Zelaya to Make Honduran Return

Zelaya to Make Honduran Return

Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has threatened to come back to Tegucigalpa, the nation's capital, today. While Zelaya's authoritarian tendencies were starting to worry people in Honduras and beyond its borders, the role of the military in the coup has troubled all of the Americas. The Organization of American States (OAS) has roundly condemned the generals and the new government, and called for Zelaya's immediate re-instatement.

Today I read one of the more balanced views of the Honduran crisis, which has amazingly seen the US, Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia, all in the same pro-Zelaya camp:

http://www.slate.com/id/2222241/?from=rss

Let's hope bloodshed will be avoided. Perhaps a deal can be brokered between Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, the new interim President of Honduras. Fearing OAS reprisals for refusing to re-install Zelaya, Honduras has already withdrawn from the OAS. The Honduran political, business, military, and religious ruling classes are against Zelaya, but it is harder to gauge his level of popular support. Whatever happens, Hondurans fear the dreaded return of the military dictatorship. But, as we have seen when the generals sent Zelaya on a plane to San Jose, the military always lurks in the wings waiting for its opportunity to influence the political future of Honduras.

Tamir Bar-On