This article in the Washington Post was sort of amazing to me this morning.
It’s about how Honduras is very poor. And how poor Hondurans support Zelaya because Zelaya is such an advocate of the poor. And now the middle class and rich who support the ouster of Zelaya are just being mean.
There is not one mention of how President Micheletti is of the same exact party as Zelaya.
Here is a quote from the sister of the woman who was shot at the airport while awaiting Zelaya’s return.
“Mel Zelaya wanted to improve things. He asked us what we wanted and what we did not want,” she said. “What divides us here is money, and we saw Zelaya as the guy who could take us out of our misery.”
Mel Zelaya was in office for 3.5 years. The constitution of Honduras requires that he not return after 4 years. Just how was he going to “take us out of our misery” in the next 6 months is not clear. Perhaps they run on hope there too.
Adolfo Facussé, an investor long tied to government officials, said that although Zelaya’s rhetoric resonated with the poor, his policies did little to help lift them out of poverty. Facussé said that raising the minimum monthly wage by 60 percent led to the firings of 170,000 people and that increasing the pay of teachers hit the treasury hard.
Facussé said he and other Hondurans also became alarmed as Zelaya built an alliance with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez that they thought was more ideological than economic. Facussé said the last straw came when Zelaya moved ahead with plans to hold a referendum that could have paved the way for his reelection, a move the Supreme Court and the National Congress opposed.
The bold is mine.
The Washington Post is suggesting the Supreme court and National Congress opposed a Zelaya reelection. Vs the Supreme Court and National Congress opposed the illegality of even freaking holding a reelection for Zelaya!!!
Sheesh – would someone with a title of “reporter” please report the actual news!!
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