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Caribbean-Latin America
Zelaya meets with Calderón
2009-08-05
MEXICO CITY - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya began another wave of travel this week to shore up support for his return to Honduras, meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón at the presidential palace in Mexico City today.

The visit today with Mexico's conservative president, and renewed diplomatic efforts, could mark a new strategy to distance Zelaya from his leftist ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and appeal to more right-leaning bases both in Honduras and beyond.
The new strategy is called, 'desperation' ...
"Many conservatives, not just in Honduras, but conservative elements in the US [and elsewhere], fear that the return of Zelaya is the return of the project of Hugo Chavez, that everyone is doing the bidding of Hugo Chavez," says Christopher Sabatini, the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly in New York. "If they can take that stain away that is in many ways their best bet."
Except no one's really going to believe them ...
At a ceremony in Mexico City, Zelaya, donning his trademark white cowboy hat, stood with President Calderón -- both leaders reiterating their mutual support for the return of constitutional order to Honduras. Calderón said Tuesday that Mexico has lent its support to Zelaya's reinstatement since the beginning, and "we are prepared to continue giving it more intensely ...," he said.

The emphasis, Calderón says, is to accept the plan presented by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who has been brokering talks in San Jose. The proposal presented by Mr. Arias, which includes the reinstatement of Zelaya with limited powers and early presidential elections, has been repeatedly rejected by the interim government over the issue of Zelaya's return.
Posted by:Steve White

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