It seems like I've been posting a lot about Latin America lately. Well, here's another one on Honduras. I don't really have anything to add beyond the quotes. Where the hell is Obama on this? Clinton and the State Department? Still taking the wrong side, I guess. Pajamas Media reports:
Last Friday, July 17, the Honduran newspaper La Tribuna published a story detailing the Honduran government’s seizure of 45 government-owned computers found hidden in a building adjacent to the presidential palace formally occupied by the deposed President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya. According to the Honduran authorities these computers contained the results of the referendum Zelaya was fervently trying to push through. When the authorities examined those results, they found that the Honduran people had overwhelmingly voted in favor of having a constitutional convention. This would open the door and allow Zelaya to change the constitution, removing the one-term limit on presidents strictly stipulated by the document. It is similar to what his friend and mentor, Hugo Chavez, did in Venezuela, and Zelaya figured it would work for him, too.
The only problem with these results was that the plebiscite vote never took place.
The truth is that this bombshell discovery was very inconvenient to a mainstream media that had already decided to take the side of the deposed Honduran president. From the beginning of the crisis they used terms such as “military takeover” and “coup d’etat” to describe the events that took place, ignoring the fact that when the Honduran government removed Zelaya from office it was following the rule of law that was plainly spelled out in their democratic constitution. Instead, they chose to echo the same words and terms used by such giants of democracy as Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
