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  • What next for troubled nation? 29 Nov 2009 13:32 GMT
    ... Amnesty International. The Gordian knot of Honduran politics was tied early June 28 when a ... him off in his pajamas to nearby Costa Rica. Congress swore in Micheletti, the Legislature's president, ... rights activists and journalists critical of Micheletti's government have been receiving increased threats and intimidation. ...

  • Honduras braces for election unrest after coup 29 Nov 2009 13:32 GMT
    ... is tantamount to legitimizing the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti, who replaced Zelaya. The ... the human rights group Amnesty International. The political crisis started June 28, when a military-backed ... him off in his pajamas to nearby Costa Rica. A few hours later, Congress swore in ...

  • Honduras braces for election unrest 29 Nov 2009 13:10 GMT
    ... is tantamount to legitimizing the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti, who replaced Zelaya. The ... the human rights group Amnesty International. The political crisis started June 28, when a military-backed ... him off in his pajamas to nearby Costa Rica. A few hours later, Congress swore in ...

  • Honduran presidential election due 29 Nov 2009 12:04 GMT
    ... held in Honduras, five months after a political crisis ousted President Manuel Zelaya. He was ... the elections are deemed "free and fair". Costa Rica, which has long been the mediator between ... have said they will not recognise any government installed after the election, arguing that to ...

  • Friedman to visit The Woodlands Dec. 12 29 Nov 2009 09:04 GMT
    ... Kinky Friedman likes cigars. What he loves, though, is politics. “A little bit of politics goes everywhere ... of Honduran and Nicaraguan tobaccos and a Costa Rican binder with a Habano wrapper. The Kinky ...

  • Honduras quiet, tense as post-coup elections are held 29 Nov 2009 08:40 GMT
    ... choose a new president today from the political establishment that has dominated Honduras for decades. ... enjoys popular support. But the de facto government that has run the country since the ... But with the exception of Panama and Costa Rica — whose president had earlier tried to broker ...

  • Ben Beall: Observations upon returning from Latin America 29 Nov 2009 07:54 GMT
    ... of Bolivia and the rain forests of Costa Rica. We are glad to be home, and ... its support of capitalism, globalization, the traditional political elites and the agri-business landowners of the ... in conversations with our work partners and Costa Rican friends: One, as in all Latin Amer­ican ...

  • Weary of Political Crisis, Honduras Holds Election (Today) 29 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
    ... Weary of Political Crisis, Honduras Holds Election By ELISABETH MALKIN, ... enjoys popular support. But the de facto government that has run the country since the ... But with the exception of Panama and Costa Rica -- whose president had tried to mediate an ...

  • Backgrounder: Major Events in Honduras' Political Crisis 29 Nov 2009 06:56 GMT
    ... Honduras holds elections on Sunday amid a political crisis caused by a June 28 coup ... and forced onto a plane bound for Costa Rica. Former legislature leader Roberto Micheletti became acting ... all its 192 members to recognize Zelaya's government only. On June 30, the European Union, ...

  • Relative Calm the Day before Elections in Honduras 29 Nov 2009 06:56 GMT
    ... Congress, 20 members of the Central American parliament and 298 mayors among more than 13,000 ... the elections as a solution to the political crisis and will go to vote, those who ... country. But Canada, the United States, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia and Peru have said they will ...

  • Profile: Honduras' Leading Presidential Candidates 29 Nov 2009 06:56 GMT
    ... mayors and deputies to the Central American Parliament, amid a political crisis triggered by a military-backed coup which ousted ... coup which ousted President Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica on June 28. The followings are the leading ...

  • Honduras denounces plans to boycott presidential election 29 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
    ... Tegucigalpa - The de facto government urged Hondurans ... effort to negotiate a solution to the political crisis, which has left Honduras without formal ... leaving ours in disorder," Zelaya told the Costa Rican daily La Nacion. The US government appears ...

  • Hondurans to elect new president after June coup 29 Nov 2009 06:43 GMT
    ... of the country, starting Central America's biggest political crisis since the end of the Cold ... an election organized by Micheletti's de facto government is invalid and would amount to a ... a trickle of recognition from other countries. Costa Rica, which welcomed exiled Zelaya the day of ...

  • Honduras sets vote, but rifts continue 29 Nov 2009 06:14 GMT
    ... Zelaya, ousted June 28 and deported to Costa Rica. Instead, the most powerful outside mediator, the ... Honduras to emerge from the diplomatic and political isolation that followed Zelaya's removal. But Zelaya's ... pro-coup businesses. In another setback for Zelaya, Costa Rican's president, Oscar Arias, who unsuccessfully attempted to ...

  • Zelaya Blasts Election as Hondurans Go to the Polls 29 Nov 2009 06:12 GMT
    ... The blasts - for which no one has claimed ... in September. With the coup's de facto government muzzling the Honduran media, cracking down on ... latest figures to recognize the ballot is Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who had overseen talks ...


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