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September 4, 2009

US Cuts More Aid to Honduras
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The Obama administration has formally cut more than $30 million in aid
to Honduras. Thursday’s announcement came shortly after Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton met with ousted Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya in
Washington. Zelaya praised the move as a step forward in pressuring the
coup regime.

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya: “I think with this American decision,
although we have not heard from Canada yet, a single bloc of all
thirty-four countries of the Americas has formed which condemns the coup
and doesn’t recognize its authorities and fraudulent elections, which
are a result of the lack of liberty and the repression against the
Honduran people.”

The State Department also acknowledged Zelaya’s ouster was a coup, but
refused to formally designate it as such. Under US law, a coup
designation would force the Obama administration to cut off up to $150
million in funding to Honduras.



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