Canada reaches free trade deal with Honduras

August 15, 2011

The following is excerpted from the 12 August 2011 edition of CBC News.

Canada has struck a free trade deal with Honduras. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement Friday during a visit to the Central American nation.

But the deal is controversial. Honduras was kicked out of the Organization of American States after a military coup ousted the country's leftist president in 2009. It has since been re-admitted after it held elections and allowed former president Manuel Zelaya to return. Harper is the first foreign leader to visit since the re-admission...

This article is available in its entirety on the CBC News website at:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/12/pol-honduras-free-trade-deal.html

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