Coronel may choose to differ but he has to learn the meaning of true democracy!
VHeadline commentarist Carlos M. Pietri writes: The United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union and other world organizations have rejected the coup d'etat in Honduras, but the irrational hatred to Chavez that supposed democrat Gustavo Colonel maintains, has taken it to justify the actions of the Honduran military and congressmen against their constitutional PRESIDENT, Manuel Zelaya.
I wonder how anyone can believe the judgments of this egocentric 'gentleman' (Gustavo Colonel) when he talks about Venezuela and the Bolivarian process, if in something so anti-democratic as the Honduran coup d'etat, Coronel justifies it -- and celebrates it on his 'Armas de Coronel' blog -- on the fact that Chavez condemned it.
Colonel repeats the banal justifications of the coup participants, as to supposed violations to the Honduran Constitution where the PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS asked the Honduran Institute of Statistics to carry out a survey on the possibility of placing a fourth ballot box in the next presidential elections to asking Honduran voters if they agreed wirth carrying out a referendum for a Constituent Assembly.
Anyone can discern, that, to be accepted, this proposal would have to be made under the mandate of a President different frpm Zelaya (The Honduran Constitution does not allow the immediate re-election) ... still more, to be effective, the proposal would have to be approved by the Honduran Congress before being put to the electorate.
The situation in Honduras is an aberration because, in this simple referendum proposal, the Honduran oligarchy sees its interests threatened ... and they do not want something or anybody near them that gives a vision or makes a positive proposal that there's really a light at the end of the tunnel for Central America.
But why did ZELAYA insist on the survey?
...because the Honduran Constitution's depth so is limited that it only allows a very small participation by the Honduran people in its political processes ... it responds to the interests of big national and international money interests in that country. The Constitution, adopted in 1982, at a key moment of Reagan's 'dirty war' by the US government in Central America, was designed to enforce the position that those who held economic power, as much as politicians, could maintain that power with minimum interference from the people.
Thank God ... unlike the Honduran coup participants and Venezuela's eternal disqualifier (Colonel) ... the peoples of the world, our fellow citizens, categorically reject any type of interference, imposition, sabotage, coup against any country in our Americas and the world.
Today it is Honduras! If we accept barbarism, this right wing coup d'etat that clearly evidences the ambitions of the Honduran bourgeoisie and imperialism, before the will of the Honduran people to fight for
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