gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 6/28/2009
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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 guards after surrounding his residence before ...
faustasblog.com - 6/28/2009
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faustasblog.com —
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 ...
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Coup in Honduras
online.wsj.com - 6/29/2009
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online.wsj.com —
Hugo Ch vez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback
yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing...
for abusing the nation's constitution. It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of ...
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O'Grady: Honduras Defends Its Democracy
online.wsj.com - 6/28/2009
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online.wsj.com —
Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters Honduran soldiers blocked a street near
the residence of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in Tegucigalpa...
on Sunday.
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Honduras Tense After Army Coup
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Honduran Military Removes Despot From Power
Nice Deb —
... but he wanted a referendum to permit him to run again. The Supreme Court stated that would be unconstitutional. The army general who was to have distributed the ballots refused, and was sacked. The military then snatched him from his villa and shipped him off to Hugo.
The rumors that Zelaya was shipped off to Venezuela were an unconfirmed rumor. According to Fausta, who has been following the story, all day, he is in Costa Rica.
A commenter at Gateway Pundit says:
this is not a coup, this is the Honduran Armed Forces ...
WSJ: White House tried to prevent Honduran president’s ouster
Hot Air » Top Picks —
WSJ: White House tried to prevent Honduran president’s ouster posted at 7:32 pm on June 28, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Via Gateway Pundit . I understood The One’s logic for not wanting to meddle in Iran. I don’t understand his logic for wanting to meddle in Honduras . Reaction to the apparent coup was swift. U.S. President Barack Obama said he was “deeply concerned” and called on all political actors in Honduras to “respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American ...
Turns out that Honduras did not have a coup after all.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... 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.
Let’s just hope that they don’t ask Chavez what he thinks about the Jews.
Moe Lane
*H/T: Gateway Pundit, Hot Air.
Crossposted to Moe Lane. ...
links for 2009-06-28
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... (tags: Honduras hugo_chavez Manuell_Zelaya)
Tinpot Dictator Taken Down In Honduras– Chavez Slams Coup… Obama Meddles
Supporters of Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya gather in front of the president residency ...
Links for 2009-06-28 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... for misrepresenting the relevant peer-reviewed scientific literature in an important government report on climate change. This past week, the EPA was accused of suppressing an agency's employee's comments on the EPA's proposed greenhouse gas "endangerment finding" (the official finding that greenhouse gas emissions may threaten public health and welfare). Here again, Pielke finds the parallel with the Bush Administration's conduct instructive.
Tinpot Dictator Taken Down In Honduras-- Chavez Slams Coup... Obama Meddles
Supporters of ...
Monday morning links
Maggie's Farm —
... nothing would stop someone from setting it up right now. In essence, a public plan without taxpayer support would be yet another nonprofit company offering health insurance. The fundamental viability of the enterprise does not depend on whether the employees are called “nonprofit administrators” or “civil servants.”
On mandatory health care, at The Agitator
Good point on Honduras at Hot Air:
Via Gateway Pundit. I understood The One’s logic for not wanting to meddle in Iran. I don’t understand ...
6/29: RINO-Hunting
Blogometer —
... ( Malkin , Morrissey , Jacobson , Pilon ) are portraying the SCOTUS's decision in the Ricci case -- which "revers[ed] a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge" -- as a blow to Sotomayor's chances of having a smooth Senate confirmation. Liberal bloggers ( Benen , Dayen ) are pushing back against this argument. Conservative bloggers ( Johnson , Lane , Hawkins , Gateway Pundit , Allahpundit ) support the military coup in Honduras, and ...
Obama sides with Chavez and Castro
The Jawa Report —
... military in Honduras acted within the law by ousting the socialist president. The ousted President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, tried to extend his rule by illegally calling a referendum with ballots shipped from Chavez's Venezuela. Only the Honduras congress may call a referendum and the supreme court of Honduras ordered the military to arrest Zelaya. Not only did President Obama condemn the action of the Honduras military, who was acting on orders of the supreme court, he tried to meddle in Honduras to try to prevent the arrest of Zelaya. It seems when it comes to meddling ...
Is Rush Limbaugh trying to encourage a military coup against Obama?
Orcinus —
... picked up on the chatter going on at various right-wing blogs after Honduras coup, pointing in particular to the Gateway Pundit's commenters, who posted such items as the following: ...
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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 ...
Honduras in Turmoil
faustasblog.com 6/28/2009 —
My latest article, Honduras in Turmoil , is up at Real Clear World. Please read it and leave a comment if you may. The Honduran referendum is still scheduled for tomorrow, at least according to Zelaya.
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 ...
Yellow Journalism About Honduras
gatesofvienna.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — Fausta’s blog is still the best place to go for news about Honduras (or anywhere else in Latin America). The latest discussion is available on her podcast , and you can go directly to Blog Talk Radio and listen to this morning’s show. Keep an eye on ...
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 ...
Will Chavez intervene in Honduras? —
Belmont Club
VOA reports that the Honduran Army has arrested the President after he attempted to hold a referendum to extend his term, something which the courts had ruled illegal.
Aides to the president say troops took Mr. Zelaya from his residence Sunday morning. Some officials say he was taken to a nearby ...
ANTI-SOCIALISM COUP IN HONDURAS? —
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
BBC: Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been arrested by troops ahead of a controversial referendum on plans to change the constitution. Mr Zelaya's secretary said the president had been taken to an airbase outside the capital, Tegucigalpa. The move comes days after the president sacked ...
Honduras and democracy —
neo-neocon
Fausta’s been on top of the situation in Honduras as news breaks. And here’s a big article on the subject in the WSJ .
A couple of things become clear on reading the WSJ article. The first is that the reason for the coup was to stop deposed President Zelaya from accomplishing an ...
Puzzled By Honduras —
Political Animal
Puzzled By Honduras 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...
Adios Honduras —
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
The left-leaning President of Honduras was ousted in a military coup this weekend. From the NYT :
President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential term limits.
In the first military coup in Central America ...
Non-Coup in Honduras —
Gates of Vienna
What is being reported by the MSM (not to mention the Obama administration) as a “coup” in Honduras is not a coup at all, but a successful attempt by the military and the courts to keep President Manuel Zelaya from ramming through an unconstitutional referendum that would have allowed him to ...
Sec. Clinton on Honduras Coup —
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]State Department[/b]
The action taken against Honduran President Mel Zelaya violates the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, and thus should be condemned by all. We call on all parties in Honduras to respect the constitutional order and the rule of law, to reaffirm ...
Honduras President Ousted —
Patterico's Pontifications
[Guest post by DRJ]
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya , a close ally of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, has been removed by the Honduran military with the support of the country’s Supreme Court. The Honduran Congress claims Zelaya submitted his letter of resignation and it was accepted, ...
President Ousted in Honduras —
The Jawa Report
The Honduran military has ousted Manuel Zelaya, sending him into exile in Costa Rica:TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (June 28) - Soldiers seized the national palace and sent President Manuel Zelaya into exile in Costa Rica early Sunday, hours before a highly disputed...
sort of an impeachment —
Knowledge is Power
EGUCIGALPA, Honduras � More than a dozen soldiers arrested President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security guards after surrounding his residence before dawn Sunday, his private secretary said. Protesters called it a coup and flocked to the presidential palace as local news media reported ...
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