Entire program – June 29, 2009

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Today on The World: international pressure on Honduras after the country’s president is ousted in a coup; on the day of Bernie Madoff’s sentencing, we hear from the son of a British man who lost all his money to Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, then took his own life; and Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor finds a new setting, in Africa.Listen

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  • Barbara Bernstein

    Your 6/29 coverage of the coup in Honduras was misleading and inaccurate. The lead suggested that the scheduled referendum would have allowed democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya to extend his presidency indefinitely. In fact, the referendum would have been a nonbinding vote consulting the electorate on a proposal of holding a Constitutional Assembly in November. The Miami Herald reporter stated that everyone but a handful of demonstrators supported the removal of President Zelaya and that business was going on as usual. A story tonight on MSNBC contradicts that, reporting that thousands are in the street. While this throwback to the oligarchy rule of the past is supported by some of Honduras’s wealthy citizens, it appears that Zelaya has support of the much more numerous poor.