Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya met with OAS officials yesterday, where he was assured that members states would not recognize the November elections unless he presided over them. This morning he gave a speech at the George Washington University. Tomorrow he is slated to have his second private meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in nearly as many months, one which media is reporting may prove pivotal in determining whether the US decides to cut off more aid to and deepen sanctions against the Honduran interim government.The video of the GW event will be available here shortly.
All in all, not a bad whirlwind tour of DC for the heretofore down-on his-luck Zelaya, who was shown actionable support by essentially every constituency in DC he could have hoped for (foreign government representatives, the highest US diplomatic officials, and left-of-center civil society / academia). Will it be enough to get him back in power? Probably not. But it will most likely be enough to make life particularly miserable for a lot of Hondurans for quite some time.
