Tuesday, June 30, 2009

government overthrown

Here is the 'official' update of what's going on given by my volunteer organization. They say it better than I could.
Sunday June 28th, Honduras' national army overthrew President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales and was immediately exiled to Costa Rica; the National Congress officially voted to strip him of his powers and named the president of the National Congress, Roberto Micheletti, as provisional president of Honduras until democratic elections in November 2009 through an act of constitutional substitution. Such act is legally established in Honduras’ Constitution, and was done because the ex-president José Manuel Zelaya Rosales committed a list of 18 faults to the national laws, including the attempt to summon an assembly to rewrite the constitution and overcome the term limits that would have forced him to leave office at the end of this year. The three Powers of Honduras’ Government are currently functioning and are legally constituted. Today (June 29th), a series of demonstrators’ groups protested in some areas nearby the Presidential House at Tegucigalpa, the police and some military troops counterattacked the demonstrations, but the nation remained generally calm. It is only certain groups of demonstrators who are performing these kinds of protests; the rest of the nation (the majority) continues their usual activities. However, we do have a national curfew from 9:00 p.m. till 6:00 a.m.
As for me personally, I have been ok. Where I live, the political situation doesn't really affect me. The greatest extent is hearing the personal opinions and comments by the locals on what they think should happen now. It's a really unique experience to be going through right now.

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