Ousted leader sets up border camp

President Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border today and announced he would set up camp there, despite foreign leaders urging him not to force a confrontation with the government in power since last month’s coup.

President Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border today and announced he would set up camp there, despite foreign leaders urging him not to force a confrontation with the government in power since last month’s coup.

Zelaya arrived at a rural frontier crossing and immediately grabbed a megaphone, shouting to a crowd of 100 supporters and about as many journalists. He vowed to wait there and demanded his family be allowed to meet him.

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