According to the invitation, “President Maduro will help to outline the sequence of events leading to the shift in power in Honduras and removal of Manuel Zelaya; provide insight into Honduran constitutional authorities; and discuss how the U.S. can now work to support the democratic institutions and rule of law in Honduras.”
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I was under the impression that Honduras is not a democracy any more than the United States is a democracy. Chavez’s regime might be one. But the US and Honduras have established constitutional REPUBLICS with democratically elected legislatures and executives. That means that the rule of law and the protection of minority interests limit majority rule in order to keep the majority from turning into a tyranny, or being abused by ambitious men to create a tyranny. Pure democracies even in ancient times were quite vulnerable to demagogues who created dictatorships in democracies over and over again. After all, all you need is a majority and then you have control, and a demagogue ruling without the restraint of a constitution has absolute power once he has the majority behind him. This is what Chavez did with Venezuela, and this is what Zelaya was trying to do with Honduras! But the Constitution of Honduras got in his way, he tried to change it illegally, and the other branches of government very rightly and justly acted to stop him. I only hope that Obama’s grabs for power here in the United States are recognized for what they are, too, before it’s too late for us Americans.
The CONSTITUTION OF HONDURAS works just fine, it’s the CORRUPT CRIMENALS like zelaya, and chavez, that want to control everyone and everything while they benefit only themselves at the expense of poor and innocent people.
1 unknown “Now this news is what I call a shift from a corrupt potential dictator to true democracy in Honduras.”
I agree with you. Hopefully they get to an agreement and do not give in until the next elections come. There is DEMOCRACY in Honduras without Mel.
I think the magic word is Democracy. While many Hondurans are happy that the insensative President Mel Zelaya is gone, hondurans are not aware about the message the world has received through the austing of the President.
The world acknowledged, that hondurans democracy is so week, that the normal democratic institutions can or could not resolve the internal national political discrepancies between the involved parties and people.
Using military force to produce a new reality did underline this fact.
Secondly, Hondurans themselve believe, that their democratic system is so week, and has been further weekend by the austed President Zelaya, that the election in 4 month would not have resolved the disput and would not have provided conclusive information about the democratic intrest of the people in honduras.
That again is a sign for the weekness ond instabillity of the democratic honduran system.
If an election cannot give conclusive information because people or groups with personal intrest can f.e. temper with the voting results, Democracy is far from beeing established.
So, yes, the democratic structure of Honduras must be corrected, especially after the military intervention.
If we wait another 4 month until the election is initiated, antidemocratic notions will settle in and hurt Honduras.
The election must be initiated imediately to strenthen end ensure Democracy and to give conclusive information what hondurans really want.
We need to elect him out, vote for democracy,
support Democracy for a better Honduras to come.
Thank you very much,
Lisa Price
Now this news is what I call a shift from a corrupt potential dictator to true democracy in Honduras.