Presidents Obama and Chavez and Secretary of State Clinton are all among the throngs of politicians around the world calling for the reinstatement of ousted Honduran president Zelaya. The rallying cry is that Zelaya is the democratically elected president and that reinstating him would restore constitutionality to Honduras. This is not only gross patronization to the Hondurans but is also beyond stupid.
Zelaya was ousted by the military, on orders of the Supreme Court and with the Congress accepting his resignation (if he wrote it or not is not the issue, Congress no longer recognizes him as the president) and swearing in the constitutionally next in line and Zelaya ally as the new president. Oh and also the people don’t seem too upset; in a country of 7 million, 200 have shown up to protest.
So the only way I can see of reinstating Zelaya would be to invade Honduras, kill soldiers defending their homeland from foreign aggression, arrest the Supreme Court Justices, arrest most of the members of Congress, execute the top military brass, and install Zelaya as president and enforce his rule (his military is dead at this point so it will have to be done by foreign troops) on a population that does not want him. And this is what is referred to as “restoring the constitutionality”. If you know of any other way to do it feel free to comment.