Honduras gives Brazil 10 days to resolve standoff at embassy, where Zelaya seeking refuge

October 2nd, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - Brazilian legislators visiting Honduras have said ousted president Manuel Zelaya has promised to adopt a more moderate tone in talking to his supporters from the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. A representative of the Organisation of American States (OAS) meanwhile said both Zelaya and the de facto government headed by Roberto Micheletti had expressed willingness to open a dialogue to end the crisis sparked by Zelaya's return Sep 21.

October 1st, 2009 Brazil lawmakers meet Zelaya in Honduras embassyTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A Brazilian delegation won assurances Thursday that Honduran forces will not attack the embassy where Manuel Zelaya is holed up with supporters and met with the ousted president inside the diplomatic mission. Congressman Raul Jungmann, part of a team of Brazilian lawmakers on a fact-finding to verify conditions for the deposed leader in its Tegucigalpa embassy, said Zelaya told them he desires a peaceful end to the crisis and holds out hope that next week's arrival of Organization of American States' foreign ministers may help "advance negotiations." Earlier Thursday, the lawmakers met with Honduran Supreme Court President Jorge Rivera, who Jungmann said "was emphatic.

September 30th, 2009 UN official: Honduras takes 'seriously bad turn'UNITED NATIONS — An attack by police and soldiers on the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, where that country's deposed president is holed up, "would be a disaster," a senior U.N. official said Monday.

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 25th, 2009 UN decries harassment of Brazil's Honduran embassyUNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned "acts of intimidation" against the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, where that country's ousted president is holed up, but said nothing about restoring him to power.

September 25th, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said Friday gas shells and non-lethal noise bombs were thrown into the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he has taken refuge, but Honduras' de facto government denied that the embassy had been attacked. Zelaya said the air felt heavy and strange, and people in the building had become sick, with one aide vomiting blood.

September 24th, 2009 Ousted Honduran president: 1st talks a failureTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' coup-installed government plans to block the arrival of a commission of foreign ministers heading to the country this weekend to help resolve the country's political standoff, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said Friday. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate who moderated previous talks between Honduras' opposing factions said the government of interim President Roberto Micheletti has told the Organization of American States not to send the ministers because they will not be allowed into the country.

September 24th, 2009 MADRID/TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya has said he fears for his life, Spanish media reported Thursday. In a telephone interview with the Spanish daily El Mundo, Zelaya said the US and the Organisation of American States (OAS) had helped to foil one plan to kill him and to make it look like suicide.

September 23rd, 2009 Brazil hopes for negotiations in HondurasNEW YORK — Brazil's president said Wednesday he hoped deposed President Manuel Zelaya's surprise return to Honduras would deter coup plotters and force an eventual restoration of democracy in the Central American nation. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for patience with regard to the stand off that has Zelaya holed up inside the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, and disputed the notion the Honduran had been asked by Brazil to refrain from politics.

September 22nd, 2009 Brazil asks UN for emergency meeting on HondurasBRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's government has asked the United Nations Security Council to convene an emergency meeting over a standoff in Honduras with the nation's deposed president taking refuge in the Brazilian Embassy. The official Agencia Brasil news agency says Brazil's U.N.

September 22nd, 2009 Brazil's president says he spoke with ZelayaNEW YORK — Brazil's president said Tuesday he asked deposed Honduras President Manuel Zelaya not to provide a pretext for coup leaders to invade the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where Zelaya has been staying since slipping back into the country. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he spoke with Zelaya by phone on Tuesday morning, and that Zelaya had passed the night as peacefully as could be expected.

September 21st, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned Monday to the Central American country and had taken refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa. Earlier, the de facto government had denied his presence amid conflicting reports as to his precise whereabouts.

September 21st, 2009 Ousted President Zelaya says he's back in HondurasTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Deposed President Manuel Zelaya says he has come home to Honduras to reclaim his presidency, appearing on local television to rally supporters. Zelaya tells local TV Channel 36 he cannot give details of his return, "but I'm here," Zelaya was forced out of the country at gunpoint on June 28.

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.

September 3rd, 2009 Gov't Officials: US to cut aid to HondurasWASHINGTON — U.S. officials say the Obama administration is cutting all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.