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Weekly Report - 24 November 2011 (WR-11-47)
HONDURAS: Coup at the heart of elections
It reads like a film script: wife of ousted president to run for top office against army chief who carried out the coup d’état. It is a sign of just how polarised Honduras remains, since the toppling of Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, that 10 political parties have already registered to compete in the elections in November 2013 - twice as many as in 2009. The fact that two of these parties will put forward as their candidates Xiomara Castro, Zelaya’s wife, and (retired) General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, the commander of the armed forces when Zelaya was deposed, is particularly telling.
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