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Pro-Zelaya protests grip Honduras ahead of talks
Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:59pm EDT
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya blocked commercial highways in Honduras, including two into the capital, in protests on Thursday demanding his reinstatement ahead of weekend mediation talks.
The demonstrations by hundreds of pro-Zelaya protesters went ahead as Costa Rican President Oscar Arias prepared to host talks on Saturday with the rival sides in the political crisis triggered by the June 28 coup that toppled Zelaya.
Watched by armed soldiers and riot police, the protesters shut off the northern and southern entrances to the hill-ringed capital Tegucigalpa, backing up trucks and other vehicles for miles (km) in both directions.
Police also reported protest roadblocks at Comayagua in the center of the country, and at Copan in the west, on routes that carry exports and imports to and from neighboring El Salvador.
Arias, who is mediating in Central America's worst crisis since the Cold War, is due to host talks between envoys representing Zelaya, and Roberto Micheletti, the interim president installed by Honduras' Congress after the coup. After an inconclusive initial round last week, the two sides are deadlocked.
Zelaya is demanding that Micheletti comply with international calls for his immediate reinstatement. But Micheletti, who says the army lawfully removed Zelaya because he violated the constitution by seeking to lift limits on presidential terms, has ruled out Zelaya's return to office.
Arias told local radio in Costa Rica on Thursday he would try to broker a compromise, such as the formation of a national reconciliation government between the sides, or an amnesty.
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The coup and impasse in Honduras has posed a foreign policy test for U.S. President Barack Obama, who has sought to improve ties with Latin America. He has quickly condemned Zelaya's ouster as illegal but faces calls from Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez, a vocal ally of Zelaya, to increase pressure on Micheletti to restore the deposed president.
To counter renewed protests by Zelaya's backers, Micheletti's administration stepped up security across the country and reimposed a night curfew late on Wednesday.
At the northern access route into Tegucigalpa, hundreds of protesters, many in red T-shirts and scarves and some wearing the cowboy hats common in rural Honduras, blocked the highway with rocks, shouting slogans calling for Zelaya's return.
"If we have to paralyze the country, we will," said Yadira Marroquin, 44, a hospital worker.
Juan Barahona, leader of the National Front for Resistance Against the Coup which is campaigning for Zelaya's return, said earlier his supporters would block major highways "to strike at the economy of the coup-supporting businessmen."
Hector Ivan Mejia, spokesman for the Security Ministry of the interim administration, said security was being increased at strategic points across the country, an exporter of bananas, coffee and textiles.
The country's coffee crop is largely over, with the bulk of exports shipped. The next harvest begins in October. Continued...
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