Miami Herald Headline Honduras crisis shows Latin America's weaknesses. The story reports that all branches of the Honduras government opposed Zalaya's unconstitutional attempt to instate a process for his re-election - with the help of Hugo Chavez. The Miami Herald reports that The Supreme Court of Honduras order the military to oust Zalaya and to escort him out of the country. It reports that Obama stood with Hugo, Chavez, Noriega, and Castro in condemning the combined actions of the Honduras, government. Supreme court and military and called their combined actions "unconstitutional".
ABC News Headline Obama condemns Honduras coup. The article describes the coup only as "an army backed coup" failing to mention that the other branches of the Honduras government opposed Zalaya's unconstitutional attempt to extend his reign of power and that Zalaya's attempt to intitate a referendum is unconstitutional because under Honduras law only the Congress is authorized to do so.
ABC then reports that Obama declared the coup unconstitutional and goes on to say "The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution calling for Mr. Zalaya’s "immediate and unconditional" reinstatement. "
Has the government and constitution of Honduras been replaced by a world tribunal- or is this just wish fulfillment by the UN General Assembly?. Since when did the UN General Assembly have the power to weigh in on the decisions of the Supreme Court of a sovereign nation? And what ever happened to Obama’s principled stand of “not meddling” in the affairs of a sovereign nation- Obama's "principled" stand used to justify his delayed support for the people of Iran.
From the Website of the UN General Assembly
Did I read this right ? Is it true that " United States President Barack Obama had also called on all actors to resolve any dispute peacefully through dialogue and free of any outside influence"Joining the 20other speakers from the Americas in rejecting the coup, the United
States delegate said her country had also joined its colleagues in the Organization of American States yesterday in condemning the coup. United States President Barack Obama had also called on all actors to resolve any dispute peacefully through dialogue and free of any outside influence. Her country would continue to work through the Organization of American States to help the Honduran people.
Nicaragua’s representative urged the people of Honduras to arm themselves with courage and let the “putschists” know that their time had passed. All of America, both North and South, rejected their coup, and no more banana republics where oligarchs could continue to exploit the people with impunity existed. Although they claimed to be acting in support of democracy, they acted with bare-faced illogic that went against the region’s recent democratic history.
She particularly condemned the abduction of Patricia Rodas, the Foreign Minister of Honduras, as well as the kidnapping of the ambassadors of Cuba, Venezuela and
Nicaragua. That flagrant violation of international law was an act of aggression against each respective country that would not go unpunished
Obama called the murder of the Iranian people by their own government a "debate" and now he implies that the military escort or a president who is unconstitutionally trying to extend his power, ordered by the Supreme Court of a sovereign state was not a "peaceful resolution".
What a wordsmith is our president!
