Via Fausta’s Blog:
Soldiers arrest Honduran president: AP+
MECIXO CITY, June 28 (AP) – (Kyodo)—Soldiers on Sunday arrested the Honduran president and took him to an air force base just before voting was to begin on a disputed constitutional election, according to the Associated Press.
President Manuel Zelaya’s private secretary told the AP that Zelaya was arrested and brought to a base on the outskirts of the capital, Tegucigalpa.
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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.
Fausta has background here: if you don’t have time to read it, note that proto-dictator Hugo Chavez (and whoever’s channeling Fidel Castro this week) is spitting nails on this. Given that, as the Wall Street Journal notes, this entire thing got started over President Zelaya’s attempt to set up a referendum* in opposition to pretty much the opposition of the rest of the Honduran government, civilian and military… well. A man is known by his friends, and I wish I knew what the equivalent Spanish idiom is.
Moe Lane
*One that would allow him to run for re-election. The Honduras Constitution forbids that; given of what I know of South American history, this isn’t exactly surprising.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Our own Dear Leader is watching with keen interest.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, June 28th at 11:04AM EST (link)….and getting all sorts of ideas on how he can accomplish the same thing, our Constitution and Bill of Rights be damned.
Shoot the SOB and move on.
Tbone (Diary) Sunday, June 28th at 11:09AM EST (link)nt
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Doesn't sound like a coup to me, (I guess)
tankertodd (Diary) Sunday, June 28th at 11:12AM EST (link)Maybe the process is unorthodox but the President was in defiance of the Supreme Court in not reinstating the illegally fired Army chief. Not sure the Supreme Court could unilaterally sack him like that, but it probably is acceptable in Honduras. For Honduras, removing a guy from power for legitimate cause is probably worth celebrating.
Of course I could be biased from when I read this sentence from the AP:
“Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro have both expressed support for Zelaya.”
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The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race – Chief Justice Roberts
The Funniest Part
red4ever (Diary) Sunday, June 28th at 11:34AM EST (link)Chavez is calling on Obama to “do something.” hahahahaahahahaha.
That is funny on so many levels I hardly know where to start.
1. I thought Chavez hated all things US, including Obama? Amazing how much he loves us when he needs us.
2. Obama DO something? Chavez, you ain’t been paying attention too closely have you. Obama votes present whenever possible — even when it involves support for a fellow socialist.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante
Actually
wellsy (Diary) Sunday, June 28th at 3:48PM EST (link)One of the news stories from the BBC said Chavez was blaming the “Yankee empire” for the coup. Yeah, OK, Hugo.
with obama outta sight
bobojake (Diary) Sunday, June 28th at 12:24PM EST (link)did they get him to?
Just a simple question.
Maybe he is busy learning to talk without his flash cards, most of us gave the flash cards up in the 2 nd grade
Obama might make a move here
tyrconnell Sunday, June 28th at 2:41PM EST (link)After all, Zelaya is one of his buddies, and with Hugo and Fidel wanting it, he will find “the fierce moral urgency” to do something. Especially as it’ll swipe at the UK again.
My error
tyrconnell Monday, June 29th at 7:01AM EST (link)Synapses were not working correctly, foe some odd reason I was thinking Honduras had political ties to Britian.
No sympathy for Zelaya here
wellsy (Diary) Sunday, June 28th at 3:42PM EST (link)Although I don’t know if having the military throw out whoever they please is necessarily a superb idea either. That being said, it seems clear that Zelaya was the one flouting Honduran law and the one most eager to hang onto his power, so I can’t really feel all that bad for him.
It does say something when members of your own party are opposed to your power grab, and it does say something when you press ahead when the Supreme Court determines your actions to be illegal, and you fire the military chief who won’t help you.
Just a bit of speculation: I wonder if Chavez would consider going in and reinstalling his good buddy. I highly doubt it, but it’s worth a second of consideration.
Hmmm....
Rightshift (Diary) Sunday, June 28th at 9:53PM EST (link)… Me thinks this hits a little too close to home for Chairman MaObama and his little red book waving minions over at State…
What happened in Honduras could be the scenario that will be played out here when Kenyan President Obama’s birth certificate is somehow covertly slipped to Fox News and becomes public.
Hopium addicts will scream FOUL as their Obama T-shirt sales on Brooklyn NY street corners dry up.
Others will scream COUP D’ETAT!!… never mind that that’s what’s happening right now as we speak.
I’m just wondering how many frog marching Democrats there will be after that little dittie comes to light? If at all LOL.
To those who think the BC thing is a straw dog, does it make anyone wonder why an army of lawyers are fighting every challenge in court, rather than save a few million bucks and just show the darn thing?…. HMMM???
“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim – when he defends himself – as a criminal.” — Frederic Bastiat