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CARACAS, June 28 (Reuters) - Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Sunday put his troops on alert over a coup in Honduras and said he would respond militarily if his envoy to the Central American country was attacked or kidnapped.

http://www.forexyard.com/en/reuters_inner.tpl?action=2009-06-28T171404Z_01_N28333761_RTRIDST_0_HONDURAS-PRESIDENT-CHAVEZ-URGENT

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Well, Hugos folks will have a bit of a walk.

Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

Venezula is ‘about’ 2500 kM from Honduras.