[HNA] Oppose confirmation of Thomas Shannon!

[Simon Rios]

*Tom Shannon: Nave or Fool?*

*Either Way He’s Not Fit to Serve as *

*US Ambassador to Brazil*

*Call or Email Your Senators Today*

*Tell Them to Vote No on Shannon Confirmation*
   *US Capitol Switchboard Toll-free Numbers*
1-866-220-0044
1-877-851-6437


*For Emails Click on: **
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*As Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Bush
hold-over Tomas Shannon was sent by President Obama to Honduras to help end
the four month long coup with a negotiated return of the constitutional
order. The OAS, UN, and European Union all demanded the return to office of
democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya as a condition to recognize
presidential elections scheduled for November 29.*

*Either Shannon defied President Obama’s instructions and plotted with the
coup regime to keep it in power, or he was fooled by thuggish coup leader
Roberto Micheletti into supporting a hoax that the coup regime had no
intention of honoring. After he returned to the US, Shannon gave the green
light for the coup regime to continue the brutal repression condemned by
human rights groups by saying the US would recognize the election, even if
Zelaya is not returned to office! Supporters of democracy in Honduras have
said they will boycott the election; so Shannon’s actions will perpetuate
the crisis and embolden anti-democracy elements in other Latin American
countries. Obama’s stated goal to improve relations with Latin America has
been dealt a serious blow.*

*Shannon’s actions prove him unfit to serve as US ambassador to Brazil. How
can Shannon effectively serve as US ambassador when Brazil has been among
the strongest voices demanding that the Age of Coups in the Americas is over
and that the Honduran coup cannot be allowed to stand?  Brazil has even
sheltered President Zelaya in its Honduran Embassy, a courageous act that
has resulted in its embassy being surrounded by Honduran military troops and
assaulted day and night by high decibel noise and bright lights in violation
of international law.*

*Shannon should be punished, not rewarded for his perfidy or naiveté. US
relations with Brazil are too important to trust to a nave or a fool.*

*The Senate could take up his nomination at any moment so call today!*

*Alliance for Global Justice, 1247 E St., SE, Washington, DC 20003
www.AFGJ.org <http://www.afgj.org/>*
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