Katolska kyrkan, kardinal Rodriguez och statskuppen i Honduras

Hur förhåller sig katolska kyrkan till statskuppen i Honduras 28 juni då landets folkvalde president Manuel Zelaya Rosales avsattes och deporterades till Costa Rica ?

Jo, kardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga – ordförande för landets biskopskonferens och ärkebiskop av Tegucigalpa – har visat sitt stöd för kuppmakarna och den nyutnämnde presidenten Roberto Micheletti.

Kardinal Rodriguez officiella uttalande 4 juli som ”undertecknats av biskopskonferensen” kan i engelsk översättning läsas på Zenith

http://www.zenit.org/article-26380?l=english

Kardinal Rodriguez har uppmanat Zelaya att inte återvända till Honduras ”för att undvika ett blodbad”.

Zenith ger sken av att biskopskonferensen är enig i sin bedömning vilket dock inte visar sig vara fallet.

“Not all the Bishops appear to share the Cardinal’s approval of the de facto government and its arguments for legality. In a separate statement, on July 2 the Bishop of Santa Rosa de Copan, Luis Alfonso Santos, wrote a denunciation of the leaders on both sides, labeling the actions a coup d’etat, calling for resignation of those responsible, and for the restoration of civil rights. “

Läs separat uttalande av biskop Luis Alfonso Santos i Santa Rosa de Copan ur vilket jag saxar inledningen av den engelska översättningen

”(1) The Diocese of Santa Rosa de Copán, faithful to the mission to preach the Kingdom of God and denounce situations of injustice, asks all Hondurans to make a great effort to re-establish Social Peace.

(2) The vast majority of Hondurans do not want confrontations in the street, nor civil war, nor wars with other countries.

Therefore, we call for the groups that have altered public order, that they put all of their goodwill to resolve by way of dialogue the present crisis produced by the social inequity in which we always have lived.

As the party responsible for the conduct of the Catholic Church in the west of Honduras, we repudiate the substance, the form, and the style with which a new head of the Executive Power has been imposed on the People. Had José Manuel Zelaya Rosales committed something illicit, he has the right to a fair trial, the same as any Honduran citizen and in general every human being. Article 84 of the present Constitution says literally ”No one can be arrested without a written order by a competent authority”.

http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/2009/07/cracks-in-illusion-of-unity.html

http://revistaecclesia.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11398&Itemid=63

Situationen kring statskuppen och bla turerna kring artikel 239 i Honduras konstitution beskrivs i nedanstående artikel av Ismael Morena SJ, korrespondent i Honduras för tidskriften Envio, där artikeln ursprungligen varit publicerad.

”The Honduran constitution – the work of a constituent assembly that convened in 1980 – specifies that parliamentary representatives and mayors can run for re-election, but not presidents. In fact, even the argument in favour of presidential re-election has in the past been viewed as treason. The articles in the constitution the provide for a single term have been considered ”carved in stone” and not to be reformed for any reason. Indeed, legal specialists argue that these articles were formulated precisely because of fear that the military would infringe on Honduras’s then tender democracy by using rigged elections as a way of holding on to state power. Three decades later, the importance of the military in the country’s political life has – notwithstanding the coup of 28 June 2009 – been sharply reduced. Many military leaders have been forced to take refuge in the subterranean corridors of organised crime or in the profitable private-security business. In
part as a result, the arguments used to defend the articles against re-election have gradually dissipated ”

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/honduras-behind-the-crisis

Kan det finnas ett samband med att kardinal Rodriguez inte vill ha tillbaka Zelaya pga att denne drog in kardinalens månadslön på 5.300 US dollar som han enligt uppgift tidigare åtnjöt från statskassan.

”In accordance with documents published last July 8 at the Cubadebate website, since December 2001 the former president Carlos Flores paid cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga a wage of 100,000 lempiras by month (5,300 dollars) of the budget of the Presidency of the Republic.

“Perhaps the fact that Cardinal stopped receiving that fortune may explain his complicity on the coup d’état that started before the ftal June 28,”

http://www.abn.info.ve/noticia.php?articulo=190750&lee=17

Har nye presidenten Roberto Micheletti lovat kardinalen att återfå sin lön? Har kardinalens stöd ett pris?

Honduras är det tredje fattigaste landet i Latinamerika efter Haiti och Nicaragua. En tredjedel av alla barn under fem år är undernärda. Honduras är det land i Centralamerika som har flest fall av hiv och aids.  Hälften av befolkningen lever under fattigdomsstrecket. 25% av befolkningen äldre än 15 år kan inte skriva eller läsa. Inkomstklyftorna är stora. Genomsnittslöner ligger på ca 250 US dollar

Kardinal Rodriguez och president Hugo Chavez i Venezuela har haft och har olika uppfattningar om det mesta

Läs vad Ismael Morena SJ skriver i Envio i augusti 2007

”Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga to a Salvadoran newspaper in which he called Chávez a “dictator” who “thinks he’s God” and is leading Venezuela into a “dictatorship.” Chávez was quick to reply, calling him a “clown” and a “parrot of imperialism dressed up as a cardinal.”

http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/3632chavez

// Irène