Honduras had a new kind of coup
On Saturday, June 27, the order came down: Arrest the president.
That night, Honduran military officers stopped taking calls from U.S. officials.
At sunrise Sunday, army commanders firing warning shots into the air marched through the back door of the president's home, rousted him from bed and took him away, still in his pajamas.
It was over in 15 minutes. But the coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya was a slow boil, over ...
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