[justlurking]

I don’t understand this. Dismissal was okay but removal was not?????

I think CRS means removal from the country was wrong, not removal from office.

[celestron71]

I think CRS means removal from the country was wrong, not removal from office.

They are wrong on that, from what I've read the law states deportation but not incarceration until he comes back into the country, they can then try him and send him to Prison. This guy broke the highest law in Honduras, their constitution, he should have been shot, but their law doesn't call for it. I think parts of this report were worded in order to kiss Bozo's a** and not make him look like a total Jackass.

[BP2]

I think CRS means removal from the country was wrong, not removal from office.

Article 239 of the Honduran Constitution reads:

No citizen that has already served as head of the Executive Branch can be President or Vice-President.

Whoever violates this law or proposes its reform, as well as those that support such violation directly or indirectly, will immediately cease in their functions and will be unable to hold any public office for a period of 10 years.

If they hadn't removed Zelaya from the country, he would have either rallied forces loyal to him to stage a coup, or been killed by forces who saw him as a threat to their democracy.

Either way, Zelaya WAS and IS a threat, as he continued to OPENLY defy the country's Congress and Supreme Court. So what if the deportation of a usurping President is not EXPLICITLY spelled out in an Article of the Honduran Constitution — that's why the key decision makers in their Congress and military thoughtfully consulted with one another and acted in the best interest of their nation. Just like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum — give the brat a "time out."

If they imprisoned Zelaya in their country, they would have risked a break out by pro-Zelaya factions and risked open revolution. If Honduras executed Zelaya — as they would have been justified to do for his treasonous acts — he would have become a martyr and caused even longer-lasting conflict in the region.

The leaders in Honduras acted better than anyone else in the region would have under the circumstances, dousing the flames of support from the idiot Progressives there who want to import Socialism and Dictatorship to Honduras.

Kudos to the leaders in Honduras who made the tough call.

Thumbs down to the current leaders in the US (Obama and Hillary) who didn't support them — and Honduran desire to remain a Democracy.