A democratically elected president was kidnapped by hooded soldiers, put in a plane, taken to another country and substituted for a man no one voted for and who has sent out the military into the streets to harass journalists, install curfews, shoot into crowds, disappear, torture, injure and/or kill people, cut off signals to any press outlet reporting on what’s happening, etc, etc, etc.

How can it be that while dozens of world leaders call this a coup and refuse to recognize Micheletti as a legitimate President, Global Voices is giving him the benefit of the doubt???? I’m all for freedom of opinion, but this scares me.

Perhaps if Hondurans were less brown, had more internet, more Twitter accounts, facebook profiles and youtube videos, someone would pay them attention. As it stands, it seems like we’ll just have to sit around and watch them be trampled.

If Zaleya was so unpopular then why the repression?

Classic case of an oppressive oligarchy fearing the participation of the majority that they have immiserated. The same slaves of empire and elite rule calling this coup ‘democratic’.

You people fear and hate popular democracy and informed citizen advances that put your little consumer perks under scrutiny.

And, as usual, you anti-human adgenda is being exposed. LOL

I completely support the constitutional removal of Zelaya from office. However, It appears the Supreme Court expected him to be arrested and the military made the call on their own to exile him. It was the military acting on it’s own to dump Zelaya in his pajamas in neutral Costa Rica that necessitated international action. If they had simply kept this within their own borders all this drama could have been avoided.

The AG is now investigating why the military acted on it’s own because forced exile is against Honduran and international law.

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Also, it is important to notice that not all the people against the coup is pro Zelaya or pro Cuarta Urna, many of them just reject the use of force by the Army.