The US news media is telling us about a coup in Honduras when the truth is far from their reports. There has been no coup, but there has been an impeachment of a leftist despot. The arrest and expulsion of Manuel Zelaya was an internal affair executed according to their constitution and “rule of law”. The constitution of Honduras requires a president to serve only one term. He was attempting to modify that constitution in an unlawful manner to allow him to assume perpetual control in the same manner as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela. As we might have expected, US President Barack Obama called on Honduras to “respect democratic norms, the rule of law”. What a dichotomy! Here is the US government attempting to assist in the Marxist takeover of a democratic republic right in our own neighborhood!
Honduras’ president Manuel Zelaya was in the process of implementing a plan originated and assisted by Chavez of undermining Honduras’ constitution by holding illegal elections that could be easily manipulated to give the impression of a will of the people to turn perpetual power over to Zelaya. When the leaders of the Honduran military refused to enforce his plan, he simply fired them.
In addition to financing pressure groups, embezzling funds from the treasury, and grossly overstepping the authority of his office, Zelaya has also been accused of intimidating journalists. Journalists Carlos Salgado and Rafael Munguia were both shot in public places, and others have received threats on their lives. On May 19, Honduran human rights activist Ramon Custodio asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) to provide protection for journalist Armando Villanueva and his family, who were the targets of threats which Villanueva insists came directly from the president.
Zelaya refused to enforce the laws enacted by the duly elected Honduran Congress and ignored the decisions of the Honduran Supreme court, these actions in direct violation of his presidential duties and responsibilities. In other words he had assumed the position of a dictator, not a president of a democratic republic. He ignored the rule of law and instead set up dictatorial rule and was in the process of permanently removing the constitution and perpetuating his rule when he was impeached last month.
After his refusal to accept the decisions of the Supreme Court on the matter of illegal elections to perpetuate his rule, the court did the only thing they could. They moved to impeach him. That impeachment was voted on by the Honduras Congress in accordance with their laws and they too voted for Zelaya’s expulsion. Zelaya was arrested on the night before he was to run his illegal “elections” and was exiled from the country. He was flown to Costa Rica by members of the Honduran military at the direction of the Supreme Court. The number two individual in line for the presidency had resigned so that he could run for president in the upcoming elections late this year so the number three person, the president of the Congress, was sworn in by the court after Zelaya’s ouster, in accordance with Honduras’ constitution.
Zelaya then went to the UN and got a standing ovation from that great bastion of democracy! He found a true believer in the US State department in the form of Hilliary Clinton and the United States has cut off all US aid to Honduras. Honduras’ neighbors have sealed off the border closing it to trade that the nation depends on for survival. Honduras is a beautiful country of green mountains, lush valleys, lovely seashores and friendly people. However, it is also the second poorest country in Central America. Without international aid and outside trade the people will be left to starve which appears to be the desire of the OAS and apparently the Obama Administration.
So now we have the legislative and judicial arms of the government who both acted to impeach a president for illegal and treasonous acts and Obama calls it a “coup” and calls for Zelaya’s reinstatement. In public statements he has implied that the military took over the country which has no basis in fact. Meanwhile the OAS (Organization of American States), apparently at the urging of the US State Department, has refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Honduran government and basically put the country under seige. This is despite the fact that the military is demonstratedly not in charge and the current acting president is the individual set up in law in such an event. New elections are scheduled to be held in the near future, but the country needs help in the interim.
Why has the Obama administration in general, and specifically the US State Department, gone into the business of establishing Marxist dictatorships in Central America? Where is the supposed independent journalists in this country? The media in the form of NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN and the major newspapers are just parroting the words of Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers. Obama said he had no interest in interfering with the internal affairs of other nations, but apparently that doesn’t apply when the opportunity to establish a Marxist dictatorship appears on the horizon.
http://www.speroforum.com/a/19394/Has-socialism-finally-come-to-Honduras
http://www.samaritanrevival.com/profiles/blogs/chaos-in-honduras-please-read
http://www.samaritanrevival.com/profiles/blogs/update-from-joan-tyson-for
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