The Wife has been complaining that I write far too often on things that “no one cares about and aren’t even funny”, so I’ve been trying to stick with things I think readers will enjoy more.  That having been said, things in Honduras have gotten worse and your emails indicate you want a local, or at least different, perspective than what you get from the Marxist-loving media.

You may recall Zelaya was deposed and rallied Central American Presidents and the media to his side.  He

Which one looks like the dictator, and which like a guy scared for his job?

took a little hit when it leaked that he was basically a narcotrafficker.  However, he and Chavez quickly changed strategies and he’s been gaining ground by publicly calling for a revolution in the streets.  Pretty bold of Colom, by the way, to stand next to a guy who was removed from office with the support of the Supreme Court, Congress and military, and who is now openly calling for bloodshed in a neighboring country.  I guess he may be worried he’ll be doing the same from Tegucigalpa one day.

In a shrewd move, the interim President of Honduras, Michelleti, has offered to step down and have early elections, but won’t if Zelaya returns.  This is a well-aimed shot, getting to the core of the personality/populist cult angle that Zelaya is trying to employ, and is so common in the region (a la Ortega, Castro, Chavez, etc.)  It’s all Latino flavors of Stalin, Mao andl- ISung, if you know your history.  Micheletti had already accepted the offer of mediation, so he’s done all the right things.

So now we have reports that Marxist elements are infiltrating Honduras through neighboring countries to foment instability.  That’s textbook marxist strategy-import subversive elements to incite sympathizers (there’s no revolution like one you can export, after all), threaten law-abiding citizens, and create chaos.

Pictures of rioting, bloodied young protestors, property on fire and menacing-looking soldiers in combat gear will be fed to favorable media outfits for publication, along with anecdotes about how 110% of Hondurans are praying rosaries around the clock, begging the Madonna to return personally with Zelaya at her side.  He’s the new Juan Diego, you know.  Someone better tell the senior-most cleric in the region who begged Zelaya not to return.  Pretty amazing considering how pathetically devoted to the left the Catholic Church is here.

It’s a lot easier to return in this enviornment promising to restore peace, than one in which the entire government and the overwhelming majority of citizens oppose your return.  Naturally, once Zelaya is back the violence suddenly ends, like the storm ending at Christ’s command.

My guess is the US is hands-off on all this, desperate as Obama is to show the world how different he is from every other American President who wanted to police his back yard.  (We haven’t had too many Presidents born in Kenya, after all…hehe).  So it’s the Honduran people against the international media and regional marxist leaders.  The media pressure, pitiful economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure and attempted return by Zelaya all failed, so now they have to up the ante.  I would expect violence to increase sharply against Zelaya opponents and random people on the street, you know, just to show how bad things are getting without their beloved leader governing.

I also expect the Zelaya supporters to take out some of their own (as they did at the airport when Zelaya attempted to return), and employ the same strategy I suspect was used against Colom (which I detailed here), viz., kill someone whose death will reflect badly on your enemy and ensnare them in allegations and investigations.  Expect media reports of corruption allegations against Michelleti, senior military and other governmental leaders in an effort to discredit them. I’ve already had one blogger tell me privately Michelleti just wanted Zelaya’s cut on the narco shipments.

What do you expect?  Anyone on the ground in Honduras who can comment?