Honduras is a Sovereign State, not a No-Man’s-Land

Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary defines as no-man’s-land “an area of unknown, unclaimed or uninhabited land. An anomalous, ambiguous, or indefinite area, especially of operation, application, or jurisdiction.” It seems that many governments and leaders who are communists, communistoids or sympathizers of the radical Left, have considered that this is the description of Honduras when, irresponsibly not to say merrily, they said that whatever might be the result of the November 29 elections, they would be declared “null” and therefore – according to that aberrant opinion – the so-called “international community” would not recognize those elections, as if the people of Honduras did not have the right to decide their own political destiny which is characterized by elections where the vote is freely cast and honestly counted. In other words, they considered a sovereign republic, such as Honduras, as a no-man’s-land.

It is all right that there be governments that do not want to have diplomatic relations with others and that stay away from anything known as foreign relations with respect to the government that they do not like or that does not share its philosophical position. It is the right of every government to establish this kind of relations. However, they have no right to harass the country whose government, resulting from legitimate elections, they do not like. This is something that violates the sovereignty of the state that is being persecuted, in this case the Republic of Honduras, whose courageous leaders have confronted those who have wanted to impose by force, including international organizations such as the OAS, a political whim that does not respect the mentioned Honduran sovereignty.

This Sunday, November 29th, 2009, the Honduran government held elections with the participation of all the live forces of the country, with the exception of a minority group that has ousted President Manuel Zelaya as its leader. The constitutional government of Honduras defied the wrath of the enemies of democracy who are allies of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Daniel Ortega, Rafael Correa, and of Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva. The latter, the Brazilian president, has reached the outrageous extreme of having helped the entry of Zelaya into Honduras and has kept him like a guest of honor in its Embassy in Tegucigalpa for more than two months. From that Embassy, Zelaya has directed the subversion on behalf of his interests, including acts of terrorism.