Gunmen attacked the car of a Honduran television commentator who has backed the coup-installed government, missing her but killing her pregnant daughter, police said Wednesday. Interim President Roberto Micheletti blamed members of the movement opposed to the June 28 coup that toppled President Manuel Zelaya, though he presented no evidence. The National Resistance Front Against the Coup denied involvement. Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot at Karol Cabrera's car late Tuesday in the capital of... Read Full Story
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The United States and Brazil agree ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya must have safe passage to leave Honduras and want the country's de facto president to step down to pave the way for national reconciliation, a senior Brazilian official said on Monday. "We believe that (de facto) President Michelleti should leave, it's the first important step," Marco Aurelio Garcia, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's foreign policy advisor, told reporters. "It's also... Read Full Story
The United States and Brazil on Monday talked over foreign policy differences on Iran, Honduras and US use of Colombian military bases during a visit by a senior US diplomat. US Assistant Secretary of State Arturo Valenzuela, who is in charge of Western hemisphere affairs, sat down with Brazil's presidential foreign affairs advisor, Marco Aurelio Garcia, to clear the air, the latter said. Garcia said he explained to Valenzuela that Brazil's dialogue with Iran and its recent hosting of a... Read Full Story
Honduras' president-elect said Monday he is willing to meet with ousted leader Manuel Zelaya anywhere to help end the political impasse over last June's coup. Porfirio Lobo said he is ready to talk with Zelaya outside the country or at the Brazilian Embassy, where the deposed president took refuge after sneaking back into Honduras on Sept. 21. "I'm totally and absolutely willing to start a dialogue with Zelaya at the Brazilian Embassy or anywhere else," Lobo told Radio HRN. The president of... Read Full Story
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil and Peru on Saturday condemned the refusal by the de facto government of Honduras to allow ousted President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country unless he drops his demand to be reinstated. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Peruvian President Alan Garcia criticized the de facto government's stance in a joint statement issued by Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Relations. Zelaya, deposed in a June 28 coup, has taken refuge in Brazil's embassy in the... Read Full Story
The leader of the Dominican Republic said Friday that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will meet with his elected successor next week in his Caribbean nation. There was no indication, however, that a deal for allowing such a meeting had been reached with the interim government that replaced Zelaya after a coup June 28. Dominican President Leonel Fernandez told reporters he expected Zelaya and President-elect Porfirio Lobo to meet Monday in Santo Domingo to talk about ways for... Read Full Story
Deposed Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya said he would remain at the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa until January 27, 2010 at the latest, when his term formally ends. "However, I would like to leave as soon as possible, obviously with the support of the Brazilian government," Zelaya told Brazil's Globo television. The cowboy-hatted ousted president, exiled in a military-backed coup in June, secretly slipped back into Honduras in September and has remained at the heavily... Read Full Story
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' de facto government will only allow ousted President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country if he signs a letter dropping his demand to be reinstated, the leftist said on Thursday. Zelaya had planned to leave his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy on Wednesday night for Mexico, but the trip was aborted when he refused to go into exile on the government's terms because he wants the right to campaign for his return to power from abroad. "There was a letter that they... Read Full Story
Members of a leftist bloc of nine Latin American nations said Saturday they plan to use a new currency dubbed the sucre for trade among themselves starting in January. No sucres will be printed or coined, but the virtual currency will be used to manage debts between governments while reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar and on Washington in general. Cuba already signed an agreement on Saturday to pay for a shipment of Venezuelan rice in sucres, according to Rogelio Sierra, the island's... Read Full Story
Deposed Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya rejected Thursday an offer to leave his country for Mexico because he said it would require him to renounce his claims to the presidency. "Yesterday, the de facto government... experienced another failure in its plan to get me to renounce my post," Zelaya told Brazil's Globo radio from inside the Brazilian embassy where he has been holed up for almost 12 weeks. "I can stay here 10 years. Here I have my guitar," said Zelaya, who slipped back into the... Read Full Story
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