JR: "Micheletti: The Fascist Had a Bad Dream"

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"Micheletti: The Fascist Had a Bad Dream

By: Ricardo Ronquillo Bello

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2009-06-29 | 12:56:18 EST

News agencies reports reveal that Roberto Micheletti, who usurped the presidency of Honduras on Sunday after a military coup, is nothing but an old fascist with a bad dream, the realization of which will not last long, judging by the indignation of the Honduran people and the international community.

Micheletti, designated by the Congress on Sunday to replace legitimate Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, has found the short cut of fascist and rightwing brutality to reach his long awaited presidency of the country, which had been vetoed to him by internal disputes within his party.

At almost 61 years of age, which he will be in August, according to AFP, this company manager, qualified in US universities, has spent almost thirty years in Honduran political life.

From 1980 to 2005, Micheletti was a representative to the Congress from the department of Yoro. A fellow party member of Zelaya’s Liberal Party, he had every reason, said AFP, to yearn for his position: Micheletti lost the internal elections of the party to Zelaya.

According to this agency, Micheletti was also unlucky in his latest attempt, when he tried to maneuver the rules that prevent presidents of the Congress to aspire to the leadership of the Republic.

News reports show that he again lost the internal elections of his party against Elvin Santos, vice president of Zelaya, with his party within the Liberal Party: the Micheletista Liberal Movement.

This political tyrant of Honduran politics, as described by AFP, has had to wait for this political-military plot by the extreme Right to make his so-many-times frustrated presidential hopes come true.

Quite a few people are surprised with the ease with which Micheletti was announced as head of the military coup when he is not a favorite of a great part of the Honduran Parliament.

When giving his version of the attempted military coup, Micheletti said that it had not been a coup d’état, but an “absolutely legal process.” Could it be that the fascist suffers from delusions in addition to his frustrated dreams?

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