Tegucigalpa, Honduras News

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya autographs the t-shirt of a supporter at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Sunday, Nov 8, 2009.

HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced; Deal "Dead" By Thelma Mejia* TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead." The de facto government led by Roberto Micheletti, which took over after Zelaya was removed from ...

At a Daily Press Briefing on Friday, the State Department said the US is committed to the implementation of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord , and asked both sides to act in the best interests of the Honduran people.

Zelaya's supporters say that failure to approve the deal in the next few days would kill the final opportunity to legitimize this month's presidential elections by keeping a government in power that no foreign leaders have recognized.

A week ago, Honduran negotiators, with the support of the OAS and friends in the region, achieved an historic victory for democracy in their country by signing the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord.

Officials have not ruled out the possibility that some casualties of the Fort Hood shooting incident may have been victims of "friendly fire." Officials say 12 people died and 31 were wounded when an Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Texas post Thursday.

Tegucigalpa, Nov 6 : The Honduran de-facto government of Roberto Micheletti resigned late Thursday, paving the way for a national unity and reconciliation government.

Doris Midence, a snack bar employee at La Tigra National Park outside the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, has the empty gaze of someone with too much time on her hands.

"Customers are down by half," she says, reorganizing gum and candy bars. "Between curfews and protests, people are not leaving their homes."

The Honduran political crisis - at four months and counting, after ousted President Manuel Zelaya was arrested and deposed by the military June 28 - could finally be coming to an end. Both sides have signed a deal that calls on Congress to decide whether Mr. Zelaya gets to return to office. But even if the curfews are being lifted, the economic ramifications of Latin America's worst crisis for decades could endure much longer.

Bomb explodes in downtown Tegucigalpa Municipal police arrived on the scene to investigate what happened 05.11.09 - Updated: 05.11.09 01:42 pm - Agustin Lagos: agustin.lagos @ elheraldo.hn Honduras .

Tegucigalpa, Nov 4 Honduras' constitutional President Manuel Zelaya warned that the United States intend to recognize the Honduran elections, without reversing the coup or solving the severe crisis his country is facing.

Recently ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya addresses the UN General Assembly June 30, 2009 at the United Nations in New York.

Undermine our allies. Embolden our enemies. Diminish our country. If anyone doubted those nine words summed up the Obama Doctrine, look at what the president's team perpetrated last week in Honduras.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya The Obama administration is sending a team of senior officials to Honduras Wednesday to try to expedite a settlement of the political crisis spawned by the ouster in June of elected President Manuel Zelaya.

MANILA a ' A tropical storm roared toward Vietnam on Sunday after battering this capital and surrounding provinces, leaving 20 people dead in a region still soggy from three recent storms.

We are where we were. As feared the most skeptical, the agreement just last Friday, is far from solving the crisis in Honduras.

Lawmakers will wait until Tuesday to consider a U.S.-brokered agreement that could return deposed President Manuel Zelaya to power, despite diplomats' pleas to not delay an end to the country's 4-month-old political crisis.

A vacation in Honduras can conjure up visions of spectacular destinations: the Mayan ruins of Copn, cloud forest after cloud forest filled with exotic flora and fauna, the gorgeous beaches and the dolphin filled waters off the the island of Roatn.

The agreement is a U.S. foreign policy victory but casts doubt on Latin America's ability to work out its own problems without Washington's help.

The de facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti on Thursday disposed the Armed Forcesof the country to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to facilitate the elections of Nov.

OAS: Negotiators sign Honduran accord that allows for possible return of ousted president.