Weekly Report - 6 January 2011 (WR-11-01)

Manuel Zelaya will return to Honduras in 2011. The ousted former president made the promise in a long New Year letter sent to the principal national dailies from his exile in the Dominican Republic. The letter comes almost one year after he was flown to Santo Domingo and President Porfirio Lobo was inaugurated. Lobo accused Zelaya of cowardice last month for not returning despite offering him “guarantees" [WR-10-50]. Lobo snapped because the recognition of his government depends on the resolution of the Zelaya issue. That Honduras remains isolated was underscored by the fact that Lobo was the only Latin American president not invited to the investiture of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil on 1 January.

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