Honduras: What now, Zelaya?
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Back in his country, the former president talks about the challenges of building unity on the left and about the disputes within his base
[Translation of an interview from Brasil de Fato of São Paulo, Brazil, for June 24. See original here and related articles here.]
by Sílvia Álvarez
Tegucigalpa – At 59 years of age, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya is a man in search of his identity. “I still feel like a stranger; it is not easy to live outside your country, you lose your origins,” he declares when we ask how he has spent his first days back in Honduras after 17 months in exile in the Dominican Republic. The former president is back in his home, from which he was taken, still in his pyjamas, on the morning of June 28, 2009, in a civilian-military coup d’état. The gate is better guarded now, but the house has the same rustic furniture as before, together with framed photographs of his family. (more…)