BTL:Ousted President Zelaya Returns to Honduras as Repression Continues

Interview with Dana Frank, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz , conducted by Scott Harris

Ousted President Zelaya Returns to Honduras as Repression Continues

Interview with Dana Frank, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz , conducted by Scott Harris

After nearly two years of living in exile following the June 28 2009 coup which overthrew his government, former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned to his nation on May 28th. The agreement which allowed for Zelaya’s return, negotiated by the governments of Venezuela, Colombia and current Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, dropped fraud charges lodged against Zelaya, permitted a future plebiscite on constitutional reform and cleared the way for the readmission of Honduras to the Organization of American States, which lost it’s membership after the coup.

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