Expert Says Some Hondurans Think Coup Saved Democracy
Otto Reich, President of Otto Reich Associates, LLC, and former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, says President Zelaya’s removal has been referred to as an attack on democracy. However, he notes that Honduran jurists and scholars say it is part of “legal and defensible measures of two co-equal branches of the Honduran government agianst the autocratic intent of the Executive.” He says many Hondurans believe the recent coup saved democracy because it stopped Zelaya from “establishing the kind of ’21st Century Socialism’ regime.” (0:39)
July 10, 2009
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