Honduras Coup
Jun 29 2010, Andrew

Former Honduran President Mel Zelaya said Monday that the coup that ousted him a year ago was planned by the U.S. Southern Command from the Palmerola military base in Honduras.

“Everything indicates that the coup was planned at the Palmerola...

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Prince, Columbus
Occupants of the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, where ousted President Manuel Zelaya is holed up with his supporters, complained Wednesday about loud music blasted by...
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Kevin, Columbia
Talks to end a nearly four-month-old political crisis in Honduras have again stalled, with a representative for deposed President Manuel Zelaya calling the interim...
made popular Oct 21 2009
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Prince, Columbus
Ask the waitress at La Terraza de Don Pepe, a neon-lit restaurant in this capital city’s shabby downtown, where the Virgin is and she waves toward the back, past the...
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Guilherme, Brasilia
The rivals for Honduras’ presidency toned down hopes for an end to the nation’s political standoff despite an apparent breakthrough by negotiators who said...
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Eduardo, Buenos Aires
Diplomats from throughout the hemisphere were converging Wednesday on Honduras to resolve a standoff that has left the impoverished Central American country with two...
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Prince, Columbus
A Jewish civil rights organization is expressing alarm over conspiracy theories claiming Jews and Israel aided the ouster of the Honduran president and attempts to...
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Vinicius, Brasilia
Reporting from Mexico City and Tegucigalpa, Honduras — Themeeting, by all accounts, was tense and difficult. Whether it erupted in shouted insults remains a...
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Alex, Portland
The de facto government that’s in power in Honduras closed down television and radio stations Monday morning that are aligned with ousted President Manuel...
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Nolan, Mexico City
On this, the day when hope springs eternal, President Zelaya is back in Honduras, more specifically at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa. How he got there, no one is...
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Chad, Tempe
Deposed President Manuel Zelaya’s surprise return to Honduras to reclaim his seat had him holed up in the Brazilian Embassy Tuesday, saying he feared for his life...
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Chad, Tempe
Global condemnation. Millions of dollars of aid cut off. Revoked visas and calls of illegitimacy. None of this has made the interim government of Honduras, led by...
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Alex, Portland
Two months after the president of Honduras was removed in a coup, the country’s interim ruler offered Thursday to resign and accept the ousted leader back into...
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Alex, Portland
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...
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Craig, Miami
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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Andrew, Tempe
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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Alex, Portland
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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Chad, Tempe
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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CJ, San Francisco
When Ángel Hsiky, a farm worker, heard his ousted president’s call for supporters to help him return to Honduras, he threw a change of clothes in a knapsack, kissed...
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Ronnie, Tegucigalpa
The ousted president of Honduras has briefly crossed the country’s border with Nicaragua, in a symbolic move the US has described as a...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The recent coup in Honduras, while I believe was in constitutional bounds and should be a supported as the restoration of democracy; should nonetheless revive the idea...
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Christopher, Tegucigalpa
Negotiations to end Honduras’ political crisis are facing a new challenge after the ousted president vowed to act on his own if he is not returned to power in the...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Obama administration is playing a game of semantics in describing the military coup in Honduras against leftist President Zelaya. Whether one endorses the coup or...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
It is almost like a God send to further illustrate Western double-standards. The coup in Honduras just makes my point for me: Western governments and media have no...
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Andrew, Tempe
President Obama on Monday strongly condemned the ouster of Honduras’s president as an illegal coup that set a “terrible precedent” for the region, as the...
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