Troops Arrest Honduran President

Sometimes there are aspects to the third-world for which one yearns. And this president was actually born in his country.

From the BBC

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been arrested by troops ahead of a controversial constitutional referendum.

Mr Zelaya's secretary said that the president had been taken to an airbase outside the capital, Tegucigalpa.

The move comes days after the president sacked the armed forces chief, who had refused to back the referendum plan.

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