NEW YORK - The UN General Assembly on Tuesday called for the return to power "immediately and unconditionally" the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, who reported since his rostrum coup that deposed him last Sunday.
In a resolution adopted by acclamation in the presence of Zelaya, the General Assembly condemned at the UN headquarters in New York "blow of State in the Republic of Honduras, which has interrupted the democratic and constitutional order. "
Zelaya denounced in a speech the coup as a" blow to democracy "committed by" elite lines that resist change " .
Minutes before the world body had called for "immediate and unconditional restoration of legitimate government" of Zelaya.
The Assembly, which includes representatives of 192 UN member states, he also called on all to "not recognize any government other than the Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya.
In his speech, Zelaya denounced the conditions under which he was expelled of his country and "practically thrown off a plane at the airport in San José, Costa Rica on Sunday.
On the other hand, said that the multiple charges against him in Honduras was never formalized by the legal and judicial channels. "Nobody has done a trial, no one has called me to court, no one has told me what the crime," he said.
The draft resolution supporting the ousted president had been presented by Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Antigua and Barbuda, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.
They joined the United States, Canada and Colombia, after several amendments were accepted, including one that expresses a "strong support" for regional efforts of organizations like the OAS to resolve the crisis. Zelaya
thanked international support and said he had received calls of support from the presidents of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
"fight for democracy is not fighting for a country or people, but for all people," Zelaya said in an impromptu speech in which he said that the UN "is a guarantee of democracy in the world."
Zelaya was abducted from his residence by a group of military and moved to Costa Rica on Sunday, shortly before the scheduled time for the start of a popular consultation insisted on performing even though it had been annulled by a court order supported by Congress.
They say it will stop
TEGUCIGALPA .- The interim president appointed by Congress, Roberto Micheletti, said that arrest the deposed president Manuel Zelaya, if he returns on Thursday, as stated on several occasions .
Speaking before hundreds of supporters in a plaza in downtown Tegucigalpa, Micheletti said he is there temporarily.
"I have taken this challenge for six months, because on 29 November you and all the people of Honduras is going to choose their next president," he said.
also said his government would not bow to any international pressure.
"I heard a man from Venezuela who was coming to Honduras to attack ... my answer was, sir, in this country (...) we are seven and a half million soldiers."
Most protesters are Hondurans who are declared enemies of the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, and who favor the new government for not being "puppets of Caracas".
The protest was called by the movement "Civic Union for Democracy "who have set up speakers and banners for Micheletti.
will
arrested hours earlier had indicated that Zelaya Micheletti will be arrested if he returns to Honduras. "If Mr. former President comes here will have to deal with different levels of catch that is part of the Supreme Court of Justice, the courts and the prosecutor," he added.
also emerged that in his announced return trip, Zelaya would be accompanied by the president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez, the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, Secretary General of the Organization of American States Jose Miguel Insulza, and President General Assembly of UN, Nicaraguan Priest Miguel d'Escoto.
Respect, the chancellor appointed by Micheletti, Enrique Ortez, told BBC World that will respect the president to accompany him. "
"When you get to Honduras, to get off at that point be handcuffed offender," said Ortega.
Honduras in suspensoLa BBC special envoy to Tegucigalpa, Cecilia Barria, reported that the coup is not only visible by tanks stationed at the Presidential Palace, roads blocked by protesters, power outages, water cannon. Wounded, disinformation, chaos.
"is visible because the interim government of Roberto Micheletti has begun to intervene media.
local TV does not report anything, the transmission of some radio stations supporters of ousted leader Manuel Zelaya has been cut and it is a prevailing climate of misinformation and uncertainty, "Barria said.
" We do not know what will pass. Some say that a war may come, there may be dead, I am concerned about my family, "said a taxi driver in the Honduran capital.
Micheletti said Tuesday that Zelaya, the deposed president on Sunday, tried to negotiate the last hours his return to the Armed Forces.
"I have understood that he communicated with a senior Army officer to tell him to negotiate, but the officer replied that they had nothing to negotiate, "Micheletti said Tegucigalpa America Radio.
The new government has remained strong in his stance of staying in power, although so far no country or international organization has recognized formally.
What Zelaya's supporters? Critics of the new government said on Monday in the streets of Tegucigalpa and elsewhere in the country, but apparently have struggled Tuesday to organize. Members
Popular Resistance Front organization that they have been persecuted and unaccounted several of its members.
"At this point has been difficult to committee meetings because there is persecution against leaders and we lost communication," he told BBC Juan Almendares.
The opposition leader said the new government would not participate in the call for a national dialogue made by Micheletti because "you can not talk with machine guns."
For now classes are interrupted and remains under curfew from nine o'clock at night.
is illegal to blow Obama
WASHINGTON .- The U.S. president, Barack Obama said Monday that the coup in Honduras was illegal and that President Manuel Zelaya is still the legitimate leader of the Central American country.
In a news conference with Colombia President Alvaro Uribe, Obama renewed his condemnation of the events in Honduras, where the military ousted the country Zelaya Sunday.
Obama said "it would be a terrible precedent if we allowed the coup to succeed."
Latin America has seen "enormous progress" and do not want a return to the "dark times", he said.
other hand, said that up to the people of Honduras to decide who they want their leaders and stressed the importance of respecting democratic sovereignty.
Roberto Micheletti was named the same Sunday by Congress as president of Honduras, following the expulsion of Zelaya, who was deposed by Parliament, accused of violating constitutional norms and to promote a referendum illegal.
threaten the press
SANTO DOMINGO .- The media use the term "coup", have been threatened by the de facto government in Honduras president Roberto Micheletti, to be closed Tuesday denounced Felix Molina journalist of Radio Progreso to the Central American country. Molina
revealed two journalists Micheletti ferocious critics are missing.
Interviewed by telephone in the program the day, Telesystems, said the coup was marked by a media siege imposed by the coup.
said the electric service was interrupted just as the Internet and at least four channels were taken off the air.
"Internally, how long it will resist the social mobilization and resistance against the military control of the country's life, that's not known exactly. Today has been called an indefinite nationwide strike by the trade unions, peasant associations and teachers and by different factors maintaining social paralyzed the Republic since yesterday (Monday), "he said.
said Honduran Telesur journalists have been "arrested and beaten by the fascists."
same has happened with some journalists from international agencies.
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