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The Honduran president ousted by a military coup and forced into exile has said he will return home on Thursday.
Speaking in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, late on Monday, Manuel Zelaya said: “I go to Tegucigalpa on Thursday. I’m the elected president, I will fulfil my four-year term.”
He said he had accepted an offer by Jose [...]
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — The president of the U.N. General Assembly scheduled a noon session Monday to discuss the situation in Honduras, following a military-led coup that ousted the sitting president.
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann called the Honduran military’s intervention a “criminal action” and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a statement condemned the removal of [...]
The newly sworn-in acting president of Honduras has imposed a two-day nationwide curfew following a military coup that sent Manuel Zelaya, the president, into exile.
Roberto Micheletti, the former parliamentary speaker who was sworn in as Zelaya’s replacement on Sunday, told a news conference that the curfew would run from 9pm (03:00 GMT) that day until 6am on [...]
Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras, has called for “peaceful resistance” after the country’s military forced him to leave the country.
After arriving in Costa Rica on Sunday, Zelaya said that he had been the “victim of kidnapping” when Honduran soldiers raided his home earlier in the day.
The military made its move after Zelaya vowed to [...]
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (CNN) — The military arrested Honduras President Jose Manuel Zelaya on Sunday morning, the same day he vowed to follow through with a referendum that the country’s Supreme Court had ruled illegal, local media reported.
The president was arrested at his residence and transported aboard a military plane to an unknown destination, the [...]
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