Zelaya Making Moves

Barely a month after his arrival in the Dominican Republic, former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has sprung back into action.

Zelaya has accepted an invitation from Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to serve in the newly created position of head of the political council of Petrocaribe.

According to Americas Quarterly: "Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolás Maduro said that in his new post, Zelaya would ‘oversee strengthening of political independence and the defense of “popular democracy” in Latin American and the Caribbean’."

In addition to the Petrocaribe gig, Zelaya will also pen his take on the coup that deposed him from power, with the Miami Herald and AP reporting that he's writing a book that could be on the press in as soon as a few months. In the book Zelaya will assert that the coup originated with Honduran business leaders who felt threatened by his policies.

Image Source: Latin American Herald Tribune
Online Sources: Miami Herald, AP, Business Week, BBC, Americas Quarterly, Wikipedia