Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti were among the 25 people who “mattered” according to Time Magazine’s yearly “Person of the Year” article. In a soundbite article, Time Magazine journalist Tim Padgett deftly synthesized a five-month crisis into a few slightly patronizing paragraphs.
But his carefully-worded slant, that implies the removal of Zelaya was illegal, makes me sigh. The Honduran Supreme Court, the Honduran Congress, and even a report prepared for the US Library of Congress found his removal justified under our Constitution. Here are his words:
“Rather than address that offense legally, Zelaya’s foes — including the head of the country’s Congress, Roberto Micheletti — let the army stage a coup that exiled Zelaya at gunpoint.”
Could Zelaya and Chavez have said it better?
I agree, though with Padgett’s conclusion. After the debacle, Honduras will still be a “dysfunctional banana republic”. Still, I prefer to be a citizen of a banana republic rather than a Chavez satellite.
My hope is that our president-elect, Porfirio Lobo, will use this opportunity to address the extreme poverty, violence, corruption and ignorance that devour Honduras.
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Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti were among the 25 people who “mattered” according to Time Magazine’s yearly “Person of the Year” article. In a soundbite article, Time Magazine journalist Tim Padgett deftly synthesized a five-month crisis into a few paragraphs, albeit slightly patronizing of Honduras.
But his carefully-worded slant, that implies the removal of Zelaya was illegal, makes me sigh. The Honduran Supreme Court, the Honduran Congress, and even a report prepared for the US Library of Congress found his removal justified under our Constitution. Here are his words:
“Rather than address that offense legally, Zelaya’s foes — including the head of the country’s Congress, Roberto Micheletti — let the army stage a coup that exiled Zelaya at gunpoint.”
Could Zelaya and Chavez have said it better?
I agree, though with Padgett’s conclusion. After the debacle, Honduras will still be a “dysfunctional banana republic”. Still, I prefer to be a citizen of a banana republic rather than a Chavez satellite.
My hope is that our president-elect, Porfirio Lobo, will use this opportunity to address the extreme poverty, violence, corruption and ignorance that devour Honduras.
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