Zelaya backers eye party for 2013 vote in Honduras

AP via WaPo ^ | February 26, 2011

[don-o]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Followers of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya are meeting to determine whether they will form a party and participate in elections in 2013.

Members of the People's National Resistance Front have begun a two-day assembly in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

Group leader Juan Barahona calls it a "historic event."

Barahona said Saturday that among the group's goals are "holding a national constituent assembly, returning Zelaya to the country and taking political power to transform Honduran society."

[don-o]

Doesn't Zelaya get arrested when he sets foot in Honduras?

[marron]

Chavists.

[Paladin2]

Transformers used to be so cool.

[don-o]

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[cripplecreek]

A few weeks back I read that our state department was down there greasing palms in congress on behalf of Manny.

[bert]

This why leaders must not be deposed. History teaches over and over they must be disposed.

[Mmogamer]

Honduras is gonna get tired of this buffoon soon..

[Western Phil]

What happened with the lefts’ concern about Yankee Imperialists?

[pepsionice]

Yes, he would but he has avoided the situation.

For those who don’t remember....he wanted to change the Constitution of Honduras...by tossing out the rule that only elected members to the Honduran parliament could vote on this change (the rule is...the parliament votes once...wait around six months...vote a second time, and then the Constitution officially changes). He wanted a nation-wide vote to establish him as a President-for-life. Oddly enough....these ballots suddenly appeared in the country and then the various political parties...along with the parliament...asked a bunch of questions and then said “no”. Then the military said no when ordered to deliver the ballots by the President. Then the Supreme Court said no when asked if any of these...even the orders to the military to deliver the ballots...were legal. All of this happens in the first month or two of the Obama Administration, and they said it was ok to violate the Constitution...as long as the people voted for this. The fact that the legislature/parliament were standing there as representatives of the people...didn’t matter in this case. All of this coming....from a guy who has a degree in Constitutional law, which is odd in a way.

[Kenny Bunk]

Never left. Hid out in some embassy. Our imPOTUS got him off the hook. The SOB wanted to be President for Life and is backed by the Venezuelans and of course our old friend, Fidel. Zelaya is on surveillance video boosting over $1 Million in cash from the Honduran Treasury. He is however, a Natural Born Citizen of Honduras, where their constitution is followed rather more scrupulously than in this country.

I don't think that I could personally whack the commieratbastard friend of our imPOTUS, but I might be persuaded to drive the getaway horse.

[cripplecreek]

Zelaya is a friend of Chavez.

[Truth29]

This sounds like Obama is going to make another run at overthrowing the lawful government of Honduras with his buddies Zelaya and Chavez.

[Kenny Bunk]

Don-o,

Our imPOTUS is backing this Zelaya commie 100%. Many stimulus dollars will be on the streets of Tegucigalpa arranging spontaneous demos, attempting to bribe congress members, bribe their Supreme Court. The fix is in unless some Republicans start on testosterone therapy.

Not content with wrecking our COTUS, our imPOTUS will attempt to wreck the COHO, to install a Chavez buddy!!

[Clock King]

All of this happens in the first month or two of the Obama Administration, and they said it was ok to violate the Constitution...as long as the people voted for this.,

I'm really afraid Obama is gonna try this in 2012 or 2016.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

People like Chavez and Zelaya remind me of "El Supremo", from the movie Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951), starring Gregory Peck. There is a strong resemblance between megalomaniac tyrants and wannabe tyrants.

[TigersEye]

Oh, yeah, he left. As of last June he was living in the Dominican Republic.

Honduran ex-president: US was behind my overthrow

[TigersEye]

Last February the Honduran judiciary was considering additional charges against Zelaya and three of Zelaya's Cabinet ministers and his former deputy minister of finance.

Honduras adds charges against ousted leader

I don't see any follow up threads about whether those charges were ever made or not under the keyword 'honduras.'

[don-o]

I missed that - even got a ping and failed to follow up. My apology.

[TigersEye]

How dare you not devote your every waking minute to FR! LOL

No problem, FRiend. We all expended a lot of energy covering every detail of this story from the moment it broke until they held their election. A little rest and time for other news is more than understandable. :-)

[Kenny Bunk]

Thanks for that correction, TE! I really was hoping I would never have to give Zelaya another thought.

That link most most perplexing. Obama/Soetoro did everything but give him a medal, yet he claims he was "ousted" in a US-inspired coup!