Manuel Zelaya, Former Honduran President, To Write A Book About Coup

CARACAS, Venezuela — Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya plans to write a book describing his ouster last year.

Zelaya says Honduras' business elite was behind last June's military-backed coup that sent him into exile.

In a television interview broadcast in Venezuela, Zelaya said the business leaders feared he planned to copy President Hugo Chavez's socialist policies and some were upset over his decision to seize control of fuel terminals used by store imported oil.

Honduran officials say Zelaya was ousted for refusing to drop a campaign for a referendum on changing the constitution, which the Supreme Court had ruled illegal.

Zelaya said Sunday he hopes to publish a book about his ouster within three months, but provided few details.

Comments

[ObamAtomic]

08:40 PM on 03/08/2010

First ,he must state that he tried to violate The Constitution and he wasn't man enough
to fight for the office that people elected him.

[Oleg1]

11:22 AM on 03/08/2010

Dude's gonna write puff piece about himself that will probably make Vanity Fair blush with envy.
This idjit sacrificed much needed agrarian and social reform on the altar of his own banana republic style power grasp.