SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – U.S. Secretary of
to recognize the new, post-coup
and is pledging additional counternarcotics aid to the region.
, Clinton will make the case to Central American regional leaders to restore full relations with
.
She will also commit the Obama administration to offering more help to Central American nations battling [...]

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – U.S. Secretary of
said Thursday the Obama administration will resume aid to Honduras that was suspended after a coup last year and urged Latin American nations to recognize the new Honduran government.
Clinton said the Honduran government that took office in January was democratically elected, was reconciling the population split [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduras has a newly elected president. The question is whether he can convince the world the vote was legitimate and show that Hondurans want to put a summer coup behind them.
Announcing that conservative rancher Porfirio Lobo was headed for victory in Sunday’s presidential contest, election officials said more than 60 percent [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Hondurans choose a new president Sunday whose first challenge will be defending his legitimacy to the world and his people, and ending a debilitating, five-month-long crisis caused by
’s first coup in more than 20 years.
Porfirio Lobo and Elvin Santos, two prosperous businessmen from the political old-guard, are the front-runners in [...]

Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Mexico City –
For months, ousted Honduran President
– with the backing of the world community – has demanded that Roberto Micheletti step down as the interim president of this Central American nation roiled in political conflict.
Thursday evening, he may have gotten his wish: Mr. Micheletti told the nation that he will [...]

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras’s post-coup de facto leader said on Friday he would give up his presidential duties for a week, a step Washington welcomed as a way to help ease a five-month-old political crisis.
Roberto Micheletti, who took power after President Manuel Zelaya was sent into exile by soldiers in June, said on Thursday he [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduras’ interim president said Thursday he may step down temporarily to allow voters to concentrate on the upcoming
.
Roberto Micheletti said he will consult his advisers and those who have supported his government on whether he should step aside ahead of the Nov. 29 election and until at least Dec. 2, [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – A senior U.S. diplomat flew in Tuesday to try to revive a U.S.-brokered pact between
‘ deposed president and the coup-imposed government ahead of elections this month.
declared the accord a failure last week when interim President Roberto Micheletti announced the creation of a national unity government even though Zelaya had not [...]

CARACAS, Venezuela — A U.S.-brokered accord that was supposed to return ousted Honduran President
to power has collapsed and his supporters pinned much of the blame Monday on the Obama administration.
Thomas Shannon that seemed to remove U.S. pressure.
Shannon said last week that the deal meant that the Obama administration would accept the outcome [...]

When the U.S. last week finally
and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto President Roberto Micheletti, observers wondered how the Obama Administration had won Micheletti’s agreement. That’s because the pact allowed for Zelaya to be restored to office before Honduras’ Nov. 29
– a prospect Micheletti had fiercely opposed. [...]