Fernando Francia on Twitter saying Zelaya delegation arrived Micheletti on the way

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http://twitter.com/fernandofrancia

to the presidential palace in San Jose, Costa Rica.

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1. BBC has the story too.

Honduras rivals 'resuming talks'
Opponents of Mr Zelaya march in Tegucigalpa, 22 July, 2009
Many Hondurans oppose the return of the ousted Manuel Zelaya

Delegations from both sides in the Honduran political crisis are to take part in fresh talks, mediators say.

But the interim Honduran authorities say they will not bow to international demands for the reinstatement of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The new talks are scheduled to take place in Costa Rica, mediated by that country's president, Oscar Arias.

He had set a deadline of Wednesday for the new talks after the failure of two previous rounds.

The crisis was triggered when Mr Zelaya sought to hold a non-binding public consultation to ask people whether they supported efforts to change the constitution.

Critics interpreted that as an attempt to remove the current one-term limit on serving as president.

The Supreme Court declared his attempt to hold a vote illegal under Honduras' constitution, before the military ousted Mr Zelaya from office and sent him into exile on 28 June.

'New proposals'

Carlos Lopez, foreign minister in the military-backed interim government, told reporters in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, on Wednesday that there was no chance of Mr Zelaya returning as president.

"This hypothesis of a possible return of Mr Zelaya to occupy the presidency is completely ruled out."

The previous round of talks broke down at the weekend, though it has been reported that the mediator, Mr Arias, is preparing to announce new proposals to break the deadlock.

Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, a Nobel laureate, has warned of the dangers of a possible civil war in Honduras if talks fail, and has been urging both sides to continue negotiations.

Mr Zelaya has said he may try to return to Honduras as early as Thursday.

A previous attempt to fly back to the country was thwarted after the military blocked the runway at Tegucigalpa airport.

During the day on Wednesday supporters of Mr Zelaya and the interim president, Roberto Micheletti, staged rival demonstrations in Tegucigalpa.

Meanwhile, Venezuela has rejected a demand from the interim government to withdraw its diplomats from Tegucigalpa.

On Tuesday, the interim Honduran government accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of interfering in the domestic affairs of Honduras.

Mr Chavez, an ally of Mr Zelaya, rejected the accusation.

Venezuela says the order to withdraw its diplomats comes from an illegal government. It says its relationship remains with the administration of Mr Zelaya. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8164167.stm

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4. Chavez "interfering" in Honduras? LOL! Who is the biggest funder of rightwing groups,

in Honduras* and throughout Latin America, the one with the military base in Honduras, and five military bases planned for Colombia (one of the worst human rights violators on earth), the one with spy networks everywhere including here, the one with the long bloody history of instigating rightwing coups and supporting heinous rightwing regimes in Latin America, the one who used Honduras as a "lily pad" country from which to launch death squads to Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala during the Reagan "reign of terror," who supported, funded and organized the violent white separatist attempted coup in Bolivia this last September, and applauded and no doubt instigated and funded the violent rightwing military coup in Venezuela in 2002?

Not Chavez. He was the victim of the latter. Not Chavez in any instance. The USA is, hands down, the worst offender in Latin America, and, lately, in the world, as to interfering in other countries. Who slaughtered one hundred thousand innocent Iraqis to steal their oil? Who is killing dozens of innocent Afghanis with "drone" strikes on almost a weekly basis even now? Who had CIA assassination teams? Who sanctified torture as official government policy?

And that's just the worst of it. As to Latin America, there is more, much more. World Bank/IMF loan sharks inflicted on poor countries. "Free trade" sweatshops (basically slave labor). US and "first world" exploitation, theft, rape of resources and the environment, amidst perennial political interference and propaganda to prevent Latin Americans from electing governments that act in their interest.

Frankly, I hope the Chavez government has organizers in Honduras, and is funding the poverty-stricken people there who can't afford food let alone lobbyists in Washington. They need help. And who more appropriate to help them than their Latin American neighbors? It is in Venezuela's interest--and the interest of all Latin Americans--that democracy be restored in Honduras, and this coup thrown out. If China had a military base in Mexico, and was funding rightwing groups in Mexico which threw out the elected president and proceeded to suppress popular rebellion, would the US not have a rightful interest in "interfering" in Mexico? You can bet it would assert that right, and not think twice about it. Venezuela has legitimate interest in rightwing coups not succeeding in Latin America, not least of all because the US is constantly plotting to instigate another one in Venezuela!

The entity who should, in truth, butt out of Honduras is the US!

It's about time that Latin American countries start supporting each other's democracies against US INTERFERENCE! That's what is happening, and our corpo/fascist-run government doesn't like it one bit. "Divide and conquer" was their MO. That changed, dramatically, last year, when South American countries pulled together and acted strongly and unanimously to support Evo Morales' government in Bolivia, when the Bushwhacks tried to take it down. They foiled that coup by cooperative action--which I believe is an historic first. I hope the same thing happens in Honduras

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*($40+ million US taxpayer dollars funneled to rightwing groups in Honduras by the John McCain-run "International Republican Institute" through USAID--and that's just the tip of the iceberg, we can be sure That's money that can be found.) (--Eva Gollinger's FOIA research.)

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2. Fernando is en vivo

with a few technical problems, but he's on the job.

[magbana]

3. Great --thanks