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President Manuel Zelaya (pictured) was ousted in a coup five months ago. On Sunday, Hondurans will go to the polls to elect Zelaya’s successor. Many Latin American countries have refused to recognize the elections, organized by the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti. Yet some Hondurans consider choosing a new president a first step toward ending the country’s political crisis. From Tegucigalpa, John Otis reports. Download MP3
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Ousted Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya and his political opponents have signed off on an agreement that will allow him to return to office and create a power-sharing government. Zelaya has been holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras for weeks during the impasse. Katy Clark finds out more from someone who’s also been in the embassy, Andres Conteris, of the US-based group “Democracy Now en Espanol.” Download MP3
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The World’s William Troop reports on the stand-off in Honduras, where deposed president Manuel Zelaya is holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Zelaya is demanding that he be allowed to return to power, while the de facto government that replaced him is demanding that Brazil turn Zelaya over to be arrested. Download MP3Honduras’ interim president said talks may begin Saturday to address the political crisis enveloping the country since the military deposed the country’s sitting president two weeks ago. Anchor Jeb Sharp gets the latest from Jennifer McCoy, director of the Americas Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Listen
The on-going political turmoil in Iran provides inspiration for cartoonists this week. They also tackle the coup in Honduras, Bernie Madoff’s 150-year prison sentence. Oh, and yes…Michael Jackson.
The Obama Administration has condemned this week’s coup in Honduras. That puts the US in the unusual position of siding with traditional foes Venezuela and Cuba. The World’s Katy Clark reports.
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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
The new leaders of Honduras are under intense pressure from the United States and other nations a day after a military coup. But the country’s new president says the move was legal. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Frances Robles of the Miami Herald who is in the capital Tegucigalpa.Listen