U.S. Zelaya leads recognition as president amid crisis

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, called for respect the rules of democracy and the resolution of disputes through a dialogue free from foreign interference.

Obama asked all political and social actors querespeten democratic standards, rule of law and losfundamentos Inter-American Democratic Charter.

senior government estadounidenseconsideraron is difficult to take seriously the alleged letter in lacquered the Honduran president presented his resignation, announced elParlamento, so that his country recognizes only as jefedel Zelaya government.

admitted in the same way that there were contacts with losmilitares in Honduras, including a very recent demitigar to deal with the crisis.

On the topic, the president of the UN General Assembly, Miguel elnicaragüense D #39; Escoto, launched the accusation that the U.S.

could be behind the actions of the Army of Honduras.

Many people ask whether this attempt dees is hitting new policy (from U.S. to Latin America) as well known as the Honduran army has a history of a entreguismototal United States, charged D #39; Escoto.

In this regard, the U.S. ambassador to Honduras, HugoLlorens clarified that his Government was unaware that plans Zelayay against him who is his country recognized as the only president of lanacion centroamericana.

In turn, the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said that action violates the principles of the Charter DemocraticaInteramericana and should be condemned by all.

This is an important position, as important as that of UNASUR and by Brazil, said the U.S. reaction elmandatario venezolano, Hugo Chavez, who called a reunionextraordinaria of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) in Managua today.

Chavez, however, said to be investigating to dondela CIA (Central Intelligence U.S.) and those organismosimperiales deal with the crisis.

The Rio Group, which brings together the governments of 22 countries in Latin America, expressed its strongest condemnation of the coup d'etat and demanded the return of Zelaya in office, without making mention of deljuramento Micheletti.

The Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs deIntegracion System (SICA) from Managua acualquiera not know that a spurious and illegitimate claims enHonduras installed, the product of this attempt to break the ordenconstitucional

Another voice of rejection was the secretary general of the OAS, mullallyfan Insulza, who will arrive today to El Salvador to deal with the president Mauricio Funes what happened in Honduras, and the extraordinary meeting of aclarodurante Permanent Council delorganismo that Zelaya has not sought political asylum in Costa Rica, where he was forced to move after being arrested pormilitares.

In Central America, Alvaro Colom, of Guatemala, said suGobierno only recognized as a constitutional president deHonduras Zelaya and Micheletti not.

The Óscar Arias of Costa Rica urged the armed forces to restore order, while the Salvadoran Mauritius Funesexpreso its profound repudiation and strong condemnation for what happened, andthe Panamanian Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro, said that sistemainteramericano is tested immediately for the restoration of constitutional elorden.

Having taken thedecision Honduran Congress, the mandatariachilena, Michelle Bachelet said in her capacity as president of UNASUR pro not support any ordeninstitucional breaking the state law that commits the estabilidadde the Republic of Honduras.

Bruno Rodriguez , Cuban Foreign Minister, denounced the criminal, this brutal coup d'etat yresponsabilizo Armed Forces for the life of the cancillerhondurena, Patricia Rhodes, who was arrested along with Cuban elembajador in that country, Juan Carlos Hernandez, already fueliberado and transferred to the Air Force Base in Tegucigalpa.

A call to international organizations, deLatinoamerica presidents and leaders of social movements to condemn this coup yrepudiar military did boliviano EvoMorales , who argued that these are not times of dictatorship.

The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said that the Government of RafaelCorrea will not accept any attempt to invoke sucesionpresidencial to justify this clear breach of ordenconstitucional not recognize any government than delPresidente Manuel Zelaya, democratically elected.

Also, the leader of the Partido Nacionalista Peruano (PNP), Ollanta Humala, said to be eradicated in the history of Latin America political manipulation of the military forces.

From Argentina, Cristina Fernandez said that what happened back to the barbarism of the worst history of Latin America and the international community pidioque demand guarantees for the life and physical laintegridad Zelaya.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil requested that laOEA remains in permanent session, given that such Action is a military attack on democracy and undermine the region's political development.

Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of the program for the Americas smoke Rights Watch (HRW), asserted that the OAS has a role to play claveque to quickly find a multilateral solution to these breakdown of democracy in Honduras, because to allow semantenga blow this would be a big step backwards from the progress made queha the region toward democracy in recent decades.

At various points in Latin America organized concentrations estedomingo for Manuel Zelaya, as SanSalvador, Caracas and Guatemala City. EFE

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