Honduras: When is a coup not a coup?
The Obama administration has condemned the removal of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya as illegal and referred to it as a coup. The administration is in good company; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Cuban dictator Ral Castro, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and lvaro Uribe in Colombia all agree with the Obama administration.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehiten (R-FL), ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee stated that Zelaya was “moving to re-write the Honduran constitution to extend and expand his power, while retaliating against those who stand in the way.”
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