Because I’m currently writing a book entitled Black and Latino Relations in New York, 1959-2008, Columbia History of Urban Life Series, Series Editor Kenneth T. Jackson (Columbia University Press) I’m also watching President Obama’s appointments and policies as they related to Latin American issues. For example, the President’s appointment of a Latina to the nation’s highest court was extremely savvy because Judge Sotomayor appears confirmation proof and because her nomination gives the president new supporters, particularly among people of Latin American descent. However the president and his advisors are in a pickle in measuring their responses to the ongoing drama of the ouster of the left leaning Honduran president Jose Manuel Zelaya. Ultimately the presidents take on this sticky situation will most likely result in the loss of Hispanic voters many of them from Central America who live in Florida, California, and New York. I say this because Hondurans here in New York are split on the issue with some supporting Zelaya—who has increasingly aligned with the long winded Venezuelan leftist but autocrat Hugo Chavez—and others glad to see him gone. President Obama will look like Houdini, if he gets out of this Central American coup without losing many of the Latin American voters that came over to his camp when he nominated Judge Sotomayor.
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