According to Reuters.com, Roberto Micheletti said on Saturday the United States has revoked his visa in an attempt to apply pressure on Honduras to violate its Constitution and reinstate President Manuel Zelaya.
President Manuel Zelaya was removed from office on June 28 of this year. It was not a coup--the military and legislature were enforcing a clause in the Honduras Constitution putting term limits on the president. President Manuel Zelaya was ousted for his unconstitutional attempt at a referendum to be President after he was constitutionally required to step down from office. The courts and the legislature had told him that the referendum he wanted to hold on serving another term was unconstitutional. He decided to hold the referendum anyway, getting the ballots from Hugo Chavez. The law in Honduras states that as soon as the President states an intention to violate his term limit, he is to be removed from office. That is what happened. Honduras has a written Constitution that seeks to avoid the concept of "President for Life" which has been a problem in some of the countries in the region.
According to the article:
"The State Department said last week that it could not, for now, regard as legitimate Honduran elections scheduled for November because of Zelaya's overthrow.
"Marcia Villa, a Honduran lawmaker and ally of Micheletti, said several top members of Micheletti's government, Honduran Supreme Court justices and a group of Honduran businessmen had also lost their U.S. visas.
"Some Latin American leaders have suggested Washington apply more pressure, but some U.S. Republican lawmakers believe it has already done too much for Zelaya, an ally of Venezuela's socialist and anti-U.S. president, Hugo Chavez."
The last sentence says it all, why are we on the side of Hugo Chavez?
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