Washington a Key ‘Villain’ in Crisis Facing Honduras: La Prensa, Honduras
Jul 29th, 2009 | 5 responses
In seeking to return ousted Honduran President Manuel Zalaya to office, is the United States doing the right thing?
The Honduran Congress and military, who ousted Zalaya for violating that nation’s constitution by seeking another term, certainly have tremendous support.
And according to columnist Gloria Leticia Pineda from La Prensa of Honduras, those who support the new government have a bone to pick with the Obama Administration.
For La Prensa, Pineda writes in part:
“We have several villains who have tried to operate below the radar, which is why I cannot allow myself to let their movements and statements go unnoticed. Let’s begin with the representatives of the U.S. government. Barack Obama, as well as Hillary Clinton and [U.S. Ambassador to Honduras] Hugo Llorens, have, as the gringos would say, “dropped the ball,” or translated into Spanish, “put their foot in it [metido la pata]” in regard to their policy on the institutional crisis in Honduras. I can accept their questioning the way we removed Zelaya from Honduras (although, as we’ve stated in past articles, this was perhaps the only option we had to avoid a social and public security breakdown).
“But I cannot abide how, ignoring our legal foundations, they have worked to isolate us within the international community. I consider abusive the efforts of Llorens, who, in clear violation of our Constitution and in complete disregard of our right to self-determination, proceeded to make appointments and visit various business groups in Honduras in order to threaten and get them to desist from their opposition to the return of Zelaya, insinuating all sorts of consequences.”
By Gloria Leticia Pineda
Translated By Halszka Czarnocka
July 24, 2009
Honduras – La Prensa – Original Article (Spanish)
The current crisis in Honduras has revealed the best and worst of our society. Let’s begin with the latter. And I don’t here refer to [ousted President] Manuel Zelaya, since history has already judged him and his henchmen who, in the name of the people, squandered the public coffers.
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5 Responses to “Washington a Key ‘Villain’ in Crisis Facing Honduras: La Prensa, Honduras”
Honduras is toast. I have friends with investments there. They've all pulled out. Tourism is flatlined. Property values plummeted. Dumb, stupid, idiotic, suicidal fools. On the bright side, flights are cheap, should you want to visit a torn up country where once was a stable democracy…
Hell GD don't hold back on the gloating, just let it all hang out.
I'm a Honduran and i support what happened in our country, and i will say again OUR COUNTRY, i'm American too because i born in USA , and to me it's a shame what Obama administration is done.
To all people talking about Honduras i ask that please read our constitution; what we do is very clear there and to Us it is a pride to show to the world that anyone is over the law.
All the things here are as ussual, all the people is working and just only a few bunch of leftist are making noise ( Not more than 10,000 in all the country with population of 7 millions)
Thanks
I am a Honduran American that just came back from vacationing in Honduras. Aside of marches here and there the country's environment is peaceful because Hondurans are not violent people and we are not used to living in anarchy, we have never seen a civil war in our country like our neighbors of El Salvador and Nicaragua have. The vast majority of the Honduran citizens support what was done with the Ex-President Mel Zelaya. Hondurans just stood against Mel Zelaya and his close friend Hugo Chavez, trying to turn Honduras into another Cuba or Venezuela. Hondurans simply want to leave in peace and opression free. I am saddened to see how everyone, including Mr. Obama, turn their backs on Honduras, that in this moment is fighting hard for its freedom, to take side with dictators like Hugo Chavez president of Venezuela.
If Honduras is in such a good shape, why you did not stay there?