The coup d’etat in the small Central American nation of Honduras reveals the deep divisions of the area.
The Venezuelan president’s Hugo Chávez leftist followers’ triumphal march provoked the established elites. The instinctive reaction in Honduras was, once again, to give a coup. The frontier area between Honduras and Nicaragua has a suffering history.
In the eighties, [...]

The president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was arrested by the military on this morning and taken to Air Force installations, according to his private secretary, Eduardo Enrique Reina, and the local press.
Zelaya was arrested by the military between 5am and 6am. He was in the presidential palace when he was arrested. The official residence [...]