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Mary O'Grady: In Elections, Honduras Defeats Chávez
Mary O'Grady: In Elections, Honduras Defeats Chávez
Getty Images Casting a vote in Tegucigalpa, Nov. 29
Honduras voting for new president
Honduras voting for new president
news.bbc.co.uk — Presidential elections are under way in Honduras, five months after a political crisis ousted President Manuel Zelaya.... He was forced from Honduras at gunpoint in June, and replaced by Roberto Micheletti. Neither are candidates. The favourite to win is ... (more) Honduras voting for new president
Honduras Congress will NOT reinstate Zelaya
Honduras Congress will NOT reinstate Zelaya
faustasblog.com — 111 out of the 128 members of the Honduran Congress present voted against reinstating deposed president Mel... Zelaya. The vote came after an all-day session where the Congress reviewed several reports from the country’s institutions, including the Supreme Court, the Attorney General, ... (more) Honduras Congress will NOT reinstate Zelaya
WALKBACK COMPLETE: US RECOGNIZES WINNER IN HONDURAN ELECTION
rightwingnuthouse.com — What can you say? How often does the United States stake out a clear, unequivocal position on... a major foreign policy event and then, over the course of a few months, slowly walkback from their original position to come around and embrace exactly the ... (more) WALKBACK COMPLETE: US RECOGNIZES WINNER IN HONDURAN ELECTION
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MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY: In Elections, Honduras Defeats Chavez….
Instapundit — MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY: In Elections, Honduras Defeats Chavez.

The Honduran Vote
QandO — ... However the United States, having apparently finally figured out what was going on in Honduras, has said it will recognize the results of the election. Peru, Costa Rica, Panama, the German parliament and Japan will also recognize the vote (over 400 international monitors were on hand to watch the election) with more to come, I’m sure. ...

Hurrah! Another Obama Epic Fail! More, Please
Daily PunditMary O’Grady: In Elections, Honduras Defeats Chávez - WSJ.com The fact that the U.S. has said it will recognize their legitimacy shows that this reality eventually made its way to the White House. If not Hugo Chávez’s Waterloo, Honduras’s stand at least marks a major setback for the Venezuelan strongman’s expansionist agenda. The losers in this drama also include Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Spain…. And American socialist President Barack Obama, who had backed the coup attempt by fellow Marxist Manuel ...

WALKBACK COMPLETE: US RECOGNIZES WINNER IN HONDURAN ELECTION
Right Wing Nut House — ... by the Congressional Research Service that declared the Honduran government’s actions legal and justified. Democrats were furious and tried to get the report withdrawn - and for good reason. It made the president and his advisors look like they didn’t know what they were doing. So Honduras has a new president, elected by 56% of the voters, and Manuel Zelaya (whose term ends on January 27) will soon be a footnote in Honduran history. And as Mary O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal points out, it was the Honduran people and government - with no help from the US - who stood ...

Was the Election in Honduras a referendum on Socialism?
Political Byline — The question that many are asking today; is what this election actually means, or what it is to the people of Honduras and more broadly, the rest of the world — The answer is quite apparent and could be a bit painful, not to mention a foreshadow of the things to come here in America. Via The Wall Street Journal: Unless something monumental happens in the Western Hemisphere in the next 31 days, the big regional story for 2009 will be how tiny Honduras managed to beat back the colonial aspirations of its ...

A win for Honduras
neo-neocon — ... Honduras may get to choose its own leaders after all. The tag team of Obama and Chavez doesn’t seem to have been able to stop it from doing so, and Obama seems to have given up trying. ...

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