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Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Arrested by Soldiers in Apparent Coup
blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com - 6/28/2009
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Arrested by Soldiers in Apparent Coup
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URGENT : Just when you thought things were quieting down a bit in Iran, another country is on the brink of unrest -- Honduras. More than a dozen soldiers have arrested President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security guards after surrounding his residence before dawn this morning, his ...
Honduran President Ousted in Coup
lossip.com - 6/29/2009
Honduran President Ousted in Coup
— lossip.com — After months of attempting to blur the boundaries of a presidential term limit, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya... was essentially kicked out of the capital yesterday in the first military coup the country has seen in over fifty years. Soldiers ... Honduran President Ousted in Coup

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news.aol.com - 6/28/2009
Obama Says Coup 'Not Legal'
— news.aol.com — NoKaBosh 01:02 PM Jun 30 2009 95% of the people of Honduras do not want Revelas to... ignore their constitution and serve another term in office. The Honduras Supreme Court was correct to take action against that. Of course, Chavez supported the notion ... Obama Says Coup 'Not Legal'

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feeds.nytimes.com - 6/28/2009
Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup
— feeds.nytimes.com — The Honduran president, José Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by the army on Sunday in the first military... coup in Central America since the end of the cold war. Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup

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Troops Detain Honduras President
feeds.nytimes.com 6/28/2009 — Honduran soldiers detained the leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in a constitutional crisis over his attempt to win re-election, government officials said.
Obama "Deeply Concerned" After Honduran President Overthrown [Power Struggles] — Jezebel
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in an apparent coup today, arrested by soldiers and exiled to Costa Rica, where he told reporters that the soldiers who overthrew him were "creating a...
Honduran military sends president into exile ahead of disputed national referendum — All articles at Technorati
Honduran military ousts president ahead of vote TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras ? Soldiers seized the national palace and flew President Manuel Zelaya into exile Sunday, hours before a disputed constitutional referendum. Congress appointed a successor, but Zelaya, a leftist ally of Venezuelan President ...
Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup — NYT > Home Page
The Honduran president, José Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by the army on Sunday in the first military coup in Central America since the end of the cold war.
Is Honduras' Military Junta The Hot New Revolution? [Fight The Power?] — Gawker
While you're out this morning at brunch, mumbling semi-coherent thoughts about how amazing the citizens of Iran are, people somewhere will be fighting for change, actually doing something to change...
Four-Fingered Salutes [Snap Judgment] — Jezebel
[Tegucigalpa, Honduras; June 23. Image via Getty] Honduran demonstrators shout slogans during a protest in Tegucigalpa June 23, 2009 demanding a referendum to be carried out jointly with next...
Is Honduras' Military Junta The Hot New Revolution? — Gawker Comments
Now admittedly, my knowledge of the Honduran political system only extends as far as this CNN article and the BBC article back when the Supreme Court originally ruled against Zelaya... but the military intervening to thwart someone's attempt to overrule the courts and place themselves in power ...
Is Honduras' Military Junta The Hot New Revolution? — Gawker Comments
This is the same Zelaya who ordered all the country's radio and TV stations to carry government propaganda for two hours a day to fight political rivals and who had his country join Hugo Chavez's "Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas"? The same man who just last week fired the head of the ...