Honduras- Street protests in favor of Mel Zelaya 2

[CloeBuckingham]

Widely reviled by the political class in Honduras (including the leaders of his own Honduran Liberal Party), Zelaya is now known not only as the hapless president ousted at gunpoint in his pajamas, but also by his atrocious governance record and erratic behaviour which includes nearly doubling the minimum wage to the severe detriment of his country's economy, repeatedly refusing to submit a 2009 budget to congress, and ultimately disavowing both legislative and judicial checks on his power.

[veritogonzo]

ok, aside from the ilegallity of the referendum. Why do you think everything was printed and flown in from Venezuela? Does that sound official? Did you know of the many complaints from the poor people that were denied medical attention weeks before if they didn't sign papers with ID numbers and fingerprints? I'm betting no.. and even with all this aside.. Do you have an idea how things work in Venezuela and Cuba and how it got started? If you did.. you would why we were afraid.

[starmanskye]

Bullshit. Article 5 of the Civilian Participation Act 2006 specifically authorizes opinion poll consultation to know public's thinking re: policies. And, WHY were polls printed & flown from Venezuela? BeCUZ the oligarchy ruling behind the 'democratic' veneer were OPPOSED to extending greater political participation to the masses & would seize them to stop the polling, DuH. BeCUZ a new Constitution would threaten their crony priveleges, corrupt influences & hold on power. IDK re: med witholding.

[mikkitiny]

people are obviously in favor of Zelaya. and they demonstrate their support for him very decently with no violence....so far.

[lee09786]

you clearly dont live in Honduras, the manifestations in favor of zelaya have been violent, and the manifestations in favor of his destitution have been much bigger, 90% of the honduran population supports the new government and Zelayas destitution

[mikkitiny]

that's just your words supported by nothing.

if he were not supported by the population why would be those fat cats in parliament, Supreme Court, and in military so affraid of the referendum Zelaya proposed? and don't say blahblablablah it's unconstitutional. holding referendum is constitutional and then following legal procedures any changes may be introduced in the Constitution. for example, US has hundreds of constitutional amendments. so, exiling the lawful prezident was illegal.

[starmanskye]

mikkitiny: Indeed! US rightwingnuts & braindead Americans, uninformed & sell-out Hondurans have kneejerk conditioned response to leftist 'threats'. They abandon all critical, objective reason & studying an issue in favor of enthusiastically defending neoliberalism same as 'American' & 'liberty', despite it being a pig-inna-poke, ponzai-scheme license for fatcats to pillage public, corrupt & undermine participatory democracy. Hondurans have been betrayed, sold-out & exploited way too long. ViVA!

[starmanskye]

lee09786: Sorry, but even with the New Gov's extreme shut-down of info, blackout of alt & pro-Zelaya news, imposed curfew, criminalization of 'coup' label, forced army conscription of 15 yr-old boys, kidnapping, shooting & assaults on reporters, social activists, human rights workers & protestors, oligarch control of 90% 'news', pro-coup faction have NOT shown overwhelming support for them. Business leaders & Congress members are beginning to backtrack & remove support in face of public resolve.