José Alberto Mujica Unruguay won the election for president; he is from the same political party of Tabare Vasquez. He was a guerrilla Tupamaro, but at 75 years of age he has to favor a moderate left (a social democracy), and politicians joined forces with the losing candidate Lacalle, in order to solve urgent problems [...]
Brazil Reluctantly Takes Key Role in Honduras Dispute
By Tim Padgett with Andrew Downie
São Paulo
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was 40,000 feet in the air on Sept. 21, en route to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, when he got the news. Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, after sneaking back into his [...]
Honduras’s power struggle
Zelaya swaps exile for embassy
Sep 24th 2009 | MEXICO CITY
From The Economist print edition
The unexpected return of the ousted president highlights the failure of the region’s diplomats to reverse a coup
Reuters
EVER since he was deposed as Honduras’s president by the army and bundled into exile in late June, Manuel Zelaya vowed that he would [...]
I did not orchestrate coup in Honduras
BY
OTTO J. REICH
OREICH@OTTOREICH.COM
It is not often that an ambassador of a foreign country publicly accuses a private U.S. citizen of being the ”architect” of a coup d’état against a third country. Yet that is what happened recently when the Venezuelan ambassador to the Organization of American States, Roy Chadderton, [...]
The deadline for Honduras is now over because leader Manuel Zelaya insists he was not seeking to extend his term.
The current leaders of Honduras have been given three days to restore exiled President Manuel Zelaya to power, by the Organization of American States.
If Honduras fails to comply, it could face being suspended from the OAS.
The army [...]
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