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As we celebrate freedom in America, other countries struggling to maintain their freedom, and some countries are trying to get that freedom. Honduras has refused to allow a dictator to change their constitution such as what had happened in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nazi Germany. Unfortuately, corruption has allowed communism to come back to power in Nicaragua. Groups like LULAC, La Raza, and The Congressional Hispanic Caucus are too busy demanding amnesty to care about reform in hispanic countries. Below are 2 articles about the situation in Honduras and neighboring Nicaragua that the hispanic media, U.S. media, and several Presidents refuse talk about:
We in Nicaragua have witnessed political corruption for so long, that it seems quite stupid now to try and disguise it as a virtue. We share the sentiments of North American Justice Potter Stewart when he tried to define pornography in 1964: "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it." Perhaps we don’t know how to define corruption in legal terms, but we recognize it when we see it.
http://worldmeets.us/laprensani000008.shtml
To say that people in Latin America are sensitive about military coups would be an understatement. Due to the often tumultuous and bloody histories of their respective countries, they have a strong aversion to anything that looks like military interference in civilian politics. Recent events in Honduras have struck many Latin Americans as a return to the bad old days when power-hungry generals routinely dislodged elected officials and stomped on democracy. Yet upon closer examination, the removal of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya bears very little resemblance to traditional Latin American military coups. Indeed, it was not really a "coup." Rather, it was a response to a leader who had trampled the law and attempted to hold an illegal referendum on constitutional reform. Zelaya's ouster was approved by Honduras's Congress, Supreme Court, Electoral Tribunal, attorney general, and national prosecutor.
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