GenevaLunch » Manuel Zelaya http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Honduras gets new centre-right president http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/30/honduras-gets-new-centre-right-president/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/30/honduras-gets-new-centre-right-president/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:59:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32625 GenevaLunch.com Sixty percent of Honduran voters turned out 29 November to elect a new president, and they chose centre-right National Party candidate Porfirio Lobo over the former president Manuel Zelaya. Lobo is expected to play a unifying role, with support from several members of Zelaya’s own Liberal Party. Zelaya lost support when he began to move [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/06/other-world-news-in-brief/feed/ 0 Honduras deal to be decided by Congress http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/02/honduras-deal-to-be-decided-by-congress/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/02/honduras-deal-to-be-decided-by-congress/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:25:22 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30794 GenevaLunch.com The agreement between the two rival sides in Honduras’ four-month constitutional crisis will be decided by the Congress, which is in recess, after taking into consideration an opinion of the country’s Supreme Court. The agreement would allow Manuel Zelaya back into the presidential palace to serve out his term at the  head of a national [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/23/honduras-proposes-both-sides-withdraw-from-elections-in-november/feed/ 2 Honduras defiant as pressure mounts on government http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/28/honduras-defiant-as-pressure-mounts-on-government/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/28/honduras-defiant-as-pressure-mounts-on-government/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:38:42 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=28672 GenevaLunch.com The Honduran government issued a decree 27 September limiting civil rights on the eve of an expected massive demonstration in the capital Tegucigalpa in favour of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The measures make it easier for the army to arrest protesters, and allows the government to act against pro-Zelaya media. The government refused entry into [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/28/honduras-defiant-as-pressure-mounts-on-government/feed/ 0 Honduras in turmoil as Zelaya returns http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/22/honduras-in-turmoil-as-zelaya-returns/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/22/honduras-in-turmoil-as-zelaya-returns/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:58:34 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=28206 GenevaLunch.com Ousted president Manuel Zelaya returned to Honduras overland from Guatemala, and immediately took refuge in the Brazilian embassy in the capital, Tegucigalpa. Zelaya called on his supporters from a balcony at the Brazilian embassy to converge on the capital to reverse the coup. The interim government of Roberto Micheletti said Brazil would have to accept [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/22/honduras-in-turmoil-as-zelaya-returns/feed/ 0 Honduras intransigent about Zelaya return http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/26/honduras-intransigent-about-zelaya-return/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/26/honduras-intransigent-about-zelaya-return/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:34:10 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=25946 GenevaLunch.com The Honduran government is defying international pressure to allow former President Manuel Zelaya, deposed 28 June, to return to power. An Organization of American States (OAS) mission of seven American foreign ministers urged the interim government of Roberto Micheletti to accept a plan worked out by Nobel prize-winner Oscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/26/honduras-intransigent-about-zelaya-return/feed/ 2 Diplomatic tit for tat between Argentina and Honduras http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/19/diplomatic-tit-for-tat-between-argentina-and-honduras/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/19/diplomatic-tit-for-tat-between-argentina-and-honduras/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:29:43 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=25390 GenevaLunch.com Honduras ordered all members of the Argentine embassy in Tegucigalpa to leave the country within three days, Tuesday 18 August. But Argentine foreign minister, Jorge Taiana, on a trade mission in Mexico, said he had not been informed of the deadline, and his diplomats were staying put. The Honduran ministry of foreign affairs said it [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/19/diplomatic-tit-for-tat-between-argentina-and-honduras/feed/ 0 Honduras ex-president vows to return to country http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/honduras-ex-president-vows-to-return-to-country/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/honduras-ex-president-vows-to-return-to-country/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:42:05 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=22915 GenevaLunch.com Honduras’ ousted president Manuel Zelaya is in neighbouring Nicaragua at the head of a caravan of vehicles set to cross the border near El Progreso, Honduras. He has said he hopes the soldiers guarding the border will lay down their arms and recognize him as their president. The de facto government in Honduras imposed a [...]

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