Wall Street Journal — New Honduras Leader Faces Backlash From Coup
Reporting from Tegucigalpa, writers Paul Kiernan and David Luhnow look at the devolving situation in Central America. The Journal got an interview with interim president Roberto Micheletti, who said that despite pressure from President Barack Obama, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chvez and the nine other socialist regimes in Latin America, his government can hold on until regular elections are held this fall. Micheletti – who was the Honduran equivalent of the speaker of the house – was pleading with Obama to support the new government.
The ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, is heading to the United Nations today before he says he will make his return to Honduras on Thursday. Zelaya was marched out of the country after ignoring a supreme court ruling forbidding him to hold a special election to extend his power beyond his constitutionally mandated term limit that comes in January. The court ordered the military to prevent the vote, which led to a showdown with Zeleya and his eventual ouster.
