Manuel Zelaya Vows To Return To Honduras To Regain Control

From: The Huffington Post
Author: Will Weissert and Freddy Cuevas



TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' ousted president, bolstered by international support, said he will return home this week to regain control. The man who replaced him said Tuesday that Manuel Zelaya could be met with an arrest warrant.

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Did Someone Say Coup?

From: RealClearPolitics
Author: Mona Charen

"The news that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from his post and spirited out of the country by the Honduran military has elicited official condemnations from the governments of France, Ecuador, Chile, Spain, and Argentina; as well as protests from the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The U.S. State Department called the events an "attempted coup," and demanded that Mr. Zelaya be returned to power in order to facilitate the "restoration of democratic order."

Hold on. There was an attempted coup in Honduras, but it was Zelaya who initiated it, not his opponents."

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Puerto Rico's Justice

From: The Washington Post
Author: Anthony Stevens-Árroyo

"While much of the world's attention is focused on protests in Iran, Puerto Rico quietly advances its case against U.S. imperialism at the United Nations. This year, as in others, more and more nations call for an international solution to Puerto Rican status and an end to colonialism throughout the world. If the issue ends up [in] the U.S. Supreme Court, I know how Justice Sonia Sotomayor will vote..."

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+ UN Committee Urges U.S. to Expedite Self-Determination Vote in Puerto Rico
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Sarkozy allows Martinique to hold autonomy vote

From: The Associated Press
Author: Rodolphe Lamy



FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique – French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that Martinique is free to hold a referendum on greater political autonomy but made clear the island would always belong to France.

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Beautiful Iranian Women Pivotal in Iran Election Coverage

An interesting article from The Huffington Post.
Author: Latoya Peterson



With reporting opportunities strictly limited in Iran, images of Iran women carry the narrative. Much of the media focus is on young attractive women. The author wonders about complexities hidden behind the emerging icons.

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Peru Overturns Decrees That Incited Protests

From: The New York Times
Author: Simon Romero



CARACAS, Venezuela — Peru’s Congress on Thursday overturned two decrees by President Alan García that were aimed at opening large areas of the Peruvian Amazon to logging, dams and oil drilling but set off protests by indigenous groups this month in which dozens died.

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In a Coup in Honduras, Ghosts of Past U.S. Policies

From: The New York Times
Author: Helene Cooper and Marc Lacey



WASHINGTON — 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 country’s new government defied international calls to return the toppled president to power and clashed with thousands of protesters.

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