Thursday, June 25, 2009

Please Pray For Honduras!!!!!

Honduran President Zelaya fired the
military chief of staff and accepted the defense minister's
resignation.

Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:10

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya fired the military chief of staff and
accepted the defense minister's resignation.

Zelaya told national television late on Wednesday the shake-up was due "to
a crisis caused by some sectors that have promoted destabilization and chaos."

The leader of a small political party on Wednesday had warned that Zelaya
could be removed in a coup because of the controversial referendum scheduled for
Sunday, which a court has already ruled invalid.

"The most worrisome part is that today we have seen some threats of a coup
against Zelaya," said Cesar Ham, who heads the leftist Democratic Unification
Party.

Zelaya is organizing the referendum to change the constitution to let him
run for a second term.

A source in the presidency said the removal of Gen. Romeo Vasquez, who
heads the armed forces, was because the military refused to distribute ballot
boxes for Sunday's referendum, as is customary in Honduran elections.

Defense Minister Edmundo Orellana also quit in the shake-up.

Honduran presidents serve four-year terms and the constitution does not
allow re-election.

Reuters

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