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Ousted Honduran president fails in bid to return
Mon Jul 6, 2009 2:24am EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was blocked from his attempt to fly home to Honduras on Sunday and at least one person was killed as soldiers clashed with his supporters at the airport in the capital city.
Authorities refused permission for Zelaya's plane to land in Tegucigalpa and he flew on first to neighboring Nicaragua and then on to El Salvador where a group of leftist presidents were gathered to back him.
Zelaya, a leftist whose term was due to end next year, was pushed out of office by the military and sent into exile a week ago after a dispute over presidential term limits.
At least one person was killed in clashes with soldiers after thousands of pro-Zelaya supporters rallied at Tegucigalpa airport, where they broke through fencing near the runway to face a barrage of tear gas, Reuters witnesses and emergency service officials said.
Two people were badly wounded.
"They will never be able to govern Honduras, they should know that," Zelaya told Telesur television channel as his small, private jet was turned away from Tegucigalpa after trying to fly in from Washington. "A new tyranny has been born in Central America."
Zelaya's ouster has tested regional diplomacy and raised a challenge for the Obama administration in Latin America, where Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is promoting socialist revolution to counter U.S. influence.
The Organization of American States earlier on Sunday suspended Honduras for refusing to reinstate Zelaya, the strongest move yet by foreign governments to isolate the country after Central America's first coup since the Cold War.
'FLUID' SITUATION
A senior U.S. official described the situation in Honduras, an impoverished coffee and textile exporter with a population of 7 million, as "very fluid and challenging."
Honduras' interim government refused Zelaya permission to enter the country and warned he would be arrested if he did come back. But the prospect of his return stirred his supporters. Hundreds of troops had fanned out around the runway to protect the airport.
Leftist allies of Zelaya, including the presidents of Ecuador, Paraguay and Argentina, flew to El Salvador on Sunday to support Zelaya from nearby.
Underscoring regional tensions stoked by the coup, Honduran interim President Roberto Micheletti said small groups of Nicaraguan troops were moving near their mutual border, although they had not crossed it.
He urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a leftist ally of Zelaya, to respect Honduran sovereignty. Ortega, whose country shares a border with Honduras to the south of the Honduran capital, called the charge "totally false."
The interim government, installed hours after the coup, argues the removal of Zelaya was justified by what it views as his illegal attempts to extend presidential limits in office beyond a single four-year term. Continued...
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