Zelaya rules out deal with coup leaders.

Apparently Zelaya his family and some members of the Brazilian embassy are living on meager rations such as biscuits and are unable to bathe.I gather the water may have been cut off. Negotiations seem to be going nowhere. It is not clear what is supposed to happen next. Today there was also a large pro-coup demonstration. For some reason part of the group must have decided Zelaya was in the Jordanian consulate! A Jordanian consulate in Honduras?

""The golpista(coup supporters) march had begun in front of the United Nations office in Tegucigalpa and made its way toward the US embassy, with an unexpected stop in front of a gated entrance to the Jordanian consulate occurring on the way. Shouting "Fuera Mel!", a section of the marchers swarmed toward the gate, and some of the more impassioned ones starting pushing buttons on the intercom on the wall. Bewildered, I looked to a young child standing next to me, who suggested that Zelaya was inside."""

It is not at all clear what the next steps in the process will be. Zelaya has ruled out any deal with the coup leaders. That feeling seems reciprocal! Micheletti is simply going to stay put until after the elections. He doesn't seem worried by the fact that almost no countries may recognise the results of those elections unless the crisis is resolved first.

"" ....."The ousted Honduran president, Manuel ZelayaManuel Zelaya, said after talks last night that there was no possibility of a deal with the military-backed government that ousted him.

Zelaya has been threatened with arrest by the coup leader Roberto Micheletti if he steps outside the Brazilian embassy, where he has been sheltering with his family and dozens of supporters since sneaking back into the country on Monday.

He told the country's Channel 36 television last night that an official from Micheletti's administration had taken "an extremely hard" stand and the government's positions were "totally outside of any possibility of agreement".

.....Troops continue to surround the embassy and partial curfews were declared in border areas and the northern industrial city of San Pedro Sula, the country's second-largest city, from last night until this morning. Despite the threat of arrest hanging over Zelaya, Micheletti said yesterday he was "willing to establish dialogue wherever and whenever to try to find a solution".

Micheletti has said the conflict will be resolved when Hondurans elect their next leader on 29 November. The US and other countries have said they may not recognise the vote unless Zelaya is reinstated first....