Ousted Honduran president recounts removal at ESIA

[Judi Lynn]

Ousted Honduran president recounts removal at ESIA
by Madeleine O'Connor
Hatchet Reporter

Ousted President of Honduras Jose Manuel Zelaya described being abducted in his pajamas in June and accused his home country's interim government of violating citizens rights at the Elliott School on Wednesday morning.

Zelaya spoke to a lecture hall full of ambassadors, Honduran government officials, students and members of the media in Spanish. He gave a detailed account of his forced removal from power, where he was taken from his home at gunpoint and flown to Costa Rica.

"What do I do now in my pajamas? They just turned around, put the steps up, and left," Zelaya said of being left on the airstrip in Costa Rica.

Zelaya joked about the first report he read on his removal, which a journalist called an "obscene" coup.

"I could say it was obscene," he said. " 150 bullets in a metal door at my house."

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