On July 10 the de facto government in Honduras received support from a city council member in Santiago, Chile. "It appeared to be a common, ordinary coup" at first, Lucía Pinochet Hiriart said, according to the satirical and investigative Chilean weekly The Clinic, but later it turned out that "the one who wanted to carry out the coup d'état was Zelaya." He "makes himself out to be the victim," she said, but his own allegedly unconstitutional acts left the military no choice but to do "something unconstitutional." Pinochet Hiriart, who represents the exclusive Vitacura neighborhood in eastern Santiago, is a daughter of late Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, who seized power from elected president Salvador Allende Gossens in a bloody 1973 coup. (Qué, Spain, July 10 from EFE)

From Weekly News Update on the Americas, July 13

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