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Caribbean & Central America - July 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)
HONDURAS: Impeachment threat claims Rubí’s scalp
It was supremely ironic that the attorney general, Luis Rubí, felt compelled to resign on 26 June after facing impeachment charges for deficiency in the performance of duty. Almost exactly four years earlier, on 28 June 2009, former president Manuel Zelaya (2006-2009) was ousted in a coup, which Rubí tenaciously defended as constitutional. At the time there was no provision in the constitution for impeachment but that was rectified last January by the legislative assembly. It wasted little time in moving against Rubí in what he denounced as “intolerable” political interference (of the sort which was used to justify Zelaya’s removal) in an institution he said he had striven to keep independent.
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