Honduras Hopes To Move Past Coup With Election (ap)

Porfirio Lobo, the National Party presidential candidate, pose with women behind security before voting in Juticalpa, Honduras, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009. With President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a military coup last June, still holed up in the Brazilian embassy, voters will choose a new president Sunday from the political establishment that has dominated Honduras for decades. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP – Hondurans on Sunday elected a new president whose first challenge will be defending his legitimacy to the world and ending a crisis over a June coup that has isolated one of Latin America’s poorest countries.

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