What the world needs to know (Please read!)
After watching the international news last night, I’d like to clear up a few things concerning the recent political upheaval in Honduras. The coverage these events are getting on the international level is horribly unbalanced! For those of you who don’t have time to read a long explanation, here are the basics:
Every international news outlet, following CNN’s lead, is speaking out in favor of Mel Zelaya, saying the Honduran government has executed an illegal coup, and Zelaya should be re-instated. All of these outlets seem to have forgotten that Zelaya broke the law by defying both the Honduran National Congress and the Supreme Court, and that he planned to throw out the constitution in favor of a new socialist manifesto (which he planned to draft, I’m sure, with the help of his good friend Hugo Chavez).
Every national (Honduran) news outlet has swung to the opposite extreme, saying that there has been no coup d’état, and everything that’s happened in the past 48 hours is “completely constitutional.” It’s true that Roberto Micheletti, as president of the National Congress, would succeed the president if, for some reason, the president couldn’t fulfill his duties – but how justified were the Honduran armed forces in using force to oust the president and effectively drop-kick him to Costa Rica? Why didn’t they recognize that they were giving Zelaya a golden opportunity to form a dangerous alliance with Chavez and every other socialist leader in Latin America?
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