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Published 11/02/2009 by Merco Press

Honduras election commission takes off; Lobo leads in opinion polls

United States secretary of Labour and a former Chilean president were named Sunday to a commission tasked with monitoring the creation of a power-sharing government in Honduras, under a US-brokered agreement to end the Central American nation’s four-month-old political crisis.

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