Sounds like the Hondurans can start running their own affairs once more without being told they have to allow power-grabs by the henchmen of Hugo Chavez.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703399204574508141774783168.html
"If there is one person in Honduras who is more despised these days than deposed president Manuel Zelaya it is a foreigner who goes by the name of Hugo. We refer here not to the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez but to U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens.
Many Hondurans, including, rumor has it, President Roberto Micheletti, see Mr. Llorens as the principal architect of a U.S. policy that has caused enormous Honduran hardship.
There is a chance that the agreement signed late Thursday between the interim government and Mr. Zelaya will put an end to that suffering. Finally the U.S. and the Organization of American States (OAS) have agreed to step aside and allow Honduran institutions to decide if Mr. Zelaya is to be reinstated. Without international meddling, it is quite likely that Mr. Zelaya will be refused the presidency once more.
Yet many risks remain, starting with the fact that though the U.S. said it was going to butt out of Honduran affairs, old habits die hard. Referring to Mr. Zelaya's bid for reinstatement, Thomas Shannon, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemispheric affairs, said last week, "That's the issue that's the most provocative and the one we will be watching most closely." Mr. Shannon should try watching the World Series instead.
The need to dictate to Hondurans how to run their country has been the problem from the start. "
Originally posted by eljefejesusits not like they had much choice anyway.
Sounds like the Hondurans can start running their own affairs once more without being told they have to allow power-grabs by the henchmen of Hugo Chavez.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703399204574508141774783168.html
"If there is one person in Honduras who is more despised these days than deposed president Manuel Zelaya it is a fo ...[text shortened]... d to dictate to Hondurans how to run their country has been the problem from the start. "
Originally posted by generalissimoThe good thing is that coups prove to be more unpopular in Latin America than they once were, the bad news is that some countries are quick to call many changes in government "military coups."
its not like they had much choice anyway.
There was too much international pressure, especially from the US. This internal government issue did not threaten american interests, although it did threaten Chavez's interests.
I am glad that Zelaya did not get a welcome mat right away during those earlier days.
Instead Honduran Institutions will have their say after all and the process can be done the right way.
Originally posted by eljefejesusAgreed about the good news. The bad news, in fact, is that it clearly was a military coup, apparently "covered up" by fumbling jobsworth civilian leaders who stood to gain from it. But then the (other) good news is that Zelaya will be reinstated, and this (merely) symbolic act, plus his previous political courage in trying to seek reform in the most democratic manner possible, will pehaps contribute to the gradual dismantling and revision (or replacement) of the noxious, profoundly undemocratic 1982 constitution, authored by a departing military dictatorship. All in all, a good outcome in a sorry affair that gave off more than a whiff of the bad old 'National Security State' days.
The good thing is that coups prove to be more unpopular in Latin America than they once were, the bad news is that some countries are quick to call many changes in government "military coups."