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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (14488)	6/30/2009 10:03:57 AM
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“We do not want to go back to a dark past,” Mr. Obama said, in which military coups override elections. This is why he supports the oppressive iranian government... GZ

To: puborectalis who wrote (14488)	6/30/2009 12:18:44 PM
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Home > News > Politics Page 2 of 2 Back Inside Politics By Greg Pierce (Contact) \| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 HUGO'S PALS "Hugo Chavez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback [Sunday] when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution," Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes. "It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of his good friend Hugo in reshaping the Honduran Constitution to his liking," the columnist said. "But Honduras is not out of the Venezuelan woods yet. [Sunday], the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States, having ignored Mr. Zelaya's abuses, also wants him back in power. It will be a miracle if Honduran patriots can hold their ground. "That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress. "But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chavez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do. "The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused. "Calculating that some critical mass of Hondurans would take his side, the president decided he would run the referendum himself. So on Thursday, he led a mob that broke into the military installation where the ballots from Venezuela were being stored and then had his supporters distribute them in defiance of the Supreme Court's order. "The attorney general had already made clear that the referendum was illegal, and he further announced that he would prosecute anyone involved in carrying it out. [Sunday], Mr. Zelaya was arrested by the military and is now in exile in Costa Rica."