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Honduras expels OAS workers, ultimatum for Brazil
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-09-28 13:37 Brazilian Charge d'Affaires Francisco Catunda confirmed that Saturday: "Yes, it was released," he said in a rare interview outside the building. "One of our officials felt it, felt symptoms." Catunda added that some people had throat problems, but he did not give details. A Honduran rights group, the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, said Saturday that independent medical personnel entered the Embassy and confirmed that some of the people inside had symptoms. But Zelaya was in good health, they said. Zelaya accused Micheletti's government Sunday of bombarding the Embassy with "electromagnetic radiation." In a statement broadcast by Channel 36 television, Zelaya did not offer any other details, nor did he specify whether the alleged radiation had hurt anyone.
A leader of Zelaya's National Front Against the Coup said a protester died Saturday from complications due to inhaling tear gas when soldiers and police broke up Tuesday's demonstration. Fellow protesters who gathered Sunday at a memorial service for the woman, a university student, said she suffered from asthma. Protesters say 10 people have been killed since the coup, while the government puts the toll at three. New talks to resolve the dispute began after Zelaya reappeared in Honduras last Monday following what he described as a secret, 15-hour journey. Many nations have announced they would send diplomatic representatives back to Honduras to support negotiations. But the Honduran government said Sunday it would not automatically accept ambassadors back from some nations that withdrew their envoys. Countries including Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela will have to negotiate re-establishing diplomatic relations with the foreign ministry and reaccredit their diplomatic representatives, the government said.
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