Tensions are rising in Honduras ahead of a promised expected return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.Mr Zelaya, who was removed by troops a week ago, says he will fly back to the Central American nation later today. But the new government says it will arrest him if he comes back and the capital's archbishop has warned of a possible "bloodbath". His promised return comes a day after the top regional body suspended Honduras over the crisis. Supporters of the ousted leader were said to be gathering in the capital, Tegucigalpa, in order to meet him at the airport. "I imagine there'll be blood and I'm ready for it. We're not afraid," supporter Marisol Velasquez told AFP. The BBC's Stephen Gibbs, in the capital, says there are growing fears of violence.
Tensions are rising in Honduras ahead of a promised expected return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Mr Zelaya, who was removed by troops a week ago, says he will fly back to the Central American nation later today.
But the new government says it will arrest him if he comes back and the capital's archbishop has warned of a possible "bloodbath".
His promised return comes a day after the top regional body suspended Honduras over the crisis.
Supporters of the ousted leader were said to be gathering in the capital, Tegucigalpa, in order to meet him at the airport.
"I imagine there'll be blood and I'm ready for it. We're not afraid," supporter Marisol Velasquez told AFP.
The BBC's Stephen Gibbs, in the capital, says there are growing fears of violence.
The military-backed interim government in Honduras has said that an aeroplane carrying Manuel Zelaya, the president it sent into exile last week, will not be allowed to land in the country. Zelaya, who was forced from power on June 28 just hours before a disputed referendum was to be held, had vowed to return to Honduras on Sunday. "I have ordered that he not be allowed back in, come what may," Enrique Ortez, the interim government's foreign minister, said.
The military-backed interim government in Honduras has said that an aeroplane carrying Manuel Zelaya, the president it sent into exile last week, will not be allowed to land in the country.
Zelaya, who was forced from power on June 28 just hours before a disputed referendum was to be held, had vowed to return to Honduras on Sunday.
"I have ordered that he not be allowed back in, come what may," Enrique Ortez, the interim government's foreign minister, said.
Zelaya had said earlier he would be accompanied on his return by Cristina Fernandez and Rafael Correa, the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador respectively.
Do we recall the books or the news during the 80's? It is absolutely amazing that cover operations, political and oligarchical fights do nto involve killing thousand upon thousand of peasants.
I am really glad that the US has imporved its foreign policy so much regarding these topics.
Am I the only one who considers the Obama administration (and bush father) one of the less kill-a-million-to-save-my-interest administration int he history of World Empires?
Should we recall that the US and Europe used to kill ten thousand people to save a company a couple of hundred million dollars?
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
