Micheletti Government rejects OAS delegation.

This whole farce has been characterised by the coup government snubbing its nose at the whole international community while being able to mount a big public relations campaign in the US that involves several people associated with Hilary Clinton. Clinton herself took a very timid stance from the beginning, moreso than even Obama. An official letter in response to a query of Senator Lugar is even more compromising.
All along Micheletti has rejected the firt premise of the negotiations that Zelaya will be restored as president. Even though Arias bent over backwards to make the return a boon for the coup the group simply stuck to their story that the coup was not a coup but a move to support the constitution against Zelaya's violations! This line is echoed in many mainstream media along with the falsehood that the referendum Zelaya tried to implement was to extend his term.
Now the Honduran regime makes demands that the OAS pick delegates from countries of its own choosing. No doubt Colombia would be acceptable. They also demand that the head of the OAS butt out because they don't like him because he is adamantly opposed to the coup.
It will be interesting to see what the U.S. reaction is to this in your face rejection of the U.S. well crafted plan to let the coup off scot free!
There is division both in the military and the Liberal party about the coup. The military has come out in support of an Arias type solution and the Liberal party presidential candidate has disassoicated himself from the coup.

Honduran regime rejects delegation seeking crisis solution

TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) – The Honduran regime on Sunday said it would turn back a high-level delegation from the Organization of American States that is seeking a negotiated solution to the political crisis triggered by a coup.
The delegation, including the foreign ministers of Argentina, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, was set to arrive in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday.
The Honduran foreign ministry said it would not receive the group because it included OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, who it claimed was biased.
It also said that other unnamed countries it considered more sympathetic were not represented in the delegation.
The Tuesday visit was to coincide with the arrival of thousands of pro-Zelaya activists from around the country that are to converge on Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, the two largest cities in Honduras.
The announcement is also at odds with an earlier statement by acting foreign minister Carlos Lopez. "We expect that with the arrival of the foreign ministers (in the OAS delegation) relations will be normalized" with the international community, he told AFP on Saturday.
The Honduran statement Sunday said that the visit could be rescheduled, as long as the delegation did not include Insulza.
"Unfortunately Insulza's intransigence and his insistence on including himself in the delegation and to exclude foreign ministers of member states that ... are open to reconsidering our case has made it impossible to allow this visit in the scheduled date," read the foreign ministry statement.
It complained of Insulza's alleged "lack of objectivity, impartiality and professionalism" in his job, "which has resulted in serious damage to democracy" in Honduras.
OAS officials announced they were sending the delegation -- aimed at supporting the "re-establishment of democratic order" -- on Friday.
Honduras's membership in the OAS was suspended following a June 28 coup in which soldiers ousted President Manuel Zelaya from power and put him on a plane to neighboring Nicaragua.
The suspension came after Insulza, a former Chilean foreign minister, issued a report critical of the interim regime.
Zelaya has expressed support for a proposal that would allow him to return to power, offer political amnesty to those involved in the coup, and schedule early presidential elections, which was proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.
Honduran interim leader Roberto Micheletti has rejected the Arias plan because it includes Zelaya's return to power.
Washington has so far refused to recognize Micheletti's government, has suspended military aid to Honduras and revoked the diplomatic visas of some of the interim Honduran leaders.
The political crisis in Honduras will be one of the issues to be discussed as the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada meet in Guadalajara Sunday and Monday.
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