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The coup in Honduras and approaches to semi-democracies
07/07/2009
Author : CIDOB (Spain)
Opinion 43
 
The coup in Honduras and approaches to semi-democracies

By

Narcís Serra

President of the CIDOB Foundation

In the early hours of 28 June, the Honduran armed forces occupied the President-elect’s residence, arrested him and then expelled him from the country, flying him to Costa Rica in a military aeroplane. This event represented the repetition of a phenomenon that had seemed to have been banished from the Americas: State coups perpetrated by the military forces. (...)

In fact, this is a coup that was organised by the political classes – including the judicial powers – and backed by the media, the ecclesiastical hierarchy and big business. But how did this situation come about?

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