Honduras under curfew after coup - Al Jazeera says Zelaya has little support

[flamingdem]

* Slanted against Zelaya for whatever reason


http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/06/20096291184517429.html



The newly sworn-in acting president of Honduras has imposed a two-day nationwide curfew following a military coup that sent

The supreme court said it had ordered his removal in order to protect law and order in the nation of some seven million people.

"Today's events originate from a court order by a competent judge," it said, adding that the armed forces "acted to defend the state of law".

Congress said it had voted unanimously to remove Zelaya from office for his "apparent misconduct" and for "repeated violations of the constitution and the law and disregard of orders and judgments of the institutions".

Zelaya, who was elected in November 2005 to a non-renewable four-year term, had sought to revise the constitution through a referendum to allow him to run again in the next elections.

The supreme court had ruled such a referendum illegal, but Zelaya had tried to press ahead with a vote on Sunday anyway, triggering the coup.

Micheletti is set to stay in office until January 27 next year, when a new president elected in planned November elections is due to take over.

Meanwhile, the UN General Assembly announced it would hold an emergency session on Monday to discuss the unrest in Honduras, at the request of Honduran ambassador to the UN, Jorge Reina Idiaquez.

[timeforpeace]

1. As Paul Harvey would say, "And now you know the rest of the story."

[angstlessk]

2. if he were so hated and unpopular AND he won the referendum how could he have been re-elected

anyway? what did the coup plotters have to fear if the constitution allowed another term or two for the voters to decide whom they wanted as president? this makes NO SENSE! Sounds like the coup plotters FEARED THE POPULATION more than they feared the reaction to an illegal coup.