I don't know a lot about the current events unfolding in Honduras. I've read a few articles and blogs equating Honduras with Iran. My initial thoughts and reactions about the situation were very similar to an un-named reader of Andrew Sullivan's Blog...
Your post about the Honduras situation was inaccurate. President Zelaya is a proto-Chavez leader who was trying to do something that was illegal in order to gain more power and stay in office indefinitely (again, a la Chavez).
As a matter of fact, this is ALSO a kind of coup, albeit a ‘softer’ kind, one that uses the idea of having referenda as a subterfuge to gradually undermine the fundamentals of a democracy (it’s indeed ironic that the Chavez-like figures that are proliferating in Latin America, like Evo Morales or Rafael Correa, try to use a seemingly democratic tool in order to concentrate more power into their own hands, and less power in the courts and in the Congress, thus creating more authoritarian states).
More here.
A good explanation of the "coup" from the WSJ...
As far as Obama is concerned, he's calling it a coup. It looks like Barack and I part ways on this one, at least for now.
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