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Burrows held that the Honduran take-over was not typical of Latin coups. "Everyone knew it was coming. It was simply a matter of time. But President Morales was helpless to stop...
...Honduran constitution requires a two-thirds vote of Congress to remove the commander of the armed forces. The President was unable to secure the necessary votes and, on the morning of Oct. 3, the Army deposed him and suspended the constitution...
...succeed a military junta, Villeda Morales made a start on agrarian reform, got $11.6 million in Alliance for Progress aid and used it to launch a modest development plan to educate his 1,950,000 people, build roads and attract new industry. Personally popular and staunchly antiCommunist, he kept Honduran far leftists at arm's length, helped labor clean out Red infiltrators. "I am asking you," he once told a labor rally, "to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia...
...another coup in 1956 -López cut off communication to the countryside, imposed martial law and canceled the Oct. 13 presidential election. Ex-President Villeda Morales and ex-Presidential Candidate Rodas Alvarado were packed aboard an air force C-47 and flown to exile in Costa Rica. The Honduran army then went about mopping up loyalist resistance. At week's end, just as the new regime was being sworn in, fighting broke out again in the streets of Tegucigalpa. A downtown hotel was set afire, and university students took potshots at patrolling soldiers. There was still...
...Honduran army yesterday overthrew the government of President Ramon Villeda Morales and exiled him to neighboring Costa Rica...