Honduras CENTRAL AMERICA: NO MORE BANANA REPUBLIC By Manlio Arqueta Although the term originally was applied to Honduras by the American humorist writer O'Henry, subsequently endorsed all countries dominated "by corrupt tyrants and submissive to the rich countries," says Wikipedia. Throughout the Caribbean and Central America were forced to adapt to being bananas republics and the term was extended to Africa and Asia. The English name was right to be: was attributed to the United States being the great friend dictatorships and at that time, the production of bananas (the United Fruit Company) linking private interests to state interests. Of these historical stage there is a famous phrase from a nortemericano President Theodore Roosevelt: "Somoza is a son of bicht but our own are of bicht." The background was the most disastrous coup against President Jacobo Arbenz colonel, married to a Salvadoran from the richest families in El Salvador, Maria Vilanova, but at the time, even years after being deposed President Arbenz Vilanova de Arbenz was persecuted in the countries where they sought asylum. Accused her of being the power behind the throne of her husband and out of the throne and died Arbenz, the Salvadoran remained a danger to Guatemala. were the days of former Secretary of U.S. State, John Foster Dulles, who said that what was good for General Motors was good for America. Dulles was a lawyer of course, United Fruit Company and to finish his term was employed as counsel for General Motors. This situation continued to prevail in Central America but in the last decade of the twentieth century, after civil wars and peace agreements, starting a democratic process. The stigma of banana republic was lost.
In the case of Honduras do not even argue the communist threat as outlined before to keep the banana republics, the family Zelaya, the President is one of the richest in Honduras. The decision of a judge that he came from a non-binding poll which asked about their willingness to organize a fourth ballot in the upcoming elections in November 2009, a referendum by the people to see if he agreed with a fourth ballot box in those elections in November. This single question was the coup. Assumptions were invented, there was talk hata was intended to remove custody of children over three years, or implement the president's reelection. In any case, the survey was not linked to political proposal for the process, if anything the people accepted it, would go for legal ways for a Constituent Assembly. What says the coup in Honduras is that the democratic system we are living in Central America from century can be broken by a simple appeal of a judge or lawyer and if a higher judicial body accepts it, may result to depose a president. The lesson is fatal. The administration of the law can come up with resources to break the constitutional order. This was the origin of the attack on the American system of democracy, that is just taking root in our hapless Central American republics. the case in Honduras gives us a sign that democracy is not consolidated and while the sector that handles weapons can be professional in accepting obedience to the Constitution, it is also possible that an action for any person and played by an organ of state is able to open doors to a group of ambitious to depose a democratically elected president. There is no excuse, no action when it wants to justify an outrage. But lawyers abound, also civilians, including intellectuals to fuel ambitious small groups and put the law as a figurehead for political perversion. Dictatorships always defended the law in his hand and when it was not possible to set up their own alternative means to sustain its authoritarian power, to their early mornings and commit their crimes. However, there is hope: the time has changed the banana republics, General Motors is almost bankrupt, Dulles and infamous dead child, and the United States wanted a change in its history: elect a President Barack Obama with his sentence exchange and universal: "Yes we can." And the people accepted the change proposed. Yes you can. Military dictatorship and barbarity should not return to Central America. For the sake of Latin American dictatorships will not pass. The military coup in Honduras is a bummer to political tolerance and democratic system, continental dynamics, there is no other way out: to replace President Zelaya put a stop to the perversion that occurred this morning of June 28, 2009. None
political crisis must be resolved by the bullets and guns, this is an incontrovertible truth in the age of information, knowledge and technology.
San Salvador, Central America, June 28, 2009 
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