http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/world/americas/29honduras.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
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''President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential term limits.
In the first military coup in Central America since the end of the cold war, soldiers stormed the presidential palace in the capital, Tegucigalpa, early in the morning, disarming the presidential guard, waking Mr. Zelaya and putting him on a plane to Costa Rica.
Mr. Zelaya, a leftist aligned with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, angrily denounced the coup as illegal. “I am the president of Honduras,” he insisted at the airport in San José, Costa Rica, still wearing his pajamas.''
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We have had innumerable posts about the allegdly stolen election in Iran while everyone ignored the election that was stolen in Zimbabwe. Today, the fascists stole an entire government in Honduras and not one person bothered to discuss it on this forum. As has been discussed here, while right wingers are a minority in the USA and in Canada and one would think that they would not be taking the initiative in discussing or focussing on issues. Yet, as we can see from Canadian Content, it is the right wingers on this forum who invariably frame the issues. This was true in the USA for many years but it is no longer so (thankfully).
Let us see if there is or can be a change.
Therefore, let us have an intelligent discussion as to how or why the fascists were able to stage a coup when the government was democratically elected. Discuss also why the Republicans who had been ever so adament about promoting democracy, have all of a sudden clammed up.
{reg required}
''President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was ousted by the army on Sunday, capping months of tensions over his efforts to lift presidential term limits.
In the first military coup in Central America since the end of the cold war, soldiers stormed the presidential palace in the capital, Tegucigalpa, early in the morning, disarming the presidential guard, waking Mr. Zelaya and putting him on a plane to Costa Rica.
Mr. Zelaya, a leftist aligned with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, angrily denounced the coup as illegal. “I am the president of Honduras,” he insisted at the airport in San José, Costa Rica, still wearing his pajamas.''
... more at site ...
We have had innumerable posts about the allegdly stolen election in Iran while everyone ignored the election that was stolen in Zimbabwe. Today, the fascists stole an entire government in Honduras and not one person bothered to discuss it on this forum. As has been discussed here, while right wingers are a minority in the USA and in Canada and one would think that they would not be taking the initiative in discussing or focussing on issues. Yet, as we can see from Canadian Content, it is the right wingers on this forum who invariably frame the issues. This was true in the USA for many years but it is no longer so (thankfully).
Let us see if there is or can be a change.
Therefore, let us have an intelligent discussion as to how or why the fascists were able to stage a coup when the government was democratically elected. Discuss also why the Republicans who had been ever so adament about promoting democracy, have all of a sudden clammed up.