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Latin America File: Honduras formally joins Havana-Caracas Axis, embraces Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas; snubs DR-CAFTA, US troop presence

After many months of patiently wooing President Manuel Zelaya with petrodollars, Venzuela's communist dictator Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua's neo-Sandinista strongman Daniel Ortega have formally welcomed Honduras into the Havana-Caracas Axis, otherwise known as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (pictured here in Tegucigalpa on August 25). "Our decades-long relationship of dominance by the United...

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Elected Honduran president denied visa to Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles

Cuba’s Periodico 26 reports that eight days after he assumed the presidency of Honduras in January 2006, the United States ambassador, Charles Ford, contacted President Jose Manuel Zelaya and asked for a visa for Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. The President of Honduras rejected the request, saying at the time that Posada Carriles was known worldwide due to his terrorist activities. The criminal...

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Honduran prez defends ALBA alliance

Honduran president Manuel Zelaya supported his decision to have Honduras enter the ALBA trade bloc . In remarks made to Reuters, the Honduran leader said that the move was necessary in order to combat poverty in his country: President Manuel Zelaya, a logging magnate seen as a moderate liberal, told Reuters that oil-rich Venezuela's offer to double international aid to the country, one of the poorest...

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Honduran President Greets Fidel and Raul Castro and Cuban People

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 26 ( ACN ) Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales sent a message of greetings to the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, head of state Raul Castro and to the Cuban people in appreciation of the island's support for his country After signing the admission documents that make Honduras a member of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), President Zelaya spoke to thousands...

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Honduras Joins ALBA

Honduras is a member of a free trade pact between Central America and the United States. But President Manuel Zelaya, a logging magnate seen as a moderate liberal, has been drifting toward closer ties with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, a U.S. foe. On Monday, Honduras joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, which [...]

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The State of Honduras under Zelaya- In the Pink?

Under current Honduran president José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the country has experienced multiple changes that demonstrate a new penchant for leftist policies. Honduras’ strong historic ties with the United States have gradually weakened in recent months as relations have improved with Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez. The nation is undergoing a period of political [...]

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Jordan's king receives invitation to visit Honduras

Amman - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Wednesday received an invitation to visit Honduras from President Manuel Zelaya, a royal court statement said. The invitation was relayed to the head of the Royal Court Bassem Awadallah by the visiting Honduras Fo...

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Latin American Political Update - Lower Rating for Honduran President Zelaya (Angus Reid)

Lower Rating for Honduran President Zelaya (Angus Reid) (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Fewer people in Honduras are expressing satisfaction with the performance of Manuel Zelaya, according to a poll by CID-Gallup published in La Prensa. 34 per cent of respondents say the president has done a good or very good job as head of [...]

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Latin leaders look to aid state farms

The president of Honduras and top government figures from El Salvador and Guatemala visited the central San Joaquin Valley on Saturday to learn more about California's farm-labor crisis - and to offer their help. Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, left, talks with Honduran President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales after an agricultural summit Saturday in Fresno. Politicians and farmers are formulating a guest worker...

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Latin Amer. leaders discuss labor plan with Calif. farmers

Honduran president Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales and representatives from El Salvador and Guatemala met with California farmers Saturday to hash out a plan that will train laborers from those countries to work in the Western U.S. The plan is set to start with...

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Honduras redirecting commercial jet traffic

President Manuel Zelaya said that Honduras would create a civilian airport for commercial jets on a U.S. military airfield... diverting traffic from Tegucigalpa"s notoriously dangerous airport following a deadly crash

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Honduras redirecting commercial jet traffic

President Manuel Zelaya said that Honduras would create a civilian airport for commercial jets on a U.S. military airfield... diverting traffic from Tegucigalpa"s notoriously dangerous airport following a deadly crash

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Honduras redirecting commercial jet traffic

President Manuel Zelaya said that Honduras would create a civilian airport for commercial jets on a U.S. military airfield, diverting traffic from Tegucigalpa's notoriously dangerous airport following a deadly crash.

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Honduras redirecting commercial jet traffic

President Manuel Zelaya said that Honduras would create a civilian airport for commercial jets on a U.S. military airfield... diverting traffic from Tegucigalpa"s notoriously dangerous airport following a deadly crash.

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Honduras redirecting commercial jet traffic

President Manuel Zelaya said that Honduras would create a civilian airport for commercial jets on a U.S. military airfield, diverting traffic from Tegucigalpa's notoriously dangerous airport following a deadly crash.