Honduras' post-coup leader fears arrest or death in Costa Rica: government source

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Xinhua

Honduras' post-coup leader fears arrest or death in Costa Rica: government source
2009-07-10 06:08:33

SAN JOSE, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Honduras' post-coup leader Roberto Micheletti was afraid of being arrested or getting killed in Costa Rica, and refused to leave the airport before getting security guarantees when he arrived here on Thursday for mediation talks hosted by President Oscar Arias, Costa Rican government sources said.

A source with the Costa Rican government told Xinhua that the security staff of Micheletti had warned him that he might be in danger of being arrested or suffering a life-threatening attack while leaving the airport.

Micheletti has come to San Jose to meet with President Arias, who is mediating the political crisis in Honduras after a military coup there.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya had called Micheletti a "criminal" that should be arrested.

To soothe Micheletti's fears, Costa Rican Presidency Minister Rodrigo Arias, who is President Arias' brother, offered himself to travel in the same car and pledged to reinforce the security measures.



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[bemildred]

1. LOL.

Not going so good, is it?

[dipsydoodle]

2. Tough

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[timeforpeace]

3. What, he wants to live forever?

[Downwinder]

4. I hear the CIA has a good retirement for assets in S Florida.

[L. Coyote]

5. Welcome to Pinochet's World, Mr. Dictator!

Live like a criminal, .....

[billyoc]

6. Reap the whirlwind.

[L. Coyote]

7. Venezuela REDUX?

AP April 15, 2002
"Never before in modern times has an elected president been overthrown by military commanders, his successor inaugurated, and then the ousted leader returned to power on the wings of a popular uprising."

A Narco News White Paper
Three Days that
Shook the Media
Online Journalism's Finest Hour
Exposed and Reversed a Coup
By Al Giordano
http://www.narconews.com/threedays.html

The failed coup d'etat against Venezuela marks a turning point not just for authentic democracy in our América, but also for authentic journalism.

The remote-control attempt by Washington and commercial interests - including various media giants within and outside of Venezuela - to topple the government of President Hugo Chávez by force has only made him stronger.

In poetic defiance of all the official and commercial media declarations to the contrary, the "Bolivarian Revolution" has survived. On the third day it rose again: The Chávez government emerges as more popular than ever, and Venezuelan democracy the strongest in América to withstand future authoritarian ambushes like the failed plot of these three fateful days.

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[New Dawn]

8. He'll be living in Miami soon enough.