The Wall Street Journal reports today that Manuel Zelaya, former president of Honduras, has arrived in the Dominican Republic, welcomed by Dominican President Leonel Fernández.
The Los Angeles Times reports that he traveled with his wife and two children.
Hundreds of flag-waving fans watched him leave the airport in Tegucigalpa, the BBC adds.
Close friends say he plans to live in Mexico.
Meanwhile, the new president, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, called for a new beginning at a speech in the capital's national stadium.
"The Honduran family begins [the process] of reconciliation," Mr. Lobo said.
The Tegucigalpa crowd booed mentions of the OAS, the U.S. Ambassador and Costa Rica President Óscar Arias, who had mediated talks to return Zelaya to power.
Story and photo: via WSJ
Now that the anti-coup population will remain protesting and demanding the people's National Constituent Assembly, demanding justice for all those who were murdered by the armed forces and the cobra police in spite of Zelaya's absence and time due in his presidency, if the media will insist in calling us "Zelaya fans/followers" or even better yet-- insist with the Hugo Chávez scapegoat? Who will want to be "reelected" now?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it could have occurred to you that there are tons of laws that don't protect the population and that this is a genuine demand of the majority of the population. Anyone from any party can rule, as long as we Honduras are protected by the law, and not by the "law" endorsed and written by the same ones who had us over military rule for almost 20 years. It's hillarious to see the ex military junta dictator Oswaldo López Arellano's nephew, Carlos López Contreras, who has actually served another military junta be the Micheletti foreign minister. People don't these things. They look up for news presented in the Washington Post, in LA Times, never through Honduran media (excluding the pro coup media, which are the traditional mass media of Honduras owned by the big entrepeneurs who endorsed the coup).
Answer me this: Why is it necessary to amend the seven entrenched clauses which mandate that Honduras remain a representative democracy? Would these clauses be respected in a new constitution? Are social ills the fault of the constitution or does the blame lie with politicians who feel no need to enforce social provisions already present in the constitution? The superficial nature of the left's arguments in the Zelaya case astound me.
ReplyDeleteAnd Lopez Contreras is NOT the foreign minister, Mario Canahuati is. Stop lying already, please. It makes you look bad.
ReplyDeleteLópez Contreras WAS the Foreign Minister of the de facto government of ROBERTO MICHELETTI, not the Lobo one, and that is what I meant WHEN I wrote the article.
ReplyDeleteIt's quite obvious that it was you the one who didn't inform himself "Jefe", so take your own advise.