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The following were taken off of Obama's Facebook page. This is what common folks in Hondouras think of Obama;
Mr President,
I voted for You this past election inspired by your words of freedom and by your rethoric about freedom and democracy. However in this past months I have been deeply dissapointed by the way You look at our backyard (Latin America) I really hope that Your plan to keep democracy going in this area is much more complex than my humble comprehension and reasoninig and that time will restore my confidence in your ability to lead the FREE world. But at this time all I can ask myself is How can You support a thief like Zelaya? You are sending the wrong message to freedom and democracy citizens of the world that you will support dictators .... Honduran citizens have demostrated a lot more political and democratically maturity then you are giving them credit for, It is thime to stop demeaning other countries based on their size and past culture and not giving the benefit of the doubt that they can decide to oust a corrupt wanna be dictator that only wanted to take away freedom and democracy in Honduras. How can we be this blind? The USA decision today to suspend aid to Honduras will have an impact internationally however internally it should not made that much since much of that AID WAS BEING STOLEN BY ZELAYA That is just my humble opinion as a lover of freedom and democracy God bless You and our Nation Report
Post #2Fabrizio Cacciatore (New York, NY) wroteon September 3, 2009 at 6:34pm
Mr. President, I agree too.
Pls come have a beer with me in Uila, (honduras) and we can discuss this matter in a human way.
also, I have a tremendous idea that will benefit the whole world as one!
Report
Post #3Fabrizio Cacciatore (New York, NY) wroteon September 3, 2009 at 6:34pm
ps, I will be there after the 21st of Sept. till the 29th.
hope you can make it.
I will buy the beer of course!
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Post #4Gustavo Andrés Castillo (UNITEC Honduras) wroteon September 3, 2009 at 6:39pm
IM A HONDURAN, PROUD OF MY NEW GOVERNMENT AND MY ARMY.
President Obama, I wonder if this is a real profile opened by your PR (Im pretty sure you dont have time to update it yourself) or if this is someone elses sport. I just want to be heard, as other 7 million hondurans living through this political crisis do.
Being one of your first "believers" outside of the US, I am truly disappointed in the way your administration has denied our new government a chance to straighten things up. ... Read More... Read More
Honduras has been a loyal ally to the US for aslong as history can recall. In any point of time, in any situation, even if there was doubts about US foreign policies.
The US is our oldest commercial ally.
We have recently been struggling against the external influence of comunism (anyone with a slight idea of economics is well aware of its failure to deliver a better way of life).
Please don't turn your back on us now, don't give Chavez a pat on the back.
We cannot take on the world alone!Report
Post #5Erik Sperling (Milwaukee, WI) wroteon September 3, 2009 at 7:15pm
jajajajaja que triste son estos burgueses... disfruten del poquito tiempo que tendran bajo ese gobierno fascista.... el pueblo se levanta, en todo el continente.
VIVA AMERICA LATINA UNIDA!Report
Post #6Ana Ibis Orellana-Sierra wroteon September 3, 2009 at 8:45pm
Mr.President:
With all my respect i wanted to ask you that why haven't you let honduras speakout and let us show you our proofs against the ex-president manuel zelaya??? Do you think he really loves honduras when he is trying for international organizations to take their help from us??or when he is training men for war against honduras and to rob rich peoples houses??? he is a good liar!!! Don't judge when your eyes haven't seen what's really happend here!! You should come and see for your own eyes for what he is paying people to do!! No matter what other countries (including yours) does against us we will not put our foot down!!! we love so much our country that we will fight for our liberty and democracy!!By the way Our president Roberto Micheletti really loves our country because he asks for other countries and people from ours to invest in here and Manuel Zelayas asks for other countries to take their help from us !!It's a shame to see how American Citizens like your self fall in his web so easily because he is the only one who you people hear but GOD doesn't fall in anybodies web, Manuel Zelaya may lie to you but not to GOD!! But that's ok someday you will see that my poor country was right!!! I hope you come to our country and hear us!! Thank you Report
Post #7Gerardo Diaz wroteon September 3, 2009 at 11:02pm
President Obama
I’m an US citizen born in Honduras. I take this opportunity to beg you to please examine the words and actions of ex President Manuel Zelaya. He is willing to strongly advocate against his own people, twisting and manipulating the events to gain sympathy. He knows that his actions are hurting millions of poor Hondurans, and yet he continues his campaign against that people who once trusted him. The great majority of Hondurans reject him and his pro Chavez policies. We know by experience he is willing to deceive and twist the events for his own benefit. PLEASE send a secret commission to talk to the people and evaluate all sectors of society, the facts will surprise you. But please, do not enforce any more sanctions, Honduras has been and will continue to be a good allied in Central America, especially now that Chavez is using his oil to gain political advantages against the US, do not underestimate this facts.
Respectfully, a very concerned citizen
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Post #8Tanya Bodden wroteon September 4, 2009 at 7:29am
Mr. Obama
Do not turn your back on DEMOCRACY ! Do not turn your back on OUR COUNTRY ! We Hondurans want to live FREE ! please take time form you busy schedule to read OUR CONSTITUTION (which is not the same as the US´s) to understand the events of June 28th (when Zelaya was removed from power).
We are so very proud of the way our President (Mr. Roberto Micheletti) has defended our country. He, as well as the majority of Hondurans, LOVE THIS COUNTRY. We just ask that you respect ¨this Little country that Could¨.
A very PROUD HONDURAN !
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Post #9Santa Democracia (El Salvador) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 7:52am
Dear Obama,
Don't worry my man! Soon we are gona be in Chicago with our Alba friends and gona help you take everything from the haves. Remember the USA have more poors than Venezuela, Central America and Mexico Combined!!!
We are gona have a blast my man, thanks to you and thanks to your knowledge of Latin America.
Keep rocking my man!
We'll see you soon and by the way, you can keep your house in Chicago. How many rooms do you have there?
Peace and Love,
Santa DemocraciaReport
Post #10Paris Heráclito Castillo (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 7:59am
Mr. President,
With all my respect, I will like to tell you that I live in Honduras and I'm a Honduran citizen. I have always considered myself a Fan of you, even before you run for the presidency of U.S.A. I won’t never forget your speech in the Democrat Convention back in 2004, that day, I say to myself that this is the kind of man that will transform U.S.A. and sure you will try to do it in the good way.
We all know that you WERE elected democratically with a huge margin of victory. And we all know that as a President of U.S.A. you will follow the RULE OF LAW and you will respect the BALANCE of POWERS, as a Harvard Layer, You know that. Even you recognize it, when you are preparing to give one of the most important speeches of your term in front of the Congressmans.
But what would happens If you try to broke the RULE OF LAW, trying to fulfill an illegal act, and a Judge stop you to continue. I believe your judicial system will try to stop you. Remember that Richard Nixon did it and He was elected democratically. Well... Mr. Presidente that happened in my “Little Country that Could” our Former President Manuel Zelaya BROKE THE RULE OF LAW.
I recognize that it is a complex situation and it’s very hard try to be apart off all this situation but I think with all respect that your government has to reconsider your position or at least do not do more damage to this “Little Country that Could”. Certainly, you are in all your right to set aside seeking the same trend as all American Countries but REMEMBER THAT U.S.A. respects the COUNTRIES FREE DETERMINATION OF ACT. That’s why you are trying to pull out your army from IRAK.
I “HOPE” you consider the legitimate winner of November elections.
Kindly,
A fan that still BELIEVES in you
PS: Please fill free to search all the events of the former President Zelaya, BEFORE JUNE 28, you will find the truth and all the arguments that explain the present situationReport
Post #11Sofia Zelaya wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:00am
We support our current government and understand even if the World keeps acting based on interests it is up to US THE HONDURAN people to defend our liberty and democracy...and thats what we are going to keep doing...
I guess were all just so confused by how our historic friend the US is acting...you do not represent the America we admire Mr. Obama, you have really let us down...you are an intelligent man they say...so you know the facts and what truly is going on..but you choose to be on Chavezes good side...never thought I would see this day...but we are so convinced our cause is just and are willing to fight alone if we have to, God will fight for us, I guess you dont believe in God our justice or truth... but we choose to still call americans our friends because we know so many who really represent what America is all about, you Sir regretfully, are not one of them...Report
Post #12Monica Ochoa (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:24am
WE THE LITTLE COUNTRY THAT COULD..HONDURAS!!! WE WILL NOT RESIST....YOU CAN TAKE VISAS AWAY...YOU CAN TAKE AID AWAY...BUT YOU WILL NOT TAKE OUR PRIDE...WE SUPPORT DEMOCRACY..WE SUPPORT FREEDOM...ISN'T AMERICA THE LAND OF THE FREE??...SO WHY IF WE MAY ASK..ARE YOU TRYING TO TAKE AWAY FROM US THAT SEARCH FOR FREEDOM?? LET US SPEAK...HEAR US..HONDURAS HOLDS THE TRUTH NOT MR. ZELAYA...HE'S A TRAITOR TO OUR COUNTRY. Report
Post #13Claudia Galeas Galindo wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:33am
dear mr. president most of the teenagers here in Honduras support our current government. they had the courage to stop former president Zelaya from his evil plans, its really sad that you and other presidents can't see that. i love my country and i know thet what had happened is the best for us, the Honduras people.Report
Post #14Emilio Enrique Murillo Duron wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:36am
Mr Barack Obama use to have this page in USE for his own purposes, before the elction he won, now, he doesn´t care about it, all your important opinions and requests to him will be ognored. God Help Honduras...Report
Post #15Marisol Laínez wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:37am
Good morning,
We support the government of president Micheletti, we were tired of witnessing the constant abuse of power of Manuel Zelaya. It was not a coup, the armed forces were following orders of the supreme court.
I have to repeat this again...Article 239 of the Honduran constitution says "No citizen who has already served as head of the Executive Branch can be President or Vice-President. Whoever violates this law or proposes its reform, as well as those that support such violation directly or indirectly, will immediately cease in their functions".
Why is it so hard to understand that we value our freedom and that we want the security in knowing that we will not be another Venezuela or Cuba? We were hoping for your support, not the punishing sanctions and the reductions in aid for our country.
How ironic that JFK said " Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." and that now your Gov. is supporting a thief, liar and a dictator wanna be.
How can you believe him?Report
Post #16Frank Ortega (Los Angeles, CA) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:42am
Mr Obama:
The message about the economic sanctions against Honduras as we (the citizens of Honduras) see it: It is ok for a president of any to be corrupt, and it's people must grin and bear it because if they don't or if they try to remove or replace the corrupt PRESIDENTE the U.S. will penalize them.
With all due respect Mr Obama, as Hondurian citizen I do believe it is about time you open your eyes and ears, send someone you trust down to Honduras and in your behalf let them figure out the REAL STORY, not the ones the bias AP and UPI and ESPN are telling. because for all we know, all of those reporters may have been or maybe they still are, on Mr Zelayas payroll.
Please not past judgment on the people of Honduras until you have heard the REAL STORY, please wait until you've heard the REAL truth,
Remember: " THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM "Report
Post #17Jorge Mendoza (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:45am
OK, let me see here:
1.- Pseudo-dictator, or Dictator in the making, breakes every law you can think of in his country, including laws that forbid him from continuing to be president
2.-Micro-Dictator then decides he is ABOVE the laww, because "the people voted for him", so he goes on a rampage, mob-stealeing confiscated electoral material, tacking truck-loads of cash (millions of dollars) from the Central Bank, and saying not even GOD can stop him from becoming president again.
3.- Supreme Court Ruling (15-0) says he IS breaking constitutional law that forbids him from continuing to be president
4.- Bipartisan Congress, 123-6, including his own party majority, decide to remove him from power.
5.- He is done a favor, he is taken out of Honduras FOR HIS OWN PROTECTION as almost 90% of the Honduras population is AGAINST HIM AND HIS RECKLESS BEHAVIOR.
6.- What does the world do to this little country for having brave, strong institutions that were willing to protect the Honduras Constitution above all? PUNISH, PUNISH, PUNISH, PUNISH, until we break their DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT!
HURRAY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA!
Come on, lets all join the condemnation of this little nation, come on Chavez!, Lets Go Castros! Hurry up Ortegas and Evos! The party is just starting!
In the words of now reknown Embassador Hugo Llorens "We will turn off the oxigen slowly, until you can breath no longer and HAVE to bring Zelaya back!"Report
Post #18Pepito Perez wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:45am
Dear Mr. President:
Based on last events yesterday and from the bottom of our harts, thank you very much.
We encourage you to take more actions against this illegal regime in Honduras in order to return to our democratic status.
Once again Than you for doing the right thing.
God bless you Mr. President.Report
Post #19Jimmy Cerrato wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:50am
President Obama with the respect you deserve let me express my opinion about the conflict is happening in my country Honduras, I find it very inconsiderate on their part that is not defined but its lines to us, but at least let ourselves take our own decisions only ask you to support the electoral process on 29 November and to recognize the elected president to leave ...Report
Post #20Isela Alvarenga wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:07am
Mr. President, why do you support a drug trafficker and don't support the Honduran people? we, the Honduran like freedom, freedom that we would lose with Mel Zelaya and Chavez ruling our country and doing a lot of drug trafficking. Please check the CIA's report about it, ask Mr. Charles Ford, former US Ambassador in Honduras. Report
Post #21Jose Pinto (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:13am
Mr. Obama: I voted for you, but I never thought you would side with the socialists. What i learned from you is that NEVER AGAIN ... will i ever vote for you. In Honduras we have a true democracy where free elections will go on in November. Report
Post #22Nancy Cortés (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:19am
I respect your country, as your ideals and your Constitution, I really admire how you distribute the laws and the application of the rules. Now with all the respect that you deserve I challenge you to think what would happen in the USA if somebody comes and violates all the Institutions that rule a Country, what would happen if somebody comes and from one day to other this person violates the Constitution and decide that he wants a new one, made in other country. What would happen if a Dictator comes and menaces your country???
What would happen if this person thinks that he is big enough even to be above the Laws and the desires of a Nation???
What would happen if somebody who is ruling in the Democracy one days day says that he admires the "left" and it's the best way to rule a country???
What would happen if the National Budget is not approved and you as citizen don't know where the money is???
What would happen if you try to find information in the official pages of the government and you only can find updated till 2006????
What would happen when planes with drugs pass every single day???
What would happen if any system of the government is not working in the correct way and the money that the Economical Institutions of the world give to the country were used just to pay people and make some many others rich????
I truly believe Mr. Obama that if all that were happening in your country things could be even worst for that person and landing in Costa Rica would be just a gift.
Think in your Country and imagine all this happening there!!!!
But it happened here on this little country that now is free and you are challenging us to not depend, to be free and looking forward more than ever in our history as a nation!!!!
Thanks Mr. Obama, we are becoming a REAL COUNTRY!!!!Report
Post #23Rene Casco (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:21am
Mr. President Obama:
We, the people of Honduras feel abandoned by the international community! We have just acted to defend our laws, our freedom, our democracy. No coup has taken place here, but a lawful destitution of a corrupt megalomaniac who used socialism as a crutch to support his ultimate goal of staying in power indefinitely under strict compliance of Chavez's so-called socialist franchise!
Long Live Democracy, Long Live our Freedom, long Live the Rule of Law.... Long Live The Republic of Honduras! Report
Post #24Andy H-c wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:21am
Mr. Obama,
Greetings form another honduran citizen. I am very concerned about the USAs' treatment of the people of Honduras. You are punishing us for defending democracy and freedom. Didn't you yourself mention freedom several times during your candidacy? Don't Hondurans have the right to fight for a real democracy, not an imported socialist agenda?
My question to you Mr. Obama is what does the USA stand to gain with bullying Honduras into submission? What type of foreign policy strangles an independent people in hopes they will get so desperate for air that they will relent. Is it worth using Hondura as a guinea pig?
Keep in mind Mr. Obama, that I will hold you and your government completely responsible for the economic hell hole my country is heading for. It is not fair that the powerful nations play with people's lives in this manner. Isn't equality one of your biggest agendas? We the Hondurans are people also.
We will suffer thanks to you, but we will prevail. We do not want a Chavez puppet as our president and we certainly do not understand why would want that for us.
Respectfully,
A. H.Report
Post #25Carla Bravo (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:23am
Mr. Obama,
I am a Honduran citizen living in Honduras, and I have been utterly disappointed to see how your country, the one that Honduras has been most loyal to, has completely turned its back on us, in fact, has betrayed us by taking the side of Chavez and Castro. This was a situation that should have been a 'no-brainer' for your administration, and yet you were quick to condemn and have been evidently slow to understand.
Perhaps you believe that publicly, you cannot condone the way Zelaya was removed. Unfortunately, if you or your Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, took the time to really understand our constitution and the events that led up to Zelaya's removal, you would have a legal and moral leg to stand on, as the leader of the free world, to lead the charge in standing up for the freedom and democracy of a little country that is fighting against unsurmountable odds for its constitutional survival.
If anyone is going to stand up for us and make the rest of the world take notice of what a nation united can accomplish through tough choices/brave actions, it should be the United States. Unfortunately, you have not done so, and I'm not at all sure you will. You are too afraid for your political survival and looking out for your own self-interests, since most important to you is to not antagonize the world and your allies (in other words, proving you are not George Bush, which in this case I wish you were).
That is unfortunate, since the US is the moral compass of the world, and you should ALWAYS stand up for democracy and freedom of countries' self-determination.
You have abandoned Honduras. I understand it's the easiest thing to do, however sometimes the easiest things to do are not the best or the bravest. The Honduran people are being courageous and taking the harder path, because it is the right thing to do for our country, no matter how much we have to endure. You should learn a lesson from this LITTLE COUNTRY THAT COULD.Report
Post #26Ivan R Meza (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:40am
Dear Mr. President Obama
I'm a Honduras citizen from San Pedro Sula, HN. Please let me tell you, as many people have already posted comments here, that I'm also VERY PROUD of my new Government and our Army. They defended our constitution from the CHAVISTA model of reforming constitutions in order to stay in the presidential office.
We will STAND STILL ! we WILL NOT put our country on sale for money, for oil or anything else.
And also we will not stop our presidential elections, because we have a Democracy that we will defend to death if necessary... a Democracy that the United States of America has always defended.
We Hondurans will change the World !
RegardsReport
Post #27Omar Sierra (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:41am
Mr. President Obama
My deepest concern goes to the terrible decision of suspending humanitary aid to our country, rich and middle class are not the most affected, but those who have been suffering already. Why should the poor keep suffering by the ignorance and stupidity of someone who has been stealing all this aid already? Hopefully, you will reconsider.Report
Post #28Barbara Dashiell Amato Cordova wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:47am
Mr President... Please open your eyes! Dont turn your back on the people of Honduras...we were very supportive and we believed in you...so why arent you supporting us now in our unanimous decision that we DO NOT want Manuel Zelaya back nor his pals (Chavez and all the left wing parties) playing around with us, the country and the constitution! we are known to be a democratic country.... the way he was overthrown wasnt te best, but also we were desperate to put a stop to this man and his madness...
All he brought to his people was dissapointment and shame!
please be fair to us!Report
Post #29Nathan King wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:50am
i dont understand our president who promotes freedom and democracy, yet if he doesnt get his way, he alienates a strong ally? doesnt make any sense.. sorry honduras, give us 3 years and 2 months, hopefully then we can make it right... Report
Post #30Eileen Willis (Metropolitan Museum of Art) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:53am
I was also very surprised to hear about the suspension of aid to Honduras. When I heard that the people of Honduras had ousted Zelaya my first reaction was "They have the courage that we in the United States lacked when someone stole our presidency" (i.e. after the Bush-Gore election). I don't understand the simplistic action that our government is taking in response to the situation. Why do we condemn a corrupt election in Iran but do nothing to help democratic forces prevent the same thing from happening in Honduras? I know this situation is more complex than the knee-jerk reaction we are taking. President Obama, can you please explain to us what is really going on here? I am one of your supporters, if that makes a difference.
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Mr President,
I voted for You this past election inspired by your words of freedom and by your rethoric about freedom and democracy. However in this past months I have been deeply dissapointed by the way You look at our backyard (Latin America) I really hope that Your plan to keep democracy going in this area is much more complex than my humble comprehension and reasoninig and that time will restore my confidence in your ability to lead the FREE world. But at this time all I can ask myself is How can You support a thief like Zelaya? You are sending the wrong message to freedom and democracy citizens of the world that you will support dictators .... Honduran citizens have demostrated a lot more political and democratically maturity then you are giving them credit for, It is thime to stop demeaning other countries based on their size and past culture and not giving the benefit of the doubt that they can decide to oust a corrupt wanna be dictator that only wanted to take away freedom and democracy in Honduras. How can we be this blind? The USA decision today to suspend aid to Honduras will have an impact internationally however internally it should not made that much since much of that AID WAS BEING STOLEN BY ZELAYA That is just my humble opinion as a lover of freedom and democracy God bless You and our Nation Report
Post #2Fabrizio Cacciatore (New York, NY) wroteon September 3, 2009 at 6:34pm
Mr. President, I agree too.
Pls come have a beer with me in Uila, (honduras) and we can discuss this matter in a human way.
also, I have a tremendous idea that will benefit the whole world as one!
Report
Post #3Fabrizio Cacciatore (New York, NY) wroteon September 3, 2009 at 6:34pm
ps, I will be there after the 21st of Sept. till the 29th.
hope you can make it.
I will buy the beer of course!
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Post #4Gustavo Andrés Castillo (UNITEC Honduras) wroteon September 3, 2009 at 6:39pm
IM A HONDURAN, PROUD OF MY NEW GOVERNMENT AND MY ARMY.
President Obama, I wonder if this is a real profile opened by your PR (Im pretty sure you dont have time to update it yourself) or if this is someone elses sport. I just want to be heard, as other 7 million hondurans living through this political crisis do.
Being one of your first "believers" outside of the US, I am truly disappointed in the way your administration has denied our new government a chance to straighten things up. ... Read More... Read More
Honduras has been a loyal ally to the US for aslong as history can recall. In any point of time, in any situation, even if there was doubts about US foreign policies.
The US is our oldest commercial ally.
We have recently been struggling against the external influence of comunism (anyone with a slight idea of economics is well aware of its failure to deliver a better way of life).
Please don't turn your back on us now, don't give Chavez a pat on the back.
We cannot take on the world alone!Report
Post #5Erik Sperling (Milwaukee, WI) wroteon September 3, 2009 at 7:15pm
jajajajaja que triste son estos burgueses... disfruten del poquito tiempo que tendran bajo ese gobierno fascista.... el pueblo se levanta, en todo el continente.
VIVA AMERICA LATINA UNIDA!Report
Post #6Ana Ibis Orellana-Sierra wroteon September 3, 2009 at 8:45pm
Mr.President:
With all my respect i wanted to ask you that why haven't you let honduras speakout and let us show you our proofs against the ex-president manuel zelaya??? Do you think he really loves honduras when he is trying for international organizations to take their help from us??or when he is training men for war against honduras and to rob rich peoples houses??? he is a good liar!!! Don't judge when your eyes haven't seen what's really happend here!! You should come and see for your own eyes for what he is paying people to do!! No matter what other countries (including yours) does against us we will not put our foot down!!! we love so much our country that we will fight for our liberty and democracy!!By the way Our president Roberto Micheletti really loves our country because he asks for other countries and people from ours to invest in here and Manuel Zelayas asks for other countries to take their help from us !!It's a shame to see how American Citizens like your self fall in his web so easily because he is the only one who you people hear but GOD doesn't fall in anybodies web, Manuel Zelaya may lie to you but not to GOD!! But that's ok someday you will see that my poor country was right!!! I hope you come to our country and hear us!! Thank you Report
Post #7Gerardo Diaz wroteon September 3, 2009 at 11:02pm
President Obama
I’m an US citizen born in Honduras. I take this opportunity to beg you to please examine the words and actions of ex President Manuel Zelaya. He is willing to strongly advocate against his own people, twisting and manipulating the events to gain sympathy. He knows that his actions are hurting millions of poor Hondurans, and yet he continues his campaign against that people who once trusted him. The great majority of Hondurans reject him and his pro Chavez policies. We know by experience he is willing to deceive and twist the events for his own benefit. PLEASE send a secret commission to talk to the people and evaluate all sectors of society, the facts will surprise you. But please, do not enforce any more sanctions, Honduras has been and will continue to be a good allied in Central America, especially now that Chavez is using his oil to gain political advantages against the US, do not underestimate this facts.
Respectfully, a very concerned citizen
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Post #8Tanya Bodden wroteon September 4, 2009 at 7:29am
Mr. Obama
Do not turn your back on DEMOCRACY ! Do not turn your back on OUR COUNTRY ! We Hondurans want to live FREE ! please take time form you busy schedule to read OUR CONSTITUTION (which is not the same as the US´s) to understand the events of June 28th (when Zelaya was removed from power).
We are so very proud of the way our President (Mr. Roberto Micheletti) has defended our country. He, as well as the majority of Hondurans, LOVE THIS COUNTRY. We just ask that you respect ¨this Little country that Could¨.
A very PROUD HONDURAN !
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Post #9Santa Democracia (El Salvador) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 7:52am
Dear Obama,
Don't worry my man! Soon we are gona be in Chicago with our Alba friends and gona help you take everything from the haves. Remember the USA have more poors than Venezuela, Central America and Mexico Combined!!!
We are gona have a blast my man, thanks to you and thanks to your knowledge of Latin America.
Keep rocking my man!
We'll see you soon and by the way, you can keep your house in Chicago. How many rooms do you have there?
Peace and Love,
Santa DemocraciaReport
Post #10Paris Heráclito Castillo (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 7:59am
Mr. President,
With all my respect, I will like to tell you that I live in Honduras and I'm a Honduran citizen. I have always considered myself a Fan of you, even before you run for the presidency of U.S.A. I won’t never forget your speech in the Democrat Convention back in 2004, that day, I say to myself that this is the kind of man that will transform U.S.A. and sure you will try to do it in the good way.
We all know that you WERE elected democratically with a huge margin of victory. And we all know that as a President of U.S.A. you will follow the RULE OF LAW and you will respect the BALANCE of POWERS, as a Harvard Layer, You know that. Even you recognize it, when you are preparing to give one of the most important speeches of your term in front of the Congressmans.
But what would happens If you try to broke the RULE OF LAW, trying to fulfill an illegal act, and a Judge stop you to continue. I believe your judicial system will try to stop you. Remember that Richard Nixon did it and He was elected democratically. Well... Mr. Presidente that happened in my “Little Country that Could” our Former President Manuel Zelaya BROKE THE RULE OF LAW.
I recognize that it is a complex situation and it’s very hard try to be apart off all this situation but I think with all respect that your government has to reconsider your position or at least do not do more damage to this “Little Country that Could”. Certainly, you are in all your right to set aside seeking the same trend as all American Countries but REMEMBER THAT U.S.A. respects the COUNTRIES FREE DETERMINATION OF ACT. That’s why you are trying to pull out your army from IRAK.
I “HOPE” you consider the legitimate winner of November elections.
Kindly,
A fan that still BELIEVES in you
PS: Please fill free to search all the events of the former President Zelaya, BEFORE JUNE 28, you will find the truth and all the arguments that explain the present situationReport
Post #11Sofia Zelaya wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:00am
We support our current government and understand even if the World keeps acting based on interests it is up to US THE HONDURAN people to defend our liberty and democracy...and thats what we are going to keep doing...
I guess were all just so confused by how our historic friend the US is acting...you do not represent the America we admire Mr. Obama, you have really let us down...you are an intelligent man they say...so you know the facts and what truly is going on..but you choose to be on Chavezes good side...never thought I would see this day...but we are so convinced our cause is just and are willing to fight alone if we have to, God will fight for us, I guess you dont believe in God our justice or truth... but we choose to still call americans our friends because we know so many who really represent what America is all about, you Sir regretfully, are not one of them...Report
Post #12Monica Ochoa (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:24am
WE THE LITTLE COUNTRY THAT COULD..HONDURAS!!! WE WILL NOT RESIST....YOU CAN TAKE VISAS AWAY...YOU CAN TAKE AID AWAY...BUT YOU WILL NOT TAKE OUR PRIDE...WE SUPPORT DEMOCRACY..WE SUPPORT FREEDOM...ISN'T AMERICA THE LAND OF THE FREE??...SO WHY IF WE MAY ASK..ARE YOU TRYING TO TAKE AWAY FROM US THAT SEARCH FOR FREEDOM?? LET US SPEAK...HEAR US..HONDURAS HOLDS THE TRUTH NOT MR. ZELAYA...HE'S A TRAITOR TO OUR COUNTRY. Report
Post #13Claudia Galeas Galindo wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:33am
dear mr. president most of the teenagers here in Honduras support our current government. they had the courage to stop former president Zelaya from his evil plans, its really sad that you and other presidents can't see that. i love my country and i know thet what had happened is the best for us, the Honduras people.Report
Post #14Emilio Enrique Murillo Duron wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:36am
Mr Barack Obama use to have this page in USE for his own purposes, before the elction he won, now, he doesn´t care about it, all your important opinions and requests to him will be ognored. God Help Honduras...Report
Post #15Marisol Laínez wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:37am
Good morning,
We support the government of president Micheletti, we were tired of witnessing the constant abuse of power of Manuel Zelaya. It was not a coup, the armed forces were following orders of the supreme court.
I have to repeat this again...Article 239 of the Honduran constitution says "No citizen who has already served as head of the Executive Branch can be President or Vice-President. Whoever violates this law or proposes its reform, as well as those that support such violation directly or indirectly, will immediately cease in their functions".
Why is it so hard to understand that we value our freedom and that we want the security in knowing that we will not be another Venezuela or Cuba? We were hoping for your support, not the punishing sanctions and the reductions in aid for our country.
How ironic that JFK said " Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." and that now your Gov. is supporting a thief, liar and a dictator wanna be.
How can you believe him?Report
Post #16Frank Ortega (Los Angeles, CA) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:42am
Mr Obama:
The message about the economic sanctions against Honduras as we (the citizens of Honduras) see it: It is ok for a president of any to be corrupt, and it's people must grin and bear it because if they don't or if they try to remove or replace the corrupt PRESIDENTE the U.S. will penalize them.
With all due respect Mr Obama, as Hondurian citizen I do believe it is about time you open your eyes and ears, send someone you trust down to Honduras and in your behalf let them figure out the REAL STORY, not the ones the bias AP and UPI and ESPN are telling. because for all we know, all of those reporters may have been or maybe they still are, on Mr Zelayas payroll.
Please not past judgment on the people of Honduras until you have heard the REAL STORY, please wait until you've heard the REAL truth,
Remember: " THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM "Report
Post #17Jorge Mendoza (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:45am
OK, let me see here:
1.- Pseudo-dictator, or Dictator in the making, breakes every law you can think of in his country, including laws that forbid him from continuing to be president
2.-Micro-Dictator then decides he is ABOVE the laww, because "the people voted for him", so he goes on a rampage, mob-stealeing confiscated electoral material, tacking truck-loads of cash (millions of dollars) from the Central Bank, and saying not even GOD can stop him from becoming president again.
3.- Supreme Court Ruling (15-0) says he IS breaking constitutional law that forbids him from continuing to be president
4.- Bipartisan Congress, 123-6, including his own party majority, decide to remove him from power.
5.- He is done a favor, he is taken out of Honduras FOR HIS OWN PROTECTION as almost 90% of the Honduras population is AGAINST HIM AND HIS RECKLESS BEHAVIOR.
6.- What does the world do to this little country for having brave, strong institutions that were willing to protect the Honduras Constitution above all? PUNISH, PUNISH, PUNISH, PUNISH, until we break their DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT!
HURRAY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA!
Come on, lets all join the condemnation of this little nation, come on Chavez!, Lets Go Castros! Hurry up Ortegas and Evos! The party is just starting!
In the words of now reknown Embassador Hugo Llorens "We will turn off the oxigen slowly, until you can breath no longer and HAVE to bring Zelaya back!"Report
Post #18Pepito Perez wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:45am
Dear Mr. President:
Based on last events yesterday and from the bottom of our harts, thank you very much.
We encourage you to take more actions against this illegal regime in Honduras in order to return to our democratic status.
Once again Than you for doing the right thing.
God bless you Mr. President.Report
Post #19Jimmy Cerrato wroteon September 4, 2009 at 8:50am
President Obama with the respect you deserve let me express my opinion about the conflict is happening in my country Honduras, I find it very inconsiderate on their part that is not defined but its lines to us, but at least let ourselves take our own decisions only ask you to support the electoral process on 29 November and to recognize the elected president to leave ...Report
Post #20Isela Alvarenga wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:07am
Mr. President, why do you support a drug trafficker and don't support the Honduran people? we, the Honduran like freedom, freedom that we would lose with Mel Zelaya and Chavez ruling our country and doing a lot of drug trafficking. Please check the CIA's report about it, ask Mr. Charles Ford, former US Ambassador in Honduras. Report
Post #21Jose Pinto (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:13am
Mr. Obama: I voted for you, but I never thought you would side with the socialists. What i learned from you is that NEVER AGAIN ... will i ever vote for you. In Honduras we have a true democracy where free elections will go on in November. Report
Post #22Nancy Cortés (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:19am
I respect your country, as your ideals and your Constitution, I really admire how you distribute the laws and the application of the rules. Now with all the respect that you deserve I challenge you to think what would happen in the USA if somebody comes and violates all the Institutions that rule a Country, what would happen if somebody comes and from one day to other this person violates the Constitution and decide that he wants a new one, made in other country. What would happen if a Dictator comes and menaces your country???
What would happen if this person thinks that he is big enough even to be above the Laws and the desires of a Nation???
What would happen if somebody who is ruling in the Democracy one days day says that he admires the "left" and it's the best way to rule a country???
What would happen if the National Budget is not approved and you as citizen don't know where the money is???
What would happen if you try to find information in the official pages of the government and you only can find updated till 2006????
What would happen when planes with drugs pass every single day???
What would happen if any system of the government is not working in the correct way and the money that the Economical Institutions of the world give to the country were used just to pay people and make some many others rich????
I truly believe Mr. Obama that if all that were happening in your country things could be even worst for that person and landing in Costa Rica would be just a gift.
Think in your Country and imagine all this happening there!!!!
But it happened here on this little country that now is free and you are challenging us to not depend, to be free and looking forward more than ever in our history as a nation!!!!
Thanks Mr. Obama, we are becoming a REAL COUNTRY!!!!Report
Post #23Rene Casco (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:21am
Mr. President Obama:
We, the people of Honduras feel abandoned by the international community! We have just acted to defend our laws, our freedom, our democracy. No coup has taken place here, but a lawful destitution of a corrupt megalomaniac who used socialism as a crutch to support his ultimate goal of staying in power indefinitely under strict compliance of Chavez's so-called socialist franchise!
Long Live Democracy, Long Live our Freedom, long Live the Rule of Law.... Long Live The Republic of Honduras! Report
Post #24Andy H-c wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:21am
Mr. Obama,
Greetings form another honduran citizen. I am very concerned about the USAs' treatment of the people of Honduras. You are punishing us for defending democracy and freedom. Didn't you yourself mention freedom several times during your candidacy? Don't Hondurans have the right to fight for a real democracy, not an imported socialist agenda?
My question to you Mr. Obama is what does the USA stand to gain with bullying Honduras into submission? What type of foreign policy strangles an independent people in hopes they will get so desperate for air that they will relent. Is it worth using Hondura as a guinea pig?
Keep in mind Mr. Obama, that I will hold you and your government completely responsible for the economic hell hole my country is heading for. It is not fair that the powerful nations play with people's lives in this manner. Isn't equality one of your biggest agendas? We the Hondurans are people also.
We will suffer thanks to you, but we will prevail. We do not want a Chavez puppet as our president and we certainly do not understand why would want that for us.
Respectfully,
A. H.Report
Post #25Carla Bravo (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:23am
Mr. Obama,
I am a Honduran citizen living in Honduras, and I have been utterly disappointed to see how your country, the one that Honduras has been most loyal to, has completely turned its back on us, in fact, has betrayed us by taking the side of Chavez and Castro. This was a situation that should have been a 'no-brainer' for your administration, and yet you were quick to condemn and have been evidently slow to understand.
Perhaps you believe that publicly, you cannot condone the way Zelaya was removed. Unfortunately, if you or your Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, took the time to really understand our constitution and the events that led up to Zelaya's removal, you would have a legal and moral leg to stand on, as the leader of the free world, to lead the charge in standing up for the freedom and democracy of a little country that is fighting against unsurmountable odds for its constitutional survival.
If anyone is going to stand up for us and make the rest of the world take notice of what a nation united can accomplish through tough choices/brave actions, it should be the United States. Unfortunately, you have not done so, and I'm not at all sure you will. You are too afraid for your political survival and looking out for your own self-interests, since most important to you is to not antagonize the world and your allies (in other words, proving you are not George Bush, which in this case I wish you were).
That is unfortunate, since the US is the moral compass of the world, and you should ALWAYS stand up for democracy and freedom of countries' self-determination.
You have abandoned Honduras. I understand it's the easiest thing to do, however sometimes the easiest things to do are not the best or the bravest. The Honduran people are being courageous and taking the harder path, because it is the right thing to do for our country, no matter how much we have to endure. You should learn a lesson from this LITTLE COUNTRY THAT COULD.Report
Post #26Ivan R Meza (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:40am
Dear Mr. President Obama
I'm a Honduras citizen from San Pedro Sula, HN. Please let me tell you, as many people have already posted comments here, that I'm also VERY PROUD of my new Government and our Army. They defended our constitution from the CHAVISTA model of reforming constitutions in order to stay in the presidential office.
We will STAND STILL ! we WILL NOT put our country on sale for money, for oil or anything else.
And also we will not stop our presidential elections, because we have a Democracy that we will defend to death if necessary... a Democracy that the United States of America has always defended.
We Hondurans will change the World !
RegardsReport
Post #27Omar Sierra (Honduras) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:41am
Mr. President Obama
My deepest concern goes to the terrible decision of suspending humanitary aid to our country, rich and middle class are not the most affected, but those who have been suffering already. Why should the poor keep suffering by the ignorance and stupidity of someone who has been stealing all this aid already? Hopefully, you will reconsider.Report
Post #28Barbara Dashiell Amato Cordova wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:47am
Mr President... Please open your eyes! Dont turn your back on the people of Honduras...we were very supportive and we believed in you...so why arent you supporting us now in our unanimous decision that we DO NOT want Manuel Zelaya back nor his pals (Chavez and all the left wing parties) playing around with us, the country and the constitution! we are known to be a democratic country.... the way he was overthrown wasnt te best, but also we were desperate to put a stop to this man and his madness...
All he brought to his people was dissapointment and shame!
please be fair to us!Report
Post #29Nathan King wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:50am
i dont understand our president who promotes freedom and democracy, yet if he doesnt get his way, he alienates a strong ally? doesnt make any sense.. sorry honduras, give us 3 years and 2 months, hopefully then we can make it right... Report
Post #30Eileen Willis (Metropolitan Museum of Art) wroteon September 4, 2009 at 9:53am
I was also very surprised to hear about the suspension of aid to Honduras. When I heard that the people of Honduras had ousted Zelaya my first reaction was "They have the courage that we in the United States lacked when someone stole our presidency" (i.e. after the Bush-Gore election). I don't understand the simplistic action that our government is taking in response to the situation. Why do we condemn a corrupt election in Iran but do nothing to help democratic forces prevent the same thing from happening in Honduras? I know this situation is more complex than the knee-jerk reaction we are taking. President Obama, can you please explain to us what is really going on here? I am one of your supporters, if that makes a difference.
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