Honduras Court: Zelaya Faces Arrest If Returns

AFP:

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras's Supreme Court has rejected a Costa Rica-brokered deal that would have restored ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power and sternly warned that he faces arrest if he returns.

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[SonnyBono]

02:15 AM on 08/25/2009

Manual Zelaya is forced out of office by a military coup because he was exploring the possibility of amending the national constitution to allow him to run for another term in office - yet many of the people here are firm supporters of Alvaro Uribe, the president of Colombia who is on his second term in office after amending the Colombian constitution which allowed him to run for a second term - and there is a movement to further amend the constitution to allow Uribe to run again.

Why is it that many of the same people that attempt to demonize Zelaya support the same actions by Uribe in Colombia? This is not even taking into account the close connection of members of Uribe's political associates with right wing paramilitary organizations and death squads.

Could it be that Zelaya's principle shortcoming is his friendship with Hugo Chavez? We have proven unable to dislodge Chavez so we support an illegal coup in Honduras with Zelaya as a surrogate. And just what is Hugo Chavez's sin? He disliked Bush Jr. and in general resented American attempts at controlling governments and countries throughout the hemisphere - based on our history, we have installed and supported dictators and murderers whose only virtue was that they were easy to control.

Hugo Chavez is not a threat to the United States but wait, he did nationalize the oil companies in Venezuela - now there is the real crime. As Deep Throat told Bob Woodward - "Follow

[SonnyBono]

02:22 AM on 08/25/2009

The quote that got cut off - "Follow the money."

But you all knew that.

[whoa20]

03:41 AM on 08/25/2009

Chavez doesn't like any American president: he hasn't toned down his rhetoric one iota since Obama took office: he just gave him a book. Chavez was not a mere critic of Bush, he always called us "the empire," aligned heavily with Fidel and Ahmadinejad. Also, Uribe had to do what he did to prevent more drug trafficking, which Chavez et al. help. Chavez is absolutely a threat when he aligns with countries who would not only wipe our allies off the map, but who would attack other countries and carry out islamist revolutions.

Also, you know what? if there are going to be less than savory rulers, at least they should be on our side, which is a better side than Ahmad, Chavez, Putin, and Hezbollah, who Chavez currently harbors. At least the dictators we placed in Latin America were better than opposing ones, and helped win the Cold War, and beat Third Worldism. in the end, real democracy did happen for Latin America.

[SonnyBono]

04:03 AM on 08/25/2009

Its that history of "less than savory rulers" that led to people and leaders like Castro, Chavez and Ahmadinejad - guess what? Those less than savory as you describe them were thieves, thugs and murderers that we supported - have you ever heard of the concept of blow back????

The current government in Iran is a direct result of the US removal of a democratically elected government in the 1950s and the continued support of the Shah of Iran - even as the Shah became more and more repressive and dictatorial. The US supported dictators in the Americas were not better for US interests - they were better for United Fruit, ITT and the oil companies but if we really believe in democracy and the right of all peoples for self determination then we shouldn't be supporting dictators that murder their own people and sell out their countries interest.

For your information, the only dictators that helped us win the Cold War were in the Soviet Politburo - the reality is that we didn't win - they lost. I for one do not believe that Batista was better for Cuba than the Castro brothers - hell, Batista was in the process of selling the country to the Mafia when he got run out of Havana - or do you believe that the Mafia's interests and US interests are one and the same?

[phute]

03:46 PM on 08/24/2009

Good description of a coup. Nice attempt at dressing it up.

[JerryLevy]

02:00 PM on 08/24/2009

This socialist dictator wanna be is old news. Not even the press is interested in him anymore. Just put him in a retirement center in Venezuela or Nicagragua and lets move on. The Honduran people in the form of their supreme court, military, and religious institutions got rid of this guy before he could violate the constitution and make himself the supreme leader. Let's give thanks for this country not becoming another Venezuela and move on.

[whoa20]

09:16 PM on 08/24/2009

I know, thank God, another Chavez and Ahmadinajed fan isn't lurking in our backyard. But of course, the hard left will come running trying to defend people who try to destroy democracy as long as they hate America and real freedom/democracy

[SonnyBono]

04:11 AM on 08/25/2009

Zelaya wanted to AMEND the Constitution so he could run for another term in office - as in an ELECTION - something that is permitted in Colombia and the United States - granted most Latin American countries do not permit it due to a long and unpleasant history with dictators - how does this make Zelaya a "supreme leader"? If anyone violated the Honduran constitution, it was the military that threw a democratically elected president out of office. Make no mistake about it, the military is running the show in Honduras - the other segments that you mentioned are just there for show.

[Berettasskeeter]

11:52 PM on 08/26/2009

But it is not permitted in Honduras. What's so hard to understand about that? Further, a majority of the people approved of his removal by the Congress, which ordered the military to physically remove him.
Semper fi

[SECT Dem]

11:14 AM on 09/09/2009

Their CONSTITUTION specifically prohibits amending term limits, something ours should have done.
chavez only amended Venezuela's constitution by locking up anyone opposed to it, and will be "re-elected" forever now by doing the same thing again.
The Honduran military did its job and our administration is punishing them for it.