Honduran Congress to vote on Zelaya fate after poll [View All]

Source: Reuters

By Helen Popper

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran lawmakers will wait until after a November 29 election to decide whether to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya, delaying a vote central to a U.S.-led deal to end months of political crisis.

Zelaya, who irked the poor nation's elite by forming close ties with leftist Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, was sent into exile in his pajamas by soldiers on June 28 and a de facto government led by Roberto Micheletti took charge.

The U.S.-brokered pact to end the crisis stipulates a congressional vote on reinstating Zelaya, but it never set a date and the October accord collapsed within a week as the rival sides failed to form a unity government.

"We've decided to convene sessions for December 2," Congress head Jose Saavedra told reporters, adding that lawmakers expected the Supreme Court to give an opinion next week on whether Zelaya should be returned to power until a new president is sworn in January after the November 29 election ...

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So Zelaya has been correct, to assert the negotiation "solution" collapsed. The stalling technique, adopted by the golpistas, is a tactic frequently used by the prior administration, and it seems entirely clear that the Honduran coup was planned by the Bush gang and pulled off the shelf by their operatives. The Obama administration has, in this case, been out-maneuvered by the reactionaries: one hopes the administration will be able to think through its moves in somewhat more detail in future cases like this