CARACAS (Reuters) – Toppled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is unlikely to return to office, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday after weeks of tough diplomacy to reinstall his close leftist ally.
Soldiers dragged Zelaya out of Honduras at gunpoint in June, months before the end of his term, and the defacto government has ignored international condemnation and is preparing for elections in November.
"Regardless of whether Zelaya returns or not, and really, at this point, that's hard to imagine, Honduras will keep up the fight," Chavez said in a phone call to Venezuelan television from Libya.Despite condemnation from the United States and most world governments, Honduras' interim government, led by Roberto Micheletti, has refused to allow the return of Zelaya, who it says was too close to the socialist Chavez.
Chavez initially put his troops on alert after the coup and provided Zelaya with the jet he used in an aborted attempt to land in Honduras' capital Tegucigalpa days after his overthrow.
By holding out the Honduran President Micheletti has made the Fall Presidential elections look like the best place to replace him for the presidency, this in turn removes much of the pressure to restore Zeleya, at the end of the day is it worth dramatic action on his behalf if he is going to be in power for barely 2 months?
great, now the hundurans are gonna come all to the USA to take over and try to make the USA a little Honduras, this will never end, and they will cont. to expect us to learn Spanish instead of them learning English. A stop must be put to this...Terrible.
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