The de facto authorities have the support of many middle class and conservative Hondurans as well as the supreme court, congress and military. I do rather love this insistence that all the lefties have of calling the Honduran government the “de facto” government. If you’ve got both the Congress and the Supreme Court on your side then [...]
A POWERSHARING deal between the de-facto government of Honduras and the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, has collapsed, reigniting the country’s political crisis.
An agreement to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed after two rival leaders failed to form a government of unity to heal the damage from a June coup
Honduran ousted President Manuel Zelaya says that the U.S. brokered deal to restore his presidency has failed. He remains held-up in the Brazilian embassy. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Friday, November 06, 2009 22:39 Mecca time, 19:39 GMT Zelaya: Power-sharing deal dead Zelaya has been living in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa since late September Honduras's deposed...
• De facto regime sought to form 'unity' government • Ousted president refuses to continue 'charade' A power-sharing deal between the de facto government of Honduras and the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, has collapsed, reigniting the country's political crisis. Zelaya refused to join a new "unity" government on Friday after it became clear he would not be heading it. "The...
Honduras sunk into further disarray after President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a military-backed coup, said a US-brokered deal to end the nation's four-month crisis had collapsed. Presidential elections due on November 29 were in jeopardy as Zelaya called on his supporters to boycott them and return to the streets of the polarized nation. Hundreds marched from the Congress to the Brazilian embassy,...
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead." [The events in Honduras are being closely followed by the Cuban media.]
Hondurans faced the threat of further political violence today and the collapse of November elections after a deal between the ousted President and the coup-plotters who exiled him in June collapsed.
The U.S. ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, urged Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya and de facto President Roberto Micheletti on Friday to resume their dialogue in an attempt to save the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Agreement. "There are differences between both sides, but I think the idea is to come back to the table to achieve the enforcement of the agreement," Llorens said. Llorens made...
RNN 11-05-09 One week after a widely-celebrated, US-brokered agreement between deposed president Zelaya and coup president Micheletti, the coup regime appears stronger than ever.
They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is defunct. Roberto Micheletti, who took power after a coup, says the same deal