Barbaras in Tegusigalpe

What are the consequences of a military coup in Honduras

“Barbarian politics returned to our hemisphere” - this is how the military coup in Honduras and what followed him, Argentina President Christina Kirschner described. The ambassadors of ten Latin American states, as well as all countries of the European Union, have been revoked from the country. The military coup was condemned at emergency meetings of the UN General Assembly and the organization of American states. What threatens the little Latin American country - found the New Times

Both supporters and the opponents of Manuel Selei in Honduras took to the streets of Tegusigalpas - as an inevitable consequence of the military coup - a commandant hour was introduced, supporters of the President of Manuel Selya and journalists were delayed. The head of the Putchists Roberto Micheletti asks to call what is happening “restoration of constitutional justice” and forms a new cabinet of ministers. “The government blocked the credit card of Seleii, who, from the moment of his departure from Honduras, managed to spend $ 80 thousand on clothes, hotels and shops in Nicaragua, New York, Washington and Panama” is one of the main news discussed by the central newspapers of Tegusigalpa (the capital of Honduras). It is forbidden to write about what is actually happening in split after June 28 on June 28. Supporters of Roberto Micheletti, who call themselves defenders of the Constitution, decided to limit the population of the population to manifest, the inviolability of the dwelling, the meeting and freedom of movement throughout the country. For some time, the broadcast of three television channels was interrupted, employees of the Telesur television company and The Associated Press were detained. The radio station Progreso was destroyed, its employees are dispersed. The International Organization “Reporters Without Borders” claims that in Honduras a real hunt for witches may begin, whose victims will be journalists sympathizing with the exiled president.

	Now Manuel Seleya is located in Panama
	The police brutally suppresses the rallies of supporters of the expelled president

Who rejoices? Despite the prohibitions, the country is covered by a wave of manifestations. Moreover, the putschists declare popular glee, human rights organizations - the brutal suppression of the demonstrations of the disagreements. According to the Civil Council of People’s and Native Organizations of Honduras (El Civico de Organizaciones Populares E Indigenas de Honduras), about 100 people were seriously injured during clashes only in the capital, more than 350 were detained. The Department of Santa Barbara issued an arrest warrant for the governor, six mayors and one candidate for deputies. In the province of Olanchoa, all mayors who sympathize with Manuel Selee were detained. There, the police pierced the tires of six buses with manifestants who were traveling to the capital to arrange a rally against illegal seizure of power.

Manuel Seleya, a leftist, enjoying the patronage of the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, fully got used to the role of the victim of the military coup and, having enlisted international support, promised to triumphantly return to Honduras last Thursday, July 2. The presidents of Argentina and Ecuador, Kristina Fernandez de Kirschner and Rafael Correa, as well as the chairman of the UN General Miguel D'Ecoto, should be accompanied by the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador. However, the trip had to be postponed so far. The organization of American states raised the puffers a tough ultimatum: if within 72 hours they do not return power to the legal president, gonduras are excluded from the organization. Manuel Seleya decided to wait for this period. On the ultimatum Roberto Micheletti answered the arrest of the expelled president. He is accused of 18 crimes. The most difficult of which is the abuse of powers, corruption and betrayal of national interests. The new country's Foreign Minister Enrique Orts said that if Mel (as they call Seleya in Honduras) dare to return, 25 thousand citizens will surround the airport and will not allow him to become president again. The main trump card of the putschists is the fact that Seleya tried to rewrite the country's constitution in order to participate in the presidential election scheduled for November 2009: the law does not allow him this. The President in Honduras is elected for one period of four years: in 2005, Seleya won with an advantage of less than 3%. He promised to leave by opening the way for political opponents, but then changed his mind, despite the fact that the rating of its popularity in the country fell to 30%. Here the military who dominated the political life of the country throughout the 20th century came to the forefront: they were supported by the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General, the Church, part of the business, and some civilian organizations.

	The head of the Putchists Roberto Micheletti calls a military coup "restoration of constitutional justice"
	As a result of clashes with the police, there are wounded

The chronic patient but the actions of the military can turn into an economic catastrophe and a rampant crime for the country. Venezuela has already suspended the supply of oil to the country. But the US can arrange the greatest problems to the new authorities of Honduras: they account for about 70% of exports and more than half of imports. The Government of the United States, although it did not receive one of the main allies of Hugo Chavez by reception at the highest level, but officially recognized him as a legal, democratically elected president and condemned the coup. With the continuation of Tigusigalp's resistance, he will not receive $ 43 million promised financial assistance from Washington, and the World Bank has already froze all its projects in this country. And after the revoked ambassadors from Honduras, foreign companies can be reached. How important the foreign capital for Honduras’s economy is, in a private conversation with one of his colleagues, Manuel Seleya himself once admitted: “My country is a chronic patient who lives only thanks to serum. It is paid thanks to international cooperation. And if this serum is taken from him ... "

--- Honduras- mono-ethnic (Metis accounted for 90%) and mono-religious (Catholics-90%) the state in Central America with a population of less than 8 million people. This is one of the poorest countries of Latin America: more than 50%lives behind the poverty line, per capita GDP in terms of purchasing power - $ 4400 per year, budget deficit - 21%, inflation - almost 12%. The main source of income is the export of bananas and coffee. The geographical position of Honduras makes him a hostage to the ocean typhoons: in the north, its border (more than 900 km) goes along the shores of the Caribbean, in the southwest-the Pacific Ocean. The country also turned out to be clamped between states where civil wars were going on in recent decades: Nicaragua (in the south), Salvador (in the west), Guatemala (in the north-west). The political system is the Presidential Republic: the head of state is elected for four years.

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In the preparation of the material, publications were used in El Pais, Agencia de Informacion Fray, La Tribuna, Miami Herald*