America has just celebrated her Independence Day, the day when our founding fathers stood up against the oppressive and unjust tyranny of the executive powers over them and sought to establish instead a government of liberty, justice and equality. And while we celebrated, the tiny country of Honduras was once again playing out our more than 200 year old drama.

Honduras has been an independent country for going on 200 years as well, but for most of that time was ruled by military power. A civilian based government was not established until 1982 with the writing of the Honduran Constitution.