Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has decried Cuba's exclusion from the summit, prompting this response from Jeffrey Davidow.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Crowley said the U.S.Ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens had spoken to Mr.Zelaya, who reportedly has taken refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa after his return under unexplained circumstances.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Commentators like the Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady say Hondurans were defending their democracy by throwing out a president who was aligned with Cuba's communist regime and Venezuela's leftist leader Hugo Chavez.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03