Summits, coups, crisis and democracy

[Political Affairs]

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World leaders are gathering this week for the G-8 summit to rack their brains on how to solve the global economic crisis. And the coup in Honduras originated not by people concerned for democracy but by an elite class of Hondurans worried about the rise of campesinos and workers. See below for these stories:

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