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NPR Provides a Soapbox for Honduras' Coup Regime

Fri, 09/18/2009 - 6:43am — Mytwords

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NPR's Forero Favors Honduran Coup Leaders and Supporters

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Mon, 07/06/2009 - 1:33pm — Mytwords

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Honduras: the good, the bad, and the not so ugly

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Mon, 06/29/2009 - 11:05pm — MsExPat

I've been obsessively reading as much as I can about the coup that cannot yet be called a coup* in Honduras, trying to sort out the good guys from the bad. On one hand, you have a thuggish military headed by a general trained in the American Academy of Advanced Torture (the "School of the Americas"). A middle of the night kidnapping of a duly elected president, followed by tanks in the streets, curfew, blackout of electricity and press. Bad.

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NPR Turns to Death Squad Negroponte for His View on Effective Human Rights Policies

Sun, 06/21/2009 - 12:57am — Mytwords

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On Saturday's ATC Guy Raz held a friendly with John Negroponte to see what he thought about the US joining the UN Human Rights Council. Negroponte told Raz

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