FNRP confirms the return of Manuel Zelaya

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Lunes 23 de Mayo de 2011 09:10 RED MORAZÁNICA DE INFORMACIÓN



Tegucigalpa. May 19, 2011 . Juan Barahona, Sub FNRP coordinator, has confirmed today by telephone from Managua, Nicaragua that on Saturday May 28 former President Manuel Zelaya will be arriving in this capital city; "we finished a meeting with Manuel Zelaya and have decided that his return will be on Saturday May 28 at 11 am for the airport Toncontín "said Barahona.


Barahona reported that the ex-president and General Coordinator of FNRP will be accompanied by all the exiles who so far have been in different countries of Latin America and Europe. Similarly he will be accompanied by several foreign ministers and representatives of parliaments of Central and South America.

Expressions of happiness for the return of Manuel Zelaya have not been long in coming and already caravans from all over the country have been announced. A massive mobilization to welcome the ousted president is expected.

Juan Barahona has called on the resistance across the country to mobilise at the international airport of Toncontin in Tegucigalpa. From this point they will deploy to the Plaza Isy Obed Murillo, south of the airport, where the FNRP will make a political - cultural welcome in honor of the martyrs who fell after the military coup of June 28, 2009.

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What Now for a Post-Coup Honduras?

By Alexander Main - Common Dreams, May 23rd 2011

Many Latin America watchers were thrown for a loop last month when a bilateral meeting in Cartagena, Colombia between Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia suddenly metamorphosed into a trilateral encounter that included Porfirio Lobo, the controversial president of Honduras. It was hard enough grappling with the image of Chavez and Santos, considered to be arch-enemies only a year ago, slapping one another on the back and heralding warm relations between their countries. Now it appeared that Chavez had also warmed up to Lobo, the leader of a government that Venezuela and many other South American countries had refused to recognize since the coup of June 28, 2009 that toppled democratically-elected president Manuel Zelaya.
Various media outlets were quick to suggest that as a result of the friendly meeting, Chavez was prepared to back the return of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS). Since Venezuela had been the most outspoken critic of Honduras’ post-coup governments, it seemed conceivable that in no time the country would recover the seat that it had lost by unanimous decision of the OAS’ thirty-three members following the 2009 coup.
But soon more details emerged from the meeting that suggested that there were still significant hurdles ahead for Lobo. Chávez had not in fact agreed to support Honduras’ immediate return to the OAS. Instead the three leaders had drawn up a road map for Honduras’ possible return with the direct input of exiled former president Mel Zelaya, who was reached by phone during the meeting. As had occurred in previous negotiations, a series of conditions were put forward with the understanding that their fulfillment would open the door to OAS re-entry.
According to the Venezuelan government, four basic conditions, formulated primarily by Zelaya, were discussed during the closed-door meeting: the secure return of Zelaya and other officials exiled during and after the 2009 coup; an end to the persecution of members of the anti-coup National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP, by its Spanish initials); human rights guarantees and the investigation of human rights violations since the coup; guarantees for the holding of a future constituent assembly; and the recognition of the FNRP as a political organization.

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