“spirtually and passionately alive”
Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zeleya demonstrate in front of a bonfire in Tegucigalpa.
Daniel Sheridan: Let’s see a country standing up to a president that tries to run roughshod over established laws and a constitution?
No wonder President Obama condemned it.
Interesting that he didn’t have to think as long on that issue as he did with the tragedy in Iran.
Paul Newton: Unbelievable! The Honduran Supreme Court orders the arrest of a clear criminal, who violates their laws as a matter of course, and we side with Chaves, Castro, Ortega, and every communist strong man in CA and SA? What country is this? What happened to America? Are we so far gone we cannot tell the difference between right and wrong? What about the rule of law? This is disgraceful. I am ashamed to be an American today.
John Mcrae: Present copy corrects many errors in AP release. When does WSJ stop calling it a ‘military coup’ when ex-Presidente Manuel Zelaya received a ‘military escort’ to a safe haven out of the country by order of the Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Vojta: its good that the Honduran military, courts and congress lived up to their democratically drafted consititution and held the ex president to account. We should welcome the enforcement of their laws and removal of a criminal from office.
Daniel Dyer: I am an American that has lived in Honduras since 1977. I have seen this country when it was run by the military. I saw it form the constitution on which it currently stands. I saw the civilian police force be reformed and watch the judicial system grow and come into its own. I have watched the maturing of Honduras into a grounded solid representational democracy.
Venezuela and Ecuador are run by left wing dictators. Venezuela in particular was supporting a move by the president of Honduras to basically take over the country. This has resulted in a crisis pitting the executive branch against the congress and the Supreme Court. The president was attempting to place himself in a position where by he could force a rewriting of the constitution to remove the clause on term limits there by allowing him to remain in office indefinitely. The illegal move toward the “cuarta urna” had created massive unrest across the country and Honduras was heading toward a confrontation which puts at risk the representational democracy on which this country stands.
Contrary to news reports this was neither military coup nor conspiracy. This was two branches of government (Supreme Court and Congress) moving to oust a president that was abusing his power and flaunting the law. Honduras correctly identified the president’s actions as an overt, aggressive and illegal attempt to install a Chavez style dictatorship in Honduras and rejected that attempt in a lawful constitutional manner that resulted in the president’s removal from office. The president of Honduras is a democratically elected official but so also is the congress and the Supreme Court. The division of powers in a representational democracy exists precisely so that one of the branches will not be allowed to abuse power and also allows for the removal of that representative if the law is broken. This is what has happened to president Zelaya. Hugo Chavez is an ego maniac that has attempted to spread his socialist/dictatorship philosophy to many countries. He thought that he had obtained a foothold in Central America by way of Honduras. He was wrong.
The events of the last few weeks have shown me that my faith in Honduras and its people is not in vain. Honduras, you should be very proud of yourselves.
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As you can see, the people of Honduras view the ousted President as a criminal. The feel the actions taken by the country’s Supreme Court and Congress were justified and legal. Yet, the US, UN and the rest of the Western world are backing the unlawful president? What is going on???
Read the true story in O’Grady’s opinion piece in the WSJ.
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