Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya (C) receives Honduran presidential candidates for the Christian Democracy Party, Felicito Avila (R), for the ruling Liberal Party, Elvin Ernesto Santos (2-L), for the Innovation And Unity Party (PINU), Bernard Martinez (L) and for the National Party, Porfirio Lobo Sosa (2-R), at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, September 24, 2009. Orlando Sierra / AFP / GettyHonduras Quagmire: An Interview With Zelaya -- Time Magazine
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya believes he put his adversaries' backs to the wall this week. He may, however, have painted himself into a corner as well. By sneaking back into Honduras on Sept. 21 and taking refuge inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the exiled leader — deposed in a June 28 military coup — hoped to turn up pressure on the de facto government to negotiate a settlement that would put him back in office until his term ends in January. But in a telephone interview with TIME on Friday, Zelaya complained of noxious tear gas wafting into the embassy, the scene this week of deadly clashes between his supporters and Honduran security forces. And he seemed to acknowledge that he's also turned up pressure on himself to get Hondurans and the international community fervently enough behind him to end the standoff. "We want this to end soon," he says. "But I may have to summon all my spiritual strength to get through it."
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