Western Hemisphere leaders turn up pressure on Honduras to reinstate ousted president

Good for the Honduran military. Am I the only one who doesn't see a problem with this?

I'm not seeing much to support the military's over reaction here.

We had another potential Hugo Chavez in the making and the military stops him. Why are they being labelled the bad guys?

Because they've negated the will of the people of Honduras by ousting their democratically elected leader.

From this story, it sounds like the army jumped the gun.



A referendum that has strong opposition and is ruled illegal is unlikely to pass and even if it did, is still a far way away from setting up another dictator. The fact that this guy is a friend of Chavez isn't a good charactor reference though.

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The Law he was attempting to overturn was quite ridiculous. Unfortunately for him, even suggesting the change of that Law was in fact breaking that Law. No such Law should ever exist IMO.

I would love to see term limits here. Senate and Commons. We'd fill two old folks homes with the Senate and the back benchs of Parliament.

Are you suggesting we should impose upon them a law that we think makes sense?

Sometimes the electorate doesn't know what's good for them...especially in countries where education is minimal at best. Turkey is another good example. The generals keep the the Islamists from taking over, keeping Turkey the most secular and egalitarian of all Muslim countries.

Who was openly and in defiance of Supreme Court orders trying to find a way to have his tenure extended beyond constitutional term limits. All of which was, as someone already indicated, a back door way to have himself declared President-for-life, just like his buddy Hugo Chavez.

The coup probably wasn't the way to get it done but Zelaya was clearly acting illegally himself. Obama really blew this one big time by condemning the military while letting El Presidente off the hook.

True, but like Riden mentioned, the army jumped the gun. The referendum had yet to happen, and if it had passed, there's no way of telling of how things would have turned out.

The Law is draconian. Like I posted above, even mentioning changing it was Illegal and automatically prevented the person suggesting it from running for Office for 10 years. The result of a Referendum would be null and void.

Too good to pass this one up.

Zelaya holding a referendum is really the opposite of being a dictator, isn�t it? I agree the military acted hastily as well. Had he succeeded, maybe, just maybe the coup leaders might have had a case. By tossing him before the voting public had their say, they�ve created a no-win situation. The country is about to be isolated and Zelaya can�t go back without probably being killed resulting in an even more serious international reaction.