Analysis: Obama’s swift stand on Honduran coup (AP)

June 30th, 2009

A supporter of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya throws back a canister of tear gas back at soldiers after violence broke out near the presidential residency in Tegucigalpa, Monday, June 29, 2009. Police and army clashed with thousands of Hondurans outside the occupied presidential residency as world leaders appealed to Honduras to reverse a coup that ousted the president, Manuel Zelaya.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - Dealing with the first Latin American crisis of his presidency, Barack Obama sought a swift, clear response that would not be interpreted as U.S. interventionism in a region that loathes it.

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