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The Time Of Tyrants
Investors.com ^ | October 28, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

Posted on 10/28/2009 5:35:36 PM PDT by Kaslin

Democracy: Daniel Ortega muscled Nicaragua's courts to permit his permanent re-election, effectively making him dictator. He's not alone. After the U.S.' shabby treatment of tiny Honduras, a new wave of tyrants is rising.

'Nothing can stop me from re-election," crowed Ortega, a man Ronald Reagan once called "the little dictator." Last Monday Nicaragua's Supreme Court issued a ruling permitting the Marxist Ortega to run for a second term after he and a group of allied mayors petitioned them, overruling a one-term limit in the constitution. Same old Ortega: His dictatorial hunger hasn't changed.

But one thing is different: U.S. actions since the Honduran crisis that have only emboldened him. Last June 28, Honduras' Supreme Court ruled that then-President Manuel Zelaya's bid to hold a reelection referendum was unconstitutional and subject to the sanctions of Honduras' 1982 constitution: removal from office.

Out he went, but the U.S. cried foul, shortly after Zelaya's patron in Caracas, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, yelled "military coup." Unlike Chavez, whose means of striking at Honduras were threats and mayhem — such as sneaking Zelaya back to Tegucigalpa to whip up mobs — the Obama administration was in a position to inflict long-term punishment on the Hondurans.

Over the past four months it has: pulled visas to impede business travel, humiliated leaders, kicked out Honduran diplomats from the U.S., cut off $30 million in economic and military aid, and threatened to not recognize Honduras' Nov. 29 election.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: danielortega; honduras; ibd; manuelzelaya; nicaragua; porfiriolobo

1 posted on 10/28/2009 5:35:36 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 10/28/2009 5:37:56 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Ortega the child molester is doing what Zelaya tried to do in Honduras. And the Nicaragua Supreme Court is letting him.


3 posted on 10/28/2009 5:56:07 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Kaslin
The Time Of Tyrants

I thought this would be about Obama, not Ortega, not that there is much difference between the two.

4 posted on 10/28/2009 6:21:52 PM PDT by TurtleUp ([...Insert today's quote from Community-Organizer-in-Chief...] - Obama, YOU LIE!)
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To: Kaslin

“A Time for Choosing” by Ronald Reagan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY

written speech
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/timechoosing.html


5 posted on 10/28/2009 7:34:36 PM PDT by victim soul
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To: Kaslin

bttu


6 posted on 10/28/2009 9:08:16 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Kaslin

bttu


7 posted on 10/28/2009 9:12:51 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Kaslin

We really miss Ronald Reagan here in Honduras. He had IMO the best foreign policy and even his so-called “voodoo economics” worked better and 0bamas’ nationalization economic policies.


8 posted on 10/29/2009 3:13:31 PM PDT by ProudHonduran
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