Honduran negotiators reach agreement to restore Zelaya

October 14th, 2009 Honduran factions agree on key point in talksTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A negotiator for ousted President Manuel Zelaya says the opposing factions in Honduras' political crisis have reached an agreement on a key point. Zelaya representative Victor Meza says the two sides have agreed on the wording of a point related to the deposed president's return to power.

October 13th, 2009 Hondurans agree on constitution; no deal on ZelayaTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' opposing factions agreed Tuesday on nearly every point of a pact to end the political crisis except the central issue: ousted President Manuel Zelaya's return to the presidency. Negotiators said Zelaya's camp has promised that if he returns to power, he will drop his efforts to change the Honduran constitution, an initiative that led to his June 28 ouster.

October 9th, 2009 Gains reported in Honduran talks to end stalemateTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Rival factions in the bitter Honduran political stalemate emerged from negotiations Friday reporting substantial progress, although no agreement on restoring ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The two teams of negotiators ended four hours of private talks with representatives of both sides saying agreement had been reached on 60 percent of the issues covered under an international plan for resolving the crisis.

September 28th, 2009 PORLAMAR - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva here said that it "does not accept ultimatums from a coup-making government". He was talking about the 10 days ultimatum given by the present Honduran government for clearing the status of expelled Honduran president Mel Zelaya who is holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.

September 21st, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - The interim Honduran government and the spokeswoman for the UN in Tegucigalpa denied that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya had returned Monday to the Central American country. Roberto Micheletti, the former Congress speaker designated to lead the country after Zelaya's ouster, and UN spokeswoman Ana Elsy Mendoza both denied that Zelaya had taken refuge at the UN office in Tegucigalpa.

August 23rd, 2009 Honduran top court: Ousted president to face trialTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' Supreme Court says ousted President Manuel Zelaya would face trial if he returns to the Central American country. The Honduran top court is giving its opinion on a plan to solve Honduras' political crisis after Zelaya was ousted in a coup.

August 15th, 2009 Firebombs hurled at Honduran newspaper officeTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A Honduran editor says assailants threw molotov cocktails at the offices of his newspaper, setting fire to the entrance. El Heraldo chief editor Fernando Berrio says security guards were the only ones in the building at the time.

July 30th, 2009 Interim Honduran leader deplores US visa measuresTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The Honduran leader installed in a coup criticized the United States on Thursday for revoking the diplomatic visas of four interim-government officials, saying such measures only complicate efforts to resolve the crisis peacefully. Interim President Roberto Micheletti also continued to insist that President Manuel Zelaya was legally removed from office, saying "sadly, American leaders have ignored key facts from the first days of the crisis." "Instead of imposing sanctions, the United States should support the mediation of (Costa Rican President Oscar) Arias to seek peaceful solutions," Micheletti said in a statement.

July 30th, 2009 Ousted Honduran president: Military could rebelOCOTAL, Nicaragua — Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says disgruntled military officers could rebel "at any moment" against the government installed in a coup. Zelaya says he has information that some soldiers and officers are "repudiating the way in which the military leadership is directing the armed forces." He warns young officers could rebel "at any moment" and force military chief Gen.

July 24th, 2009 Clinton calls Zelaya move 'reckless'WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling a move by ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to cross the border briefly into his homeland "reckless." Zelaya took only a few steps across the border from Nicaragua as he waited for military officials to contact him. Clinton, at a joint news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Friday, said: "President Zelaya's effort to reach the border is reckless." She added that it would not help restore democratic and constitutional order in Honduras.

July 5th, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran government installed after last week's coup Sunday prevented the return to the country of democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. Alfredo San Martin, head of Honduras' Civil Aviation, said the plane carrying Zelaya was diverted to El Salvador.

July 3rd, 2009 SC senator defends ouster of Honduran presidentWASHINGTON — South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is defending the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and says the rule of law is working in Honduras.

June 28th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Honduran President Manuel Zelaya accused his military of abducting him and spiriting him to Costa Rica in his first televised interview after a coup Sunday morning. "There is no justification for this coup," said Zelaya in an interview with a Venezuelan broadcaster that was also carried by CNN.

June 28th, 2009 Honduran president calls arrest a 'kidnapping'SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says soldiers rousted him out of bed, beat his body guards and arrested him in his pajamas in what he criticized as "a coup" and "a kidnapping." Zelaya told a local television station Sunday that he is at the airport in San Jose, capital of Costa Rica. He said he would not recognize any attempt to name a replacement for him following his detention earlier Sunday.

June 28th, 2009 Honduran president in Costa Rica after arrestSAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A high-ranking official says that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is in Costa Rica following his detention by soldiers in his homeland. The official at the Costa Rican president's office was not authorized to be quoted by name.