6.24.09
For a long time now, Hondurans who have been worried about their democracy and also worried about the way in which their President Manuel Zelaya is governing, see with mistrust and, more than this, with rejection, a projected constitutional reform, under this name or another, to allow the reelection of the president. Logically, not much political cunning, is needed to realize that the president, who is fully identified with the totalitarian tyranny of Fidel Castro and with arbitrary rulers in the region, led by Hugo Chávez, is trying to subvert the State’s juridical order under a democratic guise. However, this is subversion with anti-democratic orientation.
Those in the inter-American system, rulers and ruled, who are truly interested in democracy, must watch with serious concern the course of the institutional and political events under President Zelaya. And this concern, logically, should manifest itself with sustained and reasoned rejection to avoid that the noble Honduran nation fall into the abyss of a dictatorship with evil ideological characteristics. It is fitting to clarify this, because there have been dictatorships with no ideology and that, in a way, are less harmful for the republic because they do not set norms disguised as democratic doctrines when they are, precisely, the opposite.
Not only Hondurans, but also all of the peoples of Central America, should be on guard to defend Honduras’ democracy, sounding the alarm with respect to the dictatorship that is already growing roots through numerous factors of the institutional control that its ruler has. An Executive that has the subordination and absolute political solidarity of the Legislative and the Judicial Branches, as well as of the Armed Forces, is very dangerous and, in the end, it is very hard to get rid of it. The Armed Forces, of course, are part of the Executive Power, but in the Latin American reality, they constitute a sort of separate power.
Central America is, certainly, a region with considerable geopolitical value. In its time, Lenin was very interested in it and infiltrated the political life of Central America through El Salvador and in the Caribbean through Cuba.
We have same problems from El Salavador gangs and drugs that US has from Mexico border, but Zelaya was trafiker himself, this is terrible. He refused to appear in corte many times. This is a surprise to Obama “have no information before opening mouth” but Hondurans have been expecting this and a million people in capital celebrated today. Our gol was to get US media to cover story correctly, since it show one gang of adolescentes with a burning tire and masks, this is not political it is a street gang and was not what was said. Maybe 5% of people here support Mel, to say the country is divided is like the US agrees except Hawaii, any many on camera are not Honduran citizens they had paid flight from Cuba, Honduras to be here and that is why they are on street they have no clothes to go home and to have a Venezuelan passport here now is not good for you, we not like bullfrog Chavez.
F. Villalobos, Choluteca, Hondruas, Central America
Quote above from diaradelosamericas.com