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Honduras regime breaks ties with Argentina

The interim Honduran leadership headed by Roberto Micheletti has already told Venezuela's envoys to leave, but they have refused.

US defends deal to use Colombian bases
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday defended an imminent agreement that will give the United States access to military bases in Colombia, amid regional concerns about US intentions. Clinton and visiting Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez said the two countries expected to sign a defense cooperation agreement soon that will boost their longstanding military ties. "I want to be clear about what this agreement does and does not. First: the agreement does not create US bases in Colombia, it does provide US access to Colombian bases," Clinton said after a meeting with Bermudez. "This agreement does not pertain to other countries. This is about the bilateral cooperation between the United States and Colombia regarding security matters within Colombia. Leftist leaders in Venezuela and Ecuador, which border Colombia, have loudly denounced the agreement as a ruse to establish bases that threaten their governments. The US plans also have raised concerns among more moderate Latin American leaders. Clinton said the US and Colombian governments hope to sign the agreement "in the near future. "It will allow us to continue working together to meet the challenges posed by narco-traffickers, terrorists, and other illegal armed groups in Colombia," she said, adding, "These threats are real."
by Staff Writers
 Tegucigalpa (AFP) Aug 18, 2009
 Interim leaders in Honduras who backed the June 28 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday broke off diplomatic ties with Argentina, which has made a strong push to return the deposed leader.

The de facto leaders said they were breaking off relations on the basis of "strict reciprocity" after Argentina last week expelled the Honduran ambassador over her support for the military coup.

Diplomatic relations would now pass through the Israeli embassy in Argentina, they said in a statement.

Argentina's diplomatic chief responded in Mexico that his country's diplomats had no plans to leave their embassy in Honduras.

"Argentina's diplomatic staff is in Tegucigalpa and they don't have a (leaving) date at all," Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana said.

The interim Honduran leadership headed by Roberto Micheletti has already told Venezuela's envoys to leave, but they have refused.

Argentina last Thursday expelled the Honduran ambassador to Buenos Aires, Carmen Eleonora Ortez Williams, and President Cristina Kirchner has been among the staunchest defenders of Zelaya's right to return to power.

Taiana -- part of a delegation from the Organization of American States (OAS) due to travel shortly to Honduras -- earlier told AFP that other countries should do more to help resolve the political crisis in the impoverished Central American country.

Dozens of Hondurans meanwhile met with members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, who are on a mission to investigate alleged rights violations by the interim government.

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