Monday, July 6, 2009

Honduran crisis, July 2009: Chavez violates the sovereignty of Honduras by transporting Zelaya

Authors:
José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

Yesterday, Sunday, July 5, 2009, a plane owned by the Venezuelan state -piloted by Venezuelans and under the orders of President Chavez- made a stealth flight in Honduras' skies with a second Venezuelan plane that was used as bait, trying to introduce Manuel Zelaya in Honduras to return him to the presidency.

Chavez undertook this action based on the fact that Manuel Zelaya has legitimate reasons to claim he was removed from power illegally, a fact that is true. However, this in no case justify that planes belonging to Venezuela, sent by Chavez, carried out illegal activities in the airspace of Honduras.

Is Chavez empowered to determine where the Venezuelan planes fly and land in Honduras? Is that the OAS resolution to suspend Honduras authorizes a government to make illegal overflights that violate the Honduran air sovereignty? Or is that, for Chavez, Insulza and some countries of the OAS, the irregularities in the deposition of Zelaya justify the perpetration of other transgressions?


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