TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Two opposition stations are back on the air after the de facto government pulled the plug on their operations. But their return has not ended a high-profile feud between station bosses and President Roberto Micheletti that has drawn international attention, condemnation and charges of censorship.

There have even been accusations of anti-Semitism lobbed at one of the broadcasters. The controversy comes as the region's largest press-freedom group, the Inter American Press Association, prepares to hold its annual assembly early next month in Argentina.

The stations, Radio Globo and Cholusat Sur (Channel 36), returned to the airwaves on Monday, shortly after Micheletti's government rescinded a decree that had limited constitutional guarantees and made inciting violence on the air a crime.

Esdras Amado López, director of Cholusat Sur, said his station is broadcasting but it remains hampered. The interim government, he said, has kept some 70 pieces of equipment, including computers, microphones and switchboards, causing him to operate at just 1 percent capacity.

``It's like having a car with no engine,'' Amado said. ``We're just pushing it along.''

There is little disagreement here that the stations have strongly supported ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who was escorted out of the country still in his pajamas June 28 after he defied the supreme court and congress by pushing ahead with a referendum that would have allowed him to convene an assembly to rewrite the constitution.

Zelaya returned to the country Sept. 21 and remains holed up at the Brazilian Embassy.

From inside the embassy shortly after his arrival, Zelaya accused Israeli mercenaries of aiding the interim government. Radio Globo director David Romero weighed in -- in support of Adolf Hitler.

``After what I have learned,'' Romero said Sept. 25, ``I ask myself why, why didn't we let Hitler carry out his historic mission?''

International press advocacy groups such as Reporters Without Borders and the IAPA weighed in on the side of free press in Honduras. IAPA, which holds it's annual assembly in Buenos Aires Nov. 6-10, also held an emergency meeting in Caracas, concluding that the press in several countries in the region is ``under threat.''

Still, Romero increasingly found himself on the defensive. His comments were condemned by various international groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, which accused Zelaya of trying to stir up anti-Semitism and called on the Obama administration to recognize Micheletti in light of such bigotry. Zelaya also condemned Romero's words.

``I can only see it with irony that you and Mr. Romero visited me looking for help after the station was closed by the de facto government,'' U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens wrote in a letter to station owner Alejandro Villatoro, which questioned how the station could employ a news director who doesn't understand the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Romero apologized and said his comments were now being used against him in the struggle to get Radio Globo and Cholusat Sur on the air.

``My comments were unacceptable,'' Romero said in an interview with The Miami Herald. ``I was very emotional, but what I said doesn't reflect my beliefs.''

Romero said his grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Czechoslovakia.

Radio Globo and Cholusat Sur stand accused of calling for insurrection and violence over their airwaves. Police confiscated the stations' equipment in late September just days after Zelaya snuck back into Honduras and social unrest peaked turning protests into looting sprees.