To be fair, in a lot of the South American coups we took part in, it was never clear that any truly important national interests were at play either. Sometimes it was nothing more than doing favors for big time power brokers in the U.S. who had financial interests that were under threat, things which few people knew about until decades later. In those cases, as now, it didn’t take much more than the interest of one or two people in the administration/buerracracy to push for it getting done.
But I still have a hard time seeing that in operation here.
Well maybe: I’d just like to see whether or not anyone else is going to do much better, and certainly the rebels are no better, and possibly a lot worse. The corruption and armed thug atmosphere of the country is a lot bigger and more entrenched than any one man, and at this point I’d hold some sort of political stability and rule of law over chaos and rebelion regardless of how ineffectual the president was. If you need to oust him, at least have some sort of vote on the thing.
