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size  How long can the Honduran crisis drag on, with President
Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a military coup more than three months
ago, trapped in Tegucigalpa's Brazilian Embassy? Well, in early
1949 in Peru, Víctor Haya de la Torre--one of last century's
most important Latin American politicians--sought asylum in the
Colombian Embassy in Lima, also following a military coup. There
he remained for nearly six years, playing chess, baking cakes
for the embassy staff's children and writing books. Soldiers
surrounded the building for the duration, with Peru's
authoritarian regime ignoring calls from the international
community to end the siege, which was condemned by the
Washington Post as a "canker in hemisphere relations."  About
the Author  Greg Grandin Greg Grandin  Also by the Author   In
late 2010, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa faced down a cop revolt and
won—emerging stronger and more popular.