Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
The removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya through an irregular decision of the highest court of justice, and the high command of the Armed Forces of that country, is undoubtedly a coup d'etat.
Our assertion is based on the fact that the President in question was removed from office by the military, after a controversy between the executive and judicial branches of the Honduran government, which is unacceptable in a democracy where power is subject to the Constitution.
It is enough that the Armed Forces have to act, in Latin America, as if they were over the other organs of the State, because this habit conditions the people to solve their problems violently and believe in military dictators.
However, we also must say that the crisis that today face Honduras did not begin on june 28, but started since President Manuel Zelaya allowed a foreign government, in this case Venezuela, to meddle in the internal affairs of Honduras and manage its political agenda to suit the interests of Hugo Chavez.
The Venezuelan control over Zelaya can be seen in his plan of government, very similar indeed to that of Evo Morales and other Chavez's puppets in the region: rejection of dialogue with dissidents, strangulation of the private sector, attacks on independent media, the imposition to all the country's television and radio stations to broadcast simultaneous interviews with the President and government ministers for two hours a day, confrontation with the Church and other national sectors, hostility toward the United States, desire to amend the Constitution to establish the indefinite re-election of the president, and additional legislative reforms that emulate the radical leftist political system of Chavez.
That is, when President Manuel Zelaya violates the Constitution of his country, putting national interests and politics of Honduras under the convenience of a neighboring government, provokes a crisis in institutions and other sectors involved in Honduran politics, forcing them to react against the establishment of a puppet government in Honduras, directed from Venezuela.
In conclusion, the submissive attitude of Zelaya do not justify that the sectors that oppose the intervention of Hugo Chávez in Honduras overthrow the president in ways that are not acceptable in a democracy, but it makes clear that the major responsibility for the crisis facing Honduras is the same Manuel Zelaya.
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