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**exsmoker** · 07-25-2009, 12:10 AM

how do we know you speak the truth and not the line that chavez and castro are using to support zelaya?
Mr. Zelaya took power four years ago as a centrist. In the past two years, the Stetson-hat-wearing, ballad-singing president has hewn increasingly to the left, finding a soulmate in Mr. Chávez....He then took another page from the Chávez blueprint, pushing for a referendum and constitutional rewrite on re-election. The country’s courts, congress and other institutions lined up against Mr. Zelaya, but he vowed to challenge them all, with the people at his back.While the provisional president, Mr. Micheletti, has taken power in an undemocratic fashion, few Hondurans worry that he will want to stay on. Mr. Micheletti has vowed to hold already-scheduled elections in November, hand over power in January and limit his own presidential aspirations to six months in power.

Angel Nuñez, a 30-year-old Tegucigalpa taxi driver, thinks Mr. Micheletti did the right thing. “Zelaya wanted this place to be Cuba, he wanted absolute power in this country,” he says. Pushing the ex-president aside was the only way to stop “a man who got to thinking he was above the law.” Manuel Zelaya and the Cult of the Caudillo - WSJ.com
Mr. Zelaya, a close ally of Venezuela's populist President Hugo Chávez, was seized by soldiers acting on a Supreme Court warrant, and sent into exile in his pajamas on June 28. The military acted after the country's courts said he had violated the constitution by trying to enact a referendum that would permit his reelection. Prospects Look Dim for Honduras Plan - WSJ.com

In Latin American, in countries with long histories of caudillos dating back to spanish colonial times, I'd imagine even you must admit there might have been cause for concern? at the very least, you are only portraying half the truth.

07-25-2009, 12:10 AM	#5
exsmoker Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	how do we know you speak the truth and not the line that chavez and castro are using to support zelaya? Mr. Zelaya took power four years ago as a centrist. In the past two years, the Stetson-hat-wearing, ballad-singing president has hewn increasingly to the left, finding a soulmate in Mr. Chávez....He then took another page from the Chávez blueprint, pushing for a referendum and constitutional rewrite on re-election. The country’s courts, congress and other institutions lined up against Mr. Zelaya, but he vowed to challenge them all, with the people at his back.While the provisional president, Mr. Micheletti, has taken power in an undemocratic fashion, few Hondurans worry that he will want to stay on. Mr. Micheletti has vowed to hold already-scheduled elections in November, hand over power in January and limit his own presidential aspirations to six months in power. Angel Nuñez, a 30-year-old Tegucigalpa taxi driver, thinks Mr. Micheletti did the right thing. “Zelaya wanted this place to be Cuba, he wanted absolute power in this country,” he says. Pushing the ex-president aside was the only way to stop “a man who got to thinking he was above the law.” Manuel Zelaya and the Cult of the Caudillo - WSJ.com Mr. Zelaya, a close ally of Venezuela's populist President Hugo Chávez, was seized by soldiers acting on a Supreme Court warrant, and sent into exile in his pajamas on June 28. The military acted after the country's courts said he had violated the constitution by trying to enact a referendum that would permit his reelection. Prospects Look Dim for Honduras Plan - WSJ.com In Latin American, in countries with long histories of caudillos dating back to spanish colonial times, I'd imagine even you must admit there might have been cause for concern? at the very least, you are only portraying half the truth.
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