Troops seize Honduran president
By Ocean on Jun 28, 2009 in Dumb Agent Current Events
Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras, has been arrested by soldiers after he vowed to go ahead with a controversial referendum on constitutional changes, his allies and local media say.
Zelaya was reportedly arrested at his home on Sunday morning and taken to a military base on the outskirts of the capital, Tegucigalpa.
Zelaya fired the armed forces chief of staff last week after he refused to help him organise the unofficial referendum.
The non-binding vote, which was due to take place on Sunday, would have asked Hondurans whether they approved of holding a poll on constitutional change alongside general elections in November.
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The Honduran president has done many illegal acts since he first took power. The rest of the Honduran insititutions laid patiently for him to change course and to avoid mayham.
Today, justice has been done for Honduras in removing the worst Presidential Period this country has faced in the last years.
Today something very legal has been done, as the illegal one was the President. International organizations and judging voices should first make sure they have their facts straight for what this President has done the last 4 years. Today, Honduras is happy, today Honduras is free. Free of Zelaya, Free of Chavez!
Marie | Jun 28, 2009 | Reply
En honduras no hubo golpe de estado. Se removió a un funcionario que atentaba contra el estado de derecho y había violado la constitución. Todo ha sido legal y esto no implica ruptura del orden constitucional honduras no hubo golpe de estado. Se removió a un funcionario que atentaba contra el estado de derecho y había violado la constitución. Todo ha sido legal y esto no implica ruptura del orden constitucional
ACTEGUS | Jun 28, 2009 | Reply
I’m from Honduras, and I’d like to say that our President tried to do an ilegal constitutional reform with the help of Hugo Chavez, threating our democracy. Today what we’ve seen is that the Armed Forces arrested a criminal with the Supreme Court order, and soon we will have another President according to our Constitution, He would be the President of the Congress. Manuel Zelaya tried to break our democracy, that’s what the international community should see! We don’t want another Venezuela in Latin America
Monica | Jun 28, 2009 | Reply
I’m also from Honduras, and I am angry at way the international media is handling the situation. The whole country was against him, and that even means most of the poor people. I mean, there was no military coup, the actions of our president were analysed by a special comission, a summary was passed on to the Supreme Court, and they declared the actions of the president illegal, and issued a warrant to arrest him. The military is acting on our behalf.
And for the Americans who were against Bush, can you imagine him trying to change the Constitution and using state funding to try to brainwash the people, like Hugo Chavez did..
I am proud of how my country has handled everything so far, and the news should actually be, how peaceful everything has gone down. The people spoke against the president in peaceful demonstrations.. Congress and the Supreme Court acted accordingly, the military chief did not buy into the bribe that was offered, but acted accordingly. I mean it has to say something when all the political organizations, even his political party are against him!!
Hondureña | Jun 28, 2009 | Reply
Im also from Honduras and due to our experience with military dictatorships in the past I personally condemn coup d’etats. However, one should be aware of what was happening in Honduras before judging the arrest of the President. Its basically that its President through illegal mechanisms tried to rewrite the existing constitution & open the way for him to be reelected. All done with financial and techincal support from Venezuele well documented by the media.
The President persisted on carrying out a quasi-referendum that was declared illegal by the supreme court of justice. The referendum was for rewritting a constitution but more specifically and clearly for allowing the reelection of the President. From the around 397 articles in the constitution only around 7 from them cannot be modify without problem by the congress. This 7 include the form of government, territory and reelection, among others. The president organized a poll with no participaiton of the neutral state agencies responsible for organizing elections, with no census and no control mechanims. The poll was originally suppose to ask the people whether they wanted to have a new constituional assembly for writting a new constitution in Honduras. The Congress itself issued a few days ago a law that allows referendums to be organized by the state agencies responsible for the elections, so that if the President insisted he could have made use of this new law with a referendum tat could have taken place in a transparent way and through the legal mechanisms on election days. It was also never clear what the new constituion should look like! Amazing but he never explained more than that it would be more participative without giving any single detail. Also it was never explained who and how the assembly for writting the new constitution would look like.
Carlos | Jun 28, 2009 | Reply