Honduras supreme court ‘ordered army coup’

Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras, was arrested by the army in a coup ordered by the country’s supreme court.

By Jeremy McDermott, Latin America Correspondent
28 Jun 2009

Some 200 soldiers surrounded the president’s residence in the east of the capital Tegucigalpa, disarming 10 members of the president’s personal bodyguard.

“Today’s events originate from a court order by a competent judge. The armed forces, in charge of supporting the constitution, acted to defend the state of law and have been forced to apply legal dispositions against those who have expressed themselves publicly and acted against the dispositions of the basic law,” the country’s highest court said…

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Meanwhile, our brilliant Secretary Of State, is saying Honduras must re-instate Zelaya and abide by the constitution.

From the Associated Press:

Hillary Clinton urges condemnation of Honduran action

June 28, 2009

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the action taken against Honduras’ president should be condemned by everyone.

She says Honduras must embrace the principles of democracy and respect constitutional order.

The president, Manuel Zelaya, was flown to Costa Rica after being taken into military custody at his house outside the Honduran capital.

He was detained shortly before voting was to begin on a constitutional referendum the president had insisted on holding. The Supreme Court had ruled it illegal and everyone from the military to Congress and members of his own party opposed it…

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What a dangerous buffoon.

Of course she has never met a communist thug dictator she didn’t like.

Chavez threatens military action over Honduras coup

Sun Jun 28, 2009

By Frank Jack Daniel and Enrique Andres Pretel

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Sunday put his troops on alert over a coup in Honduras and said he would respond militarily if his envoy to the Central American country was killed or kidnapped.

Chavez said Honduran soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the army’s coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

The Honduran army ousted Zelaya and exiled him on Sunday in Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War, after he upset the army by trying to win re-election.

Chavez, on state television, said if the Venezuela ambassador was killed, or troops entered the Venezuela embassy, “that military junta would be entering a defacto state of war, we would have to act militarily.” He said,”I have put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert.”

The socialist Chavez leads a group of leftist countries that includes the government of Honduras and he has in the past threatened military action in the region but never followed through.

Chavez said that if a new government is sworn in after the coup it would be defeated.

“We will bring them down, we will bring them down, I tell you,” he said…

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http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/sto.....-president

While Iranians died in the streets of Tehran demanding their right to a free and fair election, Obama did want to “meddle”,. yet he had no problem trying to keep a Chevez-styled dictator in office.

“President Barack Obama said he was “deeply concerned” by Zelaya’s expulsion and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the arrest should be condemned.
“I call on all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic Charter,” Obama’s statement read.” (from AP & AOL)

This guy (o-blah-blah) is just too much. “.. respect democratic norms, the rule of law ..”

Ya gotta be kidding me!!! Like he does?!?!? Whatta joke!!! Whatta phony!!!

I wish it were only Hugo he imitated.

This is why I have always believed that American liberals were wrong to say Bush was like a cowboy — leftists are actually playing cowboy with other countries all the time, and they see Latin America as a playground. While I do think some socialist policies that would not make sense in the United States might occasionally be necessary in Latin America given the latter’s social conditions, I do not want temperamental leaders who throw tantrums, and I would be grateful if sources like the AP stopped patting such leaders’ head as if we were all children.

Thanks for the post. :)