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Honduras's de facto leader said he may give up his presidential duties for a week so voters can focus on an election that Washington hopes will help end a five-month-old political crisis. Voters in the impoverished central American country are due to elect a new president on November 29, but campaigning has been overshadowed by fallout from a military coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya in June. "I plan to be absent from my public duties for a period that could begin on November 25 and end on Dec

I plan to be absent from my public duties for a period that could begin on November 25 and end on December 2   -Roberto Micheletti

 

Representatives from over 50 international leftwing parties gathered Thursday in Venezuela censured the US foreign policy, which intents to thwart the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA). "The empire is committed to hinder ALBA with the illegal, criminal coup against constitutional Honduran President Manuel Zelaya," the former President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D Escoto, stated. The US is not only involved in a coup against Honduras but against ALBA in general, and it see  

US-Colombia protracted negotiations resulted in a treaty on the American lease of 7 Colombian military bases. This is officially claimed to be a part of the fight against terrorism, but no further details were given. Discussions over the bases which are to house several hundred of American pilots, sailors and civilian experts lasted several months and were wrangled over in Colombia and other countries.  

"The president's been arrested already this morning," hotel owner Jeff Kuken told me and my wife one Sunday morning in late June. We had spent months planning a vacation across Honduras, but now Latin America's first military coup in decades was unfolding on the third day of our trip. Not exactly part of our plans, and definitely not included in guidebooks that painted Honduras as the Next Big Destination for affordable eco-tourism. "The military flew him out of the country at gunpoint," said Kuken, a

The president's been arrested already this morning   -Jeff Kuken

 

The most recent Latin American leader to overturn presidential term limits is Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega. Mexico City; and Managua, Nicaragua - Modern Latin American history books have thick chapters on dictators and strongmen ( caudillos) who pillaged government coffers, ruled for their own gain, and ruthlessly stamped out all opposition. When countries moved away from military dictatorship in the 1980s, new constitutions included articles to ban reelection and ensure that such leaders never again ret  

oeing Co. may lose a $7.5 billion jet fighter sale to Brazil unless the U.S. Senate lifts a four-month delay in confirming President Barack Obama's nominee for ambassador to Latin America's biggest country, a former top U.S. diplomat to the region said. Bernard Aronson is one of nine ex-Assistant Secretaries of State for the Western Hemisphere who yesterday sent a letter urging Senator George LeMieux, a Florida Republican, to stop blocking a vote on career diplomat Thomas Shannon's nomination. Aronson s

Events in Honduras and the influence of totalitarians like Chavez and Castro have begun to cast a shadow on the promise of constitutional democracy throughout the region   -George LeMieux

 

"The president's been arrested already this morning," hotel owner Jeff Kuken told me and my wife one Sunday morning in late June. We had spent months planning a vacation across Honduras, but now Latin America's first military coup in decades was unfolding on the third day of our trip. Not exactly part of our plans, and definitely not included in guidebooks that painted Honduras as the Next Big Destination for affordable eco-tourism. "The military flew him out of the country at gunpoint," said Kuken, a

The president's been arrested already this morning   -Jeff Kuken

 

A four-month delay by the U.S. Senate in confirming President Barack Obama's nominee for ambassador to Brazil may cost Boeing Co. a $7.5 billion jet fighter contract, a former top U.S. diplomat to Latin America said. Bernard Aronson is one of nine ex-Assistant Secretaries of State for the Western Hemisphere who today sent a letter urging Senator George LeMieux, a Florida Republican, to stop blocking a vote on career diplomat Thomas Shannon's nomination. Aronson said the delay may help France's Dassault