Zelaya Granted Passage

The president-elect of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, announced today that tomorrow he will go to the Brazilian embassy to accompany the former president, Manuel Zelaya, to the Tegucigalpa airport, along with the leaders of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, and the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez.

“President Fernandez, President Colom, and I are going … to the Brazilian embassy, if access is open, to accompany President Zelaya to the international airport to make his exit,” said Lobo in a press conference.

“If it’s clear, I will go too,” Pepe Lobo insisted, joking about the possibility of problems with the logistics as there may be clusters of people near the Brazilian embassy, where Zelaya has been enclosed since September 21st.

The president-elect made an agreement with President Fernandez that Zelaya would be granted a pass to leave Honduras once Lobo assumed the presidency on Wednesday (tomorrow).

Pepe Lobo claimed the need for Zelaya to depart from the country, “Can you imagine starting a government with a president in an embassy? There, locked up? It is unfair and not worthy of a president.”

“My duty is to do whatever is necessary for giving peace to the nation, we are not doing anything illegal,” the president-elect said.

“I met with the Chief Public Prosecutor (Luis Rubi), the Deputy Prosecutor (Roy Urtecho) and two judges of the Supreme Court, and they have prepared the way; they are going to issue the pass, and Congress is aware of what was signed,” according to Mr. Lobo.

Manuel Zelaya said that he intends to return one day to Honduras, which he is scheduled to leave tomorrow.

“My idea is to return one day, I do not know how long it will be, but return one day, I am a Honduran,” said Zelaya from the Brazilian embassy, where he remains imprisoned for four months and he will leave tomorrow after the inauguration of Porfirio Lobo as president.


4 Responses to "Zelaya Granted Passage"

  1. Poolshark  January 27, 2010 at 10:30 am

    Thanks. I stillnever found anyone with a foto of Zelaya in his pjs

  2. Administrator  January 27, 2010 at 9:55 am

    The Inauguration is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Honduras time.

  3. Poolshark  January 27, 2010 at 9:31 am

    What time is the inaurgaration?

  4. Axel Reyes Bogran  January 27, 2010 at 7:15 am

    A president locked up in an embassy???

    Mr. Lobo, which president are you referrering to?

    As far as the world knows (not the leftist side) and the Honduran people, Zelaya has not been the president of anywhere for quite a while already.

    I wonder, Mr Lobo, if you are as incapable of reading the writting on the wall as Obama is, or even if you read the newspapers.

    Obama is being heavily criticised at this very moment for choosing to do what he thinks is right over what the people of the USA think is right.

    People of Honduras, do not allow the new president to treat you as that animal Zelaya did.

    Do not allow Pepe Lobo the behave like if only he knows what is better for H0nduras, for that was Zelaya’s same behaviour.

    Pepe Lobo has to be made aware that he is not some Indian Chief, he is an elected official, and he has to respect the decisions and feelings of the voters, those are the ones that put him where he is at.

    Zelaya does not deserve any pardon nor any special treatment.

    And what is this, Pepe making alliances with the very same presidents that criticised our actions when we deffended our Constitution??

    Wake up people, we are being hearded the same way that Zelaya was doing it, being treated as if we were too dumb to know what is best for the country.

    I read somewhere that Lobo claims that he is not going to respond to the opinion pols that show a majority of Hondurans being against amnisty for Zelaya, since he has no intention of being a populist president, interisting, since he did accept the popular vote that elected him president.

    Kind of a double standard, don’t you think, Lobo??

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