Coup in Honduras
faustasblog.com 6/28/2009 —
Honduran troops have arrested president Manuel Zelaya, who then was taken to an air base outside of Tegucigalpa.
AP reports
President Manuel Zelaya’s private secretary told the AP that Zelaya was arrested and brought to a base on the outskirts of the capital, Tegucigalpa.
An AP ...
Obama responds to Honduras coup
briefingroom.thehill.com 6/28/2009 — President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was reportedly overthrown in a coup today and is now seeking asylum in Costa Rica.
President Obama issued the following statement on the matter:
"I am deeply concerned by reports coming out of Honduras regarding the detention and expulsion of President Mel ...
A Coup Or Protecting The Constitution In Honduras?
rightwingnews.com 6/29/2009 — South America is known for unstable governments, coups, and loud mouthed strong men. With that in mind, when most people heard that the military had deposed the President of Honduras, it was just another sad chapter in that continent's checkered...
Breaking on Honduras
talkingpointsmemo.com 6/30/2009 — President Obama just said the US government regards the coup in Honduras as "not legal" and still recognizes now-exiled President Zelaya as the country's legitimate president.
Gingrich: Obama sides with Castro and Chavez on Honduras
briefingroom.thehill.com 6/30/2009 — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accused President Obama of siding with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez when it comes to the recent coup in Honduras.
Gingrich blasted Obama for opposing the coup in Honduras, which the ...
DeMint Supports Honduras Military Coup
huffingtonpost.com 7/4/2009 — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has come out in support of the military coup in Honduras , chastising President Obama in a statement for what he calls "a slap in the face to the people" of that country. DeMint argues that President Manuel Zelaya was ...
OBAMA FAILS TO STAND UP FOR AMERICAN INTERESTS IN HONDURAS
rightwingnuthouse.com 6/29/2009 — Does the fact that the coup is in the interests of the United States even matter to our president?
One less Chavez stooge - a designation that everyone agrees is correct and was the proximate cause of the coup to begin with - is very much in the ...
Puzzled By Honduras
obsidianwings.blogs.com 6/29/2009 — by hilzoy From the New York Times : "The Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by the army on Sunday after pressing ahead with plans for a referendum that opponents said could lay the groundwork for his eventual re-election, in the first ...
It’s Not a Coup If the Guy Is a Leftist
themoderatevoice.com 6/29/2009 — I know next to nothing about Honduran politics, and even less about Manuel Zelaya specifically, but when I saw the headlines about the coup, and then my eyes fell on this headline, from Fausta’s Blog — “ Coup in Honduras - ...
Charen: Did Someone Say Coup?
article.nationalreview.com 6/30/2009 — There was an attempted coup in Honduras, but it was Zelaya who initiated it, not his opponents.
Undo the Coup
truthdig.com 7/1/2009 — The first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. It was led by a graduate of the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas, a military facility that has trained some of Latin Americas ...
Zelaya Heads Back to Honduras
truthdig.com 7/6/2009 — Manuel Zelaya is on a flight home to Honduras to reclaim his presidency. However, the post-coup government says it will not allow his plane to land and the military has fired tear gas at thousands of Zelaya supporters waiting at the airport. ...
Crisis in Honduras
blogsforvictory.com 6/28/2009 — Wonder if Obama will keep as hands off here as he has in Iran :
Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya said he awoke to gunfire in his home and was still in his pajamas when the military forced him to leave the country Sunday.
Zelaya, a leftist elected in 2005, had found himself recently ...
Honduras First Democracy to Fall During Obama Term
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 6/28/2009 — Honduras is the first democracy to fall during the Obama years. Soldiers arrested President Zelaya today and escorted him from his residence. AOL News reported: More than a dozen soldiers arrested President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security ...
Biding time in Honduras
politico.com 6/30/2009 — My colleague Josh Gerstein flags a story that shows just how delicate the Obama administration's position is, as it formulates a response to the turbulence in Honduras. While the president has called the country's transfer of power "not ...
Honduras
corner.nationalreview.com 6/30/2009 — IBD has a great editorial, and Pete Wehner makes characteristically keen observations about Obama's selective meddling at Contentions.
I have a couple of questions. Now that the president has decided it's OK to meddle in Honduras (where they are ...
A Smart Take on Honduras
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 6/30/2009 — Manuel Zelaya
Brookings’ Kevin Casas-Zamora offers up the brief-but-informative take on what happened in Honduras that I’ve been waiting for:
As other Latin American leaders, President Zelaya fell victim to the virus of ...
#Honduras: Zelaya postpones his trip back “for the weekend”
faustasblog.com 7/1/2009 —
Yesterday Mel Zelaya was talking tough at the UN and said he would fly back to Honduras on Thursday, accompanied by the head of the Organization of American States . Cristina Fernandez, president of Argentina, said from Argentina that she would accompany him back to Honduras. Zelaya also ...
VIDEO PROOF-- US Media Is Propping Up Marxist Zelaya of Honduras
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 7/2/2009 — The US Obamedia reported today on "continuing protests" in support of ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. FOX News reported: "Demonstators on the streets of Honduras again today demanding that Manuel Zelaya be reinstated." Look at few dozen ...
More on Honduras —
Majikthise
Apologists for the coup in Honduras stress that the ousted president wanted to hold an illegal referendum. What they don't explain is that the referendum was legal when president Zelaya called it. Only after the vote was already scheduled did the Honduran Congress pass a law banning ...
Coup are you? part 2 —
Power Line
Octavio Sánchez is a lawyer, former presidential adviser (2002-05) and minister of culture (2005-06) of the Republic of Honduras. His Christian Science Monitor column on the events in Honduras is "A 'coup' in Honduras? Nonsense." Sánchez writes:
Sometimes, the whole world prefers a lie ...
Honduras: Undo The Coup (VIDEO) —
The Latest on Air America
The first coup d'etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. Honduran soldiers roused democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from his bed and flew him into exile in Costa Rica. read more
Undo the Coup —
Commondreams.org Views
by Amy Goodman The first coup d'etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. Honduran soldiers roused democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from his bed and flew him into exile in Costa Rica. The coup, led by the Honduran Gen. Romeo Vasquez, ...
Honduras: the good, the bad, and the not so ugly —
Corrente
I've been obsessively reading as much as I can about the coup that cannot yet be called a coup * in Honduras, trying to sort out the good guys from the bad. On one hand, you have a thuggish military headed by a general trained in the American Academy of Advanced Torture (the "School of the ...
Honduras: Can you have a democratic coup? —
The Moderate Voice
I’d like to complicate the way that we’re talking about what is democratic and what’s a coup. So far, one side has been saying that if the Honduran military gets rid of the president, it’s bad, it’s undemocratic and it’s a coup. The other says that if the ...
Honduras Coup Update —
Little Green Footballs
Here’s the latest news from the coup in Honduras, where pro-Zelaya demonstrators showed up at presidential offices today, as the Obama administration tried hard to seem like they weren’t totally surprised: Protesters Confront Soldiers After Coup in Honduras .
TEGUCIGALPA, ...
Sect'y Clinton says "coup" has taken place in Honduras —
Ben Smith's Blog
Striking words from America's top diplomat:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States believes the unrest in Honduras "has evolved into a coup" and that officials believe the situation needs close watching.
Clinton said Monday a delegation ...
(AP) —
Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - CORRECTS: Obama says Honduras coup was "not legal" instead of "illegal." (Corrects APNewsAlert reporting that Obama says Honduras coup was "illegal" and Zelaya remains president.")
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