Aide: Ousted Honduran President on Route Back Home

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Source: Associated Press

A top aide of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said he was heading back to the country Thursday, while thousands of his supporters blocked roads to demand his return to power.

Patricia Rodas, foreign minister of Zelaya's toppled government, said the deposed president was ''on his way'' back, but refused to say how he planned to enter the country or when he expected to arrive. Zelaya's current whereabouts are unclear and Honduras' interim leaders have promised to arrest him if he returns.

''Our president will be in Honduras at some point and a some moment. He is already on his way. God protect him and the people of the Americas who are with him,'' Rodas told reporters in La Paz, Bolivia.

It would be Zelaya's second attempt to return to Honduras since the military deposed him and flew him out of the country in a June 28 coup. The interim government thwarted his first attempt on July 5 by sending military vehicles to block the airport runway and keep his plane from landing.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/16/world/AP-LT-Honduras-Coup.html

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Aide: Zelaya to set up government seat in Honduras
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090716/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup_239

[Flaneur]

1. Very interesting.

The Obama adminstration's slow, half-hearted diplomacy may be about to get outpaced by events.

[DURHAM D]

2. Oh please. nt

[David__77]

14. Please, indeed, let it be true.

The US administration should have moved more forcefully on this matter, declared it a coup and recalled the ambassador. The vise needs to be applied.

[Vidar]

3. Best wishes for Zelaya.

[cal04]

4. Pro-Zelaya protests grip Honduras ahead of talks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090717/wl_nm/us_honduras_125

Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya shut down commercial highways on Thursday in protests in the capital and other places, demanding his reinstatement before weekend mediation talks.

The demonstrations by hundreds of Zelaya followers took place as Costa Rican President Oscar Arias prepared to host talks on Saturday with the rival sides in the political crisis triggered by the June 28 coup that toppled Zelaya.

Watched by armed soldiers and riot police, the protesters shut off the northern and southern entrances to the hill-ringed capital Tegucigalpa for several hours, backing up trucks and other vehicles for miles (kilometers) in both directions.


Al Giordano
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/day-19-peaceful-blockades-vs-coup-paralyze-honduras#comments

[Cha]

5. Very Interesting..

thanks cal!

[Judi Lynn]

6. Good, good news, if the fascist coup monsters don't direct the military to kill him on sight.

That's always a distinct possibility.

Hope he makes it home safely.

Thanks.

[David__77]

12. Possible, even if not directed at the upper levels.

But his martyrdom would be a mortal blow to the Honduran oligarchy. And it do much to hasten and consolidate the social transformation of the Americas. That said, all must be done to protect him.

He is doing the right thing by going back and joining his people in struggle. Hope he hides out and gives addresses via radio/TV.

[Mudoria]

7. Good

Then the Honduran Congress can impeach and remove him from office nice and legally as they should have to start with.

[1monster]

8. For what? Asking the people of Hondorus to vote on a NONBINDING resolution about

whether or not THEY, THE PEOPLE want to have more say in the way THEIR country is run?

[Mudoria]

9. A vote declared by both the Supreme Court and Congress as illegal..

He planned on doing it anyway. Did someone elect him King?

[bitchkitty]

11. Get a clue.

If they could have removed him legally, they would have.

[David__77]

13. There is no mechanism for impeachment in Honduras.

It doesn't exist in law or the constitution specifically. Zelaya has been convicted of no crime, and is still the legal president. This is exactly the same as if the US military under John Roberts' "orders" has exiled Obama to Canada.

[cal04]

10. Chavez says Zelaya to return to Honduras "in hours"

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday the ousted Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya would return to his country "in the coming hours."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17481940.htm