According to the Yahoo News Honduras has accepted a deal which will allow for the return of President Manuel Zelaya as President until January of 2010. The article refers to the “military coup” that deposed Zelaya in June. There was no military coup. President Zelaya had put in motion an unconstitutional scheme that would allow him to become “President for Life”in the manner of Hugo Chavez. In June, the Honduran court and legislature ruled that his planned ballot initiative that would allow him to continue his term as President was unconstitutional. The ballots were supplied by Hugo Chavez!
The agreement to return Zelaya to power until January was reached with extreme pressure applied by the United States State Department. I am really sorry to hear this–we used to stand up for democracy. President Zelaya is strongly supported by such freedom loving people as Fidel Castro and his brother and Hugh Chavez. Theirs in the side the United States has chosen in this situation.
According to the article:
“The United States, the European Union
and Latin American leaders had all insisted Zelaya be allowed to finish
his term and they threatened not to recognize the winner of the
November election unless democracy was first restored.
“A U.S. team led by Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon and Dan Restrepo, Washington’s special assistant for Western Hemisphere affairs, sat in on talks earlier in the day and warned that time was running out to reach a deal.
“The coffee-producing Central American country has been diplomatically
isolated since Zelaya was rousted at dawn by soldiers on June 28 and
flown to exile on a military plane.
“Zelaya had angered many in Honduras by becoming an ally of socialist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Critics also alleged he was seeking backing to extend presidential term limits, a claim he denies.”
In the past, one of the ways to rate an American president was to evaluate the role he played in the spread of democracy around the world. President Obama has not done very well in that respect.