Friday, August 21, 2009

Zelaya in Peru.

I had previously written about Mel Zelaya's newly established travel pattern for Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. Yesterday he repeated it in Peru. He met for an hour with Alan García, who said he supported the Arias plan but offered no more than that. Then Zelaya criticized the U.S. for not doing more. Then he left. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Days since the coup: 54
Days until the scheduled presidential election: 100

9 comments:

leftside 6:22 PM  

Weisbrot: US is blocking moves at the OAS to issue a declaration on not recognizing the November elections in Honduras. Using right-wing allies in Latin America to do the dirty work, as not to be seen.

Greg Weeks 6:57 PM  

I love unnamed sources. They are what make Mary Anastasia O'Grady's columns so much fun.

Justin Delacour 7:11 PM  

I love unnamed sources. They are what make Mary Anastasia O'Grady's columns so much fun.

Perhaps you should wait to see what evidence emerges before attempting to draw an idiotic comparison between Mark Weisbrot and Mary Anastasia O'Grady.

Anonymous,  7:27 PM  

Weisbrot is even worse than O'Grady. At least O'Grady doesn't pretend to be an economist.

Justin Delacour 7:38 PM  

At least O'Grady doesn't pretend to be an economist.

Oh, let me guess. Gabriel knows more about what an economist is than Weisbrot's dissertation committee from the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan (which is, by the way, the 12th-ranked economics department in the country).

You're brilliant, dude.

Anonymous,  7:47 PM  

I know that Weisbrot is a terrible economist and his analyses of Latin America's economies border on the idiotic. His writing on Argentina's default probability is a classic in that respect.

Not that you'd understand any of that. Aren't you the one that didn't even know Argentina lies about inflation? Some expert on the region you'll turn out to be!

Justin Delacour 8:55 PM  

Aren't you the one that didn't even know Argentina lies about inflation?

No, actually, the point was that you couldn't point to a credible source that corroborated your claims of what Argentina's inflation rate was. No doubt the government undercounted the inflation rate, but your standard of what constitutes evidence in support of your claims wouldn't meet the laugh test in any department of social science anywhere.

Anonymous,  9:32 PM  

ahh, yes, you were the one that didn't know that.

If you didn't even know that...

Justin Delacour 11:05 PM  

ahh, yes, you were the one that didn't know that.

No, my dear ignoramus. Go back and read the interchange. I was fully aware of the disputes over Argentina's inflation rate.

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