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Exiled president: I will return to Honduras after military coup
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
enlargeExiled Honduras president Manuel Zelaya has vowed to return home this week, bolstered by condemnation of the coup that removed him.
But interim president Roberto Micheletti said Mr Zelaya would risk arrest if he returns.
The military coup on Sunday provoked nearly universal condemnation from governments in the West, from President Barack Obama to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, and it sparked clashes in the Honduran capital that have left dozens of people injured. Flanked by Latin American leaders who have vowed to help him regain power, Mr Zelaya said that Organisation of American States Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza had agreed to accompany him back to Honduras.
Mr Zelaya, a wealthy rancher who has forged close ties with Chavez, said he wanted to return to the capital Tegucigalpa.
Honduras had not seen a coup since 1978 when one military government overthrew another.
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The question now will Chavez scream or will he fight? This is the most powerful test against him being the leader of Venezuelan and Alba. Some thing tells me this time Chavez will be all action!
Posted by CashNDC | 01.07.09, 08:58 GMT
What the liberal media fail to report, and Obama fails to mention in his "stand on the side of democracy" is that Zelaya was trying to ignore the constitution of Honduras and stay in power longer than legally allowed under the same. So much for "democracy".
Posted by Rob. | 30.06.09, 23:59 GMT
Zelaya was democratically elected Holland. The "liberal media " have not got a very good record regarding Iran either, when Ahmedinajad was democratically elected as well. Your info comes from the right wing media Holland - grow up!!
Posted by Patrick | 30.06.09, 22:53 GMT
Only I want to say that Chavez has not right to be involved in my country's internal problems. He should be trying to solve his own problems in his country. How can a dictator speak about democracy ? And this is what Mel want to be, like his idol Chavez. Honduras has a constitution and even the president has to respect it.
Posted by SONIA | 30.06.09, 20:55 GMT
The people of Honduras are not protesting on their own. They are being incited by professional rabble-rouses from Venezuela who want the world to think Zelaya was removed forcibly. Zelaya planned to disband the congress if the referendum vote did not grant him the right to rewrite the constitution so he could be re-elected.
Posted by Monica | 30.06.09, 16:30 GMT
Zelaya was escorted from Honduras by his Venzueulan Security Guards, not Honduran soldiers as reported. This has been a spoof by the Liberal media the last two days... My information comes from several extremely good sources.
Posted by Holland | 30.06.09, 05:08 GMT