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Chavez rhetoric stokes Honduras crisis before talks
Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:36pm EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stoked Honduras' political crisis on Friday by saying ousted President Manuel Zelaya would return home imminently, complicating efforts to broker a mediated solution.
Chavez's comments that Zelaya had told him he would enter Honduras "in the coming hours" threatened to jeopardize planned talks on Saturday in Costa Rica between the rival sides that both claim legitimacy since the June 28 coup that toppled Zelaya.
Zelaya is currently in Nicaragua, which borders Honduras, and there was no immediate word from him on Friday on his plans. "He's here in Managua, in the Las Mercedes hotel, it's no secret," Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, like Chavez a leftist ally of Zelaya, told reporters late on Thursday.
A unilateral attempt by the deposed president to return home would fly in the face of threats to arrest him by the interim government that replaced Zelaya in the impoverished Central American country.
Chavez's comments appeared to be a typically incendiary expression of his support for his ally Zelaya.
The United States, which is strongly backing mediation efforts by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, urged states in the region to avoid actions that could push the situation into violence. The Honduras power dispute is already the worst political crisis in Central America since the Cold War.
Roberto Micheletti, who was installed as president by Honduras' Congress after the coup, has defied international calls for Zelaya to be reinstated and ruled out his return to office. He says Zelaya was removed because he violated the constitution by seeking to lift presidential term limits.
A previous attempt by Zelaya to fly home on July 5 in a Venezuelan plane provided by Chavez was thwarted by Honduran troops who prevented the plane from landing in Tegucigalpa. At least one person was killed in clashes between troops and Zelaya supporters at the airport.
On Friday, supporters of the ousted president, clamoring for his reinstatement, blocked major highways in Honduras, including the northern access into the capital Tegucigalpa.
At the southern entrance to the city, pro-Zelaya protesters lifted their roadblock after police brandishing tear gas canisters gave them an ultimatum.
"We're going to bring "Mel" (Zelaya) back," said teacher Noemi Farias as she took part in the pro-Zelaya protests.
"Zelaya said that in the coming hours he'll enter Honduras. We're behind him, we have to support him," Chavez told reporters outside the presidential palace in Bolivia.
Chavez, who had attended a meeting in Bolivia of leftist Latin American allies of Zelaya, gave no more details about how Zelaya intended to return home.
WASHINGTON SAYS CHAVEZ ROLE "NOT HELPFUL"
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, which has urged the rivals in the Honduran crisis to give the Costa Rica talks a chance, called for restraint. A senior State Department official, who declined to be named because his comments were sensitive, said Chavez's current role was "not helpful." Continued...
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