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Attorney Rasel Tome, adviser to former President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, arrived at the Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa today.

Tome has a warrant out for his arrest for the crime of abuse of authority when he was the manager of Conatel for allegedly giving out an irregular frequency to a businessman in San Pedro Sula.

Approximately 12 people waited for Rasel Tome to arrive, all chanting his name, while the press attempted to get a statement. Tome said that, “despite being in exile, we bring a message of national reconciliation; the Honduran people must have the conditions to restore democracy and return to live in a democratic state.”

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The National Resistance Front has asked the public to take part in a “Gathering for the Re-foundation of Honduras”, which will take place in the city of La Esperanza, from March 12th to 14th.

The National Resistance Front also said that a referendum on the need for a Constituent Assembly will take place on June 28th, 2010. The date marks the first anniversary of the ouster of former President Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

The front did not go into details on how the referendum will be carried out. According to the announcement, The Front will continue to make arrangements at the meeting in La Esperanza. The Front has argued that the 1982 Constitution should be annulled because it was passed by a dictatorial government.

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Manuel Zelaya is planning to publish a book detailing his removal from office within the next three months, he said.

The assumption is that he will write about his claims that business leaders in Honduras were behind the event, and were upset that he planned to copy President Hugo Chavez’s socialist policies.

No information was given on who the publisher might be, if he would be using a ghost writer, or if it would be in the “fiction or non-fiction” section.

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Manuel Zelaya is going to bat for Venezuela. He will be playing a new role this time: leading an energy consortium which plans to allow poorer Caribbean and Central American nations to buy oil from Venezuela on preferential terms.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered the role to Zelaya. Manuel Zelaya Rosales told the Venezuelan state television that he plans to “strengthen the democratic process” in Latin America.

Chavez has used the wealth of oil in his country to further his vision of a united continent, free of “U.S. imperialists” to develop a leadership role outside of Venezuela, and into other Latin American countries.

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