Bush chooses oil over democracy in Sao Tome

Forgotten, that is, until mid-summer. All of a sudden, the former Portuguese colony of under 200,000 people snagged a few headlines when a bloodless coup d’etat unseated the popularly elected government and threatened to wipe out the nation’s long tradition of democratic rule. Under significant pressure-suspended aid and diplomatic isolation-from a large contingent of countries and international organizations, on July 23, the insurgents agreed to relinquish control of Sao Tome’s eponymous capito