The case of Honduras is a case of confusion in the media. It is almost impossible to know with certainty what happens in that country, because both the international agencies concerned as the media (there have been some laudable exception in the English case: La Vanguardia ) have fallen into a Manichean dynamics is difficult avoided. Yet, any effort spent on clarifying the situation is hard, because it is played the future of Honduras. When President Zelaya was overthrown and expelled from the country, my party, UPyD, like almost all English political parties, condemned what he called media "coup" and called for the restoration of constitutional order. From the outset I was struck by two issues.
First, that a large majority of commentators obviated or minimized in its analysis the fact that Manuel Zelaya, disregard of the opinions and judgments against several private and public institutions (Congress of Deputies, Supreme Court Bar Association , Attorney General's Office, Attorney General's Office, National Commissioner for Human Rights, Supreme Court Electoral National Counter Corruption Commission, political parties, Catholic Church, evangelical churches), was determined to practice a constitutional reform that would allow repeated injunction against the rigorously established in the Constitution of the Republic of Honduras: "The citizen who has held ownership of the Executive Power shall be President or Designee. Whoever violates this provision, or proposed for reform, and support those who directly or indirectly, immediately cease carrying out their respective positions, and shall be disqualified for ten years the exercise of any public function. " This is a standard for Democrats Honduran security was and is sacred. Zelaya said that there is a populist who has been defending the thesis of a conservative party into the arms of Hugo Chavez, which can only be explained by a personal desire to remain in power and privileges beyond the common interest (from his private sprees by the taxpayer much has been written), and that many Hondurans make you responsible for the remarkable increase in drug trafficking and associated crime in connivance with the government of Venezuela, according to reports from the Chair of the House Trade Zablah Agnes, planes and boats laden with drugs from this republic have arrived in Honduras on a daily basis during the term of Zelaya. But little of this has been discussed at length in the press.
Secondly, it was curious that the authorities condemn the U.S. action against a puppet of Hugo Chavez ordered by the parliament and the supreme court and executed by the Honduran army, whose officers are trained in the School of the Americas famous for providing the countries south of the Rio Grande pro-American military officers. It was inexplicable that General Romeo Vasquez, head of the Joint Chiefs of Armed Forces of Honduras and alumni of the school, give such a step outside the American Embassy. Something was wrong, but since the United U.S. has been showing a more equidistant in the conflict all begins to seem part of a plan, as claimed by left-wing views.
However, the international movement to support Zelaya are cheered by the mainstream press, and many countries charge through diplomatic channels against what they call de facto government . Inconsistency here it reaches a supine position, which, while not surprised those who know the mental processes and behavior of Western liberals: according to your view of things, a great movement of civil resistance on the streets of Honduras and the government Roberto Micheletti, as reported by the Inter- OAS human, is exceeded in its repression, exaggerated use of force and repeatedly violates human rights protesters.
For personal circumstances maintain direct contact with residents of Honduras, and the testimony that I receive are not certified beyond this table. Many Hondurans are outraged by the Commission. To begin, the president of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, is a declared Chavez. Part of that committee a Venezuelan who presides (one of my correspondents asked why not investigate the human rights violations that do occur in their country), an Argentine and a Chilean, from three countries participating Zelaya Front and have driven the Honduran ambassadors of their countries, so that the objectivity of its conclusions do not deserve much credit. Apparently, during his visit to Honduras, the Commission refused to receive two hundred employees of a certain restaurant chain that has been subjected to violence of the "protesters" Zelaya, some of these employees showed serious injuries. But the Commission said in a press conference that his mission included investigating only the de facto government abuses. In his version, "demonstrations" in favor of Zelaya have been peaceful, but the Hondurans can see every day on TV how Zelaya, in what seems a strategy of tension, burning star restaurants, cars and buses, smashing in the windows of shops, beatings, roadblocks, occupations of schools ... It turns out that the "demonstrators", of which it is certain that they are on the payroll of Hugo Chavez (according to police, no evidence), prevent the last month and a half children and youth attending schools in order to use them as barracks or dorm, with consequent damage to their training. My informant, who is English and teaching in Comayagua, gives me the deep shame it causes him and his companions the Zapatero government's decision to join the front Zelaya and expel the ambassador to Honduras in Spain to try to weaken the position of the government of that country in its handling of the crisis. A newspaper of that country today asked why Spain is trying to steer European policy against the government Micheletti.
Proponents say the cause of Zelaya institutions that deposed him (the Parliament, for example, was otherwise unanimously with the exception of two votes) are not democratic because they represent the oligarchy, and certainly have a point , but since it does not seem to get to ride roughshod common rules on behalf of themselves as righteous principles that they can be. On the other hand, neither seems likely that the shift of Zelaya Chavez was intended to claim the rights of the Honduran people, since their police, according to the directory of Amnesty International was a protagonist of several acts of violence in 2008. My opinion is that in Spain we rush to condemn the "coup" and we should all, and UPyD first to reopen the matter and take a position away from the simplicity or confusion of the first moments. There is an infallible sign that supporting Chavez's puppet Honduras is an error: Zapatero and Moratinos supporters. And I mean totally serious. Digital Journalist .
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