Comment on: “The New Hemispheric Agenda and the Role of Regional and International Organizations”
From: James L. Abrahamson, Ph.D., Contributing Editor for America and Diplomacy
In “The New Hemispheric Agenda and the Role of Regional and International Organizations” — on the whole a useful assessment — Ambassador (ret.) Anthony C. E. Quainton repeats a currently common abuse of language and offers a less than complete description of recent events in Honduras, one seemingly designed to reinforce the Obama Administration’s claim that that country has fallen off its list of Central American democracies.
The ambassador begins by joining those who redefine the traditional meaning of the term “coup,” which my New Oxford American Dictionary defines as “a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government” (my emphasis). To cause further alarm, he characterizes the removal of the Honduran president as a “military coup,” despite the fact that the armed forces played the role of sheriff to the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court and allowed constitutional civil authorities — and not the army itself or someone it selected — to assume supreme executive power…Read Article Here
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1 Axel Reyes Bogran // Nov 11, 2009 at 7:40 am
Just one more “Leftist” thinking democrat writting trash about Honduras.
Of course he is going to back up Obama’s claim that what hapenned in Honduras is against democracy, the leftist kind, of course.
There was nothing antidemocratic about removing Zelaya from office, and even the exiling of him may have been legal, since in the article # 239 of the Constitution clearly reads that if the violator fails to resign office he can be consider a traitor, which can lead to him loosing his Honduran citizenship, and that will allow for him to be deported.
Honduras was wrongly and undully punished for requiring its laws be respected.
2 Al // Nov 11, 2009 at 11:36 am
I think it is intersting that some of my comments are taken away from this website while others remain. This does not speak very highly of freedom of expression, does it?
3 Administrator // Nov 11, 2009 at 1:18 pm
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