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The people of Honduras are pleading for media fairness and understanding of how they saved their democratic system of government from an international conspiracy based in Venezuela and Cuba.

The Organization of American States suspended Hondurasa s membership from the group, opening the way for sanctions, as President Manuel Zelaya attempts to return to the Central American nation today after being ousted on June 28.

The Independence Day of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will celebrated on Sunday.

The Spanish-owned Banco de Venezuela has been taken over by the Venezuelan government.

The director of Venezula's telecommunications regulatory agency announced that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked over failure to update their registration with the government.

Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, has declared that any attack on his country's embassy in Honduras will lead to war between the two nations, and I can't help wishing that the Hondurans would call his bluff.

When troops seized leftist Honduran President Manuel Zelaya at dawn last Sunday and flew him into exile, it conjured up a dark era of military coups in Latin America and posed a test for regional crisis management.

The coup against Manuel Zelaya of Honduras represents a last ditch effort by Honduras' entrenched economic and political interests to stave off the advance of the new left governments that have taken hold in Latin America over the past decade.

A reader asked me to comment on Steve Sailer's blog post on reforming the Supreme Court.

There seems to be a great divergence of opinion among liberals and leftists about what is really happening in Iran.

The head of Venezuela's telecommunications regulatory agency said Friday that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked for failing to update their registrations with the government.

Doesn't the title of this story from CNNMoney.Com make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? "White House Staff Safe From Obama Tax Hike." I bet you were biting your fingernails in worry about whether White House staffers would be hit with the higher taxes that President Obama promised would only happen to those making over $250,000 per year.

The Honduran interim government defied international pressure on Wednesday and vowed there was "no chance at all" of ousted president Manuel Zelaya returning to office.

The presidents of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas nations on Monday withdrew the ambassadors from Honduras and called on the nations of the continent to act against coup plotters in that nation, after an emergency meeting in Managua.

From the beginning, their line has been that their coup was necessary to preserve democracy in the Central American country.

The ghost of the other, deadlier 9/11 has returned to stalk Latin America. On Sunday morning, a battalion of soldiers rammed their way into the Presidential Palace in Honduras.

Honduras' interimA leaderA Roberto Micheletti, right, and General Romeo Vasquez, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sing the national anthem in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday.

A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors to freedom, an offer by their former leftist rebel captors to unilaterally free two hostages is in limbo.

Honduras' interim leader accused Venezuela's Hugo Chavez of instigating his nation's crisis and lawmakers tightened a curfew aimed at stemming unrest, as coup leaders showed few signs of bending to international pressure to restore the exiled president.

The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela has returned to his post a ' more than nine months after he was expelled by President Hugo Chavez.