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Weekly Report - 28 January 2010 (WR-10-04)
HONDURAS: Exit Zelaya as Lobo takes reins of power
Porfirio Lobo Sosa was sworn in as president on 27 January in the
presence of just three heads of state, one of whom, President Leonel Fernández,
had come to accompany the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, back to the Dominican
Republic. Lobo's first act was to sign into law a political amnesty for all
those involved in the events surrounding last June's coup. The amnesty had been
approved by the new congress, dominated by Lobo's Partido Nacional (PN), earlier
in the week. For good measure, the supreme court absolved the military high
command from any wrongdoing in forcefully exiling Zelaya from the country on 28
June last year.
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- VENEZUELA: Suffused with strife
- TRACKING TRENDS
- CHILE: Piñera sows discord in Concertación
- BRAZIL: Opposition denounces Lula before electoral court
- ARGENTINA: Domestic dispute assumes diplomatic dimensions
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Central bank raises forecasts
- MEXICO: Paraguayan soccer star shot
- TRACKING TRENDS
- HAITI: Montreal sets out bold vision for Haiti
- HONDURAS: Exit Zelaya as Lobo takes reins of power
- TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Opposition elects first female leader
- GUATEMALA: Portillo to be extradited to the US?
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Bayly bursts on to Peruvian political scene
- Quotes of the week