Posted on 07/02/2009 2:32:17 PM PDT by mojito
Any time a bunch of soldiers break into a presidential palace, pick up the president and put him on a flight to exile, as happened in Honduras last Sunday, you have a "coup." But, unlike most coup targets in Latin America's tortuous republican history, Honduras's deposed president, Manuel Zelaya, bears the biggest responsibility for his overthrow.
A member of the rancid oligarchy he now decries, Zelaya took office in 2006 as the leader of one of the two center-right parties that have dominated Honduran politics for decades. His general platform, his support for the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States and his alliances with business organizations gave no inkling of the fact that halfway into his term he would become a political cross-dresser.
Suddenly, in 2007, he declared himself a socialist and began to establish close ties with Venezuela. In December of that year, he incorporated Honduras into Petrocaribe, a mechanism set up by Hugo Chávez for lavishing oil subsidies on Latin American and Caribbean countries in exchange for political subservience. Then his government joined the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean (ALBA), Venezuela's answer to the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas, ostensibly a commercial alliance but in practice a political conspiracy that seeks to expand populist dictatorship to the rest of Latin America.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Perhaps they were just too busy planning their big pimp...I mean fundraiser on 0bamaCare to bother with events in banana republics, especially when facts conflict with the worldview of Comrade 0bambi.
I believe the WaPo published a similar article last week which also explained the true nature of the unrest in Honduras.
Remember, it is July 4th week.
No one is in town to read the papers.
The author of this is the novelist’s and the author of “The Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot,” “Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression” and “The Return of the Idiot,” two must reads for understanding that part of the world. His other books are pretty good, too.
Just after this news broke, I was amazed by how little information was given in the news. I found the “Honduras Weekly” on line that explained many of the details. The most important, IMHO, was that the military acted as part of the government with the congress’ and supreme court’s blessing, not on it’s own. Zelaya was characterizing it as some sort of military coup, which it was not. I wonder if the facts will swing Obama’s or Clinton’s pro leftest stance. Probably not...
All of this will make for great campaign commercials, if OUR tyrant, Obama, allows us to run anyone against him!
“I wonder if the facts will swing Obama’s or Clinton’s pro leftest stance. Probably not...”
I’d say that “Probably not...” is more than likely in the category of “H” NO!
The persistant use of “coup” is, and will be the active ingredient of the Obama Pig Slop forthcoming. (apologies to the pigs)
But I may have easily missed it, as I need to ration my WaPo intake, on the advice of my physician.
Looks like the Wapo is no longer 'taking dictation' from Zero.
He said "Hillshire", but they didn't say "Farm".
‘I remember reading a very good article in the Wall Street Journal that explained the situation, but not in the WaPo.’
And I think you’re 100% dead-on right. My mistake.
That was my understanding also: their Supreme Court barred illegal actions and defined other actions legally as illegal, their Congress immediately impeached Z for these illegal actions, and the military was used to forceably remove him from the office he refused to vacate after impeachment.
seems to me that was the proper and legal way to do things - legislative and the judicial branches of govt keeping the executive branch honest and impeaching for illegal acts - same system we have right here in the USA.
so Where’s the beef?
I think the clue may be found in the call by Zeyala for a ‘constituent’ convention to determine the constitution, as opposed to, overriding of, and running an endplay around, Honduras’ congress. Perhaps this type of ‘constituent’ usurping of constitutional/congressional power is interesting to another Z? why else would he support Zeyala’s call for a referendum by ‘the people’ to replace elections/congressional power instead of supporting Honduras’ constitution as the law of the Honduran land? just sayin’
The editors must have been at an open bar party and missed this one.
It is rather astounding that a Democrat newspaper like the Washington Post published this.
The newsroom socialists must be absolutely gnashing their teeth.
The same author also had this op-ed in the New York Times two days ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/opinion/30Vargasllosa.html?ref=opinion
Fine, OK,... but it WAS NOT A COUP. The only attempted coup was Zelaya’s illegal attempt to become President-for-Life.
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