? COUP: Did Dictator Micheletti end legitimacy by suspending civil liberties?

[L. Coyote]

Honduras’ tone-deaf crackdown
Did interim leader Roberto Micheletti spoil his tenuous legitimacy by suspending civil liberties and press freedom?
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/100976/Honduras_tonedeaf_crackdown


The Honduran “coup-installed government” of Roberto Micheletti is violating its nation’s Constitution, said Larry Johnson in the Seattle PostGlobe, by suspending civil liberties and shutting down at least two dissident radio stations. You’d think the Obama administration would do everything possible to stop this and return to power the “democratically elected president,” Manuel Zelaya, but so far its “response has been decidedly tepid.”

Tepid? said Michael Totten in Commentary. Obama has been “so worked up” about returning Zelaya to power that he’s not thinking things through. The U.S. has cut off $30 million in aid to a very poor country, and is threatening sanctions—including not recognizing the results of a November election—if the Zelaya standoff isn’t resolved. That’s daft. The upcoming vote is the only way to resolve this, getting rid of both Zelaya and the “coup regime.”

“It wasn’t ‘a coup,’” said Michael Moynihan in Reason, but you’d never know that given Micheletti’s latest “idiotic and undemocratic move.” Micheletti isn’t on the presidential ballot in November, and until Sunday, he’d been “sticking to his limited role as a caretaker president.” Now he’s “acting like the wannabe caudillo he replaced”—but maybe his overreaction is part of “Zelaya’s carefully laid trap.”

It appears that even the Obama administration is having “some second thoughts about Manuel Zelaya,” said Ed Morrissey in Hot Air. .................

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Post title is misleading, however: "Honduras to restore liberties after criticism" Yeah, when??
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[Billy Burnett]

1. They never had any legitimacy.

When you seize power under cover of night and the military is entering the offices of power like this ...



... then something ain't right. :eyes:


When US School of the Americas grads are in command of the military undertaking the actions, then something ain't right.




When said troops are commanded to open fire on civilians, then something ain't right.





The headline is preposterous swill.


edit: Oh, and another sign that something ain't right - when the intransigent RW Cuban, Venezuelan, Haitian, and Honduran exiles in Miami support a coup, then you KNOW something really ain't right.

[L. Coyote]

2. All good points, indeed.