Honduras president hints coup is brewing against him

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Stringer / ReutersHonduras President Porfirio Lobo speaks during a news conference at the Francisco Morazan Military Academy in Tegucigalpa on Friday. Lobo asserted that there is a  conspiracy brewing against him that could mimic the coup that removed former president Manuel Zelaya in 2009.By The Associated PressHonduras' president on Friday accused a group led by a powerful publishing magnate of plotting to repeat "the crisis of 2009," when his predecessor, Manuel Zelaya, was whisked out of the country at gunpoint in a civilian coup.  

President Porfirio Lobo, speaking at a military event, did not use the word coup, but referred several times to the June 2009 incident that caused a political and economic crisis in this Central American country that in many ways has still not been resolved.  

Both drug trafficking and killing have risen since then in Honduras, where two-thirds of the 8.2 million people live in poverty. With a homicide rate of 91 per 100,000 residents, it is often called the most violent country in the world.




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