Ah, legality. Now it appears that the session of the Honduran Congress in which the Congress supposedly voted unanimously– unanimously!– to strip Zelaya of his powers may have been illegal. Six deputies of the Liberal Party say that they rejected the temporary constitutional rupture advanced in the June 25th parliamentary session. So, they weren’t invited to the session three days later when Micheletti was placed in power. Nor were they alone. They estimated that about 20 legislators of various parties, out of 128, opposed military intervention. (via a commenter at Narconews).
Now, here’s the Wikipedia part. The Wikipedia entry reads:
Manuel Zelaya – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The National Congress unanimously voted to accept what they said is Zelaya’s letter of resignation, but Zelaya said he did not write the letter.[49]
National Congress President Roberto Micheletti, the next person in the presidential line of succession, assumed the presidency following Zelaya’s removal from office.[50] National Congress supported unanimously Micheletti.
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(where I have inserted the actual live links rather than links to the end of the Wikipedia article)
But amazingly neither the Reuters nor the AP articles say anything about unanimity (one does find that characterization in some Spanish language versions, such as this one from Costa Rica’s La Nacion). That was just another lie concocted by the coupistas… and they got it into Wikipedia.