World: Just this morning, Jose Manuel Zelaya didn’t see a coup coming
- Everything was in place for the coup and if the U.S. embassy had approved it, it would have happened. But they did not … I’m only still here in office thanks to the United States.
- (Uh, former) Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya • Quoted this morning in Spain’s El Pais as saying he would not in fact, be couped. Way to speak too soon. Zelaya tried to put in a referendum which the country’s Supreme Court decided was unconstitutional. He said he was going to do it anyway. He had completely noble reasons for the non-binding referendum, he said, which would have encouraged a constitutional referendum at the same time as the 2010 elections to allow for future presidents to be re-elected. Instead, he’s been put into exile. • source