cnn.com - 6/28/2009
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Civilians berate Army soldiers in an armored car near the presidential house in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Sunday.
online.wsj.com - 6/29/2009
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Hugo Ch vez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback
yesterday when the Honduran military sent its president packing...
for abusing the nation's constitution. It seems that President Mel Zelaya miscalculated when he tried to emulate the success of ...
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O'Grady: Honduras Defends Its Democracy
online.wsj.com - 6/28/2009
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Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters Honduran soldiers blocked a street near
the residence of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in Tegucigalpa...
on Sunday.
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Honduras Tense After Army Coup
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Crisis in Honduras
Blogs For Victory —
Wonder if Obama will keep as hands off here as he has in Iran:
Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya said he awoke to gunfire in his home and was still in his pajamas when the military forced him to leave the country Sunday.
Zelaya, a leftist elected in 2005, had found himself recently pitted against other branches of government and military leaders over a referendum planned for Sunday that could have allowed the president to run for another term.
Honduras’ Supreme Court ruled the referendum illegal, and the military and Congress ...
Honduras and democracy
neo-neocon —
... Obama has said that he is “deeply concerned” by the news of the removal of Zelaya and that he calls on “all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.” So far it seems, however, that it was actually Zelaya who was violating those rules of law. It also sounds as though Obama’s definition of “democratic norms” might include “one person, one vote, one time.” ...
New Honduran President Emerges Amidst Great Strife
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
CNN:
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Hours after the sitting president was deposed by a military-led coup, a new president of Honduras was sworn in Sunday.
But the former president was not ready to give up his powers.
The political developments that swept Honduras over the past weeks and led up to Sunday’s coup had the makings of a crisis, but the situation in the Central American nation of 8 million people was calm.
Roberto Micheletti was sworn in as provisional president to the applause of members of Congress, who chanted, ...
Honduras deal: Breakthrough or fig leaf?
Majikthise —
... Why does it seem unlikely that congress will reinstate Zelaya? For one thing, Micheletti's last real job before proclaiming himself president was as the leader of the Honduran congress. As he himself noted in an Wall Street Journal op/ed, congress ...
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faustasblog.com 6/28/2009 —
My latest article, Honduras in Turmoil , is up at Real Clear World. Please read it and leave a comment if you may. The Honduran referendum is still scheduled for tomorrow, at least according to Zelaya.
Crisis in Honduras
blogsforvictory.com 6/28/2009 — Wonder if Obama will keep as hands off here as he has in Iran :
Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya said he awoke to gunfire in his home and was still in his pajamas when the military forced him to leave the country Sunday.
Zelaya, a leftist elected in 2005, had found himself recently ...
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 6/29/2009
AP - CORRECTS: Obama says Honduras coup was "not legal" instead of "illegal." (Corrects APNewsAlert reporting that Obama says Honduras coup was "illegal" and Zelaya remains president.")
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