Honduras: One Dead, Two Wounded amid Pro-Zelaya Protests

Protests continued in the Honduran capital a day after the ousted President, Manuel Zelaya attempted to return.

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[C0MBAT45]

If you just listen to the facts of the news story, yorubablk3, It was not a 'coupe'. Zelaya, a Marxist, and friend of Venezuelan Communist Dictator Hugo Chavez, abused his power and authority, by attempting to change his term limitation, imposing himself President for life, thru a rigged referendum.

So the Honduran Supreme Court, intervene, and ordered the military to stop his brazen takeover of theduly Constitutional Civil authority of Honduras

[CloeBuckingham]

A democracy has checks and balances between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The purpose is to keep any one branch from becoming too powerful.

Zelaya was trying to subvert democracy by redrawing the constitution so he could be a permanent dictator like Fidel Castro.

If there was a wait for the election, it could already be too late.

[yorubablk3]

And no,i don't 'understand' or accept as 'fact' what you are only alleging.That is your veiw.Their is nothing in fact that shows that Zelaya was trying to do what you are positing.

[yorubablk3]

Elected leaders & political parties all around the world change & tweek stated policies &  positions all the time,to fit 'circumstances' on 'the ground'.Here in the USA 'politician' is a by word for 'feckless opportunist' as a result..And saying one thing & doing another is often euphamised as 'politics'.

[CloeBuckingham]

If it happens all the time, please tell me where and when? LOL!

Don't you understand that Zelaya was trying to destroy the constitution and turn Honduras into a dictatorship?

The government has three branches: executive, legislative, and judiciary. Only the head of one branch changed by order of the Supreme Court. That is not a coup.

Please educate yourself: watch?v=V0Uf_fah5p8

[yorubablk3]

It happens all the time in democracies under various circumstances.And in Democracies the way to deal with this is through elections,not 'sudden changes in government' non electorally.(coups)

[CloeBuckingham]

Zelaya should have been removed from office owing to insanity. Have you listened to his speeches lately? He talks about the "genocide of democracy in Honduras." GENOCIDE? That is "the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group."

This guy is an embarrassment to everyone in Honduras. He hurt the very workers he wanted to help. He destroyed their livelihoods.

[CloeBuckingham]

A coup is a sudden change in government illegally and by force.

This was just the removal of a crazy man by the Supreme Court. The next in line took over from Zelaya's own party.

It is true that Zelaya1 was elected president. But Zelaya1 was a moderate. At some point, Zelaya1 became Zelaya2, the Marxist. But nobody voted for Zelaya2, and Zelaya1 because Zelaya2 without a vote.

It is like bait and switch. The electorate thinks they are "buying" one thing, but they get another.

[yorubablk3]

In a democracy there's a way you get to remove an elected official you don't like...its called an election.

[yorubablk3]

There indeed was a coup,regardless of the figure head put in place.

[yorubablk3]

If any of this is true,it still begs the fundamental question of Democracy.Zelaya should have been arrested if he broke the law and tried in court.But what he actually did-which is brilliant -is showed in fact the ineptness of the 1982,out dated & inadequate Constitution & the need for more efficient & democratic reforms.