Reply #2: I think Kerry was right. Andrew Sullivan has been covering the issue [View All]

[beachmom]

linking to several people, but I tend to believe this Honduran blogger:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/blogging-the-coup.html

of course everyone is making him (the President) out to be a martyr. He's not. Really, people have to remember that this man had rejected the orders of Congress and the SUPREME COURT to stop his survey and had ignored them. The man was outside the law. Again, the coup was bad, but probably the only way out. This man was NOT blameless. Stop making him look like a martyr and a hero.

A ton of links here:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/honduras-is-not-iran-ctd.html#more

Ending with a quote from the Brookings Institution I tend to agree with:

An illegal referendum has met an illegal military intervention, with the avowed intention of protecting the constitution. Moreover, as has been so often the case, this intervention has been called for and celebrated by Zelaya’s civilian opponents. For the past week, the Honduran Congress has waxed lyrical about the armed forces as the guarantors of the constitution, a disturbing notion in Latin America. When we hear that, we can expect the worst. And the worst has happened. At the very least, we are witnessing in Honduras the return of the sad role of the military as the ultimate referee in the political conflicts amongst the civilian leadership, a huge step back in the consolidation of democracy.