![]() He ordered the military to assist when it did not, he fired its chief. The military, which has a large administrative role in Honduran elections, refused to help. The Honduran Supreme Court forbade him from doing so. It seems Sr Zelaya did not like the idea he would have to leave the Honduran presidency, and decided he wanted a referendum on whether he could run again for the office. It is worth noting just why Sr Zelaya was thrown out. Yet instead of just issuing a polite statement of concern and leaving it at that, we have condemned the action and our ambassador to Honduras has declared the United States will only recognize Sr Zelaya as president. One would hope we wouldn't be dumb enough to not capitalize on a similar situation in Honduras. Two days later, the coup collapsed and we've been stuck with him ever since. What did we do? We did nothing, and said it was a bad thing Chavez - that stupid, cruel strongman who has since ground his country into the dust - was removed from power. Let us not forget that, back in 2002, we had a perfect opportunity to rid ourselves of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez when a revolt broke out there. Once again, the foreign policy dunces in Washington are falling into the same trap in which their predecessors were ensnared and once again, Washington will completely blow a fantastic opportunity to turn things in our direction. It is thus no surprise the American Government, which for the past 50 years has almost universally screwed up handling Latin American affairs, would find this a bad thing. Even more amazingly, the Hondurans managed to pull the thing off with almost no bloodshed. These elections, mind you, would be the regularly scheduled elections due to be held in five months' time. Within the space of a day, the Hondurans managed to exile their proto-caudillo, SeƱor Manuel Zelaya installed a new leader under the conventions of their Constitution got the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress to agree the measures were perfectly fine and agreed that a national unity Government would run things until elections could be held. YESTERDAY'S golpe del estado in Honduras was a rather strange coup d'etat - if only because it was executed almost perfectly.
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