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Honduras heads toward crisis over referendum (Marxist power grab)
AP via Yahoo ^ | June 26, 2009 | FREDDY CUEVAS

Posted on 06/26/2009 10:42:44 AM PDT by Islander7

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduras' leftist president hurled insults Friday at congressional leaders who are considering whether to oust him from power in a standoff over his push to revamp the constitution.

President Manuel Zelaya is promoting a Sunday referendum on constitutional changes that has plunged the country into crisis by setting the president at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature that have branded the vote illegal.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communist; honduras; marxist
The president has not specified what changes he seeks, but opponents say he wants to rewrite the charter to allow re-election so he can stay in power, as other Latin American leaders, including Chavez, have done.

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Coming to the USA soon. If 0bama is reelected in 2012, there will never be another election with any meaning.

1 posted on 06/26/2009 10:42:44 AM PDT by Islander7
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To: Islander7

Socialists are all for elections, until they might lose one. Happens all the time in dem strongholds in America.


2 posted on 06/26/2009 10:46:56 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Islander7

They learned well from us.


3 posted on 06/26/2009 10:47:43 AM PDT by RC2
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To: Islander7

Keep your powder dry.


4 posted on 06/26/2009 10:58:08 AM PDT by TexasRepublic
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To: Islander7

Allen Dulles knew how to treat this ailment.


5 posted on 06/26/2009 11:02:26 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Islander7

Marxism: create a crisis - destabilize the civil order - use the ensuing confusion to establish a marxist government. Enjoy the marxist paradise.


6 posted on 06/26/2009 11:03:09 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”


7 posted on 06/26/2009 3:27:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Apropos of nothing, what was Obama’s reaction after the recent lawful election result in Kenya?

Honduras supreme court ‘ordered army coup’
The Telegraph | 6/28/2009 | Jeremy McDermott
Posted on 06/28/2009 3:58:02 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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The Declaration of Cumana: Capitalism ‘threatens life on the planet’
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Posted on 04/24/2009 8:05:06 PM PDT by Crazieman
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“We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela...”


8 posted on 06/29/2009 5:51:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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