Mr. Zelaya, a leftist aligned with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, angrily denounced the coup as illegal. "I am the president of Honduras," he insisted at the airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, still wearing his pajamas.
Later Sunday the Honduran Congress voted him out of office, replacing him with the president of Congress, Roberto Micheletti.
The military offered no public explanation for its actions, but the Supreme Court issued a statement saying that the military had acted to defend the law against those who had publicly spoken out and acted against the Constitution's provisions.
Leaders across the hemisphere, however, denounced the coup, which American officials on Sunday said they had been working for several days to avert.
Hang on to your hats folks, this one could get interesting...
...and for once, it looks like we're not the ones assisting coups against leftist presidents in Central America.
Stiles
Oakland, CA
November 2002
JUN 28, 2009 11:48 PM