From a reader in Brazil

Dear Mr. Hall,

How are you?

I've been reading your posts quite regularly, although I rarely comment on them.
I'm writing you to keep you informed about the political situation in Latin America.

This history is about Honduras, a tiny country in Central America. Perhaps Americans are misinformed about what is going on there and how important that is for the future of the continent. So I would kindly suggest you to post this text in your blog.

President Manuel Zelaya, a “chavista” (a follower of Hugo Chávez ideas) tried to propose his reelection. According to the Constitution of Honduras, that is impossible.

So he proposed a popular referendum to do it any way.

Honduras Parliament, the Supreme Court and the Attorney General declared the referendum unconstitucional and ilegal.

Zelaya tried to use the Army to do it by force, the commanders refused and Zelaya discharged them.

Hugo Chavez decided to help his friend and produced the voting cards and ballot boxes in Venezuela, sending them to Honduras. He also called the military chiefs of Honduras gorillas and traitors, menacing to move his own Army.

Zelaya received the material from Caracas and started distributing the ballots with taxis
The Supreme Court asked the arresting of Zelaya. He renounced. The renouncement was accepted by Congress, and the president of Congress was announced to assume the Presidency, as stated by the Constitution.

Zelaya was send in exile to Costa Rica. Hugo Chávez send one of his airplanes to move Zelaya from Costa Rica to Nicaragua and started together with Daniel Ortega (a former guerrillero Sandinista), Evo Morales from Bolivia and Rafael Correa from Ecuador a international movement to put Zelaya back in power in Honduras.

Hugo Chávez influence in Latin America is growing with no limits. He controls or influences all left-wing governments in Latin America, from Nicaragua to Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.

He is also insuflating revolt in Peru, and supporting the narco-guerrilla of FARC in Colombia. Although Brazil is too big for him, our leftist president is accessary and supportive of his actions.
What all of the so called bolivarianists have in common?

They use democracy to implode democracy from inside out. That is what Chávez calls bolivarianism. Once in power, they will silence the opponents, they will manipulate press, they will have no respect for the Rule of Law or any contracts, they will let the state control or nationalize private companies, controlling also the financial power sources of their nations, they will use popular support to install tyranny, to perpetuate themselves in power.

That was supposed to move international opinion in support of the Honduras Congress, but what we see now is on contrary, international support for Manuel Zelaya.

And when Honduras called Barack Obama for help, Obama also asked for the restitution of power to Manuel Zelaya.

Obama is now on the same side as Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chávez, the most anti-americanist dictators that ever lived on this continent.

Instead of the Rule of Law, Obama chose bolivarianism.

A single gesture of America would help Honduras get out of this crisis, but Obama and Clinton’s policy will unfortunately will break Honduras Congress and let Hugo Chávez gain a little more power.

Take a look at this picture, and you will see people from Honduras asking Barack Obama to defend their Constitution and Freedom, and not to support Chávez. The other pictures shows the people asking for democracy. Please not the little CNN poster, translated in Honduras as Chávez News Network after the biased repports of the channel on the crisis.

So do not believe when you hear that there is a Coup in Honduras. The only coup is being orchestrated by Zelaya, Chavez and other bolivarianists, the nightmare of democracy and freedom.

And now Obama is on their side.

Best regards,

Fernando Sampaio

PS: Just got “Liberty and Tyranny” from Mark Levin via Amazon.com. I think is essential reading for everybody interested in politics, in the US or anywhere.

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Why would we expect our President not to meddle in the affairs of another country, when he can be on the side of the statists and big government? ~Bob