UN backs ousted Honduran leader

He says he will return to Honduras on Thursday, accompanied by the head of the Organization of American States.

Mr Zelaya, who also addressed the UN, thanked the assembly for what he called its "historic" resolution.

He also pledged not to seek another term in office once he has returned to Honduras, and said he would not accept a second term if he was asked to serve again.

The resolution calls "firmly and categorically on all states to recognise no government other than that" of Mr Zelaya.

It was co-sponsored by a group of Latin American and Caribbean nations and was supported by the United States.

I'll go get my Kevlar now!
right wing central nerves system implosion in

10,9,8,.............

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But the Honduran people do not. He wanted to extend or end term limits, and the people did not want it. They wanted him to respect their constitution. It was more important than him. I know and work with Hondurans and they do not want to see him back in power.

If the United Nations supports the one who was kicked out, that is the cake.
If Hugo Chavez supports the one who was kicked out, that is the icing on the cake.
If Raul Castro also supports the one who was kicked out, that is the cherry on the icing on the cake
. Therefore, I support the one who is now in. Why? Mr.Chavez who hates us, and insulted Mr. Bush in front of the U.N., and Raul Castro who has been ruling Cuba since his brother got sick even though he appears to have only just begun, and the U.N. which hates every one of us in America, and is also very hostile to capitalist countries, have all said they are in favor of the one who was overthrown. What they want, I don't.

If Mr. Chavez is not understanding, or sensitive, or merciful enough to apologize to Mr. Bush, then i know I don't agree with his choice.

Dear Mr. Hugo Chavez,
Do you have the guts to say you're sorry to George Bush in front of the U.N.?
No, you don't.
However, it is very clear that you showed off how you could insult him in front of the whole world?!
Shame on you Mr. Chavez!!!
Many of us might not have agreed with him, but he was still our president. How dare you?!
Guess what Mr. Chavez? If someone insulted Mr. Obama in front of the whole world, I would demand an apology from that show off also. Why? Because even though I completely disagree with Mr. Obama, he is still my president, and deserves a full, unequivocal apology in front of the U.N.!
Shame on you Mr. Chavez.
I will proudly go against anything you want.
Abraham

this thing that you refer to as a Mr (lil bush) insulted his people in front of the world and should be charged with treason!

So if we apply the enemy of my enemy is my friend to this equation..

we need to purple heart

Mr Castro
Mr Chavez
Mr Zelaya

ben ladin and the house of SAUD as BUSH's #1 backers are now our #1 enemy

But that would be stupid is as stupid dose.........

Now why does the UN care? The Palestians can elect Hamas to their government, the UN doesn't care. Lebanon can elect Hezbollah to their govenment, the UN doesn't care. Honduras wants to oust someone who doesn't respect their constitution and rule of law, now they care. About the one being ousted.

conservatives. i'm confused. the UN represents the fascist NWO order.

and yet it supports the ousted president.

in and of itself this would be nothing...except the socialist leaders of central and south america also support him.

so...has the world gone mad

or what.

secondly...from what i understand, the ousted president was simply trying to make a second term an option. if the people are so adamant about the president "respecting the constitution"...why are the police and military out in such force.

lastly...ya'know, it's only been, what, 70 years? since we established our term limit. and that was subject to change.

thoughts, i'm actually curious, don't know a lot about honduras

Simply further evidence of this failed Anglo-American experiment in unitary internationalism. The United Nations building in New York City would be better suited for condominiums. I'll do the upholstery!

As a Honduran, I want to say that all of us living here are very worried on the current state of affairs. We are all experiencing fright as never before. Just to give you an idea: streets are being taken by Manuel Zelaya followers, businesses have closed, we are under a curfew until Friday, schools and colleges are closed, and we hear about nasty things happening all around the country every hour, every day since Sunday.

Manuel Zelaya committed many legal infractions and all Honduras knows he had every intention to change the constitution so he could run as president indefinitely and even started turning Honduras into a leftist country. But sadly, you wont hear much about that on CNN.

I am proud that we as Hondurans protested, but I am very saddened by the way all of this has been handled.

PLEASE PLEASE remember that the real victim in this whole situation is NOT Mel Zelaya, but the people of Honduras.
-A.

It's a little bit strange that we'd step in so quickly and declare who we were supporting. Imagine letting a country figure things out for itself..

http://current.com/items/90309180_manuel-zelaya-vows-to-return-to-honduras-to-re...

Exactly. The fact President Zelaya is getting closer to ALBA countries doenst make him a commie or a dictator.

Yes, Zelaya has socialist tendencies, but is imposible not to do so when theres so many people in extreme poverty (close to 2 million).

All the people that post here are zombies from a conservative but powerful media outlet, that lie to you on your faces and throw you pathetic propaganda, that they just take, rather than really look into things for a better explanation.

All the "hondurans" that post here are like the FoxNews watching people.

The United Nations should be called by its real name.

The Center for Spies and High Paying Jobs.

Whatever they say or do about anything is irrelevant.The United Nations represents corruption personified. So,if they are against the new leader in Honduras, I am for him.

JohnA...Excellent comment!

For those that dont know and what to know, ill give you a little timeline of what happened in the country.
I appreciate your interest in my country.

When president Zelaya came into power, a law was
passed called "Citizen Participation Law" which pretty much said the citizens of Honduras could vote in things they were interested on. Noone in the political chamber press attention to it, they thought it was some crappy populist law.

After that, 3 years passed, where Zelaya was not an outstanding president. Like all presidents in the history of Honduras, he seemed lazy, a thief and lame. - This is a precept for all politians in Honduras since like the 90s. I must say I was one of those who wrongfully labeled him as a bad president.
And then, during a crisis in Honduras (the oil crisis) - The president had no choice but to ask for help on the exterior to find a solution. He found no help while the private corporations were already labelling him as a bad president.
Thats when he joined Venezuela's Petrocaribe, where gave the country the ability to subsidize gasoline to everyone in the country. Get this, Mel was paying %30 of your gas everytime you filled up your tank.
it was a good help.
And so then he signed with the ALBA.
Right after that, came a shitload of aid from Venezuela. From free energy-saving lightbulbs, to free tractors to the agricultural industry, which got reactivated. Cuba sent teachers and dentist to the interior of the country to help on the analfabetism.
Then, Zelaya released through a Development Bank $100.000 for the poor people, so they could create their own business and lower poverty and therefore criminality.
Then, Zelaya raised the minimum wage to double.
Then, Zelaya gave Social Security to a lot of people with low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, the political sphere, went little by little angrier and angrier with him, since the day he joined ALBA. All the help to poor people was labelled as "populist" and Chavez was demonized through the media as it has happened in all latinamerica.
I am not here to label Chavez. I particulary dont like how he does politics, neither Cuba.

Then, Zelaya came with "La Cuarta Urna"

Continuing on the second part....

"La Cuarta Urna" was a way to make people participate, using that first law the congress passed back in the days he took power.

Honduras uses 3 boxes for voting. One for Presidency - One for Mayor and One for Congressmen. He introduced a Fourth One, to reform the constitution.

Right after this, the demonization of Zelaya started. Rich-owned and powerful media called him "Chavez Pet" the lie of "staying in power" started and the "hes a dictator!!" lie started.
This are lies that were repeated in public, every day, for at least 10 months.

Yet, the popularity of Zelaya was growing and the Honduran political dislike was diminishing. (Absenteeism was huge in Honduras. only 30% of the people would go vote, because of the hopeless that our politians were) - All of the sudden, everyone started getting interested in politics, everyone started reading constitutions.

What would the reform bring? Lots of changes. One of them is that Congress and all public services would, from now own, explain its budget to the people. - Thats a big no-no for politians who have been in there for at least 20 years.

Another one was the revocable referendum, meaning that if someone was put in power but was not a good leader, a people's referendum could bring him down and replaced by someone else.

Another one was the ability of the people to participate in every contract of importance to the nation. We have had laws that were passed on our backs at midnight (im sure your country does it too).
Zelaya wanted to end that.

There was alot of other reforms: The creation of a higher court, that would allow congress and president to be able to solve their differences without throwing lies. - The transformation of the Armed Forces to Armed Forces of Social Benefit (doubt that will happen now) - The pay of taxes of a lot of industries that were exempt of them because of corrupt deals in past administrations - the pay of taxes of the church, because they raise millions and dont give a cent back - The controlled raise of the minimun wage - the help in uniting all people into a whole political mass that could take decisions.

That was horrendous for rich-corporate people, that have always had the power to do whatever they want without the people knowing or voting. If the rich control the media and control the government, noone should know what is happening.

Of course, a reform is dangerous too, because if Zelaya wanted and the people supported it, he could stay in power. Just like it happened in Venezuela.
Zelaya never said he wanted to stay in power.
Zelaya tried hundreds of times to difuse the lies of the media, but to no avail. An oposition was raised.

The population got divided. And lies got spreaded faster and harder. The two political forces (think of republicans and democrats) united against Zelaya, in an effort to make him change hes mind. The oposition grew larger, mainly composed by religious people who were told Chavez was the representation of the 666 in earth and that would come and take your kids (they really did that im not kidding)

But Zelaya's popularity was still large.

Continue part 3...

The method of the Cuarta Urna worked like this: Zelaya proposed a poll in the whole country it was called "La consulta" or "la encuesta" - which asked the next question: Would you like that in Nov27 a Fourth Box is installed in General Elections so they could be a reform in the constitution? - YES - NO -.

If the mayority of people voted YES, the motion wouldve had to pass through congress, so congress would allow it and then on NOV27 a cuarta urna wouldve been installed.
If the people wouldve voted YES on that, then, on next year, when Zelaya is no longer in power, a new Constitutional National Convention would take in place, bringing the reforms.

As you can see, "la encuesta" did not gave the power to Zelaya to stay in power. It never did.

But people got lied and lied upon through conservative media. Politicians knew that if they give this power to the people, their businesses could be over and they would be out of work right away. Why? because we all know who they are. We all know, they are all blatant trash of the world. But we cannot get them out of there, because theres nothing in the constitution that saids so.

So, the politicians, all of them together, controlling all they could. Bought a judge and sentenced "La Encuesta" as illegal. They said it was illegal because "zelaya wants to stay in power and thats unconstitutional" which like you could read up there, was not even posible.

Zelaya didnt care about that, because La Encuesta was very goddamn popular. Popularity around the country was immense and the media could do nothing about it.

So, on June28th. The day we were supposed to vote for la Encuesta and finally be able to grab the wheel of our country, it happened.

The Coup.

And then, you all know the story developing now.

@Juas

Thank you for your inside perspective! It sounds pretty complicated and I'm still rather confused about the whole thing but your comments have helped me to get some kind of idea of what is going on there. I just hope there isn't too much violence involved in the Coup and protests. What do you think is likely to happen from here?

Juas, that's all nice history from a socialist perspective, but you've fooled yourself on several levels.

Most importantly, your Supreme Court decided that his "proposal" was illegal and unconstitutional. He ignored their decision and continued.

He was told to desist: he ignored them.

He gave an illegal order to Vazquez Velazquez, who refused the order because it was illegal.

He illegally fired Vazquez Velazquez (you can't fire someone for obeying the LAW!)

The court told him that he should be reinstated: he refused and again moved forward with the referendum--illegally.

At that point, the Court authorized the military to act.

Your ex-President is a CRIMINAL, implicated in drug running and corruption.

As usual, you socialists don't care for rule of law, what you care for is government handouts.

Your ex-President subverted the autonomy and sovereignty of Honduras, selling it to Chavez.

Shame on him, and shame on you.