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Honduras' new start

Hondurans elected Porfirio Lobo, a wealthy rancher from the conservative National Party, to succeed former President Manuel Zelaya, who was arrested and turned out of office June 28. In the Nov. 29 poll, voters rejected Liberal Party candidate Elvin Santos, who represented the party of both the ousted Zelaya and the interim government led by Roberto Micheletti. For most, Lobo's victory represents not only a break with the recent past but a triumph of the country's democratic system and its 27-year-old constitution. "We won. Just by having the freedom to vote, we won," said a hotel desk clerk in the capital city of Tegucigalpa. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a close friend of Zelaya, is widely believed to have exerted his authoritarian influence over the former Honduran president, who tried single-handedly to force a change in the country's constitution, prompting his ouster by Congress and the Supreme Court. "Hondurans are not just electing a president. Their participation is a vote for freedom over Chavez-style socialism," said Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America and an official international election observer.

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December 19, 2009, Vol. 24, No. 25

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