Honduran crisis

Madam, – You state in your Editorial (30th June) on events in Honduras that “There is a conflict of rights at stake”

Madam, – You state in your Editorial (30th June) on events in Honduras that “There is a conflict of rights at stake”. Which one should have precedence? – defending the existing single four-year term or allowing an existing president to sound out voters’ opinions on making a constitutional amendment so that he can seek a second one? The choice as you state it is between allowing a democratically elected president, intent on improving the welfare of the Honduran people, re-submit himself for election and the right of senior military figures preempt that election by use of military force. There is no choice: you support the democratically elected president. – Yours, etc,

EOIN DILLON,

Ceannt Fort,

Mount Brown,

Dublin 8.