Hillary Clinton To Meet With Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya This Week

The AP reports that "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet with deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya this week as the Obama administration weighs responses to his ouster. The talks planned for Tuesday would be the administration's highest-level contact with Zelaya" since the Honduran army removed him from power on orders from the Supreme Court, allowing the head of the Congress to become the interim president. The AP reports that "Zelaya met with two senior U.S. diplomats in Washington on Sunday after the Organization of American States suspended" the membership of Honduras in that body. Zelaya got as close as several hundred feet above the Tegucigalpa airport on Sunday but had to turn away because of obstacles placed on the runway on orders of the interim government. Zelaya was in Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua on Monday after a late Sunday news conference in El Salvador in which he urged world leaders to return him to power.

The U.S. has already limited military-to-military contacts with Honduras and frozen programs that directly aid the Honduran government. The Obama administration has so far not yet triggered an automatic suspension of all non-humanitarian American assistance to Honduras.
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