2009-06-30 13:28:45 - The United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union and other world organizations have rejected the coup d'etat in Honduras, but the irrational hatred to Chavez that supposed democrat Gustavo Colonel maintains, has taken it to justify the actions of the Honduran military and congressmen against their constitutional PRESIDENT, Manuel Zelaya.

VHeadline commentarist Carlos M. Pietri writes:

I wonder how anyone can believe the judgments of this egocentric 'gentleman' (Gustavo Colonel) when he talks about Venezuela and the Bolivarian process, if in something so anti-democratic as the Honduran coup d'etat, Coronel justifies it -- and celebrates it on his 'Armas de Coronel' blog -- on the fact that Chavez condemned it.

Colonel

repeats the banal justifications of the coup participants, as to supposed violations to the Honduran Constitution where the PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS asked the Honduran Institute of Statistics to carry out a survey on the possibility of placing a fourth ballot box in the next presidential elections to asking Honduran voters if they agreed wirth carrying out a referendum for a Constituent Assembly.

Anyone can discern, that, to be accepted, this proposal would have to be made under the mandate of a President different frpm Zelaya (The Honduran Constitution does not allow the immediate re-election) ... still more, to be effective, the proposal would have to be approved by the Honduran Congress before being put to the electorate.

If consulting the people in a democracy violates the Constitution, I don't believe we're speaking of an authentic DEMOCRACY.

The situation in Honduras is an aberration because, in this simple referendum proposal, the Honduran oligarchy sees its interests threatened ... and they do not want something or anybody near them that gives a vision or makes a positive proposal that there's really a light at the end of the tunnel for Central America.

But why did ZELAYA insist on the survey?

...because the Honduran Constitution's depth so is limited that it only allows a very small participation by the Honduran people in its political processes ... it responds to the interests of big national and international money interests in that country. The Constitution, adopted in 1982, at a key moment of Reagan's 'dirty war' by the US government in Central America, was designed to enforce the position that those who held economic power, as much as politicians, could maintain that power with minimum interference from the people.

Thank God ... unlike the Honduran coup participants and Venezuela's eternal disqualifier (Colonel) ... the peoples of the world, our fellow citizens, categorically reject any type of interference, imposition, sabotage, coup against any country in our Americas and the world.

Today it is Honduras! If we accept barbarism, this right wing coup d'etat that clearly evidences the ambitions of the Honduran bourgeoisie and imperialism, before the will of the Honduran people to fight for their liberty ... who will be under attack tomorrow?

The people of the world have called on the international community to react, to force these minions of savage capitalism to reinstate Hondura's precious democracy and its constitutional President, Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

Gustavo Coronel may choose to differ but he has to learn the meaning of true democracy!

Carlos M. Pietri
carlos.pietri@vheadline.com

VHeadline commentarist Carlos M. Pietri has a B.Sc in Electronic Technology form the Oklahoma State University (1979) and previously worked as an electronics engineer at the Venezuelan Guayana Corporation's power-generating subsidiary CVG-EDELCA to become head of Edelca's Digital section in 1990, head of systems engineering in 1995, head control centers in 1998 and a divisional manager 2001 thru 2004 working on the Caruachi hydroelectric power system and Raul Leoni at Guri. He has been a Professor at EXECPO since 1979 becoming Electrical Engineering Faculty Chief in 2006 and UNEXPO Academic Director in 2008. UNEXPO is the Antonio Jose de Sucre National Politechnic University in Puerto Ordaz in southeastern Venezuela.

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