The ousting of Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, by the Honduran Judicial and Legislative powers has provoked the interventionist condemnation of world leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA) group, who have threatened to topple the new interim Honduran government by any means at their disposal including calls for and encouraging popular insurrection by leftist Zelaya supporters in Honduras.
Flanked by the ALBA leftist Latin American leaders who have vowed to help him regain power, Manuel Zelaya said late Monday that he would accept an offer by Organization of American States Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza, to accompany him back to Honduras and work for the restoration of the democratic order. A democratic process that Zelaya himself tried to disrupt by attempting to change the national constitution to enable himself to remain in power indefinitely. Upon his arrival in Tegucigalpa, Zelaya should immediately be taken into custody and jailed to await trial for his crimes and abuse of power against the Honduran nation.
The latest leftist ploy, of keying-in on the democratic ideals and aspirations of the people, to campaign using any and all demagogic rhetoric and financed with Chavez petro dollars to gain political power, and then to use the legitimacy of their elected government to manipulate and change the national constitution and thus enable themselves to become virtual dictators, allying themselves and the country with Hugo Chavez and his ALBA hate America leftist cabal. Such is the drama that is currently unfolding in Honduras and in most of Latin America.
Knowing and understanding both this and that reality, I personally never thought I'd see the day when a United States president would be openly siding with the likes of a Hugo Chavez, condemning a legitimate act by a sovereign nation who simply does not want to fall into the Chavez Bolivarian Socialist fold.
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