2009 Honduran constitutional crisis
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 66 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5131-3797-9
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis was a political dispute over plans to rewrite the Constitution of Honduras, which culminated in a coup d'etat against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by the Honduran military. Honduras' Supreme Court, National Congress, and all other democratic institutions of Honduras consider Zelaya's deposal as a Constitutional Succession, and the military later showed that it had had orders from the Supreme Court to oust Zelaya. Zelaya's ouster preempted a poll whether to hold a referendum to convene a constituent assembly to change the constitution which was opposed by the legislative branch and which Honduras' Supreme Court had ruled unconstitutional. Opponents called these plans a veiled attempt to unconstitutionally eliminate presidential term limits and usher in Chavez-style socialism. Zelaya and his supporters claim that he was attempting to modernize the Honduran Constitution to better serve the country,...