Honduras

Resurgence of the coup d’état

October 13, 2011

Joshua Kurlantzick, a Fellow for South-East Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, has an piece in The National on the rise of the coup d’état: Across the developing world, from Thailand to Pakistan, militaries have become more politically powerful in recent years. Indeed, in many Middle Eastern nations, armies will be determining the future [...]

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Military Rule 2.0

July 12, 2010

A Council on Foreign Relations fellow and researcher on the increasing power of the military in developing nations in today’s Boston Globe: Call it military rule 2.0. And as a result, in many developing countries the military is more powerful than it has been in years. Thailand, where the military once seemed to have retreated [...]

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US policy toward LatAm and Honduran democracy

July 31, 2009

It looks like the ousted president of Honduras reportedly asked President Obama to revoke the diplomatic visas of members of interim President Roberto Micheletti’s de facto government. NightWatch, a nightly executive intelligence recap produced by AFCEA, sagely opines on US blunderous policy toward the Honduran political crisis: The US bullying of Micheletti risks a blowback [...]

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