There is an international support for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. He is considered by the world to be ousted by a coup d’etat. But looking at the facts again, you would see a much different picture. It is still illegal, but it might not be that wrong.

There are not many things that can unite the world, but the ousting of President Zelaya is one of them. That is sad to some extent.400 000 people died in Darfur and that split the world, but when there is a bloodless coup in Honduras, everyone seems to agree on this.

To put it flatly, President Zelaya is a power lusting leader. This entire thing would not have started if he could control his power urge. He disobeyed his own courts and pushed for a referendum that was illegal. He wanted to change the constitution because he wanted a third term. President Zelaya wanted power that he was not supposed to have, but he did not care.

There is also another thing that has not been told by any other media or opinion sites. The Supreme Court of Honduras and the Attorney General wanted to arrest President Zelaya for going ahead with a referendum which he renamed as a “opinion poll”. Yet, the military took over and flew him to neighboring Costa Rica. That is something that is really fishy. Why couldn’t law enforcement just arrest him? The Courts demanded it and it was not illegal at all.

I like that President Obama has left this to the Organization of American States. But I am really uncomfortable with the fact that US is supporting a President that every politician in Honduras want out. He must have done something wrong that made him so unpopular and that is his power grabbing mannerism. I worry that history repeats itself. Leaders that seem to stand on local support rather than foreign support usually wins. The best example of this is the Russian Civil war between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks.

I do not think what the Honduran government did was right at all. I think that they should have followed their Supreme Court’s order and arrest the President. The army should not have jumped the gun and fly him out of Honduras. If Honduran politicians got a problem, they could have done it legally. They could have done to him what the people in Illinois did to Governor Rod Blagojevich. They could impeach him, which political process had already begun. They had the right to arrest him. But they did not have any right to launch a coup de’tat.

I think that Honduras should also take note, that no matter how decent the intentions of the Honduran army is, allowing a coup to happen could start a trend in Honduras. Thailand is a great example of this. There is every chance that the Army has tasted power now, and would want more of it later.

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