I den US-amerikanska vänstertidningen Socialist Worker finns en artikel som både är en analys och en direktrapport när det gäller utvecklingen i Honduras. Artikeln är skriven av Eva Gollinger, en venezolansk-amerikansk journalist som följt utvecklingen i Honduras under en längre tid. Där framgår att det som Zelaya planerade att genomföra på kuppdagen var en omröstning som hade karaktären av en opinionsundersökning, snarare än en förändring av konstitutionen. Man skulle alltså undersöka om folk tyckte att en förändring var nödvändig. Dessutom startade kuppen egentligen flera dagar innan militären tillfångatog Manuel Zelaya:
Zelaya, elected in November 2005 on the platform of Honduras’ Liberal Party, had proposed the opinion poll be conducted to determine if a majority of citizens agreed that constitutional reform was necessary. He was backed by a majority of labor unions and social movements in the country. If the poll had occurred, depending on the results, a referendum would have been conducted during the upcoming elections in November to vote on convening a constitutional assembly. Nevertheless, today’s scheduled poll was not binding by law.
In fact, several days before the poll was to occur, Honduras’ Supreme Court ruled it illegal, upon request by the Congress, both of which are led by anti-Zelaya majorities and members of the ultra-conservative National Party of Honduras (PNH). This move led to massive protests in the streets in favor of Zelaya.
On June 24, the president fired the head of the high military command, Gen. Romeo Vásquez, after he refused to allow the military to distribute electoral material for Sunday’s elections. Vásquez held the material under tight military control, refusing to release it even to the president’s followers, stating that the scheduled referendum had been determined illegal by the Supreme Court, and therefore he could not comply with the president’s order. As in the United States, the president of Honduras is commander-in-chief and has the final say on the military’s actions, and so he ordered the general’s removal. The Minister of Defense, Angel Edmundo Orellana, also resigned in response to this increasingly tense situation.
But the following day, Honduras’ Supreme Court reinstated Vásquez to the high military command, ruling that his firing was ”unconstitutional.” Thousands again poured into the streets of Honduras’ capital of Tegucigalpa to show support for Zelaya and their determination to ensure that Sunday’s non-binding referendum would take place. On Friday, the president and a group of hundreds of supporters marched to the nearby air base to collect the electoral material that had been previously held by the military. That evening, Zelaya gave a national press conference along with a group of politicians from different political parties and social movements, calling for unity and peace in the country.
Även om USA har tagit avstånd från kuppen i Honduras ska man vet att militären i Honduras till stor del är USA-tränad och att USA har en militärbas i det lilla centralamerikanska landet. Om USA verkligen ville skulle man säkerligen ha kunnat förhindra kuppen. Det är lite hyckleri och dubbelmoral över USA:s agerande så som jag ser det.
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