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Ousted president Zelaya completes symbolic crossing into Honduras

Saturday, July 25th 2009 - 10:39 UTC
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The ousted president of Honduras briefly crossed on Friday the country's border with Nicaragua, in a symbolic move that United States described as “reckless”. Read full article

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  • brainfood

    Castro’s scheme, implemented by Chavez, Morales, Correa, Zelaya, etc. works along these lines:

    1.   Select a wannabe dictator -- a “charismatic” and depraved megalomaniac who is ready to sell out his country (like Chavez, Morales, Correa, Zelaya). Help him run for president of the country.

    2.   Invest millions in a “professional” campaign demonizing the opposition and promising CHANGE to help the poor, end corruption, improve schools… whatever people want to hear.

    3.   Commit as much fraud as possible to make sure the wannabe dictator wins.

    4.   Have “protectors of human rights” like Insulza (OAS) -- who have really been trampling on human rights by promoting communism for years -- declare that the elections were “legal and transparent.” Carter has also been used to do this dirty job.

    5.   Make sure that, once in power, the wannabe dictator takes over the Legislative and Judicial branches of power, destroys the country’s institutions, intimidates and controls the media, and demonizes, intimidates and even kills anyone trying to defend the country.

    6.   Have a referendum to approve a new constitution. Representatives of the people are supposed to write that constitution. In reality, people don’t even know what’s in the new constitution, which is written by Castro/Chavez's agents before the wannabe dictator even “runs” for office.

    7.   Have Insulza (OAS) and others who pretend to “protect human rights” declare that the referendum is perfectly “legal and transparent.” .

    The goal of the new constitution is to help the wannabe dictator become a full-blown dictator for life (like Castro in Cuba), prevent people from defending themselves, and create a network of tyrants that protect each other.

    Jul 25th, 2009 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brainfood

    Honduras on Ebay -No Reserve!

    http://cgi.ebay.com/True-Honduras-No-Reserve_W0QQitemZ320403649840QQcmdZViewItemQQptZArt_Photo_Images?hash=item4a998bb530&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:12|66:2|39:1|72:1205|293:1|294:50

    Jul 25th, 2009 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Luis

    brainfood, fraud elections, corruption, destruction of institutions, all that can be fixed with more democracy. With political trial, reform to the electoral system, judiciary iniciative, more participation of the citizens.
    But to establish a Coup d'état its a complete irresponsability, illegal, irrespectfull of its citizens, inmoral, and the most foolish thing to do in this century.
    There is absolutely no way you can justify this Coup d'état , becouse the law, that says military branch can intervene in internal affairs, as the Honduras military stated, its the old trick of old dictatorships and your theory that zelaya might be Influenced by chavez, who can assure you that chavez or the white house will not run the country from the outside with this illegitimate new government ?.

    Jul 26th, 2009 - 03:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tim Andrews

    I love it how the mainstream U.S. media, who are either too ignorant or lazy to bother to analyze the facts, simply repeats what is spoon fed to them by the loonie right and continues to spread the lie that Zelaya, through the aborted June 28 plebiscite, was attempting to change the constitution so that he could remain in power. The fact is that the only question the plebscite asked that remotely dealt with this issue was a question on whether a constituent assembly should be convened AFTER Zelaya's term in office ended in January 2010. If the Honduran people had approved the convening of a constituent assembly (an impossibility if we are to believe the propaganda of the coup plotters and their allies since they also claim to have the support of the “majority” of Hondurans), the members of that assembly MAY have taken up the issue of re-election. If they were to approve re-election, it would be no different than what has happened in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, etc. in recent years with changes to their respective constitutions concerning this issue. The important thing to keep in mind, though, is that Zelaya would not have been able to have benefitted from any such changes until AFTER his successor's term in office ended.

    Jul 26th, 2009 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Bubba

    The mainstream US media is controlled by the loonie left. Where have you been the last one hundred days plus the run up to Barak being elected?

    Jul 28th, 2009 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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