Right-Wing Coup – Troops detain Honduran president

June 29, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

Tegucigalpa — More than a dozen soldiers arrested President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security guards after surrounding his residence before dawn Sunday in an action that one supporter labeled a coup.

Zelaya was taken to an air force base on the outskirts of the capital, Tegucigalpa, his private secretary Carlos Enrique Reina told The Associated Press.

“We’re talking about a coup d’etat,” labor leader and Zelaya ally Rafael Alegria told Honduran radio Cadena de Noticias. “This is regrettable.”

Alegria said that shots were fired during the president’s arrest “but we really don’t know much about what happened.”

Honduran radio station HRN reported that Zelaya had been sent into exile, citing unidentified “trustworthy sources.”

The radio announcer said it was not known to what country he had been taken but “apparently he flew on the presidential plane to Venezuela.”

No one from the military or president’s office would confirm the coup or exile reports.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro have both expressed support for Zelaya, who insisted on holding a referendum on constitutional reform on Sunday even though the Supreme Court ruled it illegal and everyone from the military to Congress and members of his own party opposed it.

Shortly after Zelaya’s arrest, dozens of white pick-up trucks packed with soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder sped to the presidential palace in downtown Tegucigalpa, blocked the entrances and closed a large chainlink gate on the hillside road leading to the national government’s headquarters.

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