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 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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