On Thursday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticized the amnesty given to the Honduran military, which carried out a coup d'etat in June 2009 against the constitutional president Jose Manuel Zelaya ...
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At a press conference to mark the ninth presidential quarterly meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, the Brazilian head of state said that "in Honduras a fantastic thing happened: the new government granted amnesty to the military, but not to the deposed president."
It's something that multilateralism will have to help find a solution, said Lula, whose government does not recognize the new Honduran government, being elected under a de facto state.
Brazil, which hosted Zelaya a number of months at its embassy in Tegucigalpa, considered the replacement of the constitutionally elected president essential to legitimize the general election last November in the Central American nation.
On the coup of June 28, 2009, Lula said today that "in Honduras a military junta thought it had the right to remove a democratically elected president and to take him out."
Then the Brazilian president went on saying, "these Honduran military thought they could do whatever they want"
What was shown in the Honduras episode is that our continental democracy is still weak and that institutions are not strong enough so that we can all have the guarantees that this will not happen again," he said.
Source: elprogresoresiste.codigosur.net and http://hondurasenlucha.blogspot.com/2010/04/presidente-lula-critico-anmistia.html
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