Exchange with Tracy Wilkinson LA Times Options

[Emersberger]

RE: Crack appears in Honduras' deadlock;
As support for de facto leaders softens, some coup backers say they might let Zelaya return to limited power. LA Times September 30, 2009

Dear Tracy Wilkinson

Why does this article not include the views of analysts like Mark Weisbrot (co founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research) who organized a recent public forum with Manuel Zelaya in Washington DC?

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/incl...=&clipStop=

As a journalist you should ask what game the US is playing in Honduras - or at least make your readers aware of the questions that Weisbrot and others have asked.

Why did it wait months before doing basic things like preventing de facto government officials from entering the US at will? Michelettis's daughter, a de facto government official, was just deported days ago.
Why has the US not frozen the billions of dollars in assets the dictatorship and its backers have in the US? Why has Obama refused to meet with Zelaya?
Why, in contrast to almost every other leader in the Americas, did Obama fail to mention Honduras in his recent address to the UN?
Why would Hilary Clinton refer to the curfew the regime imposed as if it were a legitimate measure to take in response to Zelaya's return?

See

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/22/repo...resident_manuel

Joe Emersberger



Tracy.Wilkinson@latimes.com writes:
legitimate questions, perhaps, but they need to be asked in washington. would be difficult for those of us on the ground in latin america to get at. chrs.

tracy wilkinson
los angeles times
bureau chief
mexico


I live in Windsor ON Canada, yet I can ask questions of you (though you're based either in LA or Mexico I gather from your note) and receive a reply.
Can you not make use of email or telephone to ask questions of officials in Washington?
US journalists should have been pressing for answers since the coup took place on June 28.
It doesn't look like many have (with the exception of independent journalists like Al Giordano of Narco News) judging by the media coverage which I have followed closely.