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Article: Honduras Right About Zelaya
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- Human Events
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- July 13, 2009
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President Endangered Democratic Rule
The Hondurans who are resisting former President Manuel Zelaya's efforts to stay in power are not mounting a coup d'état. On the contrary, they are fighting against the all-too-common practice of past Latin American leaders who choose, against the rule of law and democracy, to stay in power.
Latin America has had a poor record of democratic government. There have been three competing political traditions: a feeble - but in recent decades growing stronger - democratic tradition and two pervasive anti-democratic ones. One of the latter is the too-familiar military coup, in which the armed forces overthrow the government and then a military dictator or a ...