Coup Puts Honduran Diplomats, Friends and Colleagues, on Opposing Sides
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The two men were much more than just colleagues. They were longtime friends who had negotiated the rough-and-tumble circles of Honduran politics to become their nation’s top ambassadors in the United States, if not the world.  Then both received early morning telephone calls, and had to make a fateful choice. The government they were representing had been toppled and a new one was sworn in hours later, requiring each man to quickly search his conscience and pick a side.  They chose differently.  “We have always shared the same values; then we separated,” Jorge Arturo Reina, the Honduran ambassador to the United Nations, said of his erstwhile ally, Roberto Flores Bermúdez, the Honduran ambassador to the United States. “He took one path. I took another.”(Lea el artículo completo en The New York Times)