According to Noticias 24 reports that deposed president Mel Zelaya is back in Honduras, staying at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.
CNN reports that State Department spokesman Ian Kelly confirmed the news,
U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly confirmed Zelaya was in Honduras, but could provide no further information.
“We have confirmed that he is in Honduras,†Kelly told journalists, adding the State Department was trying to find out more details of Zelaya’s whereabouts.
Enrique Reina, the Honduran ambassador to the United States, told CNN en Español that he could not divulge exactly where Zelaya was for security reasons.
Rodolfo Pastor, the charge d’affairs of the Honduran Embassy in Washington, said Zelaya was at the United Nations offices in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.
But Rebeca Arias, coordinator for the United Nations in Tegucigalpa, denied the leader was in the building.
“He’s not here,†she said, adding that Zelaya had called her late Monday morning and told her that he was in the country and would inform her within a few hours where he was.
As you can read in the Noticias 24 report, however, the Brazilian Embassy has confirmed that he is there.
Honduras’s Zelaya Says He’s Returned to Tegucigalpa
“I’m here in the Honduran capital, in the first place carrying out the people’s will, which has insisted on my restoration,†Zelaya said in a separate broadcast on Venezuela’s government-owned Telesur network. “I’m here to initiate a dialogue.â€
He’s there, confirmed by the State Department, alright












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