Posted by
Benyamin Solomon on Friday, July 03, 2009 9:25:01 PM
By Benyamin Solomon
The Organization of American States [OAS], which allowed Cuba to be a member, now condemns Honduras for courageously defending its democracy from Chavez-style Marxist tyranny.
What happened in Honduras is not a "coup" nor a "military coup". In fact, the army didn't even take over. Usually in a coup, the new leadership kills anyone in the same party as the overthrown leader. That did not happen in Honduras. In fact, to the contrary, the interim leader Roberto Macheletti, who was from the same political party [that is the Liberal party] as Zelaya, was put in as President until the elections in January 2010.
Zelaya tried to make himself the dictator of Honduras. He tried to set up a referendum to determine weather to violate the constitution in allowing him to run another term for President or not. The Honduras democratic law states that the referendums have to be approved by the congress. However, it was not approved by the congress. The Supreme Court declared it illegal. In fact, the army didn't want to violate the law. So when the military commander stated that he won't violate the law, Zelaya fired him. Zelaya sends mobs of supporters to attack the military headquarters to get the ballots. The military complies in order to avoid a violent confrontation. Hugo Chavez, the ally of this Marxist dictator, shipped the ballots from Venezuela, since nobody in Honduras was willing to break the law.
These Chavez-like guys, once in the executive power, get out of control. They have a my way or the high way attitude to their agenda regardless of whether it's legal or not.
The Supreme Court ordered the army to get rid of Zelaya. The army complied. What happened in Honduras was that the forces of democracy rose up and overthrew the Chavez-like Marxist dictatorship that Zelaya sought to impose.
The OAS now took a hypocritical attitude. While allowing Communist Cuba, which is a bloodthirsty dictatorship that sponsors terror, kills and tortures their own citizens, back in the OAS, the same body threatens to suspend Honduras because the democratic institutions said no to Chavez-style tyranny. The Inter-American democratic charter, the charter of the OAS states that the OAS "recognizes that representative democracy is indispensable for the
stability, peace, and development of the region, and that one of the purposes of the OAS
is to promote and consolidate representative democracy, with due respect for the principle
of nonintervention".
Yes, allowing Cuba back in the OAS while suspending Honduras for taking its democracy back is a wonderful way to promote democracy. Isn't it? Yes, good old democratic Cuba tortures and kills its citizens for speaking out against the communist regime, as well as having civilian mobs attack the protesters. Good old Cuba even seeks to spread its totalitarian Communist system and supports Communist terror groups like FARC, which seeks to replace the democracy in Columbia with Communist tyranny and which is unpopular among the people in Colombia. Is that hypocrisy or what?