My country of Honduras, where i was born and raised and typing in right now is going through a serious political crisis. Here's the situation:

For the last few months, Honduran president Mel Zelaya has been running propaganda to add another poll to the voting booths on the next elections. this poll is to vote to completely remake the Honduran constitution. Some people agree with him because they think the current laws are favorable to the huge corporations and politcal bigwigs. Some disagree because they think Mel would instead try to remake the constitution to his convenience, including trascending to a communist government, prolonging his term, some would even dare say lifelong government, since Mel is a pronounced leftist and has been strengthening relationships with Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez and Cuban Fidel Castro.

Before adding the poll, Mel needed a nationwide referendum to see if the majority of the people would agree to the poll. Congress stated that such a poll cannot be added and to run a referendum to propose recreating the constitution was breaking the law. And so, the government was tore into two where some supported Mel and the rest supported Congress. A few days before the referendum, Congress ordered the armed forces to decomission all boxes and any other equipment to hold the national survey, and so they did. However, the president was hugely outraged and rushed with a crowd of followers down to the national air base where the equipment was being held. All of those citizens that followed Mel started revolting in an uproar, screaming and vandalizing their surroundings as a sign of protest. To prevent further consequences, the armed forces decided to hand back the equipment in good faith, so long as the general public calmed down to prevent worsening the situation. Once Mel got his materials back, he retreated temporarily only to show up a few days later to call the survey...that day is today.

However, very early this morning at about 3a.m. in Tegucigalpa, our nation's capital city, supposedly under the orders from Congress who motioned to strip Mel of his power, an armed forces squadron stormed into the Presidential House to extract the President from the premises, and shanghai'd him into Costa Rican territory, where he would be rendered powerless and without any support from his party.

National news broadcasters spread wide that Mel was forced to sign his resignation before he was cast out of the country, but according to other international broadcasters, Mel declared that he never signed anything and he is illegaly being removed.

Nonetheless, back in Honduras Mel is no longer considered president and the Congress swore in its current President, Roberto Micheletti as the National Constitutional President provisionally until the next elections are held, 7 months from now.

However, there is a great dissent about the decision made by congress, some because they think Congress had no right to make that decision, especially for not consulting the public and those that are for Mel's removal, do not agree with Congress' methods. And so, many people are manifesting themselves out on the streets and against the armed forces, which are constantly patrolling the cities to keep things in order.

As a security measurement, a curfew has been set nationwide where citizens are not allowed outdoors from 9p.m. to 6a.m. anyone spotted outside within those hours will be arrested and the soldiers have clearance to use full force if necessary.

Another huge criticism made by everyone is how the government has been trying to control and censor the flow of information in the country, so much as blocking all external news channels, (meaning, no CNN, FOX, etc.) that are reporting on the subject and only letting the politically-biased local newscasters to braodcast their news, leaving some of us to stay informed only via internet, at least for the few electricity hours we had today, because even the power company cut out the power for a great deal of the day precisely to avoid having anyone be in touch with the outer world.

Personally my worst fear of all is that Hugo Chavez himself has expressed his discontent with Mel being stripped of his power and in order to help him, he is willing to send some Venezuelan troops to Honduran territory to help him retake command and overthrow Constitutional President Micheletti. Of course, Chavez has no absolute authority over Honduras and its affairs, which upsets everyone in Honduras, and possibly leading to engage the Honduran armed forces in conflict, which could lead to big "W" word. Only time will tell what will be the outcome.

UPDATE!

Here's a link to a flickr photo gallery with really nice pics taken this day

http://www.flickr.com/photos/breve/sets/72157620563359693