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Honduran situation opened a door that unpublished despots might lament

could be emerging a new way to understand the relationships between countries, and the role of multilateral organizations and its relationship with States. Perhaps we are witnessing a paradigm change.

By Alfredo Michelena

With the creation of global multilateral institutions in the mid-twentieth century began a change in international relations worldwide. In particular the concepts of non-intervention and self-determination peoples. Under these rigid concepts, they were created as voluntary institutions both in income and in compliance with its decisions.

This was changed in two key areas: economic and Human Rights (DD.HH.). Which subsequently have constituted "judicial power" independent resolve disputes and impose sanctions. Examples are the World Trade Organization and the Inter-DD.HH. course, but can not impose by force, as happens in a country that used by the police or the army. However this also exists narrowly to issues of security, the Security Council United Nations.

That a multilateral organization requiring the return of a president because she herself, even without hearing the parties, has decided that there was a rupture of constitutional order, is certainly an unusual case. Well be the case if finally Zelaya of Honduras is back in charge. It will be an OAS intervention in internal affairs of a country, moreover, be excluded from the organization, "without the consent of the de facto rulers. And what is more serious without respect for the concept of self-determination of the people, not because Zelaya not legitimately elected president, but because the use of elections, namely the referendum by the people as a solution to the crisis was discarded plane, when it is two months before an election. Paradoxically

coercive intervention of the OAS, based in the Democratic Charter, could make way for other interventions. For example when it violates the right to democracy and governments do not comply with "the obligation to promote and defend" or in the case of systematic violation of DD.HH. Much remains to be seen, but the stubborn defense of President could create a precedent for action to protect citizens from the new dictators.