Latinobarómetro's 2009 polls are on their way out, and Boz has some commentary here.
He mentions that 58 say that they would approve of the military's removal of a president who violated the consitution. That is a bit unsettling, but I think this could be a case where polls lie a bit. It's impossible to know what the frame of mind was for the yes voters, but I think it's a fair guess that the majority of them weren't avidly following the Honduras coup and its aftermath, nor did they mean to imply that they would support a military government. Constitutional violations can mean benign referenda maliciously interpreted, or they can refer to a president who dissolves Congress and attempts to install himself as president for life. I imagine the latter scenario is what danced in the minds of the Mexicans voicing support for a potential military coup.
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