Interim leader vows elections will move Honduras past coup crisis, urges citizens to vote

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim leader on Tuesday urged citizens to vote in November elections, vowing that the election of a new president will show the world democracy thrives in the Central America country despite a July coup.

OAS chief: No Honduran deal acceptable without return of president ousted in a coup

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The head of the Organization of American States closed the door Friday on a compromise offered by Honduras’ interim leader because it would not restore the president ousted in a coup.

Honduras’ interim government offers plan to allow Zelaya to return, though not as president

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim leader offered to resign and back exiled President Manuel Zelaya’s return home, provided the ousted leader gives up his claim to the presidency, according to a plan made public Thursday.

Central American bank freezes Honduras loans following coup

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Central America’s development bank says it is freezing credits to Honduras following the June 28 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

OAS chief still hopes for compromise to settle Honduran governmental crisis

WASHINGTON — The head of the Organization of American States held out hope Wednesday for a resolution of the Honduran presidential crisis even after the high-level delegation he led to the Central American country failed to arrange for ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s return.

OAS chief still has hope for compromise to settle Honduran governmental crisis

WASHINGTON — The head of the Organization of American States held out hope Wednesday for a resolution of the Honduran presidential crisis even after the high-level delegation he led to the Central American country failed to arrange for ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s return.

Honduras’ interim government says no fear of sanctions, as US stops issuing most visas there

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim leader said Tuesday he doesn’t fear sanctions after an international delegation failed to win a pledge to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya and Washington announced it will stop issuing most visas at its embassy in Honduras.

US to stop issuing most visas in Honduras because coup-makers refuse to sign San Jose pact

WASHINGTON — The United States will stop issuing most visas on Wednesday at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras because the current government is standing by its refusal to sign an accord that would bring back overthrown President Manuel Zelaya.

International delegation arrives in Honduras to seek ousted president’s return

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Foreign ministers from seven nations launched a direct, high-profile attempt Monday to persuade Honduras’ interim government to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Honduran top court says ousted president would face trial if he returns

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ Supreme Court says ousted President Manuel Zelaya would face trial if he returns to the Central American country.

Amnesty International alleges widespread Honduran police abuse against anti-coup protesters

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The rights group Amnesty International is alleging widespread abuse of protesters demanding the return of the Honduran president ousted in a coup, saying in a report Wednesday that hundreds of people have been beaten and detained under the interim government.

Increasingly a fait accompli, Honduras coup leaves other leftists fearing they could be next

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Manuel Zelaya’s chances of getting restored to the Honduran presidency become more distant with each passing week. Across Latin America, his allies and foes alike see a precedent being set.

Honduran coup leaders order expulsion of Argentine envoys ahead of foreign ministers’ visit

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim government ordered Argentine diplomats Tuesday to leave the country in three days, sending a defiant message ahead of a visit by six foreign ministers who are seeking the restoration of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Interim Honduran government say they expect unfair treatment from visiting OAS rights monitors

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ coup-installed government said it does not expect to be judged fairly by an international panel that arrived Monday to investigate allegations of human rights abuses.

US SouthCom: Troops in Honduras didn’t know about plane that took Zelaya to exile after coup

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The U.S. military said Sunday its troops in Honduras did not know of and played no role in a flight that took ousted President Manuel Zelaya to exile during a military coup.

Zelaya aide says coup plane stopped at Honduras base with US troops on way out of country

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A top official in Honduras’ ousted government charges there was U.S. involvement in the coup that deposed Manuel Zelaya, saying the plane that flew him into exile stopped at an airfield manned by American troops.

Molotov cocktails hurled at offices of Honduran newspaper; no injuries

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A Honduran editor says assailants threw molotov cocktails at the offices of his newspaper, setting fire to the entrance.

Honduras charges 24 Zelaya sympathizers with sedition, damages after violent protests

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Two dozen supporters of Honduras’ ousted president were charged with sedition Friday in an intensifying crackdown on protests against the coup-installed government.

Hondurans protest as ousted president visits Chile; US diplomat to negotiate

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim president appeared to reverse course Thursday and reject any official visit by the head of the Organization of American States, days after his government said OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza could come as an observer with a diplomatic delegation.

Supporters of ousted Honduras president clash with police, assault influential legislator

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya clashed with police in the Honduran capital Wednesday and some of them attacked the second-ranking member of Congress.

10,000 supporters of Honduras’ ousted president arrive in capital after weeklong marches

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim government reinstated a nighttime curfew for the capital after thousands of anti-coup protesters marched into Tegucigalpa on Tuesday to demand the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

OAS leader ignores Honduran rejection, says will be member of mission to restore presidency

WASHINGTON — The Organization of American States reaffirmed on Tuesday its plans to send to Honduras a delegation of OAS foreign ministers to work on restoring the Central American country’s elected government, but the two sides seem at odds over the top OAS official’s role.

Honduran coup-installed government accepts crisis negotiators with OAS chief as observer only

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras —Honduras’ interim government backed off its refusal of a visit by foreign delegates aimed at resolving the country’s political crisis.

Honduras’ coup-installed president prohibits visit of crisis negotiators from OAS

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras —Honduras’ interim government announced Sunday that it was canceling a visit by foreign delegates aimed at resolving the country’s political crisis because it could not accept the participation of a regional official who insists on reinstating the ousted president.

Interim Honduran leader says he won’t allow return of ousted president

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ coup-installed president says an OAS delegation traveling to the Central American country next week won’t persuade him to allow the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Honduran coup highlights power of business elite, which felt betrayed by one of its own

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup after betraying his own kind: a small clique of families that dominates the economy. Now those same families stand as the greatest obstacle to the U.S.-backed drive to return him to power.

Honduran presidential candidate criticizes Zelaya expulsion, shows cracks in backing for coup

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A leading candidate for Honduras’ presidency distanced himself Wednesday from the overthrow of Manuel Zelaya and said sending him abroad was a mistake, while clashes broke out between police and supporters of the ousted president.

Honduran military leadership defends decision to exile ousted president

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ military leadership defended its decision to force the ousted president into exile — a move the interim government has suggested was wrong even as it stands by the role of civilians in unseating President Manuel Zelaya.

OAS chief sending envoys to pressure Honduran coup leaders to restore ousted President Zelaya

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A high-ranking diplomatic mission will travel to Honduras in a new effort to pressure coup-installed leaders to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya, the chief mediator in the crisis said Monday.

Honduran man shot during anti-coup protest dies; second Zelaya supporter killed in crisis

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A Honduran educator who was shot in the head while protesting the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya died Saturday after being in a coma for two days, a teachers union leader said.

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