Thursday, December 17, 2009

Honduran Handshake

Isn't it wonderful when a coup is successful?

"Ousted Honduran leader, successor may hold talks next week" by Freddy Cuevas, Associated Press | December 12, 2009

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The leader of the Dominican Republic said yesterday that Honduras’s ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, would meet with his elected successor next week in his Caribbean nation....

In Honduras’s capital, Information Minister Rene Zepeda said the interim government had not received a petition from Zelaya or from officials in the Dominican Republic asking that Zelaya be granted safe passage to leave the country. Honduran officials and Zelaya have been at odds this week on terms of a deal that would let him emerge from the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa without fear of arrest on the charges of treason and abuse of power that led to his ouster....

President-elect Porfirio Lobo has said he supports granting amnesty both to Zelaya and to all of those involved in the coup.

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Also see: Honoring the Honduran Coup