Talk politics.

Odd developments in Honduras today. Plenty of news, fragmented, and the facts differ a bit depending on the source. From what I've been able to gather:

1) President (or ex) Zelaya had called for a referendum asking for the election of a constitutional assembly to modify the current constitution (1982), or write a new one.

2) About 200 soldiers broke into the Zelaya's residence and put him in custody. Reports speak of 3-4 shots fired.

So far it's as much a coup as it can get. Further developments, however:

3) It turns out that the Supreme Court ordered/gave permission for the armed services to act as above. In a statement released (which I'm roughly translating)

"The Judiciary Power believes that in the case (detention and expulsion to Costa Rica of Zelaya), the armed services, as defenders of the empire and the Constitution acted in the defense of the rule of law, forcing the legal dispositions upon those that publicly spoke and acted agains the dispositions of the magna carta

"Before a request by the public ministry, the Supreme Court enabled the order upon the armed services as defenders of rule of the Constitution"

It's getting funky, isn't it?

Then:

4) The parliament approved a report by a commission investigating charges of Zelaya acting outside of the law, and quickly moved to depose him as president, while swearing in the chairman of the parliament, Micheletti, as interim president.

I won't comment much on the matter yet since the news are slowly trickling in and I'm trying to read as many versions as possible. For the time being I would say it's a sort of... legal coup? From what I'm understanding, Zelaya had been warned by the Court and Parliament that he was circumventing the law in the referendum process, and essentially sicced the army on him. I can't claim to have been following this process as closely as I do other Latin American countries' (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru), but this is going to certainly be a kicker as a formal investigation is made later on.

I might note that Zelaya asked Obama in a television message "did you do this!?", which can only be taken as an accusation. Most world leaders are being cautious, either crying foul play or calling the entire process damned fishy.