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Honduras — Hondurans choose a new president Sunday whose first challenge will be defending his legitimacy to the world and his people, and ending a debilitating, five-month-long crisis caused by Central America's first coup in more than 20 years. Porfirio...

This article gives few details of what is happening in Honduras. A much more negative but far more detailed account is to be found at hondurasenlu cha together with more links. THe agreement that was negotiated by the US was...

Santo Domingo.– President Leonel Fernandez left for Portugal to attend the Nineteenth Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and of Government that will begin next Monday in Estoril, providing a platform for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations to discuss innovation, the...

The rightwing rebels were backed by Ronald Reagan's United States. Photograph: Bill Gentile/Corbis Fruit corporations from the US turned Honduras , an impoverished tropical backwater, into a huge banana plantation at the start of the 20th century. They dominated its...

Philippines — A scion of a powerful pro-government clan has turned himself in and will face murder charges for allegedly leading the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan in the southern Philippines, the chief prosecutor said Thursday. President...

Of course we will hear from other voices that the US is simply recognising a legal and constitutional election. Valenzuela now is playing his part after DeMint let his nomination go through. Valenzuela praised Micheletti for taking his "vacation"and claimed...

Trampling on Honduran democracy The election in Honduras has the blessing of the US, but not the people, their president or the rest of the world On Sunday, Honduras's coup regime, with the support of the US, is staging a...

Colombians have a more negative view of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez than Venezuelans do of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe , a poll released Tuesday said. Venezuelans are also more likely to have no opinion at all of Uribe, a tribute...

Honduras’ post-coup de facto leader has said he would give up his presidential duties for a week, a step Washington welcomed as a way to help ease a five-month-old political crisis. Roberto Micheletti, who took power after President Manuel Zelaya...

Micheletti hopes the polls will put an end to a political crisis set off by the June 28 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, which has isolated the Central American nation. Micheletti said he expected to be absent from public functions...