Octavio Sanchez, a Honduran lawyer who has served as a presidential adviser and minister of culture for that Central American nation, gives Americans a primer on that nation's constitution -- one President Barack Obama would do well to read. These are the facts: On June 26, President Zelaya issued a decree ordering all government employees […]
Ex-president Manuel Zelaya of Honduras appeared at the United Nations and got the approval of that undemocratic cabal to return to power. Getting removed from power has apparently given Zelaya a new respect for the law. Zelaya — whose elected term ends in January 2010 — had defied the Supreme Court and called a referendum […]
President Obama again today reiterated his belief that the ouster of Honduran President Zelaya was illegal. Embedded video from CNN Video Following Obama's logic, apparently once you've been elected, there's no possible legal way to be removed from office prior to the end of your term. President Nixon is probably kicking himself as he rolls […]
After reading The Washington Post's article on today's quasi-coup in Honduras, one wonders what side the Obama administration is on. The coup was condemned throughout the Americas. President Obama joined other regional leaders in calling for a peaceful return of Zelaya to office. But the Honduran National Congress defiantly announced that Zelaya was out, and […]
Mary Anastasia O'Grady had an excellent article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal pointing out that last week's rescue of more than a dozen hostages from Colombia's FARC rebels rested on an underlying assumptions about who the rebels friends were. As we learn more about the Colombian military's daring hostage rescue last week, one detail stands […]
Fidel Castro, dead for a couple years, has announced that he won't "run" for office again. Good riddance. Here's hoping that Cuba Libre is close.
Just about everyone except the Fidel Castro-loving leftists in Hollywood know what Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is all about. Today there's more evidence of how communism "works" -- food shortages due to price controls and the government seizure of private property. Venezuela's top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of […]
A couple of years ago there was a big ruckus here in San Diego when a U.S. Marine was sent to the border to pick up a couple of Marines who had (if I recall correctly) been partying in Tijuana. The Marine was supposed to turn off at the last exit and await his comrades […]
Yankees pitcher Jose Contreras fled from Cuba a couple of years ago. The island nation is the last communist dictatorship in the Western Hemisphere and Cuban "President" Fidel Castro was none too happy that one of his star pitchers had decided that capitalism was a good thing. Ever since that day, Contreras' wife and two […]
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is out -- and says that the mean U.S. Marines forced him out in a coup d'etat. The Congressional Black Caucus is screaming bloody murder that a "democratically elected" president was ousted. If Aristide was genuinely re-elected, as critics of the Bush administration claim, then any lame claims of President Bush […]