Zelaya, who was bundled out of bed by the Honduran military on June 28 and ushered out of the country, said he would make his latest bid to return home on Friday after Costa Rican-brokered talks with the de facto government collapsed.
He said he would travel to northern Nicaragua and “to the border” in a move sure to enflame already heightened tensions in the small Central American nation. Speaking from Nicaragua — where he is hosted by president Daniel Ortega — Zelaya said he would go to the border unarmed.
(Published 23 July 2009, 16:50 IST)
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