The coup against Honduran President Zelaya should be reversed. ++ There must be united international condemnation with heavy pressure from the US, a crucial trade partner. ++ Yet,
the crisis opens the way to address a regional problem. ++ Zelaya has worked to undermine democratic institutions, including Congress and the Supreme Court. ++ The world must condemn the abuses that prompted his
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Hugo Chavez continues to “demolish the democratic institutions” that enabled Venezuela its relative successes over the past 40 years. ++ Most worrying is his endorsement of the crippling view that reform and so-called “bourgeois” democracy cannot create social justice: his alternative “reeks of patronage” and has done little to develop the country. ++ As is
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