Actually Marchetti has flipped back to his original position that under no circumstances can Zelaya come back--except perhaps to face arrest!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iye-2WzhOil3UlnL5WwjxMPMk2ow Interim Honduran leader says Zelaya will not return to power By Francisco Jara (AFP) – 1 day ago TEGUCIGALPA — Honduran interim leader Roberto Micheletti insisted Friday there would be no return to power of ousted President Manuel Zelaya -- a key plank of proposals to end the crisis. Micheletti said that "under no circumstances" would Zelaya return to office, scuppering what little hopes remained that a Costa Rican-brokered peace plan can end the deadlock prompted by Zelaya's ouster five weeks ago. Zelaya, who was elected as a moderate conservative and took a sharp turn to the left while in office, was overthrown in a military-backed coup on June 28 and bundled out of the country. Under the plan Zelaya would complete his term as president in a national unity government, but would be forced to leave power within months, as scheduled. Micheletti's opposition to the plan has deepened the country's international isolation since the coup, which was widely condemned by members of the Organization of American States. In Washington, the OAS delayed two meetings on the Honduran crisis scheduled to take place on Friday. But as diplomatic efforts to end the standoff have run into the sand, tensions in the region have continued to escalate. Zelaya and a group of supporters are camped on Nicaragua's border with Honduras, threatening to return home despite warnings the elected president would be arrested. On Friday, another band of Zelaya supporters took to the streets of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, in what have become daily protests punctuated by clashes with the security forces. The conflict has increasingly become a pitched ideological battle between the mountainous Central American country's small conservative business-oriented community and the more numerous poor, were Zelaya draws much of his support. Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html --- On Thu, 7/30/09, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Robert Naiman <[email protected]> > Subject: [Pen-l] Honduran Coup Leader Backs Proposal for Zelaya's Return > To: "Progressive Economics" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 11:57 AM > One day after the U.S. canceled four > visas, the leader of the coup > government in Honduras indicated his personal support for a > compromise > proposal to allow the restoration of President Zelaya. One > day. Can > any doubt remain about the role of the U.S. government in > this > situation? The leader of the coup government says he needs > international help in getting the real powers behind the > coup - the > Honduran business elite - to stand down. Let's all pull > together and > help Mr. Micheletti convince the other coup leaders to > stand down by > supporting efforts in Congress to maintain U.S. pressure. > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/honduran-coup-leader-back_b_247793.html > > -- > Robert Naiman > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
