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		<title>O&#8217;Grady on Honduras</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/07/13/ogrady-on-honduras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Anastacia O&#8217;Grady has an excellent bit in the Wall Street Journal this morning about why exiled Honduran President Zelaya was removed from office in the manner he was two weeks ago;
Two incidents earlier this year make the case. The first occurred in January when the country was preparing to name a new 15-seat Supreme [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1589&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez dictates to Obama on Honduras</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/07/10/chavez-dictates-to-obamaon-honduras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After calling the the current negotiations in Costa Rica between the Honduran government and ousted President Zelaya &#8220;dead&#8221;, Hugo Chavez dictated to Obama what the US policy should be towards Honduras according to Bloomberg;
Chavez said that actions taken by the U.S. so far have been “timid” and “contradictory.” He said that Obama should impose economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1586&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US cuts military aid to Honduras</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/07/09/us-cuts-military-aid-to-honduras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First the Obama Administration cut off funding for pro-democracy movements inside Iran, now they&#8217;re cutting off military funding to Honduras&#8230;well, according to the new Honduran government (Reuters link);
The United States government has suspended $16.5 million in military assistance programs to Honduras after last month’s coup, the American Embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital, said Wednesday. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1582&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zelaya to meet rivals/Clinton</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/07/07/zelaya-to-meet-rivalsclinton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
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Reuters reports that ousted-President Zelaya of Honduras will meet with representatives of the defacto government in an attempt to mediate the dispute.
&#8220;Our first meeting is set for Thursday, in Costa Rica,&#8221; Zelaya, told Honduran radio from Washington, saying he would meet the &#8220;protagonists&#8221; of the June 28 coup that ousted him.
But [Costa Rican President Oscar] [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1579&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zelaya heads for Honduras</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/07/05/zelaya-heads-for-honduras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daniel Ortega]]></category>
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A few minutes ago, Manuel Zelaya, the ousted President of Honduras, headed back to Honduras on a Venzuelan (surprise!) jet, according to the Associated Press.  The Constitutional President, Roberto Micheletti, has instructed the Honduran military to prevent the jet from landing with the former president.
Thousands of protesters descended on the airport in the Honduran [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1577&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blame-Storming Honduras</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/06/28/blame-storming-honduras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoping something will stick to the United States, the International left is throwing fingers at the US for the coup in Honduras. I wrote earlier that Chavez blamed the US, but Honduran President Manuel Zelaya tells a different story. Apparently the US thwarted a coup on Friday (Reuters link);
&#8220;Everything was in place for the coup [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1573&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honduras ignites</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/06/28/honduras-ignites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
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The President of Honduras found himself on the way to Costa Rica this morning after being rousted from his presidential chambers in his pajamas by the army. In what the president later referred to as a &#8220;brutal kidnapping&#8221;, the army rolled tanks through the streets and put Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on the next plane [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1570&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Chavez weekend</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/05/31/a-chavez-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 12:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Hugo Chavez backed away from a weekend debate with Peruvian Vargas Llosa and broke his promise of a four-day-log marathon installment of &#8220;Alo, Presidente&#8221;, according to AFP/Breitbart;
 For Saturday, a debate had been scheduled between Chavez and conservative Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, a novelist who ran for president in 1990.
But by late Friday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1567&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez seizes more private property</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/05/22/chavez-seizes-more-private-property/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 12:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Chavez has decided that instead of paying his bills to oil equipment companies, he can just seize their property and save himself a coupla bucks;
Venezuela has taken 632 pieces of oil-related machinery from private companies in western Venezuela, including motorboats, tugboats, barges and piers, Oil and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez announced Thursday.
He spoke on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1565&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez ready to shut down Globovision</title>
		<link>http://tallandrich.com/2009/05/17/chavez-ready-to-shut-down-globovision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 14:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonn Lilyea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess that controlling almost every industry in Venezuela isn&#8217;t quite enough for Chavez. He&#8217;s making noises like he&#8217;s going to shut down the last media outlet that opposes him. He&#8217;s been saying he would since he shut down RCTV in 2007;
 Broadcast regulators are investigating the all-news channel for inciting &#8220;panic and anxiety&#8221; during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tallandrich.com&blog=3388048&post=1557&subd=tallandrich&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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