Supporters in the U.S. of the coup in Honduras have frequently made two claims to justify it which are demonstrably false, which have nonetheless been widely accepted in the U.S., because they have been largely unchallenged in the U.S. media: the Honduran Congress authorized Zelaya's removal, and the basis for that removal was Article 239 of the Honduran Constitution, which forbids someone from being President if he has already been President, and says that anyone who advocates changing this provision will cease to be President.
The actual decree of the Honduran Congress is linked below. Note the following. 1. the document never mentions Article 239. 2. the document is dated "MIERCOLES 1 DE JULIO DEL 2009," i.e. Wednesday, July 1, 2009, three days after the coup on Sunday, June 28. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/honduran-coup-decree-show_b_255600.html http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/10/764554/-Honduran-Coup-Decree-Shows-Justification-Was-After-the-Fact http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/289 -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
