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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:55 PM

Published 07/03/2009 by Philippine Daily Inquirer


Raul Pangalangan: Honduras coup: Mixed signals for Arroyo

THE HONDURAN president was ousted in a military coup after he took steps to lift term limits and extend himself in office -- and across the Pacific Ocean, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's loyalists fell over one another to assure us that the coup virus will not contaminate faraway Manila.

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