Clinton Wrapping Up Latin American Trip in Guatemala

Clinton urges reform in Latin American
San Jose, Costa Rica - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is promoting democratic and social reforms in Latin America, where many nations have troubled political histories and uneven democratic performance. At a meeting Thursday of top officials from 15 countries in Central and South America plus Canada, Clinton planned to press nations in the Western Hemisphere to restore full relations with Honduras. A democratic election in November ended a political crisis resulting from a coup...

Clinton urges reform in Latin American nations
San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is promoting democratic and social reforms in Latin America, where many nations have troubled political histories and uneven democratic performance. At a meeting Thursday of top officials from 15 countries in Central and South America plus Canada, Clinton planned to press nations in the Western Hemisphere to restore full relations with Honduras. A democratic election in November ended a political crisis resulting from a...

Clinton urges recognition of Honduras government
San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the Obama Administration will resume aid to Honduras that was suspended after a coup last year and urged Latin American nations to recognize the new Honduran government. Clinton said the Honduran government that took office in January was democratically elected, was reconciling the population split by last June's coup and deserved normal relations with countries that cut ties after the ouster of the former...

USA to resume aid to Honduras
San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the Obama Administration will resume aid to Honduras that was suspended after a coup last year and urged Latin American nations to recognize the new Honduran government. Clinton said the Honduran government that took office in January was democratically elected, was reconciling the population split by last June's coup and deserved normal relations with countries that cut ties after the ouster of...

Clinton urges recognition of Honduras government
San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama Administration will restore aid to Honduras that was suspended after a coup last year. Clinton is urging Latin America to recognize the new Honduran government. Speaking Thursday in Costa Rica, Clinton said the post-coup government, which took office in January, was democratically elected. And she said it was taking steps to reconcile the population split by last June’s coup, as called for by...

Clinton: US to restore aid to Honduras, urges recognition of new government
San Jose, Costa Rica — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the Obama Administration will resume aid to Honduras that was suspended after a coup last year and urged Latin American nations to recognize the new Honduran government. Clinton said the Honduran government that took office in January was democratically elected, was reconciling the population split by last June's coup and deserved normal relations with countries that cut ties after the ouster of the...

Clinton pushes Honduras recognition
San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging the countries of Latin America to recognize the new, post-coup government of Honduras and is pledging additional counternarcotics aid to the region. At a meeting to be held later Friday in Guatemala, Clinton will make the case to Central American regional leaders to restore full relations with Honduras that some had suspended after a coup last June and to support its readmission to the Organization of American...

Clinton pushes Honduras recognition
San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging the countries of Latin America to recognize the new, post-coup government of Honduras and is pledging additional counternarcotics aid to the region. At a meeting to be held later Friday in Guatemala, Clinton will make the case to Central American regional leaders to restore full relations with Honduras that some had suspended after a coup last June and to support its readmission to the Organization of...

Clinton Presses Region to Recognize Honduras
MEXICO CITY — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended a five-day tour of Latin America Friday with a lightning trip to Guatemala, where she promised Central American presidents more help to fight drug trafficking and repeated her call for more countries to recognize the new government of Honduras . The new Honduran president, Porfirio Lobo , attended the meeting in Guatemala City, an appearance that signaled a step toward normalizing relations with neighbors El Salvador and...

Hillary Clinton's Honduran Disgrace
She just met with Honduran President Pepe Lobo, she's notified Congress that the Obama Administration is restoring aid to Honduras, and she's urging Latin American nations to recognize the Lobo government in Tegucigalpa. The democratic opposition in Honduras boycotted lobo's election, since he's allied with the forces that overthrew Manuel Zelaya last June. But for the longest time, Hillary Clinton stubbornly refused to call the June takeover a "coup," even though her boss, the...

Clinton Tries to Mend Honduras Dispute on Central American Tour
Source: Bloomberg Clinton Tries to Mend Honduras Dispute on Central American Tour By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on her first trip to Central America since last June's coup in Honduras, announced the U.S. is restoring aid to the country and urged its neighbors to normalize ties following the election of a new president. "Honduras has taken important and necessary steps that deserve the recognition and the normalization of relations,"...

Hugo Chavez Mocks Hillary Clinton as "Blond Condoleezza"...
Pant Suits wishes... Venezuela's President Hugo mocked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday as a "blond" version of her predecessor, and said a row with Spain over alleged links with rebel groups was over. Visiting Latin America this week, Clinton said the Obama Administration's policies towards the region were helping blunt the criticism of the United States by leftist leaders like Chavez. "To me, she's like Condoleezza Rice ... a blond Condoleezza," said the Venezuelan,...

Chavez says Clinton, Obama policies in South America a failure
Reuters: Venezuela's President Hugo mocked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday as a "blond" version of her predecessor, and said a row with Spain over alleged links with rebel groups was over. Visiting Latin America this week, Clinton said the Obama Administration's policies toward the region were helping blunt the criticism of the United States by leftist leaders like Chavez. "To me, she's like Condoleezza Rice ... a blond Condoleezza," said the Venezuelan, referring to former...

Hillary Clinton urges Latin America to fight drug corruption
MEXICO CITY -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for Latin America to fight drug Corruption in a regional swing that ended Friday in Guatemala, days after that country's drug czar and national police chief were jailed on suspicion of leading a police ring that stole Cocaine from drug traffickers. The arrests underscored Guatemala's vulnerability to traffickers, whose billions of dollars in profits and bribes are undermining a fragile country still recovering from years of...

President Chavez Criticizes Hillary Clinton as a 'Blonde Condoleezza': Government of Venezuela
No one can say that Hugo Chavez doesn’t have the knack for a memorable turn of phrase. Since the creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Latin America’s newest alliance which excludes the United States, the tension seems to have heated up between the U.S. and Venezuela. In this latest rhetorical salvo, the Venezuelan leader has gone after Secretary of State Clinton, who has been on a Latin American tour, likening her to one of his less than favorite...

Clinton's Latin American clangers
Hillary Clinton 's Latin America tour is turning out to be about as successful as George W Bush's visit in 2005 , when he ended up leaving Argentina a day ahead of schedule just to get the hell out of town. The main difference is that she is not being greeted with Protests and riots . For that she can thank the positive media image that her boss, President Obama, has managed to maintain in the region, despite his continuation of his predecessor's policies. But she has been even more...

Chavez mocks Clinton as "blond Condoleezza"
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela's President Hugo mocked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday as a "blond" version of her predecessor, and said a row with Spain over alleged links with rebel groups was over. Visiting Latin America this week, Clinton said the Obama Administration's policies towards the region were helping blunt the criticism of the United States by leftist leaders like Chavez. "To me, she's like Condoleezza Rice ... a blond...

RT
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has said the Obama Administration will do what it can do block further progress of a controversial bill describing as Genocide the killing by Turks of Armenians during WWI. A US congressional committee narrowly approved the resolution on Thursday, paving the way for a possible vote on Capitol Hill. But Mrs Clinton said the Administration would 'work very hard' to prevent this.

OBAMA MORE FORCEFULLY DEFENDS TURKISH/MUSLIM GENOCIDE AGAINST CHRISTIAN ARMENIANS THAN HE DOES ISRAEL AT ALL
YOU GET TO KNOW WHO A PRESIDENT REALLY IS BY SEEING WHERE HE DRAWS A LINE IN THE SAND: BBC: US will not adopt 'Genocide' bill The Obama Administration has said it will seek to block a controversial bill describing as Genocide the World War I killing of Armenians by Turks. A congressional panel on Thursday approved the resolution, paving the way for a possible vote by the House. But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Administration would "work very hard" to prevent this. Turkey...

Obama Will Seek to Block Resolution Condemning Armenian Genocide From Going to Full House Vote...
Fucking disgrace... (BBC) - The Obama Administration has said it will seek to block a controversial bill describing as Genocide the World War I killing of Armenians by Turks. A congressional panel on Thursday approved the resolution, paving the way for a possible vote by the House. But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Administration would "work very hard" to prevent this. Turkey voiced strong Protests after the vote and recalled its ambassador from Washington for...

The Armenian Genocide and Culturist Sensibilities
This week the House of Representatives debated a resolution that would have given official recognition to the attempted Genocide of Armenians at the hands of Turks. Speaking through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Obama Administration said it "strongly opposes" the designation of the massacres as Genocide. Obama's strong opposition tells us a lot about truth claims and Obama's lack of culturist sensibilities. President Obama says he does not want to offend Turkey. The fact...

Mark Weisbrot: Hillary Clinton's "Damage Control" Trip to Latin America
Hillary Clinton's Latin America tour is turning out to be about as successful as George W. Bush's visit in 2005, when he ended up leaving Argentina a day ahead of schedule just to get the hell out of town. The main difference is that she is not being greeted with Protests and riots. For that she can thank the positive media image that her boss, President Obama, has managed to maintain in the region, despite his continuation of his predecessor's policies. But she has been even more...