Augusto would have been proud. NO COMMIES!
He was actually trying to carry out the famous dictator technique, the “auto-golpe,” or self-coup. This is where a person legitimatelly elected to an office simply announces that he’s staying, usually be means of a manipulated referendum or a parliamentary procedure that gives him the office permanently and removes any limits from his powers.
The Courts had ruled against it, he did it anyway, and I’m glad somebody had enough common sense to enforce the rulings before we got yet another leftist dictatorship in Latin America.
Sounds to me so far as if the army is doing it’s duty by defending the constitution from domestic enemies. Zelaya was simply ignoring any law that he found inconvenient.
It’s not a military coup if the army steps back to let civilians resume control.
(These newspaper people are not doing their homework. He is in Costa Rica.)
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was arrested by soldiers earlier on Sunday, is in Costa Rica and has asked for asylum, CNN’s Spanish-language channel reported, citing the Costa Rican government.
Zelaya, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, had provoked a political crisis after seeking to hold a consultative vote on constitutional reforms that a court ruled was illegal.
(Reporting by Robert Campbell, editing by Chris Wilson)
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55R0US20090628
Hopefully you are next, Obama.
It would be nice to see something similar in Venezuela and Bolivia.
Kinda gives a person a belief that real hope and change can occur.
I wonder how far out of control the actions of our government would have to go before our military would do something similar here, and intervene to ‘defend the constitution’.
Augusto would have been proud. NO COMMIES!
“The chief executive was detained shortly before voting was to begin on a constitutional referendum the president had insisted on holding even though the Supreme Court ruled it illegal and everyone from the military to Congress and members of his own party opposed it.”
Good for the Hondurans. Now, if the rest of Central America and Mexico would do the same, they might actually get somewhere, besides to the USA!
The NAFBPO foreign news report often reports the problems in Hondurus.
“El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 6/9/09
There were thirteen homicides in Honduras in less than 24 hours. The article’s sub-headline reads: The wave of violence keeps hitting the people, overwhelming the operations of the National Police due to the lack of a policy to fight against insecurity.” The paper also printed the following commentary from one of its readers: “Hurrah, Security Minister, golly, you want to beat the record with your ineptitude, what’s your goal? 50 deaths in 24 hours? Hopefully one of those deaths will be you or someone from your family, so that you’ll know how it feels to lose a loved one because of crime, you inept, useless, do-nothing you, you don’t even stop anything, to say nothing of criminals, do us a favor and shoot yourself.” (Honduras is just slightly larger than Tennessee)”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2269569/posts
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This is a Constitution as a living document.