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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads his Angelus prayer at his summer residence in Castelgandolfo, south of Rome, July 11, 2010. (Daylife Reuters)

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Americans Travel to Honduras, Divulge Truth

Dennis Prager's trip to Honduras:

Honduras has joined Israel as a pariah nation. The United Nations has condemned Honduras by a vote of acclamation, and the Organization of American States has suspended it.

The way in which nearly all the world's media portray the legal, Supreme Court-ordered ouster of President Manuel (Mel) Zelaya is one major reason for the universal opprobrium. Because military men took part in the deportation of the sitting president, it has been portrayed as a classic Latin American "military coup," and who can support a military coup?

The lack of context in which this ouster took place has prevented the vast majority of the world's news watchers and readers from understanding what has happened.

I wonder how many people who bother to read the news -- as opposed to only listen to or watch news reports -- know:

-- Zelaya was plotting a long-term, possibly lifetime, takeover of the Honduran government through illegally changing the Honduran Constitution.

-- Zelaya had personally led a mob attack on a military facility to steal phony "referendum" ballots that had been printed by the Venezuelan government.

-- Weeks earlier, in an attempt to intimidate the Honduran attorney general -- as reported by The Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady, one of the only journalists in the world who regularly reports the whole story about Honduras -- "some 100 agitators, wielding machetes, descended on the attorney general's office. 'We have come to defend this country's second founding,' the group's leader reportedly said. 'If we are denied it, we will resort to national insurrection.'"

-- No member of the military has assumed a position of power as a result of the "military coup."

-- Zelaya's own party, the Liberal Party, supported his removal from office and deportation from Honduras.

-- The Liberal Party still governs Honduras.

The United States is threatening to suspend all aid to one of the three poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere in order to force that country -- against its own laws and with the inevitable violence it would entail -- to allow Zelaya back as president.

Let there be no ambiguity here. Little Honduras was supposed to be the next country to lose its liberties as it joined the anti-American, pro-Iranian Latin American left. But Little Honduras decided to fight back. And this has infuriated Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who will surely attempt to foment violence in Honduras.

Therefore, if you love liberty, you will do whatever you can do help Honduras resist Chavez and his allies, which include the United Nations and Organization of American States.

There are many ways to do that. Buy Honduran goods. Write your representatives in Washington to back the present, law-based Honduran government. And, yes, even visit this friendly beleaguered place. When the world's governments isolate a country, with few exceptions, that's all you need to know about who the good guys are.

Congressmen Mack and Bilbray met last week with Honduran officials:

Two GOP lawmakers returned from a weekend trip to Honduras with a heightened understanding of the presidential crisis there — and a proposal for its resolution.Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) told The Hill that a presidential candidate from ousted President Manuel Zelaya's own Liberal Party gave the visiting congressmen the proposal, which Bilbray is going to ask the Obama administration to accept.

Under the offer, interim President Roberto Micheletti would voluntarily step down and leadership of the country would go to constitutional succession. However, if Zelaya returned to face charges and was then acquitted, he could return to office.

"The majority of folks think Zelaya should come back to the country, but to stand trial," Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) said.

Mack told The Hill that he found Hondurans to be in "disbelief" at the Obama administration's reaction to the ouster of Zelaya.

"Whether or not [Hondurans] agree on how he was removed all of them agree that he broke the constitution, broke the law," Mack said. "A large majority believe he should not return to Honduras and to power."

Bilbray said the U.S. can't put itself in a position of supporting a president over a country's constitution and the rule of law. "That's a scary place for us to find ourselves, especially considering our history," he said.

"For the [Obama] administration to propose the return of the old president and to put him back into power would really be a slap in the face to constitutional rule," Bilbray said, adding that he believed the administration "jumped the gun" on its assessment of the Honduras crisis.

"I think [Hondurans] were absolutely shocked at the American response."

Micheletti government de-facto, but legal:

The United States misinterpreted the facts in Honduras. The Micheletti government is de facto, but it is also de jure. In a formal complaint dated June 26, two days before the military deported Zelaya, the Attorney General of Honduras charged that Zelaya had violated a number of clauses of the Honduran Constitution. Consequently, the Supreme Court issued an order for Zelaya's arrest on the same day.

Micheletti was next in the Constitutional line to the presidency and was ratified in office by an overwhelming vote of the Honduran Congress, a vote that in the U.S. Congress would have been approximately 421 to 12, including all but 3 members of Zelaya's own party. Therefore, the legal Government in Honduras today is Micheletti's, not Zelaya's.

A crime was committed in removing Zelaya: the Legal Advisor of the Honduran Army has acknowledged the illegality of the deportation, since the military was legally authorized only to carry out the Supreme Court's arrest order. The Army said it expelled Zelaya because it feared domestic violence if he was allowed to stay. This violation, however, pales in comparison with the 17 high crimes with which Zelaya has been officially charged. Zelaya should be allowed to return to Honduras and face the charges in a court of law.

Is the Obama administration prepared to accept the consequences of returning an undemocratic, corrupt, and anti-American, even if elected, strongman to power in Honduras? That would put the United States clearly in the same camp as Cuba's Castro brothers, Venezuela's Chavez, and other regional delinquents.

State Department wrong in revoking visas of key Honduran leaders:

Nobody pushes "dialogue" or "citizen diplomacy" more than the U.S. Department of State. So how can it justify revoking the visas on these Hondurans in what a department spokesman confirmed Tuesday as "a turning of the screw."

The Hondurans targeted are the very ones whose presence would be valuable to the U.S. if it means to understand the constitutional action that necessitated the removal of President Mel Zelaya on June 28. It followed the Honduran constitution to the letter, yet led to the crisis now in mediation talks.

Hondurans targeted include the chief justice of the Supreme Court and the speaker of Congress plus two other officials.

Visas would let them come to the U.S. to explain precisely what happened, getting the word out to the public. This is important. So far, the media and Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez have crudely defined what occurred as a "coup" and claimed Zelaya's removal was all about his left-wing orientation and revenge by the "ruling class."

In reality, Zelaya broke 17 Honduran laws classified as "high crimes." They included holding an unconstitutional referendum, defying the high court, whipping up mobs, taking Chavista cash, robbing the Central Bank and preloading computers with referendum "results" before the illegal referendum was even held.

Like the Stasi revelations in the wake of the Berlin Wall's fall, the information that's come out in the wake of the ouster must be aired, discussed, investigated and resolved.
Instead, the U.S. embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa insists that Zelaya be reseated as president before any other action can take place and granted immunity for his ever more baroque chain of crimes without any dialogue whatsoever.

Obama wrong on Honduras:

Equally incomprehensible to many experts on Latin America is Obama's demanding reinstatement of former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was deposed by his country's Supreme Court for trying to rig an unconstitutional referendum -- with ballots printed in Venezuela -- to perpetuate his rule. A referendum to evade constitutional term limits is a favored and exported tactic of anti-American Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Nicaraguan Communist President Daniel Ortega announced plans last week for a referendum which would allow him, like Chavez, to become president for life.

Moises Starkman, a respected Honduran diplomat and technocrat, said of Zelaya's so-far futile efforts to return to Honduras: "This is a showdown which will determine if the Chavista model triumphs or not." My friend Jaime Darenblum, Costa Rica's foremost lawyer who served six years as his country's ambassador in Washington, told the Weekly Standard:

"Zelaya tried to hold an unconstitutional referendum. The Supreme Court rebuked him. Zelaya embraced mob tactics and launched his own coup against democracy. With judicial backing, the army (as well the Congress) moved to stop him. If you want to blame someone, blame Zelaya."

What followed could have passed for comedy. At a leftist summit, Chavez and Cuba's Raul Castro stridently demanded that "democracy" be respected in Honduras! Zelaya has been credibly linked with smuggling planeloads of cocaine which end up in the U.S. He is charged in a case where three of his top officials were caught stealing two million dollars from Honduras' central bank -- in suitcases! -- to fund his election campaign.

Secretary Clinton had the good sense to criticize Zelaya for "reckless" conduct in trying to storm his way back into Honduras. But the Obama Administration is threatening all kinds of sanctions and terminating aid if Zelaya is not restored. Obama has not explained why it is in our country's interest to make another hate-America caudillo a president-for-life in contravention of his country's laws. Nor why he immediately jumped on the Zelaya bandwagon while showing reluctance to "meddle" when the Iranian mullans were shooting peaceful demonstrators. If Obama knows something about Zelaya that regional experts like Starkman and Darenblum don't know, he should explain it. Otherwise, it may be concluded that our President just has a penchant for leftist dictators and that he knows less about Honduras than he knows about Cambridge. .

The briefings I have received at U.S. Southern Command in Florida make vivid the threat to our country of terrorism from the South; Iranian agents are already active in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Do we want to give them another base in Honduras?

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List of organizations:

1.- Consejo Hondureño de la Empresa Privada - COHEP
2.- Colegio de Abogados de Honduras
3.- Asociación de Exportadores de Café de Honduras
4.- Asociación Hondureña de Agencias de Carga y Logística Internacional
5.- Asociación Hotelera y Afines de Honduras
6.- Asociación Hondureña de Compañías y Representantes Navieros
7.- Asociación Hondureña de Distribuidores de Productos del Petróleo
8.- Asociación Hondureña de Distribuidores de Vehículos Automotores y Afines
9.- Asociación Hondureña de Instituciones Bancarias
10.-Asociación Hondureña de Maquiladores
11.-Asociación Hondureña de Productores de Alimentos Balanceados para Animales
12.-Asociación Hondureña de Productores de Café
13.-Asociación Hondureña de Procesadores de Embutidos
14.-Asociación de Líderes Empresariales Femeninos de Honduras
15.-Asociación de Madereros de Honduras
16.-Asociación de Medios de Comunicación de Honduras
17.-Cámara de Comercio Hondureño-Americana
18.-Asociación Nacional de Artesanos de Honduras
19.-Asociación Nacional de Molineros de Arroz de Honduras
20.-Asociación Nacional de Minería Metálica de Honduras
21.-Asociación Nacional de Porcicultores de Honduras
22.-Asociación de Fabricantes de Productos Farmacéuticos de Honduras
23.-Asociación Nacional de Radiodifusores de Honduras
24.-Asociación Nacional de Avicultores de Honduras
25.-Asociación Nacional de Acuicultores de Honduras
26.-Asociación Nacional de Industriales de Honduras
27.-Asociación Nacional de Empacadores de Carne
28.-Asociación Nacional de Empresas Transformadoras de la Madera
29.-Asociación Nacional de Medianas y Pequeñas Industrias de Honduras
30.-Asociación Nacional de Universidades Privadas de Honduras
31.-Asociación de Productores de Azúcar de Honduras
32.-Agencias Publicitarias Hondureñas Asociadas
33.-Asociación de Propietarios de Farmacia
34.-Asociación de Empresas de Seguridad e Investigación Privada de Honduras
35.-Asociación de Empresas Privadas de Telecomunicaciones
36.-Asociación de Zonas Francas de Honduras
37.-Cámara de Instituciones de Financiamiento Habitacional
38.-Centro Asesor para el Desarrollo de los Recursos Humanos de Honduras
39.-Cámara Hondureña de Puestos de Bolsas
40.-Cámara Hondureña de Aseguradores
41.-Cámara Hondureña de Productos Equivalentes
42.-Cámara Nacional de Turismo de Honduras
43.-Cámara de Comercio e Industrias de Atlántida
44.-Cámara de Comercio e Industrias de Cortés
45.-Cámara de Comercio e Industrias de Progreso
46.-Cámara de Comercio e Industrias de Tegucigalpa
47.-Cámara Hondureña de Empresas de Consultoría
48.-Cámara Hondureña de la Industria de la Construcción
49.-Consejo Hondureño de la Industria Petrolera
50.-Asociación Nacional de Courier de Honduras
51.-CROPLIFE Honduras
52.-Asociación Nacional de Droguerías
53.-Federación Camaras de Comercio e Industria de Honduras
54.-Federación Nacional de Agentes Aduaneros de Honduras
55.-Federación Nacional de Agricultura y Ganaderos de Honduras
56.-Federación Nacional de Instituciones Educativas Privadas de Honduras
57.-Fundación para la Inversión y Desarrollo de Exportaciones
58.-Productores Avícolas de Honduras
59.-Red de Instituciones Microfinanzas de Honduras
60.-Asociación de Tostadores de Café de Honduras
61.-Alianza por el Cambio
62.-Alianza por Honduras Paz y Democracia
63.-Alcaldía Municipal del Distrito Central
64.-Asociación Libertad y Democracia
65.-Barra Abogados Hondureños Anticorrupcion
66.-Jóvenes de la Cámara de Comercio e Industrias de Tegucigalpa
67.-Centro de Investigaciones Económicas Nacionales CIEN
68.-Consejo Nacional Anticorrupción
69.-Fundación Democracia Sin Fronteras
70.-Foro Permanente de la Sociedad Civil
71.-Fundación Luz
72.-Fundación de Desarrollo Municipal FUNDEMUN
73.-Fundación Hondureña del Niño con Cáncer FUNHNICER
74.-Generación x Cambio
75.-Jovenes Industriales ANDI
76.-Partido Innovación y Unidad PINU
77.-Asociación Pro Justicia de Honduras
78.-Unión de Profesionales del Derecho UCPDD
79.-Universidad José Cecilio del Valle
80.-Unión Cívica en Defensa de la Democracia
81.-Union Cívica Democrática
82.-Reservistas de las Fuerzas Armadas
83.-Asociación de Oficiales Militares Retirados de las Fuerzas Armadas
84.-Asociación de padres de familia de escuelas públicas
85.-Asociación Cívica Nacional

Honduras: Defending Democracy

Barack "Zelaya" Obama's Honduras Policy

US plays out the dirty work of Hugo Chavez and the Legion of Doom:

When Hugo Chávez makes a personal appeal to Washington for help, as he did 11 days ago, it raises serious questions about the signals that President Barack Obama is sending to the hemisphere's most dangerous dictator.

At issue is Mr. Chávez's determination to restore deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya to power through multilateral pressure. His phone call to a State Department official showed that his campaign was not going well and that he thought he could get U.S. help.

This is not good news for the region. The Venezuelan may feel that his aims have enough support from the U.S. and the Organization of American States (OAS) that he would be justified in forcing Mr. Zelaya on Honduras by supporting a violent overthrow of the current government. That he has reason to harbor such a view is yet another sign that the Obama administration is on the wrong side of history.

In the three weeks since the Honduran Congress moved to defend the country's constitution by relieving Mr. Zelaya of his presidential duties, it has become clear that his arrest was both lawful and a necessary precaution against violence.

Mr. Zelaya was trying to use mob rule to undermine Honduras's institutions in much the same way that Mr. Chávez has done in Venezuela. But as Washington lawyer Miguel Estrada pointed out in the Los Angeles Times on July 10, Mr. Zelaya's actions were expressly forbidden by the Honduran constitution.

"Article 239," Mr. Estrada noted, "specifically states that any president who so much as proposes the permissibility of reelection 'shall cease forthwith' in his duties, and Article 4 provides that any 'infraction' of the succession rules constitutes treason." Congress had little choice but to take its next step. It convened "immediately after Zelaya's arrest," Mr. Estrada wrote, "condemning his illegal conduct, and overwhelmingly voting (122-6) to remove him from office."

Mr. Zelaya was shipped out of the country because Honduras believed that jailing him would make him a lightning rod for violence. Interim President Roberto Micheletti promised that presidential elections scheduled for November would go forward.

That might have been the end of it if the U.S. had supported the Honduran rule of law, or simply refrained from meddling. Instead President Obama and the State Department joined Mr. Chávez and his allies in demanding that Mr. Zelaya be restored to power. This has emboldened Venezuela.

On July 5, Mr. Zelaya boarded a plane manned by a Venezuelan crew bound for Tegucigalpa, knowing full well that he would not be allowed to land. It didn't matter. His intention was to incite a mob on the ground and force a confrontation between his supporters and the military. It worked. One person was killed in clashes near the airport.

Yet the tragedy did not produce the desired condemnation of the Micheletti government. Rather, it empowered Honduran patriots. Perhaps this is because the airport violence reinforced the claim that Mr. Zelaya is a threat to the peace.

He was not the only one to lose credibility that day. OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza had encouraged the fly-over stunt despite its obvious risks. He even traveled in a separate plane behind Mr. Zelaya to show support. The incident destroyed any possibility that Mr. Insulza could be considered an honest broker. It also proved the charge that by insisting on Mr. Zelaya's return the U.S. was playing with fire.

The next day Costa Rican President Oscar Arias offered to act as a mediator between Mr. Zelaya and the new government. Mr. Arias would seem to be far from an impartial referee given that he is a supporter of Mr. Zelaya. Yet it is also true that Central America has the most to lose if Honduras descends into civil war. It follows that the San José venue offers better odds for the Honduran democracy than, say, the auspices of the OAS.

Other influential Central Americans have expressed support for Honduras. Last week the Honduran daily El Heraldo reported that Salvador's OAS ambassador said he hopes to see the resolution that suspended Honduras from the group revoked under the new permanent-council president. Catholic Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga has condemned Mr. Zelaya's violent tactics and says that Honduras does not want to emulate Venezuela.

Mr. Chávez understands that Mr. Zelaya's star is fading, which is why he called Tom Shannon, the State Department's assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere at home at 11:15 p.m on July 9. Mr. Shannon told me that Mr. Chávez "again made the case for the unconditional return of Mr. Zelaya, though he did so in a less bombastic manner than he has in the past."

Mr. Shannon says that in response he "suggested to him that Venezuela and its [allies] address the fear factor by calling for free and fair elections and a peaceful transition to a new government." That, Mr. Shannon, says, "hasn't happened."

Nor is it likely to. Yet the U.S. continues exerting enormous pressure for the return of Mr. Zelaya. If it prevails, it is unlikely that Mr. Zelaya's mobs or Mr. Chávez will suddenly be tamed.

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