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Honduras coup: President Manuel Zelaya to return on Thursday to reclaim office
The Telegraph ^ | June 30, 2009 | Our Foreign Staff and Agencies in Tegucigalpa

Posted on 06/30/2009 3:53:07 PM PDT by americanophile

Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras ousted in a coup, has vowed to fly to the country on Thursday to try to reclaim his office after winning the support of US President Barack Obama. As troops surrounded the presidential palace in the capital, Tegucigalpa, following clashes on Monday night, Mr Zelaya said that he planned to travel to Washington, where Mr Obama has denounced the coup as illegal. “I go to Tegucigalpa on Thursday,” he added.

Depending on whether he is allowed to enter the country, his planned return to Honduras sets up a potentially explosive showdown with the newly installed administration of the congressional leader Roberto Micheletti.

Mr Micheletti threatened to have Mr Zelaya arrested if he re-entered the country. He assumed the leadership following a military coup at the weekend after Mr Zelaya said he would call a referendum over a change to the constitution that would allow him to seek another term in office.

However, in a sign that he was prepared to compromise, Mr Zelaya told the United Nations General Assembly that he was would not seek a second term in office.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: coup; honduras; obama; zelaya
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1 posted on 06/30/2009 3:53:08 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: americanophile

Two words: shoot him


2 posted on 06/30/2009 3:54:49 PM PDT by Mister Muggles
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To: americanophile

So give him a card table and a play phone in prison and let him be president.


3 posted on 06/30/2009 3:55:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: americanophile

To make this clear, some patriotic Honduran should shoot that SOB as soon as he steps off the airplance, the people of Venezuela let Chavez get away with stunts such as this and the time to end them is now, not later.


4 posted on 06/30/2009 3:55:34 PM PDT by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: americanophile

So give him a card table and a play phone in prison and let him be president.


5 posted on 06/30/2009 3:55:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: americanophile

NEVER let a tyrant walk free, arrest him, try him, shoot him at sun-up.


6 posted on 06/30/2009 3:56:15 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: americanophile

Good. Get a rope and hang the marxist in the town center.


7 posted on 06/30/2009 3:56:28 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: americanophile

Birds of a feather flock together.


8 posted on 06/30/2009 3:56:35 PM PDT by Walrus (If at first you don't secede, try, try again.)
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To: americanophile

the shi* is going to hit the fan, it will be interesting and obozo the clown supporting him, get him out ( obozo)


9 posted on 06/30/2009 3:57:02 PM PDT by peace with honor
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To: americanophile

Hopefully he will resist legal action and be shot!


10 posted on 06/30/2009 3:57:21 PM PDT by charmedone
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To: Mister Muggles

"And... and I think I see... the door beginning to open. El Presidente may be coming out. The door opens. It's he... it's El Presidente waving at the crowd. A shot rings out! He turns... he runs back toward the building, trying to get in. This crowd is going wild. He's caught in a crossfire of bullets. And down! It's over! It's all over for El Presidente!"

11 posted on 06/30/2009 3:57:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: peace with honor

Imagine if Zero orders U.S. troops to escort Zelaya...


12 posted on 06/30/2009 3:58:56 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Mister Muggles

I said the same myself. Never leave socialist pigs/thieves alive. They always come back to haunt you. Just make em disappear. It doesn’t have to be a big scene or anything. Just be transporting them and have an “accident”. I normally am against this kind of thing but when the normal rules are suspended there is no reason to pretend. Do what is necessary.


13 posted on 06/30/2009 4:04:32 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Sarah Palin 2012 (Who else in the GOP is man enough?))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Wouldn’t they have to be U.N. troops?


14 posted on 06/30/2009 4:04:56 PM PDT by spald
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

then I say FUBO


15 posted on 06/30/2009 4:05:05 PM PDT by peace with honor
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To: americanophile
Skip the State Run Media. Find your own news.

Honduras Defends Its Democracy

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Coup Rocks Honduras

Coup in Honduras - Correction: This is NOT a coup

Honduras Natives Say Democracy Preserved


16 posted on 06/30/2009 4:05:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: americanophile
Honduras is a narcoeconomy. Follow the money.
17 posted on 06/30/2009 4:05:41 PM PDT by angkor
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Imagine if Zero orders U.S. troops to escort Zelaya...

Imagine my head exploding. That SOB 0bama will have blood on his hands for supporting this despot.

18 posted on 06/30/2009 4:08:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: americanophile

coup ?

why are they calling this a coup?
If Richard Nixon had remained defiant,the congress impeached him, the sumpreme court upheld that, and then he was forcebly removed from office would that have been a coup also?


19 posted on 06/30/2009 4:08:50 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: angkor
I followed the money. I ended up in the United States.
20 posted on 06/30/2009 4:09:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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