Exiled Honduran Leader Makes 2nd Trip to Border

[Rangerday1]

Zepman2393 -- I like you, you tell the truth!

[alex200040]

quien entiende a este hombre primero acusa a estados unidos de ser el causante ,y ahora pide ayuda,bueno chavez yo te doy un consejo,preocupate por tu pais y deja a honduras que arreglen su problema politico a su manera,, nunca me escuchas ,,va a ser honduras un pais comunista tu sabes porque,porque nosotros los soldados norteamericanos protejeremos la patria de honduras army ,navy,marines,and the whole U.S.A.country will defeand honduras freedom ok, under God with liberty ,and justice ,for all.

[reydelmando]

i would like to see the USA defend hondurans people against hunger and illiteracy. Do you really think the USA gives a damn shit about fucking honduras? We all wish they did give a shit.

[jota7molina]

I see you also fail to understand the precarious economic situation under which Honduras lived during his 3.5 years in power. A ridiculous increase in a 60% to the minimum wage which bankrupted many many industries and rose our unemployment rate from a 17% to a 34%. The high levels of corruption in the country. Assuming that the executive power is above the law and therefore above the judicial and legislative powers(all 3 branches are qual in power). Etc. Quite simply he was a bad ruler.

[reydelmando]

How much were people making that a 60% wage increase was even thouhgt of? You could be the best leader in the world and not everybody is going to be happy. If the guy is trying to do something good for the majority, he's the one. I understand your points and you may have your reasons. Just don't even think a nation gets rich overnight.I see a brighter light at the end of the tunnel with Zelaya than with these corrupted leaders that have dictated and abused the nation for over a hundred years.

[erock33]

Obama supports dictators because he wants to be one himself. Sadly, he gets fours years to try to remake america into a third world country. Luckily, he will be thrown out on his ass in 2012.

[reydelmando]

75 millions americans who can not afford health insurance and as a result can not get medical attention love Obama.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

Once Zelaya is reinstated, I hope Micheletti is suicided in prison. The same goes for his papist sidekick.

[Rangerday1]

MarquisdeBarrabas ---Zelaya will be shot upon his return. He is not the prez of Honduras anymore...he is a criminal. You best not mess with the Honduran military or you will pay the price.

[MarquisdeBarrabas]

The mighty Honduran military? lol

You should dream less and get laid more, boy.

[Rangerday1]

MarquisdeBarrabas --I don't dream. Some of them are quite good and there are some exceptional soldiers in their ranks. BOY? I laugh in your face coward.

[soccerkills]

what a moron staing in the nicaragua border. nicaragua is to weak to protect him

he should be in el salvadorian border the honduras tremble when they see a salvadorian. they lost a war to el salvador in 100 hours.

[drmondman1]

Economy comes from Community. YOU want the truth? YOU can't handle the truth!!!

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

Zelaya was wrong... so was the government, only real way to end the situation. Zeleya doesn't even look Honduran. Looks like some rich half spaniard.

[lenny380]

I hope Obama does give him some new pajamas Tuesday. He may need them when they kick him out again.

[dgallegos4201]

he was elected president but tried to serve more terms than their constitution allows. the congress there was simply following constitutional law. he broke the law. besides it's not like zelaya is a saint! the guy is rubbing elbows with chavez and ortega and castro... aka not our friends.

[guyanakoolaid]

Are you saying people can't change their constitution??? The current Honduran Constitution is the 16th Honduras has had since independence from Spain, and was written under a junta government in 1982.

Zelaya was going to hold a referendum, nothing but a poll to let people vote to see if they even wanted Constitutional reform. And the majority of Hondurans, who are poor, did want reform. That's why they threw Zelaya out illegally. There was no legal basis for a military coup.

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

ok? the poor people wanted reform? to keep zelaya there longer will help how? to have anothe venezualan president? zelaya was wrong, so wa the governement, end of story, he ain't getting back in trying to turn honduras to some commie nation.

[Zepman2393]

The referendum was illegal. Zelaya also breached the Honduran Constitution multiple times, and was removed legally. There is no impeachment process in Honduras. It was not a coup, by the way..

[jota7molina]

With all due respect guyanakoolaid, don't pretend to know about the Honduran constitution or any other constitution for that matter. You are right in one thing, the honduran constitution can be amended, except for three articles in it denominated as "petreos". One of them states that the countries borders can't be changed, another states that each elected president can serve only ONE term, and the other one states that every administration shall be elected in a democratically republican fashion.

[guyanakoolaid]

It's amazing how when the right-wing doesn't like somebody, it's so easy for them to throw around words like "un-elected" and "communist", when these are clearly LIES. It's like static - they hope if they say these things enough - shout them loudest and longest - that they will win, regardless of reality, which in this case is that ZELAYA IS THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT.

It's alarming how easy it is for right-wingers to say "black is white"...that there were WMD in Iraq, for instance.

[oilhammer04]

There are facts in this matter and the major media is not telling the truth and misleading Americans about the situation in Honduras.

[Zepman2393]

You are absolutely lost man. Zelaya may have been elected democratically, but by ignoring the supreme court and congress he broke the law and then lost all bearing to remain president of Honduras.

[jota7molina]

You are right again, I don't consider myself a left or right wing but rather a centrist by the way (I am also Honduran), Zelaya is the democratically elected president, but that does not place a president above the law. If congress and supreme court consider under Honduran law his referendum to be illegal than it quite simply is. Now, in Honduras we've had many corrupted president, but none had ever tried to pull what this guy tried. Whether the world likes it or not, we did the right thing,

[reydelmando]

you don't know what laws mean and what they are used for. Laws or constitutions are like tools you use to do a job. Over time or when you start doing different things, they need to be replaced in order to comply with the new demand. In developped countries, they are changed or adjusted regulairly. Do you think it is normal for a country to have 80% hungry cause they can not afford to eat? Dont you think a change is needed?

[jota7molina]

When there are flaws in system then you are right, sure change the rules. Capitalism, and specially CORRUPTED Latin American capitalism has many loopholes (HONDURAS is no exeption, as a matter of fact Honduras might be the rule). Mend it, but don't change the whole system. Regarding this particular case, I fail to see how is it that changing the constitution so this guy can remain in power for unlimited terms, like Chavez, Correa, Fidel, and Ortega are doing, would help the poor in Honduras.

[Rangerday1]

guyanakoolaid (--STFU you lying propogandist. You just portrayed the lib left play book when you try to accuse the right of the tactics your communist leaning scum use daily to try to further your lies. I have found that "whatever" the libs accuse people of are exactly what they are doing themselves. BTW Zelaya is the democratically elected prez that is NOW the democratically DEPOSED CRIMINAL FORMER PREZ.

[jota7molina]

You are also committing a fallacy. You are a leftist, that's ok i respect that. I am a center right, and a Honduran ok. The fallacy is the following: You or whoever as leftist supporting someone simply because that someone preaches to be leftist. In 3.5 years besides his bla, bla, his policies had little or no socialism in them. This is not a fraternity where if you touch a brother everybody has to get into the fight. He messed up the country even more, and was a bad ruler. Set Ideology aside.

[reydelmando]

I can't wait to see Michael Moore new movie: CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY. By the way he is not from cuba. He is frome the USA.

[39rc6cf]

Zalaya is a commie; I hope the Honduran army crosses the border, arrests the rat and tosses his ass into a Tegucigalpa prison.

[elspoko]

Who says the coupe was unjustified? He was trying to change their constitution so that he could stay in officer for atleast 2 more terms.

[Zepman2393]

Not only that, it wasnt a military coup! The military is not in charge! Congress voted for a new president, Roberto Micheletti, who would have been next in line anyway since he is the equivalent of the US speaker of the house. (The vice president resigned)

[matman125]

yawn

[a4morales]

What a Circus!!! Stop giving this joker attention!

[oilhammer04]

The media is lying . . . . you should read from some reliable sources, like National Review, Weekly Standard, etc. All media is biased, you just need the right bias. :)

[getsumharley]

The need to cut his head off and remove another cancer from that region.

[oilhammer04]

And the media keeps perpetuating the lie that this is a coup. Manuel Aelaya was legally removed from office (by order of the Supreme Court) when he tried to illegally extend his time of rule. His own party supported his removal and he was replaced by a member of his own party. What coup replaces a leader with one of his own group?!!! I'm waiting for Obama's apology for joining in on this misinformation campaign. Read some real news on the issue like Dennis Prager's "Why I came to Honduras"

[truepaths]

misinformation propaganda (black, white, grey) is all I see in old media since the start of the Bush administration. It's probably been going on longer than than that, because they're just tentacles of the big corporations that own everything, but that's when I became fully aware everything around me was saturated with that sh*t. It's the reason I don't enjoy watching TV any more and just stick to the internet, but even the net is becoming heavily infected now as it goes more mainstream.

[oilhammer04]

I like National Review. They have our best writers and some of the best thinkers on the Right.

[FrancescaGianna]

Obama will make him a Constitutional Czar in his endless cabinet of un-elected czars.

[oilhammer04]

Good one!