Manuel Zelaya is supported by Venezuela tyrant Hugo Chavez, following his playbook for gradually taking control of a country through steps that individually don't provoke international outrage but collectively amount to a coup. Zelaya had ordered Honduran broadcasters to air two hours a day of pro-government propaganda, as example.
Zelaya's latest effort to enhance his power came from his desire to re-write the constitution to allow himself to run for the presidency again. When the Honduras supreme court ruled against his efforts, he sought to get ballots printed by the Chavez's regime distributed anyway.
The Honduras supreme court ordered Zelaya arrested, which the military did. His arrest and deportation is supported by the leaders of his own political party, including the interim president, Roberto Micheletti.
So what is Barack Obama's response to this effort to maintain freedom in Honduras? Naturally, it is to support Hugo Chavez's efforts to have his ally Zelaya returned to power.
I think we have a new nickname for Obama: Enabler-in-Chief for tyrants. Obama had a hard time coming to the defense of the Iranian people as its regime crackdown on protests against rigged elections; he has reached out to the tyrants in Syria; he has cozied up to the Putin regime in Russia; and he won't or can't speak against Chavez's efforts to undermine freedom in Latin America.
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