WRAPUP 3-Honduran Congress puts off vote on Zelaya return plan

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Source: Reuters

TEGUCIGALPA, July 27 (Reuters) - The Honduran Congress on Monday avoided a vote on whether ousted President Manuel Zelaya can return to power after a coup last month, saying it was a matter for the Supreme Court to decide.

Congress head Jose Alfredo Saavedra said deputies could not rule on Zelaya's return, part of a plan by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to end the Honduras crisis, because it is a constitutional question ...

The Honduran Congress did create a committee on Monday to study some elements of Arias' proposal, including an amnesty for political crimes, and it was expected to reach a decision by Thursday, Saavedra said ...

A Supreme Court source said the court had considered the proposal on Monday but there was no word on when it would announce a judgment ...

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2752357120090728

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US 'lukewarm' in backing Zelaya
... Mr Zelaya was forced out of power, and into exile, last month. He is staying close to the border, in Nicaragua. He says the US has stopped describing his removal from power as a "coup". On Friday, he took a few symbolic steps back across the border into Honduras. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the move as "reckless". Mr Zelaya, wearing his trademark white cowboy hat, returned to the border for the second day running on Saturday, demanding to be allowed home ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8169973.stm

Human rights court denounces press censorship in Honduras
Catalina Botero, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), said there are “permanent forms of exclusion and censorship” in the wake of the coup that overthrew Manuel Zelaya, Telesur reports. Botero reported receiving 12 complaints of media shut-downs and information about at least 25 journalists currently at risk. “Public media outlets which had favored president Zelaya were taken over, and the workers were fired,” she added. She said the IACHR is monitoring the Honduran situation and is gathering the necessary information to process the complaints ... http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/?q=en/node/4716

Exports bound for Honduras blocked at the border
BY JIM WYSS
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OCOTAL, Nicaragua -- The latest twist in Honduras's monthlong political crisis can be measured in the number of cargo trucks at the Nicaraguan border. On Monday, there were 107 -- all at a standstill and stretched for 1.9 miles. Since Thursday, when ousted President Manuel Zelaya telegraphed his intentions to lead supporters across his nation's southern frontier, Honduras has shut down inbound traffic from Nicaragua, leaving hundreds of frustrated truckers stranded along the narrow road that leads to the Las Manos border crossing. ``I've spent the last five days here doing nothing but eating and sleeping,'' said Jonathan Perez, 29, who was hauling a shipment of tobacco to Honduras. ``I think the best thing we could do is send Zelaya home'' ... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1160086.html

[ohio2007]

1. congress pushes the decision off on the court. Doesn't he have enough friends in congress

or is that a decision of no confidence in his returning to sit out the last months of his time in office ?

[IDFbunny]

2. The supreme court started it with an arrest warrant.

Unless they quash the warrant congress will not have many options.