SNAP ANALYSIS: Honduras pact collapse puts election at risk

Nov 6th, 2009 - Reuters

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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The collapse of an accord to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras leaves egg on the faces of U.S. and regional diplomats who had engineered the deal and puts the November 29 presidential election in jeopardy.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti signed last week a U.S.-brokered agreement that was impossible to put into effect because they each saw it as a vehicle to becoming the legitimate leader of the country.

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