Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

While the entire world was given to the TV to see the farewell to artist Michael Jackson, the State Department Hillary Clinton met in Washington the laid down president of Honduras, Manuel “Mel“ Zelaya in search of a solution to the crisis, and seemingly there is a little of movement in this sense. Zelaya and the temporary government of Honduras agreed to have the president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, like mediating. Arias got a Nobel Prize for his efforts for the peace in the Central American region after the civil wars of the epoch of 80s, and of course there is no better person indicated to try to come to an agreement in Honduras.

During a few hearings to discuss his nomination to the Undersecretary's position of the State in charge of Latin-American matters, Arturo Valenzuela considered to be a coup d'état what it had spent in Honduras.

The United States, said Valenzuela, has to give a "strong sign" of that what it spent "it is simply unacceptable", Was Said by Him as well as in too much time the way of solving problems in Latin America has been “the interruption of the democratic order to solve problems of the democracy".

In his meeting with Clinton, Zelaya also said that for the time being it would not try to return by force to Honduras as it treated last week. The administration Obama was considering to freeze financial assistance to Honduras, but now he says that they will wait to see what raisin with these negotiations headed by Arias before doing a decision.
Another event that happened almost unnoticed for being buried under the fury of coverage of Michael Jackson was the swearing-in of the new democratic senator To The Franken of Minnesota. After a strong legal battle between and his opponent – the republican senator Norm Coleman – the state Supreme Court in Minnesota determined that Franken had won, and Coleman recognized his defeat. The Franken victory is the important one for the senate because a wider majority gives to the democrats to obtain the votes that they need for a topics variety. Obviously it is not possible to assume that the democratic senators will always vote with his party, but the Franken entry supposes a super majority that will be more difficult to overcome.

Meanwhile, the next week the hearings begin on the nomination of federal judge Sonia Sotomayor the Supreme Court, and one hopes that those that they put up should try to look for some escandalito or controversy. They know that they do not have enough votes to block his nomination, and that's why they will focus in what they say there are his controversial comments or his controversial decisions or what is, to try to say that it does not serve for the court of major importance in the country. But they will fail because, on not having been that they find him a dead person in a closet, Sotomayor has the necessary votes to become the first Hispanic person in the court. But nevertheless this fact, one hopes that the hearings should be quite interesting, of that time do not get lost the opportunity to take part in an important chapter of the history of the country and of the Hispanic community. 13 begin – this Monday that you come.