5 July, 2009

Zelaya says he’s optimist, will return to Honduras
WZTV – Nashville,TN,USA
AP Writer SATURDAY NIGHT: Showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1am. Low around 68. South wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.…
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Tensions mount as Honduras defies OAS
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Honduras headed toward international isolation Saturday after the country’s coup leaders said they would pull out of the Organization of American States, …
news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/amid-deadlock-
honduras-faces-expulsion-from-oas-20090704-d89h.html

Honduras showdown?…Fireworks explosion…High-rise fire
9&10 News – Cadillac,MI,USA
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — There could be a showdown in the making in Honduras between the nation’s new government and its president, who was ousted in a …
www.9and10news.com/category/story/?id=156865

The Honduras Itch
RT – Moscow,Russia
Unlike Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela, Honduras had been getting very little coverage in the Russian media before last weekend. Meanwhile, jokes aside, in the …
www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/
2009-07-04/The_Honduras_Itch.html

Defending Democracy in Honduras
Washington Post – United States
As a Honduran citizen, I’m extremely concerned that US policymakers are misinterpreting the events that led to the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya [”UN …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/07/04/AR2009070402023.html

Organization Of American States Meets On Honduras
NPR – USA
… 2009 · The Organization of American States held an emergency meeting Saturday in Washington, DC, to discuss whether to suspend Honduras’ membership. …
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Exiled Honduran President Vows Sunday Return
Wall Street Journal – USA
AP TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is announcing plans to return Sunday to Honduras accompanied by other unnamed presidents …
online.wsj.com/article/SB124673897951995201.html

Exiled Honduran president vows return
The Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya announced Saturday that he would return to Honduras to try to retake office following last …
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5jAkMGKIUDg_ngUiZboxQbYj5_DPwD997RV104

Honduras, Iran, and China, Part Deux, Detractors missing basic point
Fool’s Mountain – San Francisco,USA
But the detractors of the current “new government” of Honduras miss the fundamental contradictions of their own arguments. They argue that “this is not a …
blog.foolsmountain.com/2009/07/04/honduras-iran-and-
china-part-deux-detractors-missing-basic-point/

JURIST – Paper Chase: Honduras high court rejects OAS call to …
By Ximena Marinero
[JURIST] The Honduras Supreme Court [official website, in Spanish] has refused a Friday petition by Organization of American States (OAS) [official website] Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza [personal website] calling for the …
jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/
honduras-high-court-rejects-oas-call-to.php

Belmont Club “ At the limit of Honduras
By Richard Fernandez
Fausta has been following events in Honduras. Start here and keep scrolling down. Ferdsblog has tried to summarize events from the point of view of whether or nor Hugo Chavez gets to extend his sphere of influence. …
pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/
2009/07/04/at-the-limit-of-honduras/

The Field: Honduras Coup Chooses Path of Rogue Narco-State
By Al Giordano
This photo of Honduran coup “president” Roberto Micheletti rallying his supporters, above, from yesterday’s New York Times includes a creative act of protest against it. In the lower left hand corner of the photo, there are two placards …
narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/hon
duras-coup-chooses-path-rogue-narco-state

OAS Admits Cuba, Kicks Out Honduras | Sweetness & Light
By Steve
From an approving Reuters: June 29: Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, right, raises the arm of Honduras’ President Manuel Zelaya, center, who embraces.
sweetness-light.com/archive/oas-embraces-cuba-kicks-out-honduras

“ Thoughts on Honduras – Blogger News Network
By whymrhymer
They have called the ousting of former Honduran President Zelaya a“military coup” when the facts clearly indicate that the Honduran Supreme Court ordered the military to remove Zelaya after he insisted on pushing for a referendum that …
www.bloggernews.net/121465

4 July, 2009

Ousted Honduran president riled old guard, business
Reuters – USA
By Patrick Markey TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran rancher Santiago Ruiz has no doubt about the day President Manuel Zelaya finally detonated the crisis …
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE56253P20090703

US leverage in Honduran coup
Saudi Gazette – Riyadh,Saudi Arabia
By Anne Gearan The coup that deposed the president of Honduras exposed the small leverage that even millions of dollars in aid and longtime military…
www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?
method=home.con&contentid=2009070442704

OAS chief tells Honduras to let Zelaya go back
WXXI – Rochester,NY,USA
By Enrique Andres Pretel TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The Organization of American States tried to convince Honduras on Friday to restore ousted President Manuel …
www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain/article/0/0/
1525698/World/OAS.chief.tells.Honduras.to.let.Zelaya.go.back

Travel alert issued for Honduras requests US citizens defer travel …
Examiner.com – USA
Last week, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his home and exiled to Costa Rica by military forces, and an interim president has been sworn …
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AP News in Brief
The Associated Press
___ Honduras rebuffs top diplomat in ultimatum to restore president or face sanctions TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ Supreme Court rebuffed a…
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07-03-2009 Honduras under siege
Real News Network – New York,NY,USA
July 3 – Bertha Oliva, Founder and Co-ordinator of the Committee for the Disappeared, from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, speaks to TRNN journalist Jesse Freeston …
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com_content&task=view&id=295&Itemid=1

The Situation in Honduras
CounterPunch – Petrolia,CA,USA
By BELÉN FERNANDEZ On a visit to the website of the US State Department yesterday, I was greeted with a map of Honduras. Accompanying explanations for the …
www.counterpunch.org/fernandez07032009.html

Beware of the Not-So-Hidden Agendas In Honduras
FOXNews – USA
Honduras presents the Obama administration with its first real Latin American crisis. Since the 1981 return of civilian rule, Honduras has regarded itself …
www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/03
/beware-hidden-agendas-honduras

Isolated Nicaragua senses opportunity in Honduras crisis
Christian Science Monitor – USA
In the hours following last Sunday’s ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, Ortega quickly jockeyed himself into a leadership role in the region’s …
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0703/p06s21-wogn.html

OAS head due to press global concerns in Honduras
AFP
Faced with an OAS threat to kick Honduras out of the organization due to reach a deadline Saturday, Honduras’ interim leader Roberto Micheletti backed down …
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ALeqM5h-Ruto8wQZ3ImhmAxpJKGLSD4RwQ

RealClearPolitics – Hands Off Honduras!
By Patrick Buchanan
Though elected as a center-right candidate, Zelaya has moved into the orbit of Chavez, whose idea it was to change the Honduran constitution to get Zelaya another term. Hugo even provided the ballots. In Latin America, term limits have …
www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/
07/03/hands_off_honduras_97288.html

PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts “ More Thoughts on Honduras
By Steven L. Taylor
Obviously, I have been quite interested in the situation in Honduras, which makes sense since I have been interested in questions of power and rules and how their interaction leads either to stable governance or the collapse thereof in …
www.poliblogger.com/?p=16183

Honduras Takes Control of Some Media – Democratic Underground
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’s provisional government, while trying to persuade the international community that its overthrow of its president was democratic, is being criticized for taking control of a number of media outlets …
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News From Underground: Hard truths about Honduras
By mcm
Now, everyone has the right to be against Honduras President Manuel Zelaya. But not to reveal that Honduras is run by a tight little oligarchy (which includes its parliament and Supreme Court) which kills labor organizers just for …
markcrispinmiller.com/2009/07/hard-truths-about-honduras.html

Honduras rebuffs top diplomat in ultimatum to restore president or …
By Bureau News
Honduras rejects OAS appeal to restore presidentTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras— Honduras’ Supreme Court rebuffed a personal appeal from the Americas’ top international diplomat Friday, refusing to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya before a …
blog.taragana.com/n/honduras-rebuffs-top-diplomat-in-
ultimatum-to-restore-president-or-face-sanctions-99038/