[Marxism] Coup carried out in Honduras!!!!!!

[Fred Fuentes <fred.fuentes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kidnapped is a much better word to describe what has happened, not
unlike April 11, 2002 in Venezuela. We must all act now to make sure
as they say in Venezuela that each 11 has its 13....

Troops arrest Honduran president

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8123126.stm

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been arrested by troops ahead of
a controversial constitutional referendum.

Mr Zelaya's secretary said that the president had been taken to an
airbase outside the capital, Tegucigalpa.

The move comes days after the president sacked the armed forces chief,
who had refused to back the referendum plan.

Mr Zelaya, elected for a non-renewable four-year term in January 2006,
wants a vote to enable him to seek a new term.

A reporter for the Associated Press news agency said he had seen
dozens of soldiers surround the president's house on Sunday morning
and about 60 police guarding the house.

        
MANUEL ZELAYA
Won the Honduran presidential election for the Liberal Party in
November 2005, beating the ruling National Party's candidate
Has moved Honduras away from its traditional ally the US
Enjoys the support of Venezuela's leftist President, Hugo Chavez
A civil engineer and rancher by profession

A decision in Congress last week seemed to have halted plans for the
referendum, which had been due to take place on Sunday, after the
courts also deemed it unlawful.

The referendum was originally scheduled to take place at the same time
as the presidential election in November.

In an interview with Spain's El Pais newspaper published on Sunday, Mr
Zelaya - an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - said a planned
coup attempt against him had been thwarted after the US refused to
back it.

"Everything was in place for the coup and if the US embassy had
approved it, it would have happened. But they did not," Mr Zeleya
said.

"I'm only still here in office thanks to the United States."

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