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Honduras’s supreme court has rejected a Costa Rica-brokered deal to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power and ordered his arrest if he returns.
The ruling also affirmed the legitimacy of the government of interim leader Roberto...
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Manuel Zelaya’s chances of getting restored to the Honduran presidency become more distant with each passing week. Across Latin America, his allies and foes alike...
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Honduras – Honduras’ coup-installed government said it does not expect to be judged fairly by an international panel that arrived Monday to investigate...
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The month-old mediation effort by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to resolve Honduras’ political crisis is foundering under the near-universal opposition of...
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THE coup here has brought back a lot of Central America’s cold war ghosts, but few as polarizing as Billy Joya, a former police captain accused of being the former...
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The shadow of the Cold War has returned to the US coastline with the first detection in 15 years of Russian nuclear-powered submarines operating offshore.
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