Honduran
Interim Government Attempts To
Prevent Further U.S. Aid Cut
Tegucigalpa - De facto
Honduran President Roberto Micheletti
Thursday tried to check further reduction of
U.S. aid to the country by citing its
potential harm to the Honduran people.
When addressing a national broadcast,
Micheletti played down the importance of the
meeting between ousted Honduran President
Manuel Zelaya and U.S. Secretary of State in
Washington on Thursday.
"We are citizens of a sovereign country,
proud of defending democracy. Everybody
knows we still face the incomprehension of
those, who hastily condemned us without
investigating Honduras' reality before June
28," Micheletti said.
Zelaya was deposed by soldiers in a coup on
June 28 and flown to Costa Rica.
Micheletti said, "Hospitals, schools and
highways in Honduras depend on generous U.S.
aid and we are very thankful."
He said if the United States imposes more
economic sanctions against Honduras, it
"will only harm the Honduran people."
Micheletti urged Hondurans to keep firm and
united to fight for what he called the
priceless freedom and justice.
"Honduras will not be a land of tyrants,
neither a shelter of disgrace," he added.
After Zelaya was forced from office, the
United States suspended visas for Hondurans
and part of its economic aid to the country. |
