Coup in Honduras: Shades of the US backed Haiti overthrow

How much mainstream coverage is this garnering? Anyone? How about the Honduran people's protests? Are they getting mainstream media coverage?
Or is the mainstream still busy, dumbing the populace down with it's non-stop Michael Jackson coverage?

Here is the story:
Manuel Zelaya: arrested by soldiers, taken to Costa Rica

Military Coup in Honduras

A military coup has taken place in Honduras on Sunday, June 28, led by School of the Americas (SOA) graduate Romeo Vasquez. Members of the Honduran military surrounded the presidential palace and forced the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, into custody. He was immediately flown to Costa Rica.

School of the America's graduate Romeo Vasquez, led the overthrow.
Hmmm, makes ya think America must have had a hand in this one.


Shades of the overthrow in Haiti??
Forcible regime change violates international law

Haiti's democratically elected President Aristide was removed from Haiti by the United States, and taken to by threat of force, his destination the Central African Republic. Forcible regime change violates the well-established principle that people should be able to choose their own government. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights recognizes self-determination as a human right, and specifies that all peoples have the right to "freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development." The United Nations Charter also prohibits the use of force "against ... [t]he political independence" of another state.

Ordinary Hondurans have taken it to the street!

Due to intermitant power outages and heavy rain, independent media within Honduras has had extreme difficulty transmitting news. This means that while there's been plenty of news in the mainstream media about the actions people with a lot of political power have been taking--from Chavez and the ALBA nations to the Organization of American States to the United States--there's been very little reported about what rank-and-file Hondurans have been doing to reverse the coup.

However, it is clear that Hondurans are resisting. People are taking the streets in Honduras despite incredibly hostile conditions created by the military.

Where is the condemnation from Obama???


This man holds a banner in support of a referendum for a new Constitution




So the soldier punches him!



Military has been coming down hard on the media

Is the US behind this overthrow? Were the constitutional changes being voted on in the referendum detrimental to wealthy powerful and foreign interests? Were the changes set to empower ordinary Hondurans?