Crisis in Honduras

[Tomisimo]

What do you all think of the crisis in Honduras? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/wo...wt&twt=nytimes

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes that country has political problems in this moments. I respect to ours brothers in that place.

I have the hopefulness that it be resolve soon.

[irmamar]

Creo que la democracia tiene que ser respetada. También por los que están en el poder, porque a veces los dirigentes se olvidan de que han sido elegidos por el pueblo. Tienen que trabajar por y para el pueblo, no para ellos. Personalmente, les daría un sueldo normalito, no dejaría que se enriquecieran a nuestra costa.

[sosia]

Si el presidente (Mel Zelaya) se está portando mal, y va en contra del resto de poderes (tribunal supremo, etc.) lo correcto es multarle/apartarle del poder de una manera legal.
Si lo que haces es utilizar a lo militares y sacarlo del país, te pones a su mismo nivel y lo hacéis los dos mal.
Mel tiene que volver a ser presidente, y luego se le denuncia a la justicia. Sino todos los golpes de estado serían "razonablemente" correctos.
Saludos

[CrOtALiTo]

After I listened that the Honduras's president is not guilty.

I have been watching yesterday the news and it said them, I believe that the Honduras's town get a mistake in discriminate to the president, I never have heard of the Golpe de Estado in any place.

[laepelba]

I feel VERY strongly that the LAW needs to be followed. Yes, I agree that Zelaya is NOT a good leader. And I believe that he should NOT be allowed to go against the constitution to stay in office longer than allowed ... or Honduras will become like Venezuela with a Chavez-like leader in power. BUT, the military should NOT be in the business of removing a sitting president. He should finish out his term and be voted out of office LEGALLY.

[Tomisimo]

Here's some more information on this. http://honduraswatch.blogspot.com/

[chileno]

I wan't going to touch this, but....

I haven't read anything about what's going on in Honduras and I have no particulars about it. However, I would like to say this:

It is difficult to assess what a country might be going through, even being in the country and being native from there.

In Chile, we were bombarded out by the media, who like in this country, USA, were divided by ideology. They would give two different, yet similar accounts of the same events but tainted to their political tendencies, leaving the general population to guess. I am talking about the sad times in my country where a coup d'etat was necessary to get the government back in the year of 1973.

The people of Chile asked 3 times the then president of the nation for a plebiscite, a constitutional right of the people, and the president denied it thrice. What's a nation to do?

The people ran around gathering signatures for the military to intervene, and they finally did. Not many nations know about this fact. Everybody think that one day Pinochet woke up and asked himself " what I am going to do today?" and his answer was "I know! I'll have a coup d'etat today!"

It is difficult to assess what the people of Honduras went through and get to where they are today. Yes, there are people that will do anything for power, but still is difficult to assess.

This is what little I know of all this, and it is just an opinion.

[sosia]

It's always difficult to know. The usual problem is that, alltough the initial intentions were good, later is difficult to leave the power.
Saludos

[chileno]

Originally Posted by sosia

It's always difficult to know. The usual problem is that, alltough the initial intentions were good, later is difficult to leave the power.
Saludos

That's for sure. And certainly a coup d'etat is not something anybody desire or coveat.

[poli]

Leí un libro por Roberto Bolaño,( en inglés Chile by Night). No estaba alli, pero el pinta un retrato draculino del Chile de Pinochet.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by poli

Leí un libro por Roberto Bolaño,( en inglés Chile by Night). No estaba alli, pero el pinta un retrato draculino del Chile de Pinochet.

It was at a certain level and to a certain degree. But not even near as some would have you believe.

On one occasion, I was already here in the US while watching some news program, I saw a TV reporter talking in a very low profile voice as if had she been caught talking any louder about what she was saying on air, she would have been sent to jail or executed on the spot.

Thing is, it happened in Downtown where I used to live... And for the audience outside, it a sure shot that something bad is going on there.