Zelaya clearly violated laws,constitution and had no regard for any democratic process.

Democratic process was enacted and there were several steps taken. There was an arrest order made. Who should make the arrest the military or the OHD(organization of hair dressers?)

Perhaps they errored in taking him to Costa Rica. They could have held him and put him on trial.

Additionally, Zelaya was warned that he broke these laws and was asked to stop so they could avoid what has happened.

He incriminated himself when he publicly announced that nobody could tell him what to do and that he could do whatever he wants.

How can we allow democratically elected leaders to be above the law and then claim to be democratic? Only communist dictators behave like he has.

There is a serious growing communist movement in our own backyard and it is growing and strenghtening. Honduras bravely weakened it and the rest of the world should be thanking them.

The world’s insistance that Honduras put him back in office is a return to the dark days and a spread of communist tyranny.

Therefore, if law was really to be applied, this would include punishing President Zelaya on his return, for violating the constitution, as well as punishing the supreme court jurors for ordering the disposal, and finally punishing Micheletti for illegaly assuming the presidential seat.

Let’s not forget that the new self-proclaimed Honduran government presented a resignation letter, allegedly signed by Zelaya himself, which is completely illegal as Zelaya never wrote nor signed such document.

By this I am not defending Zelaya, I am just being as moderate and objective as possible, something Latin American news agencies lack in general.

Even if it is true that Zelaya was breaking the law, the “well-intentioned” military has no place acting as the political referee between the President and the Supreme Court. Kidnapping an elected President at gunpoint and exiling him to Costa Rica is an unconstitutional act much greater than any of the possible missteps Zelaya may have made. Furthermore, it is important to point out that the referendum had nothing to do with term limits. It simply asked Hondurans whether or not they would support the creation of a committee to rewrite the Constitution. It was to be totally non-binding, perhaps better described as an opinion poll of sorts. The danger, of course, to the traditional elite political establishment which controls the Congress and Courts along with the rest of Honduran society, is that a new Constitution of the sort passed in Bolivia and Venezuela would threaten the dominant position of the traditional oligarchs. As a result, both of the political parties, representing the elite, vehemently opposed any efforts to move in that direction. As happened in Venezuela and Bolivia, the President was forced to push back.