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Micheletti's 25-year-old nephew Enzo Micheletti was abducted and found murdered in late October 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.laprensa.hn/Ediciones/2009/10/26/Noticias/Honduras-Asesinan-a-sobrino-de-Micheletti |title=Honduras: Asesinan a sobrino de Micheletti |publisher=La Prensa |date=2009-10-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.elheraldo.hn/Sucesos/Ediciones/2009/10/26/Noticias/Investigan-muerte-de-sobrino-de-Micheletti |title=Investigan muerte de sobrino de Micheletti |publisher=El Heraldo }}</ref>
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Micheletti's 25-year-old nephew Enzo Micheletti was abducted and found murdered in late October 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.laprensa.hn/Ediciones/2009/10/26/Noticias/Honduras-Asesinan-a-sobrino-de-Micheletti |title=Honduras: Asesinan a sobrino de Micheletti |publisher=La Prensa |date=2009-10-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.elheraldo.hn/Sucesos/Ediciones/2009/10/26/Noticias/Investigan-muerte-de-sobrino-de-Micheletti |title=Investigan muerte de sobrino de Micheletti |publisher=El Heraldo }}</ref> But in the interests of an unfortunately grisly sense of balance, it needs to be stated that more nephews appear to have been lost to the coup than to its opponents, such as 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo Mencías, shot in the head on 5 July when Zelaya's plane was trying to land at [[Toncontin Airport]]<ref name="cofadeh_report_20090715" /><ref name="miamiherald_isisobed">{{cite web| last =Figueroa| first =Laura| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Honduran teen's slaying propels youth movement| work =| publisher =[[The Miami Herald]]| date =2009-07-13| url =http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/v-fullstory/story/1138977.html | doi =| accessdate =2009-08-07 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5iqtk8yk3 |archivedate=2009-08-07 |deadurl=no}}</ref>; 40-year-old [[campesino]] leader and [[Democratic Unification Party]] member Ramón García on 12 July, after he was forced by unknown people to get off a bus<ref name="cofadeh_report_20090715" />; 23-year-old Pedro Magdiel Muñoz Salvador, allegedly detained by police during anti-coup protests and taken to an [[El Paraíso]] police station on 24 July, allegedly found at 6:30 am the following morning with 42 stab wounds<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jAkMGKIUDg_ngUiZboxQbYj5_DPwD99LR86O3 | title = Exiled Honduran leader makes 2nd trip to border | publisher = Associated Press) }}</ref><ref name="tercera_magdiel">{{es}} {{cite web| last =Emanuelsson| first =Dick| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Atentado con bomba en sede de sindicato hondureño| work =| publisher =Tercera Informacion| date =2009-07-28| url =http://www.tercerainformacion.es/?Atentado-con-bomba-en-sede-de |format =| doi =| accessdate =2009-08-07 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5iq6rFXco |archivedate=2009-08-06 |deadurl=no}}</ref><ref name="cofadeh_magdiel">{{cite web| last =COFADEH| first =| authorlink =Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras| coauthors =| title =Communiqué on the murder of Pedro Magdiel Muñoz Salvador| work =| publisher =[[Derechos Human Rights]]| date =2009-07-26| url =http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/honduras/doc/golpe97en.html | doi =| accessdate =2009-08-07 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5iq7f7Xso |archivedate=2009-08-06 |deadurl=no}}</ref>; and 38-year-old high school teacher Roger Abraham Vallejo Soriano, shot in the head allegedly by security forces during protests on 31 July, dying on 1 August<ref name="international_mission090730">{{cite web| last =| first =| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =International Mission denounces the brutal repression of pacific demonstrations| work =| publisher =Agencia Latinoamerica de Información| date =2009-07-30| url =http://www.alainet.org/active/32099 |format =| doi =| accessdate =2009-08-02 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5ijh7EsjY |archivedate=2009-08-02 |deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{es}} {{cite web|url=http://www.tiempo.hn/secciones/crisis-politica/1566-desalojan-carretera-con-bombas-lacrimogenas |title=Hieren a manifestante en Tegucigalpa |publisher=Diario El Tiempo |date=2009-07-30 |accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref><ref>{{es}} {{cite web|url=http://www.tiempo.hn/secciones/crisis-politica/1735-fallece-mestro-seguidor-de-zelaya-herido-durante-marcha-en-honduras |title=Fallece maestro seguidor de Zelaya herido durante marcha en Honduras |publisher=El Tiempo |date=2009-08-01 |accessdate=2009-08-01}}</ref>


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Deaths that have been allegedly linked to the violence in the aftermath of the coup include 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo Mencías, shot in the head on 5 July when Zelaya's plane was trying to land at [[Toncontin Airport]]<ref name="cofadeh_report_20090715" /><ref name="miamiherald_isisobed">{{cite web| last =Figueroa| first =Laura| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Honduran teen's slaying propels youth movement| work =| publisher =[[The Miami Herald]]| date =2009-07-13| url =http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/v-fullstory/story/1138977.html | doi =| accessdate =2009-08-07 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5iqtk8yk3 |archivedate=2009-08-07 |deadurl=no}}</ref>; 40-year-old [[campesino]] leader and [[Democratic Unification Party]] member Ramón García on 12 July, after he was forced by unknown people to get off a bus<ref name="cofadeh_report_20090715" />; 23-year-old Pedro Magdiel Muñoz Salvador, allegedly detained by police during anti-coup protests and taken to an [[El Paraíso]] police station on 24 July, allegedly found at 6:30 am the following morning with 42 stab wounds<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jAkMGKIUDg_ngUiZboxQbYj5_DPwD99LR86O3 | title = Exiled Honduran leader makes 2nd trip to border | publisher = Associated Press) }}</ref><ref name="tercera_magdiel">{{es}} {{cite web| last =Emanuelsson| first =Dick| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Atentado con bomba en sede de sindicato hondureño| work =| publisher =Tercera Informacion| date =2009-07-28| url =http://www.tercerainformacion.es/?Atentado-con-bomba-en-sede-de |format =| doi =| accessdate =2009-08-07 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5iq6rFXco |archivedate=2009-08-06 |deadurl=no}}</ref><ref name="cofadeh_magdiel">{{cite web| last =COFADEH| first =| authorlink =Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras| coauthors =| title =Communiqué on the murder of Pedro Magdiel Muñoz Salvador| work =| publisher =[[Derechos Human Rights]]| date =2009-07-26| url =http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/honduras/doc/golpe97en.html | doi =| accessdate =2009-08-07 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5iq7f7Xso |archivedate=2009-08-06 |deadurl=no}}</ref>; and 38-year-old high school teacher Roger Abraham Vallejo Soriano, shot in the head allegedly by security forces during protests on 31 July, dying on 1 August.<ref name="international_mission090730">{{cite web| last =| first =| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =International Mission denounces the brutal repression of pacific demonstrations| work =| publisher =Agencia Latinoamerica de Información| date =2009-07-30| url =http://www.alainet.org/active/32099 |format =| doi =| accessdate =2009-08-02 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5ijh7EsjY |archivedate=2009-08-02 |deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{es}} {{cite web|url=http://www.tiempo.hn/secciones/crisis-politica/1566-desalojan-carretera-con-bombas-lacrimogenas |title=Hieren a manifestante en Tegucigalpa |publisher=Diario El Tiempo |date=2009-07-30 |accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref><ref>{{es}} {{cite web|url=http://www.tiempo.hn/secciones/crisis-politica/1735-fallece-mestro-seguidor-de-zelaya-herido-durante-marcha-en-honduras |title=Fallece maestro seguidor de Zelaya herido durante marcha en Honduras |publisher=El Tiempo |date=2009-08-01 |accessdate=2009-08-01}}</ref>


Costa Rican President [[Óscar Arias]] was acting as a mediator in the talks between the Honduran government and Manuel Zelaya to find a political solution. He presented a seven point agreement, which called for unity government. Zelaya wanted himself to become president again. The Supreme Court warned that only Congress can grant amnesty to Zelaya.<ref name="CTV.CA">{{cite web
Costa Rican President [[Óscar Arias]] was acting as a mediator in the talks between the Honduran government and Manuel Zelaya to find a political solution. He presented a seven point agreement, which called for unity government. Zelaya wanted himself to become president again. The Supreme Court warned that only Congress can grant amnesty to Zelaya.<ref name="CTV.CA">{{cite web

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Roberto Micheletti
President of Honduras
Interim de facto
Assumed office
28 June 2009
Preceded byManuel Zelaya
Succeeded byPorfirio Lobo Sosa (Elect)
President of the National Congress
In office
January 2006 – 28 June 2009
Preceded byPorfirio Lobo Sosa
Succeeded byJosé Alfredo Saavedra
Personal details
Born (1943-08-13) 13 August 1943 (age 81)
El Progreso, Honduras
Political partyLiberal Party
SpouseSiomara Girón

Roberto Micheletti Bain (born 13 August 1943) became the Interim President of Honduras[1][2] in the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis on 28 June 2009. The Honduran military was ordered by the Supreme Court to arrest former president Manuel Zelaya for violating the Honduran constitution. Micheletti was sworn in as president by the National Congress a few hours after Zelaya was arrested and sent to exile by the Honduran military.[3] Until this date Micheletti was the President of its National Congress. A deputy in Congress since 1982, Micheletti is a member of the Liberal Party of Honduras.

Family background

Born in El Progreso, Yoro Department, Micheletti was the eighth of nine siblings (6 boys, 3 girls).[4] Micheletti's father was Umberto Micheletti who immigrated from the Bergamo province of Lombardy, Italy.[5] His mother was Donatella Bain, also born in El Progreso.

He is married to Siomara Girón. The couple have three children.[6]

Political career

In 1963, Micheletti was a member of the honor guard of President Ramón Villeda, who was toppled by the military; Micheletti was arrested on 3 October[5] and jailed for 27 days.[4] In 1973-76 he moved to the United States, living in Tampa, Florida, then in New Orleans, Louisiana, for two years before returning to Honduras.[7] While living in the USA he finished high school and started his own business.[5]

Deputy

Micheletti won a Congressional seat in 1982 which he has held since then, although he did at one time leave to run Hondutel, Honduras' state-owned national telephone company.[4]

In 1985 Micheletti was part of a group of deputies signing a motion calling for the National Congress to reseat itself as a National Constituent Assembly. A Venezuelan government webpage claims that the proposal was aimed at enabling then-President Roberto Suazo to run for re-election in the 1985 Honduras presidential election.[8] Ultimately the proposal was dropped when Efrain Bu Giron called General Walter López Reyes about it.[9]

He has twice sought his party's nomination to run for President, both times failing to win the nomination of his Liberal Party, in 2008 to former Vice President Elvin Ernesto Santos, who won the Liberal nomination for the November 2009 Presidential election.[4]

President of the National Congress

Micheletti presided over the National Congress of Honduras from January 2006[10] until 28 June 2009. Although in the same Liberal Party of Honduras as Manuel Zelaya, there had been conflict between the two politicians before the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.

Presidency of Honduras

See also: Interim Presidency of Roberto Micheletti

The Attorney General's office charged Manuel Zelaya with violations of the constitution, laws and court orders. The Supreme Court issued an arrest warrant. On the morning of June 28, 2009, the military arrested Manuel Zelaya and expatriated him to Costa Rica.[11][12][13][14][15][16] After a resignation letter from President Manuel Zelaya was read to the National Congress of Honduras, which Zelaya later denied writing, Zelaya was dismissed as president, by a show of hands in the National Congress, on 28 June 2009. Congress unanimously agreed to:[17]

  • Under the Articles 1, 2,3,4, 205, 220, subsections 20, 218, 242, 321, 322, 323 of the Constitution of the Republic,
    • Disapprove Zelaya's repeated violations of the constitution, laws and court orders.
    • Remove Zelaya from the post.
  • Name the current President of Congress Roberto Micheletti to complete the constitutional term that ends on January 27, 2010.
A demonstrator supporting Micheletti and democracy.

The Honduran constitution mandated that the head of Congress, Roberto Micheletti, act as the provisional head of state since Vice President Elvin Ernesto Santos had resigned in December 2008 to run for President.[15] Micheletti’s term will end 27 January 2010[18].

With demonstrations for and against[19]

Domestically his government has been supported by organizations such as Unión Cívica Democrática. The government has been opposed by the "Resistance".

Micheletti's government stated on 2 July 2009 that it is willing to hold this year's presidential election early, originally scheduled for November 29.[citation needed]

International support for the Micheletti government was scant. Official reactions from many international leaders condemned the removal of President Zelaya, many of them calling for his reinstatement. The Organization of American States (OAS) says it will not recognize any government other than that of Manuel Zelaya.[20] The United States rejected the overthrow of Zelaya in statements by President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens.[21] The European Union has also condemned the removal of Zelaya. Cuban president Raúl Castro asked for the return of democracy in Honduras.[22]. Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez stated that he has put his nation's armed forces on alert[23], and vowed to take military action if Venezuela's embassy or envoy to Honduras were harmed.[24][25][unreliable source?]

Micheletti's 25-year-old nephew Enzo Micheletti was abducted and found murdered in late October 2009.[26][27]

Deaths that have been allegedly linked to the violence in the aftermath of the coup include 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo Mencías, shot in the head on 5 July when Zelaya's plane was trying to land at Toncontin Airport[28][29]; 40-year-old campesino leader and Democratic Unification Party member Ramón García on 12 July, after he was forced by unknown people to get off a bus[28]; 23-year-old Pedro Magdiel Muñoz Salvador, allegedly detained by police during anti-coup protests and taken to an El Paraíso police station on 24 July, allegedly found at 6:30 am the following morning with 42 stab wounds[30][31][32]; and 38-year-old high school teacher Roger Abraham Vallejo Soriano, shot in the head allegedly by security forces during protests on 31 July, dying on 1 August.[33][34][35]

Costa Rican President Óscar Arias was acting as a mediator in the talks between the Honduran government and Manuel Zelaya to find a political solution. He presented a seven point agreement, which called for unity government. Zelaya wanted himself to become president again. The Supreme Court warned that only Congress can grant amnesty to Zelaya.[36] Zelaya's representatives accepted the Arias proposal "in principle" but Micheletti's representatives balked at the key point of Zelaya returning to power in Honduras.[36]

In an open letter to the Wall Street Journal published 27 July 2009, Roberto Micheletti listed the Honduran government's reasons and justification for Zelaya’s removal. In it, Micheletti claimed Zelaya's removal from office was supported by the Supreme Court (15-0), an overwhelming majority of Congress, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the Administrative Law Tribunal, the independent Human Rights Ombudsman, the two major presidential candidates of the Liberal and National Parties, and Honduras’s Catholic Cardinal. Micheletti also stated that this was no "military coup" since the military was following orders given by a civilian Supreme Court and Zelaya was replaced with a civilian from the line of succession prescribed in the Constitution.[37] But on 21 August 2009, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) dispatched a six-member delegation which reported accusations it received. The delegation was told of alleged violent confrontations and arbitrary arrests. Someone even accused police of rape. Some alleged that judges were threatened "at gunpoint." Based on the statements it received, the delegation concluded that there was "an atmosphere of intimidation that inhibits the free exercise of freedom of expression."[38]

According to the latest Greenberg Quinlar Rosler Research opinion poll during October 9-13, 48% of Hondurans regard Micheletti's performance as good or excellent. 50% regard the performance as bad or poor.[39]

The new president-elect Porfirio Lobo Sosa, a member of the opposition, will be inaugurated on January 27.[40][41]

References

  1. ^ Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti gestures during a news conference in Tegucigalpa Monday.Honduran authorities on Sunday lifted a curfew ...
  2. ^ "Presidente de facto de Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, vuelve a desafiar a Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). El Tiempo, Colombia. 2009-08-03. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
  3. ^ "Honduran president sent into exile". Yahoo News/AFP. 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
  4. ^ a b c d "Honduras' Micheletti is both admired and reviled". Miami Herald. 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
  5. ^ a b c "La fuga negli Usa e poi il "Partido Liberal"". Bergamonews.it. 2009-06-29. Retrieved July 4, 2009.
  6. ^ "Biografia de Roberto Micheletti Bain" (in Spanish). Infolatam. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  7. ^ Altman, Howard (2009-06-30). "Interim Leader Has Tampa Ties". Tampa Bay Online.
  8. ^ "Micheletti tried to change the Constitution of Honduras in 1985". Radio Nacional de Venezuela. 2009-07-12. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  9. ^ "Pugilato en el Congreso", Diario La Tribuna, 25 October, 1985, page 16, scanned image stored here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WSwSFw8QNd0/Sl0GtEQDkpI/AAAAAAAAAgk/Zmmi3QkKV7w/s1600-h/Micheletti.jpg
  10. ^ "JUNTA DIRECTIVA DEL CONGRESO NACIONAL (in Spanish)". Website of the National Congress of Honduras. Retrieved July 4, 2009.
  11. ^ ""Mel" Zelaya enfrenta 18 delitos en tribunales". El Heraldo. 2009-07-01. Archived from the original on 2009-12-12.
  12. ^ "20 años de cárcel le caerían a Mel si vuelve". La Prensa. 2009-06-30. Archived from the original on 2009-12-12.
  13. ^ "Micheletti podría asumir en Honduras" (in Spanish). 2009-06-28.
  14. ^ "Micheletti sería el nuevo presidente de Honduras" (in Spanish). Diario digital de noticias de El Salvador. 2009-06-28.
  15. ^ a b "Leaders from Obama to Chavez blast Honduras coup". Yahoo! News. Article Expired
  16. ^ "Honduran Congress names provisional president". CNN.com.
  17. ^ "Congreso destituye a Manuel Zelaya". La Tribuna. 2009-06-29. Archived from the original on 2009-12-12.
  18. ^ "Honduran president overthrown, new leader voted in". Sydney Morning Herald. 2009-06-29.
  19. ^ "Military Using "Brutal" Force Against Anti-Coup Protests in Honduras". Bloomberg. 2009-06-30.
  20. ^ "Honduran President Is Ousted in Coup". New York Times.
  21. ^ "Situation in Honduras". US Department of State. 2009-06-28.
  22. ^ "Cuba condemns coup d'état in Honduras". granma.cu. 2009-06-28.
  23. ^ "FACTBOX: Reaction to coup in Honduras". Reuters. 2009-06-28.
  24. ^ "PENPIX-Main players in Honduras coup". Reuters. 2009-07-01.
  25. ^ "Chávez promete "derrocar" a quien ocupe el lugar de Zelaya" (in Spanish). Hoy Bolivia. 2009-06-29.
  26. ^ "Honduras: Asesinan a sobrino de Micheletti". La Prensa. 2009-10-25.
  27. ^ "Investigan muerte de sobrino de Micheletti". El Heraldo.
  28. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference cofadeh_report_20090715 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  29. ^ Figueroa, Laura (2009-07-13). "Honduran teen's slaying propels youth movement". The Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2009-08-07. Retrieved 2009-08-07. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  30. ^ "Exiled Honduran leader makes 2nd trip to border". Associated Press).
  31. ^ Template:Es Emanuelsson, Dick (2009-07-28). "Atentado con bomba en sede de sindicato hondureño". Tercera Informacion. Archived from the original on 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2009-08-07. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  32. ^ COFADEH (2009-07-26). "Communiqué on the murder of Pedro Magdiel Muñoz Salvador". Derechos Human Rights. Archived from the original on 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2009-08-07. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  33. ^ "International Mission denounces the brutal repression of pacific demonstrations". Agencia Latinoamerica de Información. 2009-07-30. Archived from the original on 2009-08-02. Retrieved 2009-08-02. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  34. ^ Template:Es "Hieren a manifestante en Tegucigalpa". Diario El Tiempo. 2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
  35. ^ Template:Es "Fallece maestro seguidor de Zelaya herido durante marcha en Honduras". El Tiempo. 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
  36. ^ a b "Honduras negotiations snag over unity government". CTV (Canada). 2009-07-28.
  37. ^ Micheletti Bain, Roberto (2009-07-27). "The Path Forward for Honduras". Wall Street Journal.
  38. ^ "Preliminary Observations on the IACHR Visit to Honduras". Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2009-08-28. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  39. ^ "Honduras Frequency Questionnaire, October 9-13, 2009". Greenberg Quinlar Rosler Research. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-15.
  40. ^ "Honduran president-elect calls for unity". Washington Times. December 1, 2009.
  41. ^ "Honduras elects Zelaya rival Porfirio Lobo as president". BBC.
Political offices
Preceded by President of the National Congress
2006–2009 		Succeeded by
Preceded by President of Honduras
Interim de facto
2009–2010 		Succeeded by
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