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Saturday, November 07, 2009 6:38 PM

Published 07/03/2009 by Power Line


Coup are you? part 2

Octavio Sánchez is a lawyer, former presidential adviser (2002-05) and minister of culture (2005-06) of the Republic of Honduras. His Christian Science Monitor column on the events in Honduras is "A 'coup' in Honduras? Nonsense." Sánchez writes:

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