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Zelaya's
Planned Exit To Mexico On Hold
TEGUGICALPA - Honduras' de facto government said
on Wednesday that plans for ousted President
Manuel Zelaya to leave his refuge in the
Brazilian Embassy and fly to Mexico had been
aborted for the time being.
"It's aborted under current circumstances,"
the de facto government's foreign minister
Carlos Lopez told Honduran television.
The administration in power since Zelaya was
ousted in a June coup wants the president to
take political asylum in another country,
which would restrict his political
activities.
But Zelaya has rejected asylum in favor of a
looser status that would allow him to
campaign fully for his return, Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega said.
According to La Jornada daily, Zelaya's trip
to Mexico was aborted, because the Roberto
Micheletti regime once again made a third
country look ridiculous, this time Mexico.
First, the Honduran putschists approved the
Mexican request, made it known, a Mexican
plane took off for Tegucigalpa, and then
everything came to an end, the paper noted.
According to the daily, Zelaya intended to
leave the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa,
where he has stayed since September 21 as
president of Hondurans and not political
refugee, as the chancellery of the de facto
government rated him.
Zelaya yesterday told Televisa via telephone
that the Micheletti regime had hindered his
strip in the last minute, and denied that he
asked for political asylum in Mexico.
La Jornada also quoted Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega as saying last night via
telephone that his Mexican peer, Felipe
Calderon, had transmitted him the Mexican
executive's willingness to welcome Zelaya as
guest, with honors of president.
Citing Ortega the daily added that Zelaya
would only stay in Mexico until the weekend,
when he would travel to Havana to attend the
summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the
Peoples of Our America (ALBA).
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