Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya received some important support from a Latin American leader this afternoon. But it wasn’t from one of the socialist/populist presidents or even one on the moderate/pragmatic side of the left. Rather, it was from Mexico’s center-right president Felipe Calderon:"We receive Zelaya with open arms as we have always done and as we will always do with our brother Honduras," he said. "From the day of the dastardly coup, we have shown solidarity with Honduras and supported the reinstatement of Zelaya as the country's president."At a joint press conference with Zelaya in Mexico City, Calderon also backed the compromise plan created by Costa Rica’s Oscar Arias to restore democratic order and avoid a civil conflict in Honduras. For his part, Zelaya emphasized that “reversing this coup is a challenge for the international community.”
In Honduras, meanwhile, the country’s Congress approved part of the Arias plan that would grant political amnesty to Zelaya. Nevertheless, one leading legislator warned that he could still face fraud charges while de facto president Roberto Micheletti boasted that Zelaya "will never be able to return to the presidency."
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Honduras is fortunate to have the Constitutional allegiance of a courageous and highly professional judiciary. The interim Micheletti government and the Congress are also under astounding duress from corrupt international actors including the UN, the USA, and the OAS, who are trying to intimidate Honduras into destroying their own lawful Constitution. Their great courage to date is an example to all who value true freedom, which is only available under the true Rule of Law.
ReplyDeleteEvents in Honduras since late June of 2009 are being widely and unfairly misrepresented as a military coup. In fact, Mr. Zelaya ousted himself by the very terms of the Constitution he swore to uphold. He perjured his public oath to uphold the Constitution by attempting to usurp the constitutional powers of another branch of government; by deliberately attempting to contravene specific provisions of the Constitution by inciting insurrection and by seducing naive people to violence in an effort to overthrow the Constitutional majority of Honduras.
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