Honduras' Ousted Leader Declares Pact "totally dead"

Tracy Wilkinson
The Los Angeles Times
November 7, 2009

The political crisis in Honduras deepened Friday after ousted President Manuel Zelaya declared "totally dead" a U.S.-brokered agreement that he had believed would restore him to power.

Zelaya, deposed in a military-backed coup four months ago after ignoring a court order to stop efforts to hold a referendum on revising the nation's constitution, said the accord collapsed after the de facto rulers formed a new "reconciliation government" without him...

...Zelaya "miscalculated," said Eric Farnsworth, a former U.S. diplomat who is vice president of the Council of the Americas, an international business organization. "But I also think that the Micheletti people saw an opportunity to take full advantage and they grabbed it."

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