a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE55R1S820090628?sp=true"Reuters:/abr /br /blockquoteVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday put troops on alert after a coup in Honduras and said he would respond militarily if his envoy to the Central American country was kidnapped or killed.span id="midArticle_1"/span pChavez said Honduran soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the army's coup against his leftist ally, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya./pspan id="midArticle_2"/span pThe Honduran army ousted Zelaya and exiled him in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War, after he upset the army by trying to win re-election./pspan id="midArticle_3"/span pChavez said on state television if his ambassador to Venezuela was killed, or if troops entered the Venezuelan Embassy, "that military junta would be entering a de facto state of war. We would have to act militarily ... I have put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert."/pspan id="midArticle_4"/span pEcuadorean President Rafael Correa, part of a coalition of leftist governments headed by Chavez that includes Honduras, said he would support military action if Ecuador's diplomats or those of its allies were threatened./pspan id="midArticle_5"/span pThe socialist Chavez has in the past threatened to use his armed forces in the region but never followed through. He said that if a new government is sworn in after the coup it would be defeated./pspan id="midArticle_6"/span p"We will bring them down, we will bring them down, I tell you," he said, while hundreds of red-shirted supporters gathered outside Venezuela's presidential palace in solidarity with Zelaya./pp...br //p/blockquoteIt sounds like the socialist are threatening to interfere in another countries internal affairs. This is happening the day after their socialist allies in Argentina were a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529353,00.html"decisively defeated/a. It sounds like he is trying to manufacture a pretext for intervention. He might get away with it if he tried, because Hillary's state department appears to be on his side for some strange reason.br /br /In a a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090629/wl_afp/honduraspoliticsmilitarycoup_20090629100154"later report/a AFP said:br /br /blockquote...br /br /In Honduras however, Micheletti brushed off worldwide condemnation of the takeover. p He "had came to the presidency not by a coup d'etat but by a completely legal process as set out in our laws," he said. The curfew would end on Tuesday, he added./p p Micheletti issued a direct warning to Chavez, saying Honduras is determined to "go to war" if case of external interference on the part of "this gentleman."/p p The interim leader said he had information that several batallions of troops were being prepared outside of Honduras for intervention./p p "I would not want anybody to have the courage to do that because our armed forces are ready to defend the country," he argued./pp...br //pbr //blockquoteIt appears that the teachers union are the main supporters of the former President.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5051247-645812630741388869?l=prairiepundit.blogspot.com'//div
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