HONDURAS
A ray of hope for Honduras' Manuel Zelaya
There were conflicting signs of movement Thursday in the month-old political crisis in Honduras.
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There were conflicting signs of movement Thursday in the month-old political crisis in Honduras.
As hundreds of his followers lay sprawled on a gymnasium floor that has become their temporary home, ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya called for a fresh wave of protests Tuesday along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border to commemorate the one-month mark since he was toppled.
Honduras' political crisis is fast becoming an economic one, with Nicaraguan exports being held up in trucks.
Since former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya arrived at the Nicaragua-Honduras border on Friday to taunt the de facto government that exiled him a month ago, hundreds of Hondurans have answered his call to join him just across the border in Nicaragua.
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya wants the United States to take a stronger stand on the Honduran crisis.
For the second straight day ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya stood on his nation's southern border, and for the second straight day seemed no closer to reclaiming the presidency he lost four weeks ago.
Ousted leader Manuel Zelaya briefly led a small group of supporters across the border into Honduras, but the standoff continued as security forces await his next move.
In a chaotic scene Friday, ousted President Manuel Zelaya briefly set foot on Honduran soil for the first time since his June ouster -- and posed for photographers along an entry post sign declaring ``Welcome to Honduras.''
Security at the Honduran border with Nicaragua was stepped up as ousted leader Manuel Zelaya began his journey to reclaim the presidency.
A last-minute push to resolve Honduras' three-week-old political crisis once again appeared to fail Wednesday, as neither of the warring parties signed a compromise cobbled together by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.
As Honduras' ousted leader Manuel Zelaya rallied support for his plan to march back to power, fears grew that the civil war- ravaged border could again be the scene of bloody clashes.
Under ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Honduras' minority Garifunas saw a chance to boost their stature and gain rights.
A South Carolina senator opposed to the Obama administration's handling of the crisis in Honduras is blocking the nomination of two appointees to the State Department.
The European Union says it is suspending some $92 million in aid to Honduras to put pressure on the military-backed opponents of ousted President Manuel Zelaya to return to negotiations.
Oscar Arias is the right person to mediate in the Honduran crisis. He is a democrat with very clear ideas but will not be a tool of Washington or anyone else.
To many poor Hondurans, deposed president Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was a trailblazing ally who scrapped school tuitions, raised the minimum wage and took on big business.
Allen Andersson made a bundle, then made things happen -- for a while -- in Honduras
De facto, interim or congressionally installed -- no matter the qualifier -- Roberto Micheletti is not the president of Honduras. Manuel Zelaya is, and like him or not, the man who was ousted in a military-civilian coup on June 28 should be returned to Tegucigalpa to finish the last months of his term
In a perfect world former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya would be in jail in his own country right now, awaiting trial. The Honduran attorney general has charged him with deliberately violating Honduran law and the Supreme Court ordered his arrest in Tegucigalpa on June 28.
The upheaval in Honduras epitomizes a new kind of Latin American struggle, in which elected leftist leaders defy the status quo and test the limits of democracy.