A Few Words on Honduras
ByAs you have no doubt heard, over the weekend the President of Honduras was removed from office by the military, with the support of the legislative and judicial branches of that government. Zelaya was a protege of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro and was attempting to illegally extend his administration. He had been opposed in this effort by virtually everyone in the Honduran government.
If you went to government schools, Honduras borders Guatemala to the west, El Salvador and Nicaragua to
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the south and has coasts on both oceans (that would be the Caribbean side of the Atlantic and the Pacific)
These actions are being referred to as a military ‘coup’, despite the fact that the action was sanctioned by the legislative and judicial branches of that government. I regret to say that even our own Secretary of State has joined in. Perhaps that’s simply cover for our own covert involvement in the events (I don’t know of any and I doubt seriously Obama would approve any, I’m just speculating irresponsibly). There’s a good write up on the events here.
Chavez is threatening military action to restore Zelaya, which is laughable. More worrisome is the likelihood of a Venezuelan/Cuban-backed guerrilla action in Honduras. I’m sure the Messiah would refuse to counter such a move, given the history of US involvement in the region and the left’s sensitivity to that history.
I don’t have a good sense of what the local media is reporting on the developments. I would think any President would be reluctant to praise the developments, regardless of how merited they may have been. Post your analysis below.
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June 29th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Your speculation is not irresponsible. The Obama administration had been working hard to avoid this inevitable change in the Honduran government and would have been happier to not see this happen.
The removal of Zelaya from office was entirely legal and justified under Honduran law. It was not a military coup as most media suggests, but someone needed to uphold the law and kick this guy out.
This instability in the region is a great opportunity for the people of Venezuela and Ecuador to see what can be done to remove these madmen Marxists from office.
Don’t count on The Messiah to do anything but pay lip service to this development. He will most certainly have yet another press conference and be on the evening news (as always) sounding great and saying nothing.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Primero: Es un Golpe de Estado, no hay otro nombre, ni “salida pacifica al conflicto politico”, ni “transicion democratica”, no, no, no, es un Golpe de Estado.
Segundo: no era una consulta popular, era una encuesta, en donde se preguntaba si estaba de acuerdo en que las proximas elecciones hubiera una cuarta urna para que el siguiente años es decir en el 2010 se conformara una Asamblea Constitucional, para reformar la Constitucion en Honduras. Ni siquiera era vinculante. Era cuestion puramente politica, no juridica, las sentencias judiciales no pueden juzgar cuestiones politicas, solo cuestiones juridicas.
Tercero: se estaba cumpliendo con una orden judicial de arresto en la madrugada?!, la cual incluia volar a Costa Rica, y dejarlo ahi? y salieron huyendo los militares (a esto le llama ejercito valiente la derecha?).
Cuarto: Justifican su Golpe de Estado en una carta de renuncia de Manuel Zelaya, dudosa, porque desmintio que haya firmado su renuncia.
Cuarto y medio: Porque lo dejaron en Costa Rica, porque no tiene ejercito?, asi no los podian arrestar a los militares hondureños. Estabano cometiendo una violacion al derecho internacional.
Quinto: Que va a pasar cuando este Micheleti ya no le sirva a la cupula economica y militar, tambien le van a dar Golpe de Estado, y el siguiente tambien le van a dar Golpe de Estado.
Honduras pertenece al sistema de Organizacion de Estados Americanos, y por lo tanto le es aplicable la Carta Democratica Interamericana, ante estos conflictos esta se activa.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
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June 30th, 2009 at 7:57 am
What is not widely published is that the majority of the Honduran Congress, and Zelaya’s successor, are members of his party. Zelaya has obviously overstepped his constitutional boundaries, and broken the law. I believe that the Honduran constitution prohibits any attempt to change it to allow multiple presidential terms.
I think it would have been better, though, for the military (who is charged with defending the constitution) to have removed Zelaya from his office and let the civil authorities try him. All this “coup” talk is probably coming from the fact he was thrown out of the country.
Unfortunately, I don’t get much good in depth news here in the Southern US concerning Central America. I rely on Google News and good blogs such as this one to get most of my information.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:59 am
I consider myself a liberal; however, I am sick and tired of loud-mouth, leftist demagogues. They offer the poor things that should never be offered and isolate the middle class. I don’t advocate golpes de estado, and I must respect democracy, but Dios mio, these irksome politicians — particularly evo, chavez, and ortega — drive to me to voltaire, who said that the ideal government was democracy tempered with assassination.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
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