Word: coups
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Microsoft revealed a nice little coup in its dual quests to make search more dynamic and crawl its way into Google's monolithic grill. At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, the company's digital head, Qi Lu, announced that three-month-old Bing had reached an agreement to crawl all of Twitter's public results in real time. Bing's Twitter search - Bing.com/Twitter - is already live...
Interbank chairman Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor, one of the drivers of the repatriation strategy, has had two homecomings of his own. His father, also named Carlos, was once Peru's central banker but was forced to leave the country following a military coup in October 1968. "He went from being Peru's central banker to an assistant branch manager at an office in San Francisco," says Rodriguez-Pastor, who was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Dartmouth. His father rose through the ranks of Wells Fargo and returned to Peru as Finance Minister...
...opponents of that reasoning say it risks undermining the entire U.S. stance against the coup and is unlikely to win any Latin-American backing. "Any election run by a coup government is automatically unconstitutional," Zelaya's Foreign Minister-in-exile, Patricia Rodas, insists. "You don't further democratization in Honduras by acquiescing to coup-mongers...
Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal Washington think tank, says backing away from restoring Zelaya "sends an ugly signal that the U.S. doesn't really consider the era of using military coups in the region to be over." He adds it would fuel charges that Obama has been cowed by a small group of conservative Republican Cold Warriors in Congress. Led by South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, they recently journeyed to Honduras to show their support for Micheletti and are holding up diplomatic appointments to protest Obama's opposition to the coup...
Read "The Honduran Coup: How Should the U.S. Respond...