Tomorrow we'll have a special program for Cara a Cara. We will have Juan Vazquez, CEO of
http://www.lacochera.net/ as our guest, and we will discuss the election of Senator elect Al Franken, now that the Minnesota Supreme court ruled in his favor. Will Democrats now have the 60 votes necessary to pass comprehensive immigration reform? Latinos voted in record numbers for Obama and Democrats. We are told that there are not enough votes to pass comprehensive immigration reform in congress yet. What would be the excuse for Democrats this time? Not enough votes for Health Care reform or Immigration refrom? What are they there for then?
We will also discuss the military cue situation in Honduras. Who is right here? Why is Latin America once more at the brink of war and why is Hugo Chavez behind the incident again? (remember the Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuala incident over the Colombian armed forces crossing into Ecuadorian territory while chasing FARC terrorists?) Program will be in Minnesota La Invasora AM 1400 and 1470 and
http://www.lainvasora1400.com/ at 2pm CST.
Some thoughts on Honduras. President Zelaya put himself above the law, the constitution, the electoral court, the Supreme court, congress and his own party. But who wins here? Alavaro Vargas Llosa a center right political analyst recently said in an opinion piece in the New York Times
http://http//bit.ly/zNvea that the winner is Hugo Chavez.
Chavez, with his imperialist dreams for Latin America, somehow convinced Mel Zelaya, a wealthy Honduran Oligarch, who was elected four years ago as a right of center candidate, to join the Bolivarian socialist revolution. All the sudden out of the blue Zelaya became a socialist. And signed a deal with generous oil subsidies for Honduras.
Zelaya is unpopular as is Chavez in Honduras. His term was almost over and the Honduran constitution only allows for one term as president. He then decided to have a non binding referendum to ask Hondurans what they would think about changing the constitution to allow his reelection, and also make changes top the constitution to make it more Bolivarian (and acceptable to Chavez).
The electoral court, the Supreme court and the congress all declared the referendum illegal, based on it violating procedures to amend the constitution. Zalaya decided to ignore the other branches of government and hold the referendum. He ordered the military to prepare the polling places. The military refused to disobey congress and the Supreme Court. Zelaya then fired the Defense Minister. The Supreme court declared the firing illegal.
What should've happened then, is that Zelaya should been prosecuted in the courts for breaking the law, and then if found guilty, given the appropriate punishment. He was unpopular and probably would've had to finish his term at the end of 2009.
Instead Roberto Micheletti the new "President" because he was next in the line of succession, the Honduran military and their supporters fell into Zelayas trap. They military fell into the old habit of conducting a military cue, exiling Zelaya to Costa Rica, and then making Micheletti President. They then started to repress the media, protests, sometimes violently and isolating themselves internationally. Every country in the Hemisphere including the US, and in Europe and the UN have all declared the Cue illegal. Obama correctly and skillfully opposed the cue, which put a dent in the often Chavez conspiracy theory that the CIA is behind everything.
Now Zelaya is an international hero. If the military continues to repress it's people, Zelaya will be a local hero too. And Chavez gets one more satellite for his growing empire.
The military in Honduras was duped and they fell for it. Micheletti should resign as soon as possible, Zelaya should then be allowed to return as President and given the opportunity to step down when his term is over, or change the constitution by legal means, or be prosecuted for breaking the law.
But it might be too late. Latin America is slowly marching back into it's old horrible warmonger days. The old extreme ways of the left and right, once more put the great majority in the middle at great risk.
