An Open Letter to National Public Radio

This morning your news people described the current government of Honduras as de facto. Perhaps you should look up the meaning of the word. "Without being officially established" is not how you should describe the constitutionally selected President Micheletti. Ex-President Zelaya attempted to hold a non-binding referendum. Congress and the Supreme Court OF HONDURAS had deemed the plebiscite unconstitutional and prohibited the execution of such poll. The armed forces of Honduras arrested Zelaya, at his home, on the morning of June 28, 2009, the date of the scheduled vote, which the military chief had refused to coordinate. Per order of the country's Supreme Court Zelaya was held in an airbase outside Tegucigalpa before being flown to San José, Costa Rica. Roberto Micheletti, the former President of the Honduran Congress and a member of the same party as Zelaya, was sworn in as President by the National Congress on the afternoon of Sunday June 28 for a term that ends on January 1, 2010. Democratic elections are to be held in Honduras in November. So you all tell us what, in this process, has not been "officially established."

As an aside the government of the United States says it will not recognize the November elections and Zelaya should be allowed to resume his postition as dictator, excuse me, President. We can sleep well knowing that Hugo Chavez approves of the United States position on the matter as do all other dictators in South America.