Manuel Zelaya, the deposed former president of Honduras, you can return home with the assurance that it will not be arrested or tried, under an agreement signed on Sunday in Cartagena de Indias between Zelaya and the current president, Porfirio Lobo. This is a step that ensures the reintegration of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS), but also the beginning of a long political process to heal the wounds it left in this Central American country the coup of 28 June 2009.
The big question is open now is the role that played in the unstable exmandatario Honduran politics. The security of this agreement could be a photo of family in which Zelaya Lobo and shook hands with the mediation of the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro.
"This is a democratic agreement," said Zelaya, who saved this time the cowboy hat that characterized it in the days when he was ousted from power. Wolf hopes to alleviate with this arrangement the weight of bias isolation and living Honduras since the coup. In fact, after the meeting in Cartagena, the two leaders met in Managua with the presidents of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, and Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, to ratify the reinstatement of Honduras called CA-4: Integration Central American customs made by Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras.
"We hope that the actions we have made some mark a new stage in social and political life of our country, groups that have been alienated they turn the page and start all together to look toward the future, thinking only of solving problems that afflict our people, "said President Lobo in television.
The Cartagena Agreement establishes nine points that compromise the Government of Lobo. In addition to ensuring the return to Honduras Zelaya and officials who were his Cabinet, the text requires the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to offer the necessary guarantees for the People's National Front, which emerged after the coup, may be recorded as political party and participate openly in the country's electoral processes.
It also leaves open the possibility that Zelaya to convene a Constituent Assembly, one of the thorniest issues in Honduran politics. "The convening of a Constituent Assembly will be the battleground between the Wolf and former President Zelaya. That will be a point of disagreement between them," said in a telephone Wilfredo Mendez, executive director of the Center for Research and Promotion of Human Rights in Honduras (CIPRODEH).
Mendez believes that the success of the convening of a constituent depends on the strength that demonstrate the social movements that opposed the coup. In fact, one of the biggest questions is the political role that Zelaya will play in the country since Saturday, when it is scheduled to return.
"The political figure Zelaya is secured by your arrival. Zelaya leads a new political phenomenon in Honduras. If you decide to found a political party with the resistance, will become the new political force," says Mendez. It is an opinion not shared by the analyst Felix Maradiaga, a professor at American University in Managua.
To Maradiaga, Honduras Zelaya reaches a radical politician who has the ability to articulate a leftist option so far not been successful in the country, but "without strong electoral chances." As two analysts agree on is that Sunday's agreement opens the possibility of political change in Honduras.
"It is a first step in a long process of institutional restructuring to heal the wounds of a traumatic event as was the coup d'etat," Maradiaga said. For Mendez, however, remains an unfinished agenda: the role of government in the fight against impunity and punish those responsible for human rights violations in the days after the coup.
Since the coup the country suffers from high levels of impunity and violence against journalists, with 11 reporters killed since President Wolf took over. "We have argued that if respect for human rights, Honduras should not be reinstated to the OAS. The government [of Porfirio Lobo] has done nothing for respect for human rights," said the activist.
Satisfaction in the international community The international community is satisfied with the agreement signed between Lobo and Zelaya. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of the architects of the treaty, said his country will closely follow that the provisions of the document is fulfilled, while also congratulated the parties.
United States, meanwhile, described the deal as positive for reconciliation in the country. The agreement "gives Honduras the opportunity to work toward national reconciliation and to end its isolation in the international community," said Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, was scheduled to present today the Cartagena agreement to the Permanent Council of the regional organization. 
The big question is open now is the role that played in the unstable exmandatario Honduran politics. The security of this agreement could be a photo of family in which Zelaya Lobo and shook hands with the mediation of the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro.
"This is a democratic agreement," said Zelaya, who saved this time the cowboy hat that characterized it in the days when he was ousted from power. Wolf hopes to alleviate with this arrangement the weight of bias isolation and living Honduras since the coup. In fact, after the meeting in Cartagena, the two leaders met in Managua with the presidents of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, and Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, to ratify the reinstatement of Honduras called CA-4: Integration Central American customs made by Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras.
"We hope that the actions we have made some mark a new stage in social and political life of our country, groups that have been alienated they turn the page and start all together to look toward the future, thinking only of solving problems that afflict our people, "said President Lobo in television.
The Cartagena Agreement establishes nine points that compromise the Government of Lobo. In addition to ensuring the return to Honduras Zelaya and officials who were his Cabinet, the text requires the Supreme Electoral Tribunal to offer the necessary guarantees for the People's National Front, which emerged after the coup, may be recorded as political party and participate openly in the country's electoral processes.
It also leaves open the possibility that Zelaya to convene a Constituent Assembly, one of the thorniest issues in Honduran politics. "The convening of a Constituent Assembly will be the battleground between the Wolf and former President Zelaya. That will be a point of disagreement between them," said in a telephone Wilfredo Mendez, executive director of the Center for Research and Promotion of Human Rights in Honduras (CIPRODEH).
Mendez believes that the success of the convening of a constituent depends on the strength that demonstrate the social movements that opposed the coup. In fact, one of the biggest questions is the political role that Zelaya will play in the country since Saturday, when it is scheduled to return.
"The political figure Zelaya is secured by your arrival. Zelaya leads a new political phenomenon in Honduras. If you decide to found a political party with the resistance, will become the new political force," says Mendez. It is an opinion not shared by the analyst Felix Maradiaga, a professor at American University in Managua.
To Maradiaga, Honduras Zelaya reaches a radical politician who has the ability to articulate a leftist option so far not been successful in the country, but "without strong electoral chances." As two analysts agree on is that Sunday's agreement opens the possibility of political change in Honduras.
"It is a first step in a long process of institutional restructuring to heal the wounds of a traumatic event as was the coup d'etat," Maradiaga said. For Mendez, however, remains an unfinished agenda: the role of government in the fight against impunity and punish those responsible for human rights violations in the days after the coup.
Since the coup the country suffers from high levels of impunity and violence against journalists, with 11 reporters killed since President Wolf took over. "We have argued that if respect for human rights, Honduras should not be reinstated to the OAS. The government [of Porfirio Lobo] has done nothing for respect for human rights," said the activist.
Satisfaction in the international community The international community is satisfied with the agreement signed between Lobo and Zelaya. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, one of the architects of the treaty, said his country will closely follow that the provisions of the document is fulfilled, while also congratulated the parties.
United States, meanwhile, described the deal as positive for reconciliation in the country. The agreement "gives Honduras the opportunity to work toward national reconciliation and to end its isolation in the international community," said Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, was scheduled to present today the Cartagena agreement to the Permanent Council of the regional organization.
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