OAS could suspend Honduras after post-coup leaders balk

October 6th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Honduras coup leader Roberto Micheletti should step down immediately in return for an amnesty, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday. "For us, the solution will be easy if those that participated in the coup leave power and allow the legitimately elected president to take power," Lula told journalists at a summit with European Union leaders in Stockholm.

September 30th, 2009 Honduras sets 10-day deadline on embassy standoffTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras is giving Brazil 10 days to decide what to do with ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who has been inside the Brazilian Embassy since sneaking back into the country last week. The government in charge since a June 28 coup that deposed Zelaya says it will take unspecified "additional measures" if Brazil does not define his status.

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 12th, 2009 Honduras' interim president: US revoked my visaTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' interim president says the United States has taken away his diplomatic and tourist visas to protest the June 28 coup. Roberto Micheletti says he was expecting the action and called it "a sign of the pressure that the U.S.

August 5th, 2009 Human rights delegation to travel to HondurasWASHINGTON — A human rights group plans to send a delegation to Honduras to investigate alleged abuses during the country's June 28 coup. The Inter-American Commission of Human Rights announced Wednesday that it would send a delegation from Aug.

July 31st, 2009 BRUSSELS - European Union (EU) member states should ban leaders of the coup in Honduras from travelling to Europe, EU diplomats agreed in Brussels Friday. "Each member state will monitor that (EU) policy is closely adhered to, including the possibility of restrictions to the entry into their territories by senior officials of the de facto government in Honduras," a statement from the Swedish government, which currently holds the EU presidency, said.

July 21st, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran de-facto regime Tuesday broke off diplomatic relations with Venezuela, whose president Hugo Chavez has stood by President Manuel Zelaya since his unceremonious ouster and expulsion in late June. The move represented an escalation in the crisis.

July 17th, 2009 MOSCOW - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has called on the US to withdraw its troops from Honduras to ease the situation after the recent coup in the Central American state. The Honduran military ousted President Manuel Zelaya from office and flew him to Costa Rica June 28, the day polls were due to open for a non-binding referendum on extending the president's non-renewable four-year term of office.

July 6th, 2009 MANAGUA - Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Sunday denied an accusation from Honduras' post-coup government that Nicaraguan troops were massing on their shared border. "Brother Honduran soldiers, brother Honduran officials, I want to assure you, swearing before God and nation, that Nicaragua is not deploying troops towards Honduras and that we are not preparing any kind of attack on Honduran garrisons on the border," he told domestic radio.

July 5th, 2009 Zelaya says he's optimist, will return to HondurasWASHINGTON — Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya says he's optimistic and is still planning to return Sunday to his country a week after he was overthrown by a military coup. Zelaya said as he arrived at the Organization of American States building that everyone is rejecting the coup.

July 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Organisation of American States (OAS) voted to suspend Honduras from the group late Saturday as diplomatic efforts failed to overturn a coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya one week ago. The resolution immediately suspending the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti was approved unanimously by 33 member nations - with the exception of Honduras, which was barred from voting - during a special session of the OAS general assembly in Washington.

July 5th, 2009 OAS suspends Honduras after coupWASHINGTON — The OAS on Saturday night suspended Honduras participation in the organization because of last week's military coup. Honduras' interim government has already said it's quitting the organization rather than meet demands to reinstate the ousted president.

July 4th, 2009 OAS eyes Honduras suspension, but beaten to punchWASHINGTON — The Organization of American States is meeting in Washington to consider suspending Honduras' membership because of the military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. But even before Saturday's emergency session, Honduras' interim government decided to pulled out of the OAS rather than meet demands to reinstate Zelaya.

July 1st, 2009 Pentagon: Military cooperation on hold after coupWASHINGTON — The Pentagon says it has put cooperation with the Honduran military on hold. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman says the United States has "postponed" joint operations in light of last weekend's military coup against that country's president.

June 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - The UN General Assembly Tuesday condemned the military coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, saying that the event interrupted the democratic and constitutional order in the Central American nation. Zelaya was present in the 192-nation assembly when that body adopted a resolution to condemn Sunday's coup.