Riots in Honduras after military coup: comments

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July 01, 2009, 13:25

The country is calm. There is no repression . The few disgruntled are acting out, as usual, for the press.
Zelaya was surreptitiously taken us to chaves style communism. He was caught infringing the constitution and was legally replaced.

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