http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/zelaya/ en-us Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:24:02 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404914/posts TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' coup-installed government says ousted leader Manuel Zelaya is free to leave the country, but there's a catch: Zelaya can't go as president, and he says he won't go as anything else. And so he remained holed up Thursday in the Brazilian Embassy, where he has been staying since he slipped back into the country three months ago. If he sets foot outside the building, the leaders who ousted him have vowed to arrest him on charges of treason and abuse of power. They appeared to be softening their stance on Wednesday when they initially responded positively... AO - via Atl Journal & Constitution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404914/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:24:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404277/posts Honduras' interim government says it has authorized ousted President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country and go to Mexico. Foreign Ministry spokesman Milton Mateo says the safe-conduct pass was signed and would be delivered to the Brazilian Embassy, where Zelaya has been holed up since sneaking back into the country Sept. 21. Mateo said Wednesday night that the Mexican government has sent an airplane to pick up Zelaya and his family. Another official of the interim government's Foreign Ministry said Mexico requested that Zelaya be given safe conduct to leave. A Mexican government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404277/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:26:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403122/posts Gunmen in Honduras have shot dead the head of the country's anti-drug trafficking operations.Police said retired Gen Julian Aristides Gonzalez was travelling in a car in the capital, Tegucigalpa, when attackers on a motorcycle opened fire. Honduras is a major route for drugs smuggled from South to North America. The nation, mired in political crisis since President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in June, also has one of the highest murder rates in the region. Gen Aristides, director general of the national office for combating drug trafficking, was travelling by car through Tegucigalpa when two attackers on a motorcycle opened fire,... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403122/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:43:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401890/posts Andres Oppenheimer of the Miami Herald wrote an intriguing piece recently on the splash effect of the coup, or crisis, or whatever term least offends someone of Honduras’ new leadership and recent election, and how the major powers in Latin America have tried unsuccessfully to remedy the situation. Oppenheimer argues that the US, Brazil and the OAS have all succeeded in failure in their own unique ways. Failure for the three comes as follows. For Brazil, its “hypocrisy” of recognizing Iran’s and Cuba’s undemocratic leadership, while criticizing Honduras’ recent elections. For the US, the “flip-flopping” that comes with a constant... Foreign Policy Association http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401890/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 07:47:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401885/posts Honduras' deposed President Manuel Zelaya said on Sunday that he would stay in the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital for as long as Brasilia allowed him to and that he would be willing to talk to the new president-elect. Leftist Zelaya, who was ousted by the army in a coup on June 28, slipped back into Honduras in September and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, from where he has been demanding his reinstatement. The United States and Brazil have been pushing for Zelaya's return to power but his fate remains uncertain after the Honduran Congress voted... Reuters Via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401885/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 07:26:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400338/posts TEGUCIGALPA – The National Resistance Front that arose after the June 28 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras has abandoned hope for the restoration of ousted the former president and is focused now on convening an assembly to overhaul the country’s constitution, one of the group’s leaders said Thursday. “We have closed this chapter on the restoration of President Zelaya, which didn’t take place,” Juan Barahona told Efe the day after Honduran lawmakers rejected reinstatement of the deposed head of state. The Honduran Congress decisively rejected the restitution of deposed President Mel Zelaya in a vote of 62 to... Latin American Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400338/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:53:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399033/posts Looks like ousted Honduras President Zelaya will be holed up in the Brazilian embassy for a while longer. The Congress of Honduras voted not to reinstate the deposed dictator-wannabe. Honduras has been the object of Obama's attacks ever since they threw Zeyala out of office. The former President's disposal was ordered by the Honduras Supreme Court and was in line with the Honduras Constitution. Following the direction of his buddy Chavez, Zeyala illegally attempted to stay in power despite the constitutional ban on running for another term. The military removed him from office, and immediately returned power to the civilian... Brietbart/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2399033/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 04:14:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2399003/posts final score: 111 against Z 15 for Z. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2399003/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:35:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398943/posts TEGUCIGALPA — A majority in the Honduran Congress have voted against reinstating deposed President Manuel Zelaya and allowing him to finish out his term of office. A simple majority of 65 lawmakers in the 128-member body voted against Zelaya's return to the presidency shortly before 730 pm (0130 GMT) on Wednesday after more than six hours of debate. AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398943/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:04:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2398967/posts 10 in favor of Z 80 against Z. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2398967/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:48:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398789/posts Update: 4:40: Vote is still taking place. Has stalled with a long pro-Zelaya speech by ???. She claims there was 60+ abstentionism on Sunday and is basically repeating the same things we've heard Zelaya say a thousand times. She is quoting several sections of the constitution. Says that Zelaya never submitted a change of the constitution, the court was wrong, . La Gringa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398789/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:50:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398590/posts In a few minutes the honduran congress will vote to decide if Manuel Zelaya, president fired by the honduran constitution for attempting a repeal of the current constitution, will be or not be reinstated. The honduran institutions such as the human rights commissioner, Attorney general, Procurator general, Supreme Electoral Tribunal and Supreme Court, have opposed any reinstatement, saying that is inappropiate. The attorney general has threatened to prosecute any that supports the reinstatetment of Zelaya. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398590/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:14:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397794/posts Nationalists (conservatives) won 252 mayors and 46 liberals The Liberal Party won only one municipality in La Paz while 16 controlled National Party. Were pending two. PN (conservatives) plans to win more than 70 deputies. National Party leaders argue that 12 or 13 deputies are of this political entity. Six or seven of the Liberal and 3 or 4 other games. According to preliminary projections of political parties, the National Party will bring as many members, perhaps the greatest of all electoral processes. Between 70 and 73 MPs are believed to belong to the National Party, enough to dispense with... Diario El Heraldo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397794/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:28:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397619/posts A wealthy rancher was due to be declared Honduras's new president today after a tumultuous election dogged by the overthrow of his predecessor. Preliminary results gave Porfirio Lobo 56% of votes, prompting cavalcades of cheering, honking supporters in the streets of the capital, Tegucigalpa. His nearest rival, Elvin Santos of the ruling Liberal party, conceded defeat. Lobo, from the centre-right National party, promised to unify a country polarised by the military-led coup against Manuel Zelaya in June, a political shock which rattled Latin America and left Honduras isolated and stripped of aid and investment.... The Supreme Electoral Tribunal said 61%... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397619/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:22:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397461/posts The State Department recognized Porfirio Lobo's victory in Sunday's election but said the Honduran Congress still needed to vote on the restoration of deposed President Manuel Zelaya and form a government of national unity. "While the election is a significant step in Honduras' return to the democratic and constitutional order ... it's only a step and it's not the last step," said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela. Before the election, the United States tried and failed to have Zelaya reinstated. Its support of the election upset many Latin American nations, including powerful Brazil, which called... Reuters via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397461/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:01:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397086/posts One of the big losers from yesterday’s successful election in Honduras has been Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who demonstrated that under his presidency, Brazil is not ready to play a positive leadership role in the hemisphere. Not only did Lula seem to be complicit in smuggling deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya into the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa—an irresponsible move that risked the possibility of major confrontations and bloodshed in that country—but he stubbornly refuses to recognize yesterday’s election as legitimate. Lula’s grandstanding has nothing to do with a supposed commitment to democracy, of course. After all he... CATO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397086/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:19:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396737/posts Honduras' disputed presidential election is likely to set Washington against emerging Latin American power Brazil over whether to recognize the winner of a vote promoted by the leaders of a June coup. Conservative opposition leader Porfirio Lobo easily won the election on Sunday, but he will struggle to get recognition in Latin America where many leftist governments see the election as a nail in the coffin of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The United States has tried and failed to have Zelaya, a leftist, reinstated and now looks resigned to backing the election as the best way for Honduras' to get... Reuters Via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396737/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:12:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396677/posts Unless something monumental happens in the Western Hemisphere in the next 31 days, the big regional story for 2009 will be how tiny Honduras managed to beat back the colonial aspirations of its most powerful neighbors and preserve its constitution. Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396677/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:03:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396641/posts The results from today's elections in Honduras are beginning to roll in and it looks as if Porfirio Lobo,from Honduran opposition National Party, is leading in the election at least according to the local media. According to preliminary data, the 61-year-old opposition leader received around 56% of the vote. His main rival, 46-year-old businessman Elvin Santos representing the ruling Liberal Party, came second in the presidential race, with about 38% of the vote. Even if the trend continues the Liberal party will not be the big loser today, Hugo Chavez, whose imperialist goals were thwarted when President Zelaya was ousted... The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396641/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:14:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396611/posts Honduran opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo is leading in a presidential election that could ease a five-month crisis following the June coup against President Manuel Zelaya, media exit polls said on Sunday. Lobo, a conservative, won more than 55 percent of Sunday's vote and was well ahead of ruling Liberal Party candidate Elvin Santos, the HRN radio station said. A TV channel gave Lobo 51 percent. Lobo was seen as more likely than Santos to persuade foreign governments to recognize Sunday's election. Reuters Via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396611/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:18:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396240/posts Honduran News Sources, Radio/TV, Internet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396240/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:53:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396217/posts Election day in Honduras! The day has arrived! Voting centers open in about 1h 30 min local time. The people are ready to say NO to King Hugo I and Z and to show the world that this little dwarf can give and example of the rule of law. Stay tuned for more live info throughout the day http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396217/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:43:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395375/posts The United States finds itself pretty much alone in supporting elections to be held this Sunday in embattled Honduras. It's enough to make you wonder whether, following the unilateral misadventures under George W. Bush, we might once again be on the wrong side of history. With the exception of Panama, almost everyone else in the world maintains that the elections are illegitimate as long as the country's last elected president, Manuel Zelaya, remains deposed... I firmly believe in multilateralism and compromise...But this is one of those times when you have to stand on principle. My bet is that the world... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395375/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:10:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394748/posts TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras' Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that ousted President Manuel Zelaya cannot legally return to office, dimming the possibility of his reinstatement after a June coup, court sources said. The Court did not release the full text of its non-binding ruling, but a court source and a lawyer close to the proceedings said it closely follows earlier decisions upholding Zelaya's ouster after he moved to change the constitution. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394748/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:16:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394691/posts Even a broken clock is correct two times a day. Ever since Honduras deposed President Zelaya in June, the United States has been on the wrong side of the issue, supporting Zelaya and his buddy Hugo Chavez, against the people of Honduras, their democracy and the country's constitution. ....The Election is next Sunday Nov.29th, former President Zelaya is still holed up in the Brazilian embassy after sneaking back into the country in September, and surprisingly the United States is indicating that it will support the results of the election. VOA/Washington Examiner/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394691/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:39:17 GMT