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 Snooker is the only word. Actually, it's a double snooker. Brazil has applied the coup de grace to Acting Head of Government Micheletti. He can yell and scream and jump up and down and tear-gas the demonstrators, but...he's been snookered.
No other government on the planet dare pay attention to what he or his henchmen say, because he is not the legitimate ruler of Honduras. The legitimate ruler of Honduras is now safely ensconced in the Brazilian Embassy: Snooker. Of course, just to make sure it's not too triumphalist about its [by now fairly obvious] meddling in the affairs of another country, Brazil has already told President Zelaya to get off the balcony, lie down, take a nap, stay under the radar. So the paparazzi dutifully show him snoozing: Snooker. Sources claim there are over 300 non-Brazilian people in the Embassy. What? Just how did 300 "subversives" trek to an Embassy in the middle of the capitol city without being noticed and halted by the forces of law and order? Somebody orchestrated this and did it magnificently - no muss, no fuss; no fret, no sweat. The message to the world is: "Put your money where your mouth is!" meaning "Was it a coup or not?" If it was, "Why aren't you doing something about this?" Snooker. Some Brazilian commentators profess to worry about the US/Brazil relationship, on the assumption that Brazil's putative impending hegemony over Latin America is a threat to the US. Under this reasoning, contrary to what Lula supposedly envisaged, Brazil has just ensured it will NOT get a permanent place on the UN Security Council - the US will veto its rival. But if it does exercise the veto, because Brazil dared what the US dared not, in its own back yard, how does that look on the world stage? Snooker. Michael Royster is a US citizen, resident in Rio for over 30 years and a practicing, fully-licensed Brazilian lawyer.
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hO YES 300 people in the embassy of brasil just a bunch of hungry people day after tommrow , no water , electricy to charge there cell phones , this wont last long after teh disel fuel runs out .
By Z living in the embassy he has no place to go no real platform to stand on , while the november elections will go on with out him or his manafisto of president for life.
when the elections happen the people will have spoken and then what all the nations of the presidents execpt lula , chaves , morlas , castro will say it was a fair election lest get on with it .
but brasil and lula will be stuck with mr Z and his 300 , and by no means are they spartins wont even die like one.
if you look mr laywer the people in the embassy can be tried as trators just like Mr Z will be if he comes out of hiding ,
his best move would be to come out stand trail and explain his position , YOU could be his probono laywer ?????
other than that all he can do is sleep and cry over the phone calls to lula for help as the Un have turned there back on it so far