Caribbean & Central America - January 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

“We are going on Christmas holiday,” the vice-president of congress, Marvin Ponce, said mid December with admirable candour. His pithy statement spoke volumes. The consensus of the majority in congress is that there was nothing arbitrary about the way it dismissed four supreme court (CSJ) magistrates in the small hours of 12 December on a spurious interpretation of the constitution [WR-12-49]. The deafening silence from regional governments to what technically constitutes a judicial coup prompted one CSJ magistrate, Raúl Antonio Henríquez Interiano, to make a televised appeal to the international community, through its ambassadors in Honduras, to meet the full supreme court to find out first hand what had happened.

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