Hello, Tracy Wilkinson:
In your LA Times article today, you persist in calling the ouster of Zelaya a “coup”.
My Mac computer dictionary defines a “coup” as:

coup d’état – a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government

Note that it is seizure “from a government”.
Zelaya’s deposing was “by a government”.
Does that essential difference somehow escape your attention, and that of the LA Times Editorial Board?
Zelaya was removed from office by near unanimous votes of the duly authorized Honduran Congress and by its Supreme Court.
I wonder; if Clinton had been convicted in his impeachment  trial, conducted by our Senate and under the authority of our Constitution, presided over by the Chief Justice of our Supreme Court, would the LA Times have deemed that a coup also?
I am persuaded that you would have.
That the Obama Administration has joined the leftists in power in the majority of Latin American nations in attempting to override the will of the Honduran people (who just clinched the matter by overwhelmingly electing a Zelaya foe to the presidency) is a disgrace, and documents where our present government leaders really stand on issues of freedom and democracy.
And that the LA Times is supportive of such obviously anti-democratic actions is revelatory of where your once great newspaper stands.

Sincerely,
William E. Haynes

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