U.S. cuts more Honduras Aid; threatens to not recognize November election

Good news today: the State Department has taken some steps in the right direction on Honduras, further cutting some aid to the coup government and threatening to not recognize the winner of November elections. (AP, Times, Post). The coup government has been pushing the idea this week that the November elections will be the solution to everything.

The State Department did not go as far as to call the coup officially a coup, which would then require it to withhold all aid. Howard Berman, the House Foreign Affairs Chairman -- who's not always so great -- had a good op-ed in the LAT today:

This one looks, walks and quacks like a duck. It's time to stop hedging and call this bird what it is. And if, for whatever reason, the State Department lawyers do not conclude that this was a coup, Congress should examine other ways by which it can directly affect the flow of aid.