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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ president said Saturday that ousted leader Manuel Zelaya once told him point-blank he wanted to stay in power despite a constitutional ban on re-election — the very ambition that opponents alleged to justify the coup that toppled Zelaya.
In an interview with opposition radio station Radio Globo, President Porfirio Lobo said Zelaya asked him to drop his campaign for Honduras’ top office, though he did not say what Zelaya allegedly offered him in return. Lobo said the conversation occurred in March 2009, three months before the coup.
