Posted on 06/28/2009 8:04:14 AM PDT by WellyP
**BREAKING NEWS** Honduran president arrested (UPDATED)
11:00 AM - According to the newspaper La Prensa, Zelaya was put on a plane with his family and may be on his way to Venezuela, but this was denied by Zelaya's wife who said that she and her children are not with him.
Zelaya's wife, Xiomara Castro, told journalists that she doesn't know where her husband is being held.
June 28 - Honduran president José Manuel Zelaya, an ally of Hugo Chávez and the Castro brothers, was arrested on Sunday morning by soldiers.
Zelaya had pledged to go forward with a referendum on constitutional reform despite the opposition of the Supreme Court, the military, Congress and members of his own party.
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez was behind Zelaya's illegal referendum.
Zelaya was trying to follow the same tactic used by Chávez and his puppets in Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador of trying to change the constitution to allow them to remain in power for life.
Planes from the Venezuelan Air Force had landed in Honduras to bring all the materials required for Sunday's referendum, despite the decision by Honduras' Supreme Court that it was illegal.
Earlier this month, after the OAS met in Honduras and decided to lift the sanctions against the Castro regime, Zelaya was full of praise for the Cuban dictator.
""Fidel Castro said more than 40 years ago that history would absolve him, and history absolved him," Zelaya said.
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We can hope that Chavez and Morales are next....! Can’t be too soon for me!
The interesting part is what he was actually arrested for....not playing by the constitutional rules, trying to change them.....hmmmm.
... and little Honduras shall lead the way.
good,but how long till the white house complains?
There’s some “hope.”
Finally, some good news....
Maybe we could learn from this? Ya think?
Hey Zero, you watching this?
Playing by the rules??
“Planes from the Venezuelan Air Force had landed in Honduras to bring all the materials required for Sunday’s referendum, despite the decision by Honduras’ Supreme Court that it was illegal...”
Sounds like ACORN!!!
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras _ President Manuel Zelaya enlists government employees and his supporters to set up polling stations for a rogue referendum that opponents depict as a power grab. By Will Weissert. AP Photos.
OSCE
Obama......eventually?
That’s a hopeful change.
Zelaya's presidential term ends in January 2010. Under current laws, he cannot seek another term. So he wanted to put a measure in the November ballot that allows a formation of a constitutional assembly to modify the nation's charter to allow him to run for another term.
In short, he wants to do an end run around the constitution and become a dictator for life like his friend, Hugo.
(to be sung) Don’t cry for them, Argentina...
“...and may be on his way to Venezuela.”
What I heard before the top of the hour was that he is in Costa Rica.
I hope Obama is next.
I think we are going to have the chance for Obama to confront Chavez and come up short.
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