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Weekly Report - 20 August 2009 (WR-09-33)
HONDURAS: Micheletti wages PR offensive
“The world is starting to understand what really happened." This was
the message conveyed by Roberto Micheletti, head of the de facto government, in
two interviews he chose to give this week to coincide with the four day visit to
Honduras of the Inter-American commission of human rights, which concludes on 20
August. Micheletti's version of events is likely to be very different to that
presented by the IACHR. He reiterated his line that the removal of President
Manuel Zelaya from power on 28 June was “not a coup but a presidential
succession", and his support for the mediation of Costa Rica's President Oscar
Arias. This makes him seem reasonable even though he refuses to budge on the
core proposal: Zelaya's return to power.
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