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Viewing cable 09SAOPAULO700, MEDIA REACTION: HONDURAS ELECTIONS

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
09SAOPAULO700 2009-11-30 19:37 2011-07-11 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Consulate Sao Paulo 
VZCZCXRO3198
OO RUEHRG
DE RUEHSO #0700 3341939
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 301937Z NOV 09
FM AMCONSUL SAO PAULO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0234
INFO RHEHAAA/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC IMMEDIATE
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA IMMEDIATE 0248
RUEHRG/AMCONSUL RECIFE 0046
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO
RUEHSO/AMCONSUL SAO PAULO
 
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000700 
 
SIPDIS 
STATE INR/R/MR 
IIP/R/MR 
WHA/PD 
DEPT PASS USTR 
4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OPRC OIIP BR XM XR KMDR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: HONDURAS ELECTIONS 
 
Moving the Line in Honduras 
 
Article in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (11-28) by columnist Clovis 
Rossi notes: "....So far, we have stood by, lets' say, the 'good 
people' [on the Honduran issue].  It is correct to repudiate a 
coup, it is correct to insist that the ousted President return to 
power, and it is correct to say that elections, in order to have 
legitimacy, cannot be undertaken with an illegitimate government. 
I'm the biggest fan of principles.....But to insist on them - and 
only on them - when the reality goes in another direction is merely 
to mark a stance of what is worth in the academic world, but not 
for governments......Insisting in denying the reality 
contradicts.....a series of acts and words of President Lula....The 
entire truth is that elections were not summoned by the coup 
makers; they have always been in place.  Neither were the 
candidates imposed by the coup makers.  They were already in 
place....It is time to recognize that the reality is the only 
truth." 
White