TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS--In late September, ousted President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya slipped back into Honduras and took refuge in the Brazilian Embassy with about sixty supporters and his family. Zelaya has been besieged there ever since, the compound surrounded at all times by more than 400 soldiers and [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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american police guards and armys are go to front of a building and they all start firing and bomb. so more peoples are died. the reason of a firing is elections.He even went so far as to suggest reforming the Honduran Constitution, which permits a very form of weak democracy that is easily controlled by a tiny but well-funded minority of land owners and textile tycoons.
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