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October 27, 2009

US Officials to Travel to Honduras
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Senior US officials will travel to Honduras this week to press ousted
President Manuel Zelaya and the country’s coup leaders to break a
stalemate in a four-month-old political crisis. This marks the first
time since the coup that the Obama administration has taken a leading
role in pressuring the leaders of the de facto government to restore
democratic order in Honduras. On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton spoke with both Zelaya and Honduras’s de facto leader, Roberto
Micheletti. Officials said Clinton told the two leaders that there was
“increasing frustration” over the deteriorating situation in Honduras.
Clinton is said to have reserved her toughest comments for Micheletti,
because the United States believes he has been “the most difficult.”



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