Political conflict ensues
Honduras military prevents Zelaya's return, violent protests leave 2 dead
The plane carrying ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya was unable to land at the Tegucigalpa airport because authorities were informed that the Honduras military had orders to impede the landing.
Zelaya wants a "peace mission, and dialogue" with the objective of "rescuing the popular will of the people."
The ex -mandate also remembered the international community's support.
He said that the OAS' Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, along with the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo and Ecuador's Rafael Correa traveled to El Salvador to "establish an approximation with Honduras."
Zelaya expressed his wish that the military open the airport in Tegucigalpa as he had ordered.
Honduras is living "a regiment of terror. The people have lived through six days of repression already. The people have suffered," affirmed Zelaya in Washington.
Confrontations between demonstrators and the Honduras authorities have left at least two people dead and some wounded.
The Toncontin airport, in Honduras' capital, has been taken by security forces and has had reduced traffic after the anouncement of various airlines of the suspension of many flights to the Latin American country.
Zelaya is risking arrest upon his return to Honduras. The Prosecution accuses him of 18 crimes, among which is treason.
Roberto Micheletti, elected President by the National Congress, has declared that Zelaya will "never" return to power and guaranteed that on November 29 there will be general elections and on January 27 he will turn over his mandate to the newly elected President.
Micheletti's government said that they had reason to suspect the presence of "military troops from Nicaragua along the Honduras border."
Micheletti asked Nicaragua's President, Daniel Ortega and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to "stop aggravating our country."
On the issue of the possible arrival of Cristina Kirchner in Honduras, Micheletti said that his country "has the highest concept of the Argentine President but nobody called to tell us that they would be coming."
"Neither Fernández de Kirchner nor any other President will arrive in Honduras without our concent," said Micheletti.
The interim President added that "we have our sovereignty. Nobody will tell us what to do."
"Nobody will pressure me. I have arrived here via a constitutional subsitution. What has happened has occurred legally, the Congress called me to represent the people of Honduras," assurred Micheletti, adding that "I only need to negotiate with the people once all of this is over."
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1| Hondureña - 06/07/2009
Perhaps your people will understand since your president don't. We Hondurans are proud of our country and our people and we do not want to become another Venezuela or another Nicaragua or Bolivia. We want to live in peace. Mel Zelaya is a coniving unjust man, the people that are wanting him to come back are the ones he went around handing out money to Chavez style, we would like the people of the countries to back us up in our quest. Not the other presidents because they are all afraid that Honduras is setting an example getting rid of the cancers. Thanks for your attention.