When I was growing up, in good old Ann Arbor town, the people around me admired one type of person perhaps above all others: the Third World leader who stood up to the United States, which was hostile to him, and bullying him. Oh, how these people were revered, and some of the really honored ones were in Latin America.

I thought of this when reading this Reuters report, just now, about Honduras:

Honduran de facto ruler Roberto Micheletti said on Saturday the United States has revoked his visa to pressure him to step down and reinstate exiled President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a June military coup.
Micheletti, however, was defiant of the latest move by Washington, which said earlier this month it was cutting more than $30 million in aid to the poor Central American country.
“We will not back down. Dignity does not have a price in our country,” Micheletti told Honduran radio.
Asked if his visa had been canceled, Micheletti said: “Yes.”

“Dignity does not have a price in our country.” Back in Ann Arbor, when I was growing up, the folks would have been wild for that. The statement might have been printed up on T-shirts, or scrawled on walls. Pete Seeger might have put it in a song.

I wonder what the Left thinks of Micheletti, in his struggle against the yanqui colossus. Don’t tell me, I know.

P.S. Notice that Reuters refers to Micheletti as a “ruler.” It refers to Fidel Castro — I just checked — as a “leader.” Great, just great. Thanks, Reuters — thanks once again.