jueves, 22 de octubre de 2009

Honduras: Pressure for democracy...

This post is more political than the older post but this isn’t trouble to make a good post, after all political it’s not synonymous of boring ones so here we go…


Manuel Zelaya intended to modify the constitution to remain in power and for that he had planned a referendum. The Supreme Court of Justice, which opposed to this measure, ordered the army to arrest the president Zelaya. So did the military, which relocated Zelaya to Costa Rica.


Lawmakers have appointed interim president to the Congress leader, Roberto Micheletti. Election officials said the country's presidential elections on November 29 will be carried out as scheduled before the coup. However, the international community considered that the legitimate president is Zelaya and Zelaya himself has assured that he’ll come back to Honduras as president.


Well, Micheletti could be the visible face of the Hondurans factual powers, as he was chosen precisely for them to hold the presidency, but his presidency is rejected by the international community and Honduras can’t survive as an island, so Micheletti sooner or later must resign his current position.

Zelaya instead could be regarded as the victim of this coup, however we must also recognize a certain thirst for power because he want to change the constitution just for to be reelected, but caution with this, I ‘m not justifying the coup, I just say only that Zelaya isn’t a white dove.

This conflict appears to have a single type of solution and is that Micheletti cedes power because it’s not possible to maintain a country divided and in constant conflict for a long time, and less with foreign pressures and internal pressures, so Micheletti will leave his post soon, maybe he is waiting for the election period in order to leave, although it would be suspect because with him in power while elections take place it could raise suspicions of electoral intervention. But above all I hope that the resolution of this conflict will be the least violent possible.

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