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Obama says Honduras violated law
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Published: June 30, 2009
WASHINGTON
President Barack Obama declared yesterday that the United States still considers Manuel Zelaya the president of Honduras and assailed the coup that forced him into exile as "not legal."
"It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition rather than democratic elections," Obama said in the Oval Office after meeting with Colombian President Alviro Uribe. "The region has made enormous progress over the last 20 years in establishing democratic traditions in Central America and Latin America. We don't want to go back to a dark past."
Leaders from the Western Hemisphere and beyond called for return to power of Zelaya, who was arrested Sunday by soldiers and forced into exile. Another president appointed by its Congress, Roberto Micheletti, said that Zelaya was removed legally by the courts and Congress for violating Honduras' constitution.
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