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The Honduran Congress's response to the situation is looking more and more justified all the time.
Arresting a rogue president who leads a mob and breaks into the facility where balloting materials are kept, to hold an illegal election isn't a coup. It's the prevention of a coup.
I think it says a helluva lot when our government sides with the likes of Castro, Ortega and Chavez.
From the article: But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.
The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.
Calculating that some critical mass of Hondurans would take his side, the president decided he would run the referendum himself. So on Thursday he led a mob that broke into the military installation where the ballots from Venezuela were being stored and then had his supporters distribute them in defiance of the Supreme Court's order.
Arresting a rogue president who leads a mob and breaks into the facility where balloting materials are kept, to hold an illegal election isn't a coup. It's the prevention of a coup.
I think it says a helluva lot when our government sides with the likes of Castro, Ortega and Chavez.
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