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For Obama, Costa Rica offered rare 'safe bet' trip
Costa Rica's strong tradition of democracy and longtime friendship with the United States ensured President Obama would enjoy a smooth – if uneventful – trip this weekend.
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Latin America Monitor Desperate for cash, Honduras to hawk bonds
Honduras is broke, writes a guest blogger, and despite a recent credit downgrade it is now trying to privately place over $750 million in bonds.
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Latin America Monitor Honduras to reevaluate gun control laws: How will it impact violence in the region?
In Honduras, citizens are allowed up to five personal firearms. Its lax laws contribute to high murder rates and make it a source for the region's arms traffickers.
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Latin America Monitor Viva Assange! Latin American groups rally around Ecuador's asylum decision. (+video)
Latin American groups say that Ecuador's decision to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a matter of sovereignty.
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Does Paraguay risk pariah status with president's ouster?
Ousted president Fernando Lugo denounced his removal as a 'parliamentary coup,' and hinted that domestic and international pressure could reverse his impeachment.
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Latin America Monitor Exporting Nicaragua's citizen security model
Nicaragua could be a citizen security model for other Central American countries to imitate, but some elements are harder to transfer than others, writes guest blogger Hannah Stone.
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Honduras prison fire kills at least 300 inmates
A deadly fire swept through a Honduran prison Tuesday night. Over 350 are still unaccounted for, as of Wednesday morning.
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Latin America Monitor El Salvador gets 'tough' amid worsening crime
President Mauricio Funes has appointed career military personnel to head the police and national security. Many fear a return to failed policies of the past, writes guest blogger Hanna Stone.
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Latin America Monitor Honduras calls in the police - from Chile
Lauded as among the best police institutions in Latin America, Chile's Los Carabineros are helping Honduras, one of the most troubled countries in the region right now.
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Peace Corps Honduras: Why are all the US volunteers leaving?
Peace Corps Honduras: The 158 Peace Crops volunteers have been ordered out of Honduras. There's also a freeze on new Peace Corps volunteers going to Guatemala and El Salvador.
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Change Agent Honduras envisions building a Caribbean 'Hong Kong'
A poor Central American country, Honduras, is pondering creating a new semi-independent 'charter city' that would play by different rules and become an engine for economic growth.
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Latin America Monitor Dim forecast for security in Honduras in 2012
Despite Honduran efforts to promote police reform and check organized crime, the country has become a major transit point for cocaine, and the future of its democratic institutions looks bleak.
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Honduran security minister steps down, deepening security crisis
The departure of Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez, the leading crusader against police corruption in Honduras, is a victory for crooked cops.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 05/24
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Hugo Chávez boycotts Madrid summit over Honduras president
The EU-Latin America summit opened in Madrid today without Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, who is protesting the attendance of Honduras President Porfirio Lobo. Mr. Lobo was elected following the controversial ouster of Manuel Zelaya.
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Central American Parliament wonders who's the legitimate president of Honduras?
The turmoil surrounding Honduras President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster has mostly died down. Now the Central American Parliament is debating if he or the interim president should fill Honduras’s seat on the regional body.
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United States to restore aid to Honduras in step toward normalized ties
In Guatemala Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton moved to restore aid to Honduras six months after it was cut in response to the country's refusal to reinstate ousted former president Manuel Zelaya.
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Hillary Clinton to discuss Iran's nuclear program on Latin America trip
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will push for new sanctions on Iran's nuclear program in Brazil as part of a five-country trip to Latin America.
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Could Honduras crisis prompt a power grab in Nicaragua?
Strongarm tactics used during the seven-month political crisis in Honduras set a bad example for the region's other fragile democracies and could lead to a power grab in Nicaragua, critics say.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 01/28
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Honduras military chiefs charged with 'coup.' Will Supreme Court take case?
Top military officers in Honduras are being charge with “abuse of power” in the expulsion of President Manuel Zelaya June 28. If the Supreme Court takes the case, it would be the first legal action against the armed forces since Mr. Zelaya’s ouster. Will it resolve the political crisis?
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Chile vote is latest sign of region's shift to the center
In recent and upcoming races across Latin America, candidates have dropped a combative left-right discourse, and instead are appealing to a growing ideological center.
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Honduran Congress rejects symbolic return of Manuel Zelaya
In a vote Wednesday, the Honduran Congress effectively extended the political crisis by denying Manuel Zelaya the opportunity to finish the last few weeks of his presidential term.
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Honduras election: conservative close to victory. Is Zelaya crisis past?
In Honduras election, conservative opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo is ahead with most of the votes counted. Many Hondurans want to move on from the political crisis with or without Manuel Zelaya.
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Honduras tense as voters head to the polls
Today's presidential election is widely viewed in Honduras as a way out of Latin America's worst political crisis in decades.
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