Honduras’s Coup Is President Zelaya’s Fault
Suddenly, in 2007, he declared himself a socialist and began to establish close ties with Venezuela.
Last year, following the script originally laid out by Chvez in Venezuela and adopted by Evo Morales in Bolivia and Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Zelaya announced that he would hold a referendum to set up a constituent assembly that would change the constitution that barred him from reelection. In the next few months, every legal body in Honduras — the electoral tribunal, the Supreme Court, the attorney general, the human rights ombudsman — declared the referendum unconstitutional.