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Honduras lifts post-coup curfew, Zelaya vows return
Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:46pm EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' interim government on Sunday lifted a curfew imposed since the June 28 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, saying it had succeeded in restoring calm and reducing crime.
The announcement by the caretaker administration of President Roberto Micheletti, installed by Honduras' Congress after the coup, came as a relief for the already battered economy and for people struggling to return to normal life.
Isolated by the international community after Zelaya's ouster, Honduras is bracing for austerity under the weight of economic sanctions, and the lifting of the curfew indicated Micheletti's government felt it could control the Central American nation despite frequent pro-Zelaya demonstrations.
Ordinary Hondurans have sought to put a brave face on the coup crisis, from a village that forged ahead regardless with its annual fiesta, complete with a brass band and fireworks, to the gang-plagued slums surrounding the capital, where the poor are bracing for higher prices and unemployment.
Even the wealthy have felt the pinch. At the upscale restaurant El Patio, where Saturday nights are normally a rollicking affair of mariachi music and rum-fueled laughter, the neon lights were dimmed early on a dining terrace that was half-filled even though the national soccer team was on TV.
"Nobody knows how this is going to turn out," El Patio manager Dolores de Jesus Ordonez said. "I have a lot of faith in the dialogue going on in Costa Rica."
Micheletti's interim government is holding talks with Zelaya's representatives under the auspices of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. But he says Zelaya's reinstatement is not negotiable because he contravened the constitution by seeking to illegally extend his rule.
The talks have resulted in little apparent progress, aside from an agreement to keep talking.
Zelaya, now traveling the Americas in search of support, also ran afoul of his political base and ruling elites in the conservative country by allying himself with Venezuela's firebrand leftist president, Hugo Chavez.
Zelaya told Caracas-based Telesur television on Sunday he intended to return "at any time, on any day, anywhere" even though the new government vows to arrest him.
At least one pro-Zelaya protester was killed in clashes at Tegucigalpa's airport a week ago when Honduran troops blocked an attempt by Zelaya to return in a plane provided by Chavez.
TENSION WITH VENEZUELA
In a sign that tensions with Venezuela remained, Honduran police on Saturday night detained for several hours members of TV crews of the Venezuelan state channel VTV and Caracas-based Telesur, which have been extensively covering pro-Zelaya protests and other news developments.
Speaking in Caracas, Chavez condemned the detention.
"Is this the path they want to take?" Chavez said. Continued...
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