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...coup in Honduras that occurred over the summer and the subsequent international reaction may have large implications for the future of democracy in Latin America, Professor Steven R. Levitsky said at a dinner discussion last night...
...crisis intensified when the United States, following the lead of some Latin American countries and the Organization of American States, refused to recognize the new government. Leaders of these countries sought to restore Zelaya to power, even though the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court had sanctioned the ouster...
Levitsky said he largely agreed with the U.S. and Latin American policy, emphasizing that there have been few coups in Latin American in the past 30 years and that recognition of the coup threatened to destabilize other Latin American democracies...
Strong democratic institutions, such as a congress that responds to the people and civilian control of the military provided the best hope of a warding off the cycle of instability and coups that have dominated Latin American in the past, he said...
JOSE MARIA DI BELLO, of Argentina, who on Nov. 16 was granted a marriage license to wed his partner Alex Freyre in Buenos Aires after a judge ruled that the nation's ban on same-sex nuptials violated its constitution. The union, scheduled for Dec. 1, would be Latin America's first legal gay marriage...