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| Zelaya meets Clinton amid Honduras crisis talks | ||
| 2009-07-08 | ||
| TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) -- Ousted Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington Tuesday, as the leaders who sent him away hinted at a possible exit in the crisis. Zelaya -- who the army prevented from landing in the capital Tegucigalpa during violent protests Sunday -- could come back if Congress grants him amnesty, a spokesman for the Supreme Court told AFP. "The only one with the power to give amnesty is the Congress," said Danilo Izaguirre, spokesman for Honduras' Supreme Court. Zelaya's highest-level meeting with the US administration so far in the crisis came Tuesday amid increasing pressure on the leaders who packed him away on June 28 over a dispute with the courts, politicians and the army over his plans to change the constitution. "We are open to dialogue. We want to be heard," interim leader Roberto Micheletti said Tuesday, amid world-wide condemnation for the coup, as well as violence on the streets. A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday condemned "excessive force" by authorities quelling protests in Honduras, after two deaths in weekend clashes with the army.
Roberto Micheletti, who interim leaders insisted took power in a "constitutional succession," not a coup, said that Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, had agreed to mediate the crisis. Meanwhile, pro-Zelaya protests sprang up Tuesday for the ninth consecutive day, with thousands on the streets of the capital Tegucigalpa. "We're going to continue with peaceful resistance, despite the repression," union leader Juan Barahona told AFP.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Spread nails on the runwaay, have a "Serious Accident" on landing, watch Obama whine. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-07-08 16:34 |
| #1 Let him land, then do an Aquino on him. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-07-08 10:53 |