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Yesterday morning I watched news of a military coup in Honduras unfold via Twitter.

President Manuel Zelaya Rosales was facing strong opposition to a non-binding constitutional referendum, opposed by the Supreme Court, the Armed Forces and the Honduran legislature, that would have allowed him to ask to run for another term. Instead of allowing the vote, army leaders arrested Zelaya and forced him into exile in Costa Rica, where he is no seeking asylum. Word is that one of the leaders of the coup is Romeo Vasquez, a graduate of the U.S. run “you too can lead a coup school” School of the Americas.

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