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Honduras' Zelaya urges U.S. to step up sanctions
Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:13pm EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya called on the United States on Tuesday to impose tough new sanctions against the de facto government that toppled him in a coup last month and vows to block his return.
Zelaya said he wrote to U.S. President Barack Obama and asked him to step up the pressure against Honduras' coup leaders.
The army rousted Zelaya from his bed and sent him into exile in his pajamas in a predawn raid on June 28, after accusing him of violating the constitution by trying to extend presidential term limits.
Obama's administration has condemned the coup, cut $16.5 million in military aid and threatened to slash economic aid, but Zelaya said more was needed.
"All this has been insufficient," he said from exile in neighboring Nicaragua, urging new measures against the individuals who ordered and carried out the coup and have joined the interim government.
Talks mediated by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to resolve the crisis collapsed over the weekend but he asked both sides to give him until Wednesday to find a breakthrough. The two sides say their negotiating teams are set to meet Arias in Costa Rica on Wednesday.
With negotiations deadlocked and Zelaya vowing to return to Honduras within days, some Latin American leaders fear Central America's worst crisis since the end of the Cold War could flare into violence.
De facto leader Roberto Micheletti, installed by Congress after Zelaya's ouster, said he would not tolerate his foe seeking to return to serve out the rest of his term.
"I call on the people to be calm," Micheletti told a news conference in the capital, Tegucigalpa, late on Tuesday. "We have an army, we have a police force and we have a people ready to face this kind of situation."
The U.S. government threw its weight on Tuesday behind Arias' proposal that calls for Zelaya's reinstatement to set up a coalition government. It also stipulates that he abandon his bid to overhaul the constitution, which was opposed by the military, Congress and Supreme Court.
"We're in constant contact with a number of countries in the hemisphere regarding the situation in Honduras, and we believe the Arias mediation is the right way to go, and the time is now to ... resolve this issue," State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood told reporters.
Zelaya said he would give Arias the 72 hours he had requested, but if no deal was reached, he would return to Honduras as early as Thursday despite a standing threat from the de facto government to arrest him immediately.
"I'm going to return after all diplomatic measures have run out," Zelaya told CNN. "I was asked to wait, and I have obliged ... (My return) will be public."
Zelaya made a failed bid to return in a Venezuelan plane earlier this month. Soldiers blocked the runway and at least one protester was killed in clashes with the army.
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