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...Under this scenario, say the diplomats, Zelaya would be immune from prosecution when he's back in Honduras. Likewise Micheletti, who last week had insisted he that he would never negotiate Zelaya's return, and other Zelaya foes, including the military leaders who ousted the President, would not face trial for the coup. "It's designed to keep the potential for violence at a minimum when Zelaya is reinstated," says one diplomat in Washington, who asked not to be identified...
...been much chastened by its ouster from power in 2000. Numerous PRI officials on the federal, state and local levels continue to face allegations, for example, that they're cozy with Mexico's powerful drug cartels. Just as troubling is the party's vacuous political philosophy, which critics say still consists of little more than the cynical acquisition of power - and the incompetent exercise of it, evidenced by Mexico's chronic 20th-century financial collapses and the PRI's appallingly clueless response to a 1985 Mexico City earthquake that killed 10,000 people...
...entity? So you try to look at a whole range of things. There are some overt indicators, close of traffic, commerce, people's ability to interact. Then there are many more that are subtle - you have to get at the attitudes of the people. And that is why I say you have to immerse yourself in it and understand it before you can confidently assess it. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...group that comprise about 15% of the city's population, exploded after police blocked a protest prompted by the deaths of two Uighurs at a factory in the coastal Guangdong province in late June. The fighting, which targeted the city's majority Han Chinese, left 156 people dead, officials say, and more than 1,000 injured...
...know that is something we say easily, but if you really put yourself in the position of someone who is living in a small village, they may have been coerced or at least influenced by the insurgents. When you arrive, they are uncertain about you - they don't know you either. They are not automatically going to run out and embrace you, because, one, they have seen a lot of people come and go before. Many saw the Russians come and go. And so they are naturally cautious. And if they associate your arrival with damage and death, they...