OCOTAL, Nicaragua — Admitting that his plans to march across Honduras’ southern border and recapture the presidency have been frustrated, ousted President Manuel Zelaya said Sunday he would continue to drum up international condemnation of the coup against him.
“The coup leaders are making a mockery of the presidents of the Americas, and I want to know how the presidents of the Americas will respond,” he told reporters as he sat on the hood of a car in a Nicaraguan border town.
He called on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to take a tougher stand on the crisis.
The U.S. State Department expects Zelaya in Washington on Tuesday to continue searching for a negotiated solution.
On Saturday, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla., met with officials in Honduras and said in a statement that “the Honduran people were right to confront Zelaya as he usurped the law and gutted their constitution.”
