HONDURAS: ZELAYA FACING TREASON IF HE RETURNS

Except for a brief stunt where he walked across the boder to stick out his tongue and run back to Nicaragua, ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya hasn't been to Honduras since he was removed on June 28th. It is not for lack of crying or trying.

XINHUA is reporting that the Supreme Court of Honduras is playing hard ball with Zelaya:

Honduran Supreme Court warned in Tegucigalpa on Saturday that if ousted President Manuel Zelaya returns home, he'll face trial on charges of treason and abuse of power.

In a statement, the Honduran top court said Zelaya must abide by the existing Honduran law and accept the court's verdict. Rulings to pardon the ousted president and his followers should be made according to law.

Call me old fashioned but I find it quite refreshing that there are countries in existence today that are willing to so passionately defend their Constitution.

THE HILL reported back on July 29th that Zelaya allegedly sent a letter to Barack Obama urging him to revoke the visas of officials in the new Micheletti-led government that deposed Zelaya.

Shockingly, the U.S. State Dept under Obama obliged according to The Hill:

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly confirmed at Tuesday's news briefing that four diplomatic visas had been revoked by the U.S. Kelly did not name names, but the deputy foreign minister of Honduras's de facto government confirmed that one of the visas belonged to Judge Jose Tomas Arita Valle, the chairman of the 16-member supreme court who signed the ruling ordering the detention of Zelaya.

So how does the Supreme Court of Honduras respond less than one month later?

Zelaya is told he will face charges of treason if he returns. Every time Zelaya tries something cute, the sitting Honduran government seems to smack him down twice as hard. Again, Honduras is shocking the world and Zelaya is looking increasingly incompetent when it comes to leveraging all of the support he had worldwide.

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