• Text size
  • Send this article to a friend
  • Print this article

Old rivals unite in condemnation of Honduras' very modern coup

TEGUCIGALPA: By Andrew McLeod

IT was to have been an old-fashioned Central American coup. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, a rancher and logging magnate and self-styled champion of the poor, was dragged out of bed last week by soldiers and placed on a plane to Costa Rica.