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Coup in Honduras
Fausta's Blog —
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 reporter saw dozens of green-helmeted soldiers surround the president’s house Sunday morning and then later jump in trucks and drive away, according to the report. About 60 police continue to guard the house, it said, ...
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Coup
Neptunus Lex —
... The Honduran army has arrested President Manuel Zelaya, who only recently attributed his continuance in office to the unwillingness of the US to back a coup against him: ...
Coup in Honduras, President Forced into Exile
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Via the BBC: Honduran leader forced into exile
Troops in Honduras have detained the president and flown him out of the country after a power struggle over plans to change the constitution.
President Manuel Zelaya was flown to Costa Rica from an air force base outside the capital, Tegucigalpa.
Mr Zelaya, elected for a non-renewable four-year term in January 2006, wanted a vote to extend his time in office.
His arrest came just before the start of a referendum ruled illegal by the Supreme Court and opposed by Congress.
There was ...
UPDATE: Honduran leader forced into exile (CNN) {in Costa Rica}
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... over plans to change the constitution. After arriving in Costa Rica, deposed President Manuel Zelaya said he had been kidnapped by soldiers in a "coup". Mr Zelaya, elected for a non-renewable four-year term in January 2006, wanted a vote to extend his time in office. His arrest came just before the start of a referendum ruled illegal by the Supreme Court and opposed by Congress. There was also resistance within Mr Zelaya's own party to the plan to hold the vote. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8123126.stm Dang, posted in new thread! Mods please move to ...
Turns out that Honduras did not have a coup after all.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... : they’re currently declining to recognize the right of the Hondurans to remove their own head of state on constitutional grounds. Apparently, when it’s a choice between a chief executive on the one hand and said chief executive’s country’s judiciary, legislature, military, and own political party on the other… well, it all apparently depends on what Hugo Chavez thinks. ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... (tags: Honduras Manuell_Zelaya)
Honduran President forced into exile
Troops in Honduras have ousted the president and flown him out of the country after a power struggle over plans to change the constitution.
After arriving ...
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Honduran President forced into exile
Troops in Honduras have ousted the president and ...
Carol Platt Liebau: Understanding Honduras
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... is required reading for anyone who wants to understand what really seems to have happened in Honduras. In fact, President Zelaya -- the victim of the supposed "coup" -- was making a play to transform his presidency into a dictatorship, following in the footsteps of his friend Hugo Chavez. So it's no surprise that Chavez denounced what happened . It's no surprise that ...
