More on the Honduran Coup

Andrew Sullivan provides a sampling of opinion across the spectrum. It appears that this coup is in many ways similar to the Venezuelan situation in 2002. Societal elites are pushing back, through the military, on an increasingly populist and left-leaning government that is attempting to directly engage social movements in government.

It also captures the tragedy that dogs revolutionary movements. The changes themselves are a legitimate expression of a yearning for justice by oppressed people. And not surprisingly, they are bitterly opposed by those who benefit from the status quo. Yet overcoming oppression almost inevitably results not in justice but in new and often worse abuses. In Latin America, Cuba is the paradigm example of this, but it also plagued the Sandanistas in Nicaragua, and Chavez in Venezuela. And despite the high hopes for the Morales presidency in Bolivia, it is likely a danger there as well.

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