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July 21, 2021

State Department Bans Former Honduran President Lobo from Entering U.S.
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The U.S. State Department has banned former Honduran right-wing
President Porfirio Lobo and his immediate family from traveling to the
U.S. Lobo is accused of corruption and accepting bribes from drug
traffickers. He rose to power in 2009 in a contested election that took
place after a U.S.-backed military coup overthrew Honduras's
democratically elected leftist government that same year. Lobo was
backed by the Obama administration.


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