have their limits, and the incident should serve a warning to the United States.
For the near future it is Hondurans who will champion democracy and freedom.
The government bought rice and maize seed abroad, but Hondurans are choosy about beans: they like a local red variety.
Four years later, though, the World Bank found that for most Hondurans little had improved and they had never really recovered.
Then, just days before President Porfirio Lobo's inauguration in January, Hondurans estimate it pulled at least 50 more from Micheletti supporters.
The gang name is commonly abbreviated as MS-13, Mara, MS, and is composed mostly of Salvadorans, Hondurans and other Central Americans.
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It's hard to imagine what the U.S. thinks it achieves with a policy that divides Hondurans while strengthening the hand of a chavista.
The ballots came from Venezuela on Chavez's plane and the "YES" side was definitely going to win regardless of how Hondurans truly voted.
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The fact that the Organization of American States and the U.S. never defended the Bolivian democracy cannot be lost on the Hondurans or the chavistas.
Hondurans wanted to restore democracy and repudiated Chavez's puppet, Manuel Zelaya.
He was warned by the attorney general but he persisted and, with support from Hondurans of all political parties, he was arrested and deported on June 28.
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The soft reaction to the Ahuas shooting boils down to a contradiction of Hondurans' situation, said Eduardo Gamarra, professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University.
They were later joined by Hondurans, Guatemalans and other migrants.
What motivated the poor and simple Hondurans to reject this?
The Hondurans came hard and fast and with style, playing the sort of pro-active game Klinsmann, a former German superstar, has been trying to get the U.S. to play.
It can't have been comforting for Hondurans to learn that while their country was living a monumental crisis, fueled by U.S. policy, Mr. Restrepo's concern was his party's power.
Klinsmann chose to start the largely untested Omar Gonzalez in the central defense over longtime captain Carlos Bocanegra, and the U.S. defenders kept letting the Hondurans deep into the field.
Though traumatic for Hondurans, little of it registered in the international press until he was legally removed from the country to avert violence that was being provoked by Zelaya, himself.
"My sense is that Hondurans are finding themselves in a desperate situation and they really want U.S. cooperation, and that gives the U.S. some margin to make mistakes, " said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue.
We were warmly received by our hosts, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. (TSE) Hondurans were happy to see international observers, almost 400 strong from various nations, which came to their country to offer support for the electoral process.
The Hondurans simply were not good enough to quell the onslaught and Spain flooded forward at will as Xavi missed Jesus Navas's cross by inches and then Torres headed a golden chance into the ground before the Liverpool star ballooned another chance haplessly over from inside the box.
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