Posted on 06/29/2009 1:55:45 PM PDT by steve-b
Angry protesters today burned tires and chanted support for Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, as leaders of the Western Hemisphere debated ways to peacefully end Latin America's first military coup in 16 years.
Zelaya, yanked from his home early Sunday and deported to Costa Rica, appeared at a summit of regional heads of state in Managua, Nicaragua.
"I want to return to my country," he said. "I am president of Honduras."
Despite nearly unanimous international condemnation of the coup, the man whom the Honduran Congress named to replace Zelaya remained defiant....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
People will never understand what happened over there as long as the MSM keeps referring to the situation as a ‘military coup’. It was a Supreme Court coup, no? Supported by the Honduran Congress?
there is a God....and apparently he enjoys making Obama look like a stupid hypocrite
Note to Freepers:
If you want the REAL story on Honduras, ignore the LATimes and read the WSJ version....
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Chavez is ‘lending’ his Bolivarian Kool-Aid drinkers in aid of the corrupt totalitarian wannabee whom the good citizens of Honduras had the sense to expel.
World’s fastest impeachment.
Rom 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Much better than if one person or party dominates all three of the branches.
The people are protesting? BULL Marxists and other pro dictatorship clowns are protesting. The Times must do what it can to support Hussein’s guy.
The Supreme Court and Congress of Honduras acted to stop a communist coup in Honduras.
Get it Mr. President......
Same thing would happen here if Obama was ousted.
“Where’s Our Free Chit?”
In front of McDonald’s no less!
The military should have shot him.
The article said — “I want to return to my country,” he said. “I am president of Honduras.”
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Ummm..., could we do that to Obama?
Supporters of Honduran rule of law.
I just wrote the reporter who wrote this article and informed him to read the Wall Street Journal to get the facts and then laid them out along with telling him to tell the copy desk who does the headlines to get it right that it is not a military coup.
Had my two cents on what I thought of this biased article.
So does the UN fine Honduras for the carbon belch that tire fire is putting out?
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