Zelaya will leave Brazil Embassy by Jan. 27 (AP)

Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 in: WORLD

BRASILIA, Brazil – Ousted
says he will leave the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras by Jan. 27, when his presidential term ends, according to an interview broadcast Friday.
with Globo TV that he wants to leave soon but did not say where he will go. He has been holed up in the embassy in the Honduran [...]

Washington ‘disappointed’ with Zelaya rejection

Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 in: WORLD

Washington on Thursday expressed its disappointment with Honduras’ decision this week to deny Manuel Zelaya the possibility of returning to complete his presidential term.
For months, the US and other regional powers had demanded Mr Zelaya’s reinstatement following a June 28 military-led coup in which he was marched away at gunpoint and bundled out of [...]

Zelaya attacks US over election

Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 in: WORLD

Manuel Zelaya, Honduras’ deposed leader, on Friday lashed out at Washington for supporting Sunday’s presidential election, accusing it of weakening democracy in the Americas and dividing the region.
In a telephone interview with the Financial Times, Mr Zelaya, who was removed from office on June 28 by soldiers and expelled from the country, said the [...]

Honduras interim leader may step down. Will that help President Zelaya? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted on 21. Nov, 2009 in: WORLD

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 [...]

Honduras deal collapses, Zelaya’s backers blame U.S. (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 in: WORLD

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 [...]

Zelaya-Micheletti Honduras Deal Risks Trouble for Obama (Time.com)

Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 in: WORLD

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. [...]

Zelaya: US-brokered pact for Honduran crisis fails (AP)

Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 in: WORLD

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Ousted Honduran President
said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.
“The accord is dead,” Zelaya told Radio Globo from from the Brazilian Embassy where he has been hold up under threat of arrest. “There is no sense [...]

Honduras shuts Zelaya-aligned stations, suspends civil liberties (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 in: WORLD

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
.
Zelaya condemned the action in a brief statement and called on foreign governments to show their displeasure.
“The government is nervous,” Carlos Montoya , formerly a senior member of Zelaya's government, said in an interview. “We don't want violence. We're asking for dialogue.”
, an attempt to keep supporters of Zelaya off [...]

Honduras Quagmire: An Interview with Zelaya (Time.com)

Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 in: WORLD

believes he put his adversaries’ backs to the wall this week. He may, however, have painted himself into a corner as well. By sneaking back into Honduras on Sept. 21 and taking refuge inside the Brazilian embassy in
, the exiled leader – deposed in a June 28 military coup – hoped to turn up [...]

Honduran interim leader: No meeting with Zelaya (AP)

Posted on 25. Sep, 2009 in: WORLD

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduras’
, but said Zelaya could leave the foreign embassy where he is holed up if some country grants him
.
President Roberto Micheletti’s comments were yet another blow to hopes for a negotiated solution to the June 28 coup that booted Zelaya from power.
“I am not going to talk with [...]