Do the coup apologists and the doubters get it, finally?
1. Zelaya had planned a CONSULTATION, NOT a referendum, last Sunday, based on 400,000 signatures gathered. The law was not violated.
2. Cuban exile friend of terrorist Posada Carriles was one of the promoters of the coup; he had given shelter to Posada Carriles when he managed to get out of Panama while awaiting extradition to Venezuela, from where he'd fled prison.
3. Zelaya was ousted because he stood up to the extreme right and to the business sector. One of his first meetings when he was elected was with a delegation of top businessmen, who handed him a list of public utilities he was to privatize. He refused. Then he joined Petrocaribe and ALBA and raised the wretched minimum wage. All that got the ball rolling with the opposition.
4. The US knew of the coup days before it took place. According to reliable sources, the white house and the state dept. called the US base and the embassy in Honduras to tell them not to support the coup and to be quiet, while the head of Southcom spoke with the plotters and supported the coup.
5. Cartoonist Allan McDonald was arrested and held in a hotel room with no food with his 3-year old daughter for 24 hours. When he finally returned home he found that the army had destroyed and burned all his drawings and his materials. Journalists have been beaten and radio and tv stations intervened. The ambassadors of Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba were roughed up as they tried to protect and grant asylum to foreign minister Patricia Rodas as the army arrived to detain her.
6. Now, at least two people are confirmed dead at the airport, including a 16-year old boy, shot in cold blood. We do not know how many are wounded, or how seriously. The Red Cross can barely cope.
7. This coup was a test for the US and the right-wing, to roll back the popular movements and defeat popular governments throughout Latin America. That is why all Latin American nations have joined in support of Zelaya.
8. How about the de facto foreign minister dismissing Pres. Obama as a "negrito que no sabe nada de nada" (a know-nothing black boy).
The airplane has not landed as I write this, but the airport is totally militarized with numerous trucks arriving of soldiers.
So, if you're still inclined to justify or rationalize this criminal coup in any way, please stay away from rabble and other progressive sites.