[Peace-discuss] Fw: U.S. IMPERIALISM: Ecuador, Venezuela Condemn Honduras Coup

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Subject: U.S. IMPERIALISM: Ecuador, Venezuela Condemn Honduras Coup
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> From: Rick Rozoff <rwrozoff at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Ecuador, Venezuela Condemn Honduras Coup  
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> http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/29/content_11616430.htm
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> Xinhua News Agency
> June 28, 2009
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> Ecuador, Venezuela condemn Honduras coup  
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> 
> - -Zelaya arrived in Costa Rica early on Sunday, after being seized by
> soldiers at his home and forced to board a plane. He told media there
> that he had been kidnapped as part of a coup plot organized by a group
> of military officers. 
> 
> The statement said that hooded Honduran soldiers had also held
> Honduran Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas and had seized and roughed up
> ambassadors from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela...Venezuelan President
> Hugo Chavez said that if soldiers were to repeat their attacks on the
> nation's ambassador they would in effect be declaring war on
> Venezuela. 
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> QUITO - The governments of Ecuador and Venezuela on Sunday condemned
> the coup earlier in the day that removed Honduran President Manuel
> Zelaya from power, and demanded that Zelaya be returned to office. 
> 
> Ecuador said it would not accept any change of Honduran presidency and
> called for an urgent meeting of the Group of Rio to discuss the
> situation, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. 
> 
> "Ecuador's government energetically reject the coup committed this
> morning against Honduras' legitimate government, led by President
> Manuel Zelaya, as an act that violates the most basic normal of
> democratic cohabitation and international law," the statement said. 
> 
> Ecuador's statement said that Ecuador had joined the list of nations
> calling for an extraordinary session of the Permanent Council of the
> Organization of American States, to discuss the situation in Honduras,
> and described the coup as "a flagrant transgression of articles 19 and
> 20 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter." 
> 
> Venezuela called for the international community to take measures to
> solve the coup d'etat and to condemn that nation's military,
> Venezuela's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. 
> 
> Zelaya was "kidnapped, removed from his residence by force, held
> incommunicado during several house and violently exiled by coup
> plotting, unpatriotic soldiers," said the ministry. 
> 
> Zelaya arrived in Costa Rica early on Sunday, after being seized by
> soldiers at his home and forced to board a plane. He told media there
> that he had been kidnapped as part of a coup plot organized by a group
> of military officers. 
> 
> The statement said that hooded Honduran soldiers had also held
> Honduran Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas and had seized and roughed up
> ambassadors from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. 
> 
> "These shameful soldiers are responsible under both local and
> international law for crimes they are committing against the
> constitution and the law," the statement added. 
> 
> In a separate broadcast ahead of the issuing of the statement,
> Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that if soldiers were to repeat
> their attacks on the nation's ambassador they would in effect be
> declaring war on Venezuela. 
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