Urgent Update on Honduras: Zelaya Announces Intention to Recognize Legitimacy of November Elections
Posted by Editor on Sep 25th, 2009 and filed under Latin America, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya
In a Sept .25 interview with Bloomberg, ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya made known his intention to honor the coming November 25 elections. This is seen as an attempt to open talks with the acting government headed by interim president Roberto Micheletti. What’s more is that Zelaya has also reaffirmed his bid to return to power, fulfilling the duration of his term originally slated to end in January of 2010. Zelaya is currently housed within the Brazilian embassy in Honduras to which utilities have been cut by the Honduran government. He successfully returned from exile under the cover of darkness earlier this week.
Countless efforts have been made by the United Nations, the Organization of American States, numerous Latin American presidents, and U.S. president Barack Obama, urging Zelaya’s return to power. The premise of debate, as to whether or not Mr. Zelaya should be restored to power, is whether or not his removal was a coup d’etat, or a legal ouster carried out under constitutional auspices. Zelaya had attempted to call for a vote abolishing presidential term limits which would have allowed his name on the ballot in the aforementioned November elections.
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