the 30th wealthiest

Western Hemisphere - 2008 GDP per capita (IMF)
World Rank	Country	US$
13	United States	47,440
18	Canada	45,085
33	The Bahamas	22,359
37	Trinidad and Tobago	19,870
47	Antigua and Barbuda	14,556
51	Barbados	13,314
53	Venezuela	11,388
55	Saint Kitts and Nevis	10,310
56	Mexico	10,200
57	Chile	10,117
59	Uruguay	9,654
63	Brazil	8,295
64	Argentina	8,171
69	Panama	6,784
71	Grenada	6,587
73	Costa Rica	6,544
75	Saint Lucia	5,806
77	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	5,615
78	Suriname	5,504
80	Jamaica	5,199
81	Dominica	5,082
83	Dominican Republic	4,992
84	Colombia	4,989
89	Peru	4,448
91	Belize	4,241
96	Ecuador	3,928
98	El Salvador	3,824
108	Guatemala	2,850
113	Paraguay	2,601
122	Honduras	1,826
124	Bolivia	1,656
126	Guyana	1,509
140	Nicaragua	1,028
152	Haiti	790

Source: wikipedia 

I'm sick and tired of people referring to us as "the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere." We used to be 2nd, but that was a long time ago. Now we're the 5th poorest, dammit! (Or the 30th wealthiest, looking at it from the glass is half full perspective.) Nothing to brag about, some might say, yet it shows how far Honduras has come during the last 30 years through the hard work of its people (and -- it must not go without being recognized -- the generous financial and technical assistance of various friendly countries and organizations around the globe). This growth and improvement has all occurred on a democracy, capitalism, and free enterprise platform.

Honduras is rising! The last thing we need is to be set back by some two-bit dictator and some bullsh_t "socialism for the 21st century" that Hugo Chavez pulled out of Fidel Castro's rear end, and that Chavez and his puppet Zelaya were trying to force on us. This should help explain why Hondurans reacted the way we did on June 28. We simply refused to let Manuel Zelaya knock over and squash everything we've built as a people during the last three decades.