A defiant Manuel Zelaya, until recently president of the Central American nation of Honduras, told a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Nicaragua 29 June that he would return home this week. The Honduran military had bundled Zelaya onto a plane to Costa Rica early the previous day. US President Barack Obama called his ouster a coup and a “dangerous precedent”. In a bid to extend his four-year term, Zelaya clashed with congress, the supreme court, the Catholic church and even his own party, the Liberals. Elected as a centre-right candidate, Zelaya has increasingly allied himself  to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. In the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, troops fired tear gas at protestors who were supporting Zelaya. BBC, Los Angeles Times,  NYT

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