CRISIS IN HONDURAS
Interim Honduran president
accuses Venezuela of intervening affairs
Tegucigalpa - Interim
Honduran President Roberto Micheletti
Wednesday accused Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez of intervening Honduras' affairs.
"The intervention of the government of Hugo
Chavez is clear and definite in the
situation that Honduras is experiencing,"
Micheletti said.
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed
from office in a military coup Sunday
afternoon, just hours after some 200
soldiers surrounded his official residence
in the Honduran capital and forced him to
board a plane to Costa Rica after a
referendum scheduled for Sunday on changing
the country's constitution has put Zelaya at
odds with the military, the courts and the
legislature.
The Honduran Congress announced later Sunday
that Micheletti would replace Manuel Zelaya
as the country's acting president.
Chavez called the coup "troglodyte," saying
his nation would not recognize anyone other
than Zelaya.
The Organization of American States (OAS)
has also condemned the coup and earlier on
Wednesday gave the coup leaders in three
days to reinstate Zelaya, saying otherwise
the country will face the suspension of its
OAS membership.
"Why didn't the OAS and others understand
what was happening in Honduras?" Micheletti
said at his Wednesday press conference.
"We have the strength and the faith" to
overcome the difficulty and that "the whole
world will recognize what we had done was in
favor of legality, the rule of law and the
constitution of the republic," Micheletti
said.
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