Politics As Usual

Jose Miguel Insulza, who heads the Organization of American States, attempted to persuade Jorge Rivera, president of the Supreme Court, that ousted Zelaya should be accepted back. Honduras’ Supreme Court rebuffed the personal appeal.

“Insulza asked Honduras to reinstate Zelaya, but the president of the court categorically answered that there is an arrest warrant for him,” said court spokesman Danilo Izaguirre. “Now the OAS has to decide what it will do.”

The meeting lasted all of two hours.

The OAS has called an emergency meeting in Washington for Saturday afternoon.


4 Responses to "Politics As Usual"

  1. Administrator  July 3, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    Frank,
    According to the report posted earlier:
    “Soldiers arrested and took out of the country a Honduran citizen that, the day before, through his actions had stripped himself of the presidency of Honduras.
    These are the hard facts. Last Friday Mister Zelaya, with his cabinet, issued a decree ordering all government employees to take part in the “Public Opinion Poll to convene a National Constitutional Assembly” (Presidential Decree PCM-020). The decree was published on Saturday on the official newspaper. With this event, Mister Zelaya triggered a constitutional protection that automatically removed him from office.

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  3. Tyler  July 3, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    I cant remember if it was last friday night or saturday that he was impeached. but yes he was impeached then removed from office sunday morning after he still refused to obey commands the congress gave him after he was impeached. The Honduran government followed the right steps to remove him they just did it so fast that the media was left scratching their heads saying what just happened. Then inaccurate reports started coming out that portrayed this as a military coup when in fact the military did not take over the country but instead followed congressional orders to remove Zelaya Sunday morning. They then took Zelaya to Costa Rica and dropped him off which actually was an act of kindness to Zelaya because they should have arrested him and brought him up on charges.

  4. frank  July 3, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    Houston we have problem.

    If a citizen of Honduras was exiled to Costa Rica that is one thing. If the sitting, un-impeached president of Honduras was exiled to Costa Rica that is another.

    Can someone tell me whether citizen Zalaya was exiled or was President Zalaya exiled?

    I need to know or I won’t be able to defend or support Honduras like I have been.

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