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Article: Roundup: Honduras' interim government lifts curfew
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 1, 2009
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Roundup: Honduras' interim government lifts curfew
TEGUCIGALPA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- The interim government on Friday
lifted a curfew imposed in most of Honduras after a coup that ousted
President Manuel Zelaya.
However, the curfew, imposed since the June 28 coup, was
maintained in areas around Honduras' border with Nicaragua to guard
against Zelaya's return.
Government spokesman Rene Zepeda said the curfew would continue
in El Paraiso in the east, and Concepcion de Maria, El Triunfo and
Guasaule in the south, from 6 p.m. (0000 GMT) to 6 a.m (1200 GMT).
Honduras plunged into a political crisis when Zelaya was forced
into exile after angering the army, the legislature and judiciary by ...