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Anti-drug chief killed in Honduras

Ronnie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:21:51 +0000

Unidentified gunmen killed Honduras’ top anti-drug cop on Tuesday, a national police spokesman told CNN. Gen. Julian Gonzalez, director of the Office for Combatting Drug Trafficking, was gunned down in his sport utility vehicle by two people...

Zelaya to bid Honduras adieu, negotiating deal to leave Honduras

Ronnie — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:17:25 +0000

Mexico is working to get ousted President Manuel Zelaya out of the Brazilian Embassy, a refuge where he has spent nearly three months in a failed effort to get his office back and prevent the election of his successor.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department said late Wednesday that it asked the interim administration installed after the coup that removed Zelaya to guarantee his safe passage out of the country without being arrested on treason and abuse of power charges.

Honduran officials said the interim government agreed to let Zelaya go if he was willing to accept political asylum, but Zelaya said he would not accept a departure under those terms.

“I want to leave as a distinguished guest, not as political refugee like the interim government wants,” Zelaya told Radio Globo late Wednesday.

The interim government had been insistent Zelaya would be arrested on the charges that led to his June 28 ouster for ignoring a Supreme Court order against holding a referendum on changing the constitution, but recently it began hinting Zelaya could leave for exile or political asylum in another country.

Ousted Zelaya returns to Honduras

Ronnie — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:45:21 +0000

The ousted president of Honduras has briefly crossed the country’s border with Nicaragua, in a symbolic move the US has described as a “reckless”.

Manuel Zelaya has been in exile for nearly a month after he was forced from his position by a coup, and had previously tried to return by plane.

The interim government has said it will arrest him if he sets foot in Honduras.

Deposed Honduran prez accused of drug ties

Ronnie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:34:24 +0000

The regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claimed Tuesday that the deposed president allowed tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American country on its way to the United States.

“Every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission of appropriate authorities and bring thousands of pounds ... and packages of money that are the fruit of drug trafficking,” its foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, told CNN en Espanol.