First Natalie Holloway, now Diplomats!

As many of you know, I will be entering the Foreign Service next year.  The experience is scary enough, without reading news like this!

Being a diplomat is dangerous work, I'm sure they got him because he refused a visa or something. After all, he was the vice consul...which means he manages the consular section aka the visa mill.

Que Triste.

This is also a good time to say that anything read on Poplitics isn't an official view from the US government and should not be understood as such.  Hey you can't blame me for covering myself!

No more dancing on the border...

President? Zelaya is back in Honduras!...at the Brazilian Embassy to avoid arrest. Hopefully this time he got off the plane, he wasn't in pajamas and a gun wasn't in his face.

Taking it back to the old school Latin American military rule of the past, the current government has imposed a curfew but Zelayistas are partying in front of the Brazilian Embassy celebrating his return.

President? Zelaya is attempting to negotiate with the interim government, so he can take his throne...I mean office anew.  Need I remind him that Costa Rican President, Oscar Arias, (you know the leader of the most peaceful country in the hemisphere) had a pretty solid negotiation that would have restored order and democracy in Honduras, and the interim government refused.  What makes him thinks he can broker something better?  I mean the interim government hates him, something about changing the constitution, et cetra.

Thanks for taking it back to the Cold War, Honduras!

Amigos Nuevos

Diplomatic relations between Colombia and Ecuador are restored!  Following that little incident where President Uribe invaded...I mean "accidentally and unknowingly" sent his troops into Ecuador on the heels of the FARC, Ecuador said screw you and sent Colombian diplomats packing. Now the two nations look forward to restoring diplomatic ties and working together on the betterment of both of their nations.

Negotiations have been ongoing since the incident with a number of ups and downs, and of course Hugo Chavez throwing his two cents in, threatening war.

The important thing is that these neighbors can now borrow cocaine, er I mean sugar from one another.