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Article: Zelaya supporters rethink Honduras sanctions
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- July 22, 2009
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Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya are advocating targeted economic sanctions to pressure the interim government to allow his return rather than broader measures that might harm the Central American country's poorest citizens.
U.S. officials are considering imposing sanctions on one of the hemisphere's poorest countries if mediation efforts by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias fail to resolve the crisis. The European Union has already frozen euro65 million ($92 million) in development aid and warned of further steps.
But with Honduras' defiant leaders vowing to tough out any economic pain for months, Zelaya has begun to rethink his previous support for sweeping measures intended to ...