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Analysis: US leverage small in Honduran coup

Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:20:14 PM
By ANNE GEARAN

Thousands march against the return of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya in downtown San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Thursday, July 2, 2009. The Organization of American States, OAS, said it will suspend Honduras if Zelaya isn't back in office by next Saturday while Micheletti said he will not back down under international pressure, arguing that Zelaya was legally removed on orders from the nation's Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Diario La Prensa de San Pedro Sula)WASHINGTON (AP) - The coup that deposed the president of Honduras exposed the small leverage that even millions of dollars in aid and longtime military cooperation will buy.

Washington has few direct means to pressure those who packed President Manuel Zelaya onto a plane out of the country on Sunday — not the military leaders who carried out the coup or the civilian lawmakers who backed it.

America's troubled history in Latin America, from power broker with bloodied hands in coups past to seemingly indifferent next-door neighbor in recent years, limits everything President Barack Obama can do now.


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