Honduras's president dismissed military chief General Romeo Vasquez, center, who refused to distribute ballots aimed at rewriting the constitution. Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesFrom The Wall Street Journal:
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's push to rewrite the constitution, and pave the way for his potential re-election, has plunged one of Latin America's poorest countries into a potentially violent political crisis.
A day after Mr. Zelaya fired the head of the country's armed forces, hundreds of troops on Thursday deployed around the Congress, presidential palace and airport in Tegucigalpa, the country's capital. It wasn't clear whether the troops were responding to orders from Mr. Zelaya, or Honduras' other civilian and military powers, all of which oppose the president.
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