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To: livius

“Everything that was done was done in accordance with the Honduran Constitution and its established procedures.”

Their constitution calls for impeachment by the Congress and trial by the Supreme Court. Maybe it was done that way or maybe not. The problem is, they didn’t do a public trial. That would have dispelled all doubt that he was legally ousted.


71 posted on 06/30/2009 8:49:12 PM PDT by guns_for_liberty
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To: guns_for_liberty

He had actually entered into the conditions for summary removal because of his attempt to stage an auto-golpe (a self coup) and his consistent violation of every court order he had received regarding it. This wasn’t just ordinary misconduct, although he seems to have been guilty of that, as well.


77 posted on 07/01/2009 3:21:40 AM PDT by livius
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