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Manuel Zelaya Negotiating Deal To Leave Honduras

AP | FREDDY CUEVAS and JULIE WATSON | Posted 12.10.2009 | World


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' coup-installed government says ousted leader Manuel Zelaya is free to leave the country, but there's a catch: ...

Manuel Zelaya Should Be Returned To Power, Say Latin American Leaders

AP | CIARAN GILES | Posted 12.01.2009 | World


ESTORIL, Portugal — Honduras should return ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power, leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal said at a sum...

Zelaya: US-Brokered Pact For Honduran Crisis Fails

AP | MARTHA MENDOZA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ | Posted 11.06.2009 | World


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is d...

Manuel Zelaya "Tortured" By Soldiers Blasting Pig Grunts

guardian.co.uk | Rory Carroll, Latin America Correspondent | Posted 10.22.2009 | World


Honduran soldiers have blasted recordings of pig grunts and other sound effects at the embassy in which the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, is holed ...

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 12.02.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

This Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs

Desperate Honduran Leaders Vow To Restore Freedoms

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 11.28.2009 | World


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down Monday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he...

Honduras Allows Relief, But Military Digs In

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.24.2009 | World


Ashley Rindsberg

Today's curfew lift will reveal much. If the majority of the country remains quiet and orderly there might be a mellowing of the situation. If clashes erupt, the crisis will spiral.

Honduras Leader Zelaya: "Mercenaries" Are Out To Kill Me

McClatchy | Frances Robles | Miami Herald | Posted 11.24.2009 | World


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- It's been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power. He's sleeping on chairs, and he said his throat is sore from tox...

Gunfire, Tear Gas in Honduran Capital

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.22.2009 | World


Ashley Rindsberg

Gunfire, the smell of burning tires, and tear gas woke me up Tuesday morning. Tegucigalpa's Palmira neighborhood erupted into violence at around 5 AM.

Honduras: Deposed President Manuel Zelaya Holed Up In Brazilian Embassy

AP | MARCOS ALEMAN | Posted 11.22.2009 | World


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Baton-wielding soldiers used tear gas and water cannons to chase away thousands who demonstrated outside the Brazilian E...

Honduras: Zelaya Claims He Is Back To Reclaim Presidency

AP | FREDDY CUEVAS | Posted 11.21.2009 | World


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Deposed President Manuel Zelaya made a dramatic return to Honduras' capital Monday, taking shelter from arrest at Brazil...

Honduran Tensions Rise As Curfew Enforced

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.21.2009 | World


Ashley Rindsberg

While the the demonstrations are not violent as of now, police helicopters have started circling the area and the loud bangs of fireworks are punctuating the shouts.

Honduras Won't Let Zelaya Return As President, Defying U.S.

McClatchy | Tyler Bridges | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.09.2009 | World


CARACAS, Venezuela �" Honduras' de facto government remains dead-set against the return of Manuel Zelaya as the country's president, in defiance of ...

Honduras Elections To Go Ahead Despite International Criticism, Says Interim Government

BBC | Posted 09.26.2009 | World


The Honduran interim government says it will go ahead with presidential elections in November, even if results are not recognised by other countries....

Honduras Court: Zelaya Faces Arrest If Returns

AFP | Posted 09.24.2009 | World


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras's Supreme Court has rejected a Costa Rica-brokered deal that would have restored ousted President Manuel Zelaya to p...

Fact Checking Lanny Davis on Honduras

Greg Grandin | Posted 09.10.2009 | World


Greg Grandin

I debated lobbyist Lanny Davis, now working for the business backers of the recent Honduran coup, on Democracy Now! Below is a list of Davis's major lies followed by fact checks.

Departed, or Deported at Gunpoint?

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media


Carol Felsenthal

No matter how one feels about the recent events in Honduras that saw the elected president, Manuel Zelaya arrested and then deported, the word "departed" does not describe his removal.

Ousted Honduran Leader Vows To Camp On Border

AP | MORGAN LEE | Posted 08.26.2009 | World


OCOTAL, Nicaragua — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya encamped his roving government in exile in this sleepy mountain town near the Honduran border...

Exiled Honduran President Sets Up Camp "With Water And Food" On Border

AP | MORGAN LEE | Posted 08.25.2009 | World


LAS MANOS, Nicaragua — Deposed President Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border on Saturday and announced he would set up camp there, des...

Zelaya Crosses Border And Returns To Honduras As Police, Supporters Clash

AP | MORGAN LEE | Posted 08.24.2009 | World


EL PARAISO, Honduras — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a symbolic step into his homeland Friday, vowing to reclaim his post a month after so...

Zelaya Sets Up Nicaragua Base To Prepare A Dramatic Return Home

AP | MORGAN LEE | Posted 08.24.2009 | World


EL PARAISO, Honduras — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a symbolic step into his homeland Friday, vowing to reclaim his post a month after so...

The Urgency of Restoring Democracy to Honduras -- and What You Can Do to Help*

Dan Kovalik | Posted 08.23.2009 | World


Dan Kovalik

I just returned from a trip to Honduras where the ousted President, Manual Zelaya, has great support among the poor, the unions and the indigenous groups of Honduras.

Honduras Lobbyists For Interim Government Sent To Washington

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 08.21.2009 | World


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' interim government ordered Venezuelan diplomats on Tuesday to leave the country as the international community...

Laura Dean

Battle For The Honduran Presidency Plays Out In Washington D.C.

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Dean | Posted 08.20.2009 | World


A proxy-struggle for the Honduran presidency continues to play out in Washington D.C. The most recent battle is over the ambassadorship. Honduran Pr...

Honduras... The Big Backstory

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 08.20.2009 | World


Eric Ehrmann

The White House denounced the action in Honduras as "illegal." But that call requires Washington to cut off all but humanitarian aid and could jeopardize the big Soto Cano base outside Tegucigalpa.