"Hondurans debate ex-leader’s future; Lawmakers discuss whether to allow Zelaya’s return" by Alexandra Olson, Associated Press | December 3, 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras’s Congress overwhelmingly voted yesterday against reinstating President Manuel Zelaya, shrugging off international pressure four months after a coup that has isolated one of the poorest countries in the Americas....
Zelaya, who listened to the proceedings from his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy, said before the vote that he would not return for a token two months if asked....
While legislators debated, 300 Zelaya supporters protested behind police lines outside Congress.... Honduras’s interim leaders insist the victory by Lobo in the regularly scheduled presidential election shows their country’s democracy is intact....
President Obama’s administration urged Zelaya’s reinstatement but it stopped short of making that a condition for recognizing Lobo’s government. Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, and Colombia backed the US view....
Many Latin American countries, especially those led by left-leaning governments, said recognizing the election would amount to legitimizing Central America’s first coup in 20 years.“A new form of coup d’etat has emerged,’’ Venezuela President Hugo Chávez said during a televised speech yesterday....
And now the CUT, right where we left off:
"Just as the money from drug trafficking is laundered, these elections were similar. It's laundering a coup d'etat in a shameless way before the world."
Gee, why would the MSM want to rewrite and excise that?
I'm looking right at it on my desk!
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