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Honduras: election a chance to transcend impasse?

By Michael Allen on December 2, 2009

While provisional returns suggest that the opposition National Party’s Porfirio Lobo handily defeated Elvin Santos of the ruling Liberal Party in last Sunday’s election, the legitimacy of the poll is being contested.
As Honduran legislators debated the future of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, an election assessment mission published findings that the poll was “generally peaceful and [read full story]

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Honduras: democrats must show zero tolerance – even for ‘democratic’ coups

By Michael Allen on July 1, 2009

As the coup in Honduras continues to attract condemnation from governments and civil society groups, the Organization of American States today gave Honduras 72 hours to reinstate deposed President Manuel Zelaya or face suspension.
It announced that OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza will undertake “diplomatic initiatives aimed at… the reinstatement of President Jose Manuel Zelaya [read full story]

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Honduras coup evokes ‘unacceptable’ images of Latin America’s past

By Michael Allen on June 30, 2009

As democratic states and non-governmental groups alike condemned the coup in Honduras, ousted president Manuel Zelaya insists that he will return to Tegucigalpa on Thursday, accompanied by Latin American dignitaries, including Jose Miguel Insulza, the head of the Organization of American States. Honduras may be expelled from the OAS at its emergency meeting today.
Pro-Zelaya demonstrators [read full story]

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