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09SAOPAULO384
2009-07-02 19:19:00
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Consulate Sao Paulo
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MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: HONDURAS; SAO PAULO

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SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: HONDURAS; SAO PAULO

July 2, 2009

Title- The ultimatum to Honduras

Editorial in center-right newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo (7-2)
states: "We have never seen something like this in the shameful
history of Latin American coup d'tats, which we believed were
over....the coup against Zelaya was the roughest conceivable answer
to his Chavista-like decision to call, by decree, a public
consultation for the possible realization of a plebiscite [regarding
his reelection]....It is not clear whether the State Department did
everything it could to avoid the proclamation in Tegucigalpa. But
all nonsense aside, Obama....could not let Hugo Chavez take
advantage of this occasion to pose as the champion of democracy in
the Hemisphere....."
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