Central America’s political climate is not unique. Wherever there is a leader that aspired to be a dictator, there always seems to be a military coup fashioned to topple him, and whenever there is insurmountable civil oppression due to abuses of power, there always seems to be a resulting civil war. Confrontations in Central America [...]

‘The Honduran military ousted and exiled leftist President Zelaya in what was Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War.’ The move was triggered by Zelaya’s attempt to legalize an extension of his power timetable. In other words, Zelaya wanted to tinker with the country’s Constitution to seek another term of office, a sensitive [...]

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 [...]