Honduras crisis back to square one as talks fail (Reuters)

[struggle4progress]

By Mica Rosenberg

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya pulled out of talks with the country's post-coup de facto leaders on Friday, throwing efforts to resolve a months-long political crisis back to square one.

Zelaya pulled his representatives out of meetings with envoys of de facto leader Roberto Micheletti that were the latest in a series of attempts to resolve the deadlock sparked by an army-backed June 28 coup that sent Zelaya into exile.

Attempts to reach a deal have repeatedly snagged over whether the leftist president should be reinstated and allowed to complete his term, which ends in January.

"It's an insult to keep wasting time. There is not even the slightest will to fix the problem," Zelaya said of Micheletti from the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he has been holed up since slipping back into Honduras last month ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE59L4DU20091024

[Judi Lynn]

1. Thanks, struggle4progress. What a travesty to this point.

Hoping the time is close the people will finally take their own country back, someway.

It's dead wrong for these criminals to be allowed to control an entire country of people better than they are.

[Braulio]

2. Five weeks until election time

And yet I wonder, has Zelaya even bothered to endorse a candidate?

[struggle4progress]

4. What difference do elections make if the military is free to seize and deport the elected?

Pardon my dim wittedness: I do not understand the significance of your question. And if you want to know what Zelaya's stance on the previously scheduled elections, you merely need to read the article linked in the OP

[Judi Lynn]

3. Ousted Honduran president Zelaya's followers block street in Tegucigalpa

Ousted Honduran president Zelaya's followers block street in Tegucigalpa
2009-10-23 08:06:31


TEGUCIGALPA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Some 150 followers of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya blocked on Thursday morning against the obstructions of the negotiations aimed to restore Zelaya in charge.

"Zelaya's supporters went to Norte Boulevard, without producing disturbs and under police vigilance," Police sheriff Miguel Perez told the press.

"The police set a security operative for the followers of the former president (Zelaya) could protest without generating chaos," Perez, in charge of the police operative said.

"There is not any kind of restriction; the police only is establishing a security operative, for them (the protestors) and for the people transiting this zone," Perez said.

The protest was carried after the negotiations, between Zelaya's delegation and the de facto government, to restitute Zelaya in power were suspended on Monday.

On Wednesday, Honduran police announced restrictions on protests in an effort to quell rallies in favor of Zelaya. They said that protests must be authorized by the government 24 hours in advance.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/23/content_12303895.htm