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Zelaya: USA Backs Honduran Putschists
TEGUCIGALPA - Constitutional President of Honduras Jose
Manuel Zelaya said on Thursday that the
United States is supporting the de facto
regime of the putschists and reiterated that
he will not recognize the results of the
elections on Sunday, November 29.
In an interview for Brazilian UOL Noticias
website, Zelaya said that "the United States
is not only supporting the elections, but
also the de facto regime, the dictatorship,
the putschists' regime."
A coup on June 28 not only took Zelaya away
of the presidency but also of the country.
On September 21, he returned to Tegucigalpa
and has been in the Brazilian Embassy in
Honduras since then.
In this regard, Zelaya said he will remain
in the said facility as long as Brazil
allows him to.
The Brazilian government said that no date
has been set for Zelaya to leave the
diplomatic mission, where he can stay for as
long as it is necessary. Zelaya said he will
impugn Sunday elections because when legal
order and constitutional order is broken by
a coup, no process can be legalized under
this condition.
Therefore, "if a dictatorship promotes,
runs, coordinates and election, it becomes
illegal. It is a precedent that had never
been set in Latin America, which already
witnessed 80 coups, but they culminated in a
new Constitution, not in an illegitimate
call for elections, like this."
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