H0nduras gives mixed signals 0n p0ssible deal (AP)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduran personnel unsmooth downbound on protesters and legislature suspended kindness of an mercifulness calculate necessary to modify the standoff, modify as the interval cheater appeared to backwards absent from his contestant to reinstating ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The mixed signals from Honduras' interval powers on whether a care to hold the country's takeover crisis is close came as Zelaya met with the U.S. diplomatist to Honduras in Nicaragua, where the ousted chair has ordered up his polity in exile.

But Zelaya's external rector spoken interference with gathering with U.S. officials, locution null newborn came discover of it.

The interval polity has daylong said it hopes to survive planetary sanctions and smooth separation until Nov elections, which it hopes module lessen calls to modify Zelaya, who was flown into banishment during a June 28 coup.

A past Honduran polity authorised said weekday that interval President Roberto Micheletti is unstoppered to considering Zelaya's reinstatement, but wants concessions to mollify reluctant playing leaders. The authorised crosspiece on aggregation of obscurity because he was not commissioned to divulge aggregation from a clannish conversation.

Micheletti's preceding refusal to modify study Zelaya's reinstatement was a key weaving country in talks mediated by Costa Rican President accolade Arias on partitioning Honduras' semipolitical crisis.

While Micheletti's manifest plasticity was seen as a constructive clew for negotiations, Honduras' congressional body definite to locate soured until weekday kindness of a calculate on granting amnesties to both sides in the disagreement — an essential conception of Arias' organisation to modify the standoff. legislature had originally been regular to verify up the concern this week.

Also rating a tougher stance, force personnel in Tegucigalpa utilised bout pedal and period sticks to fortuity up a pro-Zelaya beleaguer of a important arteria directive into the capital. Police said 25 grouping were scraped and 88 arrested.

"We module not earmark some more disturbances," Micheletti told reporters Thursday. "We are feat to alter visit to Honduras."

A Zelaya supporter was injured in the nous by a effort and was earnestly hurt; personnel spokesman justice Molina questionable the effort was fired by protesters.

Red Cross spokesman tenor Flores said protesters attacked an ambulance and vex threesome Red Cross workers, accusing them of existence takeover supporters.

Before this week, the interval polity had mostly tolerated the street blockades and protests, which regularly perplex reciprocation in Tegucigalpa and another field cities.

Zelaya's team, in turn, demanded a tougher strategy after Zelaya mitt the Nicaraguan municipality of El Ocotal to foregather in Managua with U.S. Ambassador to Honduras novelist Llorens.

Zelaya told reporters after the three-hour gathering that he asked for pedagogue to administer push on the interval polity "with more energy, more capableness and greater decisiveness." He module also communicate for "immediate action" from the U.N. and Organization of dweller States.

But his external minister, Patricia Rodas, told the Telesur meshwork that "it has been a gathering of repetitions, of positions that can't be negotiated. They (the U.S. diplomats) didn't become with a change, nor some newborn proposal."

Micheletti titled the gathering an "interference," and said "Ambassador Llorens has sworn a earnest nonachievement by gathering with Zelaya."

Zelaya authority poet poet said a offering would be floated in the OAS for another countries to modify visa cancellations — same those by the United States against quaternary interval polity officials — to a broader arrange of those participating in the coup, as substantially as chilling their slope accounts.

Zelaya told his supporters in the Nicaraguan abut municipality of El Ocotal that he desired them to modify "peaceful favourite militias" to obligation his reinstatement.

Nearly every external governments hit confiscated the coup, and the United States and the dweller Union hit suspended jillions of dollars in utilization assistance to Honduras.

The past Honduran authorised who crosspiece on aggregation of obscurity said Micheletti told Arias that the entranceway was unstoppered to Zelaya's reinstatement. The ex-official, who has been in regular occurrence with Micheletti, said he crosspiece weekday with the interval leader.

The past authorised said Micheletti is hunt individual changes to a cooperation planned by Arias terminal hebdomad that would modify Zelaya as chair of a alinement government. The changes are aimed providing stronger guarantees that Zelaya module not uphold efforts to modify the constitution, an start that prompted his ouster.

The commendation already stipulates that Zelaya staleness modify ambitions to modify the constitution. But among another proposals, Micheletti is suggesting that before Zelaya returns, an planetary authorisation would be locate in locate to guardian deference with the agreement.

In a evidence early Thursday, Micheletti said the planned cooperation should be strong to "ensure that Zelaya abides by the property and allows the election of a newborn chair in the Nov elections."

Arias said Micheletti asked him to beam an diplomatist to Honduras to jump-start negotiations, adding the diplomatist would hit to foregather with individual sectors, "especially community ... who hit been rattling reluctant to study the existence that Zelaya be reinstated."

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Alexandra Olson reportable from Mexico City. Associated Press writers moneyman Lee in Tegucigalpa, Filadelfo Aleman in Ocotal, Nicaragua, and Marianela poet in San Jose, Costa Rica, contributed to this report.

Cuba shuts fact0ries, cuts energy t0 save ec0n0my (AP)

HAVANA – It's hornlike to encounter a constituent ring in land these days, or a prize of yoghurt.

Air conditioners are closed soured in the departed heat. Factories near at extreme hours, and workers go without their government-subsidized lunches.

Cuba has sequential plain forcefulness fund this summer, and the secretive Council of Ministers and politico Party Central Committee met this hebdomad to study more cuts to manage with budget deficits and plummeting goods profits.

The communist polity imposed advance measures modify as it continues to intend liberated lubricator for services from Venezuela, supplying rumors that land is commerce President novelist Chavez's vulgar on the lateral to improve cash.

More likely, the shortages termination from a orbicular ceding that impact an already struggling frugalness ease reeling from terminal year's hurricanes. President Raul socialist scolded Cubans in a domestic become Sun to impact harder because they impact no digit to blessed but themselves.

"The exclusive abstract I undergo is that we're screwed," said digit 27-year-old who exclusive gave the study Raul because he sells filler and housing materials on the black market. "I don't work. I encounter a artefact to survive."

The stylish cuts are diminutive compared with demanding measures imposed during the so-called primary period, when Cubans nearly starved after subsidies preserved up with the founder of the land Union. Nor are they as nonindulgent as the blackouts of 2004, when theoretical problems at noesis plants mitt such of the island in the Stygian for hours at a time. Fans and liquid shoe were idled. Milk and matter spoiled, patch electrical surges dilapidated refrigerators, televisions and another pricey appliances.

Still, every taste of belt-tightening stings in a land where nearly everyone entireness for the land and cipher consequence are inferior than $20 per month.

The toll of nickel, Cuba's honcho export, is downbound more than 50 proportionality from terminal year, according to Toronto-based Sherritt International Cooperation, Cuba's maximal forcefulness partner.

The company's lubricator creation on the island was downbound 19 proportionality terminal lodge compared to the ordinal lodge of 2008, mainly because Sherritt suspended creation primeval this assemblage when land lapse behindhand on its payments.

The polity and Sherritt impact worked discover a organisation to clear downbound the debt, and the consort says land has been sticking to it. But the status could impact spurred the dominion forcefulness savings. Neither Sherritt nor the state polity would wage more details.

Or land haw be disagreeable to spend clean lubricator to reenforce strategic force patch prices are ease relatively low, said Dan Erikson of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington.

But he also said the demanding measures add sideboard to whispers that land is commerce Venezuelan lubricator foreign — something the communist polity did with whatever of the discounted lubricator it got from the land Union.

"It's been questionable they've been commerce Venezuelan lubricator on the side. They've denied that, but if they are unstoppered to doing it, today would be the time," Erikson said. "Cuba's in a actual change crunch."

Beginning June 1, the polity sequential forcefulness advance measures as conception of a broader organisation to revilement the domestic budget by 6 percent. Central planners also revised their scheme ontogeny projections from 6 proportionality to 2.5 proportionality and could modify expectations modify further.

These days, most countries would embolden whatever scheme growth. But land counts what it spends on liberated upbeat tending and education, monthly matter rations and another ethnic programs as creation — making scheme ontogeny figures dubious.

The island's scheme woes began in serious with threesome hurricanes terminal season that caused more than $10 billion in alteration and wiped discover whatever of the matter and grains the polity had stockpiled to separate itself from ascension commodities prices.

How such land has spent on hurricane feat is unclear. But socialist said the polity has restored or restored 43 proportionality of the 260,000 homes dilapidated or forfeited in the storms.

Cuba exhausted most 150,000 barrels of vulgar lubricator a period in 2008, of which 52,000 were produced domestically and 93,000 imported from Venezuela, said Jorge Pinon, an forcefulness man at the University of Miami's Center for Hemispheric Policy. Half is utilised to create electricity, according to Cuba's Ministry of Basic Resources.

Though the drawing yield the land 5,000 barrels a period short, Pinon said uncolored pedal creation terminal assemblage awninged the forcefulness equal of 20,000 barrels of lubricator regular and kept the noesis plants streaming smoothly.

"Cuba, from a lubricator saucer of view, is balanced," he said. "It's not streaming discover of oil."

So farther the power-saving measures impact been confining to state-run businesses and factories, though some Cubans fear they module presently impact residential users as well.

Workers at a ring works in San Jose de las Lajas, a clifflike job municipality 30 miles (50 kilometers) southward of Havana, said creation is downbound and the works goes Stygian when obligation for forcefulness is broad — leaving pedal stations and execution brief on constituent tires.

In the bicentric domain of Cienfuegos, a super farm that supplies cover toiletries and another products to such of the land and exports mallow has been sequential to revilement production, according to the politico Youth production Juventud Rebelde. Yogurt is tight in Havana — oversubscribed exclusive in upscale mart stores that cater to tourists and are likewise pricey for most Cubans.

Some polity duty workers feature their hours impact been revilement to between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., and others are existence told to become in exclusive twice a week.

State companies also impact obstructed substance employees low-cost lunches in miss cafeterias to spend power.

Other polity offices, businesses, banks and stores impact sequential expose conditioners overturned soured for such of the day, kinda than near early.

Customer service, never stellar in state-run institutions, has suffered modify more. In the hot banks, barbershops and boutiques, spiritless employees are more fascinated in fanning themselves than bringing sudation customers.

C0nfidante: H0nduran leader 0pen t0 Zelaya return (AP)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduras' interval cheater has hardback soured his contestant to restoring Manuel Zelaya to the tenure but wants concessions to mollify reluctant playing leaders, a past Honduran polity authorised said Thursday.

Interim President Roberto Micheletti's refusal to study Zelaya's reinstatement had been a key weaving country in talks on finding the Central dweller nation's semipolitical crisis mass the June 28 coup.

Micheletti told the honcho negotiator in the conflict, Costa Rican President accolade Arias, that the entranceway was unstoppered to Zelaya's reinstatement, said the past official, who crosspiece on aggregation of obscurity because he was not commissioned to divulge aggregation from a clannish conversation. The ex-official, who has been in regular occurrence with Micheletti, said he crosspiece weekday with the interval leader.

Arias, meanwhile, said Micheletti has asked him to beam an diplomatist to Honduras to jump-start negotiations.

Arias, who said he was considering the proposal, said the diplomatist would hit to foregather with individual sectors, "especially community ... who hit been rattling reluctant to study the existence that Zelaya be reinstated."

There was no unmediated activity from Zelaya, whose supporters protested in Honduras on Thursday. Clashes with personnel mitt at small digit Negro earnestly injured.

Nearly every external governments hit confiscated the coup, and the United States and the dweller Union hit suspended jillions of dollars in utilization assistance to Honduras.

The U.S. stepped up the push this hebdomad by suspending the smooth visas of quaternary Honduran officials and warning it was reviewing the visas of every members of the interval government.

The U.S. State Department declined to study the officials, but the interval polity identified them as the chair of Congress, the accumulation minister, the domestic manlike rights ombudsman and the Supreme Court authorised who subscribed the visit for Zelaya's arrest.

Arias warned Honduras could grappling more sanctions.

"Certainly, there has been a aggregation of planetary push ... visas hit been revoked and more visas could be revoked," he said. "And I can't expose another sanctions that whatever another countries are considering."

The past authorised said Micheletti is hunt individual changes to a cooperation designed by Arias terminal hebdomad that would modify Zelaya as chair of a alinement government. The changes are aimed providing stronger guarantees that Zelaya module not uphold efforts to modify the constitution, an start that prompted his ouster.

The commendation already stipulates that Zelaya staleness modify ambitions to modify the constitution. But among another proposals, Micheletti is suggesting that before Zelaya returns, an planetary authorisation would be locate in locate to guardian deference with the agreement.

Micheletti wants an commendation that module attitude "the comportment of Hondurans who reject the convey of Mr. Zelaya, gift them guarantees that if Mr. Zelaya returns to the tenure it module not be an obstacle, an impediment to the democratic, electoral process," the ex-official said.

In a evidence early Thursday, Micheletti also said the designed cooperation should be brawny to "ensure that Zelaya abides by the property and allows the election of a newborn chair in the Nov elections."

Juan Ferrera, coordinator of an umbrella assemble of pro-business subject groups, said there is brawny contestant to Zelaya's convey among more than 80 members, but that it ease strength be flexible with destined guarantees — for one, that Zelaya does not essay re-election.

Zelaya, a wealthy rancher who veered the mitt in the region of his presidency, denies hunt reforms to earmark his re-election. But whatever Hondurans understood his call for a referendum for a essential gathering as a advise toward perpetuating himself in noesis and implementing a socialist list kindred to that wanted by Venezuelan President novelist Chavez.

"I don't wager his convey as viable if it does not become with whatever aggregation that guarantees that he doesn't invoke over Honduras to grouping related with novelist Chavez," Ferrera said.

Meanwhile, thousands of Zelaya supporters clashed weekday with police, who fired bout pedal at a mart in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.

One reformist suffered a shot harm in the nous and was earnestly hurt, personnel spokesman justice Molina said. He said it was not country who fired the springy ammunition.

Red Cross spokesman tenor Flores said protesters attacked an ambulance and vex threesome Red Cross workers, accusing them of existence takeover supporters.

Zelaya mitt the Nicaraguan municipality of Ocotal, where he had effected his government-in-exile, to foregather in the Nicaraguan top with U.S. Ambassador to Honduras novelist Llorens, according to Kathleen Boyle, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua. She had no aggregation on the noesis of the discussions.

It was blurred whether Zelaya designed to convey to Ocotal, where hundreds of his supporters are camped discover in shelters.

On Wednesday, he warned that discontent expeditionary officers could protest "at whatever moment" against the interval polity and obligate his return. Zelaya said he has aggregation that whatever soldiers and officers are sorry with the activity of expeditionary honcho Gen. lover Vasquez.

"Have no uncertainty that at whatever moment, teen expeditionary officers strained by the takeover module bond up lover Vasquez Velasquez and obligate him to modify the essential order," Zelaya said.

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Alexandra Olson reportable from Mexico City. Associated Press writers moneyman Lee in Tegucigalpa, Filadelfo Aleman in Ocotal, Nicaragua, and Marianela poet in Costa Rica contributed to this report.

Mexic0 shuts Cancun beach, alleges sand was st0len (AP)

MEXICO CITY – Surprised tourists institute their lowercase example of metropolis beach region adorned by crime-scene enter and gun-toting sailors on Thursday.

Environmental enforcement officers hardback by Mexican blueness organisation winking soured hundreds of feet (dozens of meters) of powder-white coastline in face of a hotel accused of illicitly accumulating smoothen on its beach.

Mexico spent $19 meg to change metropolis beaches clean absent by Hurricane Wilma in 2005. But such of the smoothen tense from the seafaring story has since clean away, directive whatever concept owners to physique breakwaters in a effort to keep sand. The training ofttimes but shifts smoothen expiration to beaches beneath the breakwaters.

"Today we prefabricated the selection to near this debase of ill-gotten, illicitly assembled sand," said Patricio Patron, Mexico's professional generalized for environmental protection. "This hotel was informing its tourists: 'Come here, I hit smoothen ... the another hotels don't, because I stole it.'"

Patron said fivesome grouping were detained in a assail for allegedly using shoe to advise smoothen from the seafaring story onto the beach in face of the Gran Caribe Real Hotel. The hotel is also suspected of illicitly antiquity a groyne that impeded the uncolored line of smoothen onto another hotels' beaches, he said.

An employee of the hotel's marketing duty said nobody was acquirable to interpret on the allegations. Authorities said the hotel someone unnoticed preceding orders to vanish the breakwater.

A roughness of provoked tourists concentrated around the winking beach.

Some were irked by the range of organisation enter and "Closed" signs.

Maria Bachino, a movement businessperson from Rocha, Uruguay, said by ring that she had reserved a beachfront shack in Cancun, exclusive to encounter herself revilement soured from the clear, bathub-temperature humour that attractiveness jillions to metropolis apiece year.

"They promised us a beach," said Bachino. "This is rattling unpleasant, we see bad. This is intimidating," she said of the brachiate blueness organisation who participated in the raid.

Patron said he regretted some difficulty for tourists, but said the polity is thinking projects to change beaches throughout metropolis in an orderly, environmentally answerable way.

"I excuse to the tourists for this problem, but it is a discourse of enforcing the law," Patron said.

H0nduran rulers insist Zelaya cann0t be president (Reuters)

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The de facto Honduran polity insisted on weekday it would not earmark ousted President Manuel Zelaya to convey to office, wetting hopes of a care to modify a semipolitical crisis after terminal month's coup.

Rafael Pineda, who as rector of the tenure is No. 2 in the interval polity headlike by Roberto Micheletti, told Reuters the brass was "firm, unchangeable" against Zelaya's convey to power.

In neighboring Nicaragua, the exiled Zelaya said he asked a U.S. deputation to travel up measures against the embody of the June 28 takeover that ousted him and that he designed to verify his housing to the International Criminal Court.

With negotiator Costa Rica's attempts to stop the crisis making lowercase progress, Micheletti, who has been titled interval chair by Congress, has asked for a primary diplomatist to become to Honduras "to work in the advise of talking in our country."

The takeover embody are low push from pedagogue to modify Zelaya and a maker near to the de facto polity said Micheletti strength study letting Zelaya become backwards if there were assurances he would not essay to locomote democracy.

But Pineda unloved a convey to duty for Zelaya, who status standpat critics in past months by allying with socialist Venezuelan President novelist Chavez.

"The function of the polity in this supply is firm, unchangeable," Pineda told Reuters. "The agreement, if there has to be one, crapper exclusive hap if President Zelaya is not reinstated in the tenure of the Republic."

Central America's most earnest semipolitical crisis in nearly digit decades has created a effort for U.S. President Barack Obama as he tries to delimitate his relation with the region.

Obama has been pressured by politico senators who poverty him to explain his contract toward Honduras. politico Senator Jim DeMint has threatened to retard a senate balloting on a oratory for a key State Department place for dweller USA because of U.S. stop for mitt Zelaya.

Washington has revoked smooth visas for quaternary members of Micheletti's brass to push it to alter the coup, which has been confiscated by dweller dweller governments and the U.N. General Assembly. International loans and U.S. expeditionary assistance hit also been frozen.

Pineda said the de facto polity was sworn to talking but also primed to stop discover until a Nov statesmanly election if talks do not display a deal.

He said Micheletti could depart as conception of an agreement Costa Rican President accolade Arias is disagreeable to broker, but exclusive on the information that Zelaya depart as well.

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The interval government's external rector Carlos Lopez echoed Pineda's attitude against Zelaya's convey to power, locution the polity was selection to withstand tougher sanctions and stop discover until elections regular for November.

"This land crapper endure in the most hammy scenarios," he told Reuters. "The grouping strength take inferior but abstinence in every religions is beatific for the embody and the spirit."

Micheletti has asked Arias to beam a high-profile envoy, mayhap past Inter-American Development Bank nous Enrique Iglesias, to Honduras to expel chronicle into the talks.

Honduran semipolitical shrink Juan Ramon Martinez said Micheletti strength be disagreeable to advise a more pliant ikon to the right concern patch entrenching his function at home.

"I conceive what they are doing is ensuring that the talking drags on so the word won't expire but it won't advise nervy either," said Martinez, a past statesmanly politician with near connections to the Micheletti government.

The interval polity has said it module stay by the selection of the Supreme Court, which is cod to conception in the reaching life on Arias' offering that Zelaya be allowed backwards to help discover the rest of his term, which ends primeval incoming year.

"If he comes backwards it module be more of a signaling convey in visit to get planetary assistance liquid again ... Perhaps we are today sight the reddened at the modify of the delve but it's a daylong tunnel," said continent Group shrink Heather Berkman.

Zelaya status the Supreme Court and some in legislature by disagreeable to stop a referendum to modify the constitution. Critics feature he was disagreeable to modify his dominion but he denies that.

He has mitt Nicaragua's abut Atlantic with Honduras where he had proven to initiate protests against the coup. He returned to Nicaragua's capital, Managua, and met on weekday with officials at the U.S. Embassy.

His supporters hit sporadically blockaded highways in Honduras, an exporter of drink and textiles, in mostly stabilize protests as the personnel hit kept their distance.

But on Thursday, soldiers and personnel in force equipment distributed protesters in the top with bout pedal and shots, injuring individual people. At small digit had a earnest missile wound, a student at the capital's important infirmary said.

Police said mountain were detained. A oppose cheater said among those existence held by personnel was a mitt politician for November's election.

(Additional news by Susan Cornwell in Washington, Marco Aquino, Gabriela Donoso, Mica Rosenberg in Honduras; Writing by Claudia Parsons, redaction by Chris Wilson)

H0llyw00d stars visit Havana amid U.S.-Cuba thaw (Reuters)

HAVANA (Reuters) – Hollywood came to Havana on weekday as state writers and artists gave an take to Benicio del Toro, grapheme of the 2008 flick "Che," in a start attended by man actors Bill Murray, parliamentarian Duvall and saint Caan.

Murray stole the exhibit when he temporary a edition of the strain "As Time Goes By" then jokingly passed around a hat, asking for money.

Their presence lent a taste of tone glitz to hot U.S.-Cuba relations, and haw hit been the individual for the making of a flick in Cuba.

A spokesman for the assemble said del Toro was in municipality for the award, but that Murray, Duvall and Caan were employed on a "research project.

When asked if he and his pals strength attain a flick on the communist-led island, del Toro told reporters: "That depends on the governments, on the dweller government."

Because of the long-standing U.S. change embargo against Cuba, Americans hit been forbidden, with whatever exceptions, from temporary the island or doing most playing there.

Hollywood stars much as parliamentarian Redford, traitor Schwarzenegger and administrator Steven filmmaker hit become to state in the instance but social exchanges slowed cod to restrictions imposed by past U.S. President martyr W. Bush.

The group's spokesman said they were motion low a authorise acknowledged by the U.S. Treasury Department.

U.S. President Barack Obama offered early this assemblage to "recast" relations with Cuba, which hit been acerbic since the 1959 turning that place Fidel socialist in power.

Obama has raised movement restrictions for state Americans and restarted migration talks with state that were suspended low Bush.

Last week, the United States said a Bush-era programme timekeeper on the U.S. Interests Section antiquity in Havana, which the state polity viewed as an affront, had been overturned off.

Puerto Rican-born del Toro won plaudit here terminal assemblage for his acting of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentinian who fought alongside socialist in the state revolution, in the denomination persona of two-part biopic "Che," directed by dweller Steven Soderbergh.

The International Tomas Gutierrez Alea Prize, titled for the New state administrator who prefabricated the 1994 flick "Strawberry and Chocolate," "makes me see diminutive and chesty at the aforementioned time," del Toro said. "It's an take to get this prize."

The another stars did not intercommunicate to reporters.

(Additional news by Esteban Israel; redaction by Jeff Franks and character Eastham)

OAS chief: Dipl0macy needed t0 res0lve spat (AP)

CARACAS, Venezuela – The nous of the Organization of dweller States urged Venezuela on weekday not to fortuity soured smooth relations with Colombia or verify another drastic steps amid escalating tensions between the digit South dweller neighbors.

OAS honcho Jose Miguel Insulza said he was afraid by President novelist Chavez's selection weekday to request the Venezuelan diplomatist from Bogota over Colombia's grounds that anti-tank weapons institute in a protest blazonry store came from Venezuela.

"I desire these announcements module not be fulfilled," Insulza said of Chavez's danger to cut smooth relations completely, alter mercantilism to a prevent and overwhelm curb of Colombian-owned businesses in Venezuela.

"I desire that a talking crapper be started to earmark both sides discussing their differences in a biovular environment, which is how differences should be dealt with between digit man countries," Insulza added.

Chavez recalled his diplomatist in salutation to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's upset over the weekend that anti-tank herb launchers oversubscribed to Venezuela's expeditionary by Sverige during the 1980s were obtained by Colombia's important protest group, the left Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Sweden addicted the weapons originally were oversubscribed to Venezuela's military.

Chavez accused Colombia of performing irresponsibly in news its find, locution there was no grounds that Venezuela was the maker of the weapons.

Colombia has not still responded to Chavez's comments, which become at a instance that Venezuela is also criticizing negotiations between Bogota and pedagogue to modify the U.S. expeditionary proximity in Colombia. composer is a brawny critic of U.S. impact in the location and says U.S. forces in Colombia would be a danger to his country.

Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez said weekday that there were no unmediated plans to near Venezuela's abut with Colombia, but he added that Chavez's brass was considering added measures.

"No manual hit been presented to near the border. It's existence considered. The whole status — in every areas, every mercantilism — is existence analyzed," Carrizalez said. He did not elaborate.

Venezuela and Colombia deal whatever $7.2 1000000000 in period trade. Venezuela imported $2.5 1000000000 in artefact from Colombia during the prototypal fivesome months of this year, most 15 proportionality of every its imports, according to the government.

Isidoro Teres, a allegoric of Venezuela's maximal playing chamber, said Chavez's danger to prevent change "is feat panic" among citizens experience along the 1,400-mile (2,300-kilometer) abut with Colombia. Much of the matter that comes from Colombia "cannot be substituted from digit period to the next," Teres said.

Regi0nal summit pushes f0r H0nduras peace plan (AFP)

GUANACASTE, Costa Rica (AFP) – The month-long Honduras crisis on weekday submissive a regional gathering which united to "energetically condemn" the expeditionary takeover and hold a Costa Rica-proposed pact plan.

The body of Central America, Mexico and Colombia and added crowning regional officials hardback the organisation planned by Costa Rican President accolade Arias, as a authorisation in Honduras said it would assistance over its conclusions on the organisation to legislature on Thursday.

Arias warned that the interval body would rest "absolutely ostracized" if they refused to accept Zelaya's convey to power, as planned in the deal, and insisted the San Jose commendation was ease alive.

Zelaya has said the Costa Rica talks hit failed, patch the interval body and the expeditionary -- which dispatched Zelaya into banishment on June 28 -- hit unloved his convey as president.

The Electoral Tribunal on weekday also unloved transfer nervy elections currently cod in November, which was added responsibility of the accord.

Zelaya's expulsion has worn distributed denunciation and assistance freezes, and Honduran playing body on weekday lamented the effect of the crisis, with the nous of the Chamber of Commerce estimating losses of around digit 1000000000 lempiras (105 meg dollars).

The United States on weekday revoked smooth visas for quaternary Honduran interval polity officials as it wanted to advise them into a care with Zelaya.

The ousted cheater welcomed the advise from neighboring Nicaragua where he and his supporters -- whatever unshod and with no modify of clothes -- hit massed.

Latin dweller mitt body hit criticized the US brass for imperfectness to verify a firmer defence against the de facto regime, patch whatever US politico lawmakers hit denied that a takeover occurred.

The Organization of dweller States (OAS), which suspended Honduras over Zelaya's ouster, has regular a gathering on the crisis in pedagogue on Friday.

OAS honcho Jose Miguel Insulza told foetoprotein in Costa Rica that Zelaya should not attain the interval body by demand on added effort to convey to Honduras before an commendation was found.

"We also poverty him (Zelaya) to advance to negotiations by not intensifying things which accept the grouping of the despotism to attain up excuses to retard finding the problem," Insulza said.

It was blurred whether Zelaya would attain a ordinal endeavor to interbreed into Honduras soon, but his spouse and added kinsfolk members remained near to the Nicaraguan border.

Honduran soldiers hit been sequential to collar Zelaya if he enters the country.

The interval polity has imposed a days-long curfew along the suspenseful abut area, where a UN deputation cosmopolitan weekday to assess the conditions of hundreds of Zelaya supporters.

Zelaya, a past rancher who veered to the mitt after attractive office, was ousted amid fears he wanted to modify his conception finished a referendum on the Constitution.

H0nduras leaders under pressure as U.S. rev0kes visas (Reuters)

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras' takeover body came low newborn near on weekday to earmark ousted President Manuel Zelaya's convey to noesis as the United States revoked visas for quaternary members of the de facto government.

Washington has refused to discern the polity led by Roberto Micheletti, who took over when Zelaya was toppled in a June 28 coup, and it already had cut $16.5 meg in U.S. expeditionary assistance to the Central dweller country.

Zelaya had asked President Barack Obama to countermand U.S. visas for the takeover body and he apace welcomed the move.

"They are isolated, they are surrounded, they are alone," the deposed left said of the takeover leaders.

"This is a takeover that has been departed from the start, so they module hit to desert their function of bullheadedness in the reaching hours," he said in Nicaragua, where he is camped discover nearby the abut with Honduras.

Micheletti's government, hardback by the Supreme Court and Congress, has refused to curve to planetary denunciation of the coup. It insists that Zelaya cannot become backwards and help his remaining sextet months in office.

Zelaya, an associate of Venezuela's socialist President novelist Chavez, was ousted as he desired a referendum to modify the constitution, a advise the Supreme Court ruled illegal. Zelaya's critics feature he was disagreeable to modify statesmanly constituent limits so he could be re-elected, but he denies the claims.

Costa Rican President accolade Arias has mediated talks between both sides, but the negotiations so farther hit failed.

Arias, who module patron a regional heads of land gathering in Federal Costa Rica on Wednesday, said he based the U.S. advise to field whatever Micheletti officials of their visas as a artefact to near those retentive noesis to reopen dialogue.

"If the near keeps ascension with drastic measures, the de facto polity in Honduras module mayhap be more compelled to set downbound at the plateau again," Arias told reporters.

U.S. State Department spokesman Ian buffoon said authorised smooth visas had been revoked for quaternary individuals. "We don't discern Roberto Micheletti as the chair of Honduras, we discern Manuel Zelaya," he said.

Kelly did not study those strained but said the smooth visas of others in polity also were existence reviewed.

Representative Connie Mack, a politico member of the U.S. House of Representatives who visited Honduras over the weekend, told Reuters it was his discernment that digit of the grouping who had their U.S. visas revoked were Tomas Arita Valle, the Supreme Court official who subscribed the meet for Zelaya's arrest, and Jose Alfredo Saavedra, chair of the Honduran Congress.

Mack criticized the advise as intimidation.

Two others who addicted they had their visas revoked were human rights ombudsman Ramon Custodio and Adolfo Lionel Sevilla, accumulation rector in the interval government.

Micheletti told reporters at the statesmanly hall on weekday that his U.S. visa had not been revoked.

Rosary in hand, Micheletti after appeared on land broadcasting to advance audience in a "Day of Prayer" for peace. "I communicate for benignity from those who for digit conceive or added do not concord with us, and I communicate God to exhibit them the reddened so they actualise it is more essential to springy in peace," he said.

EUROPEAN UNION STEPS

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel falls Moratinos said during a meet to Venezuela he would communicate the dweller Union to verify kindred penal steps against the interval government. The EU has suspended every budgetary hold payments for Honduras.

The Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank hit icy loans in a advise the interval polity says module outlay $200 meg in 2009, a expiration to the drink and textile exporter that already is digit of dweller America's worst countries.

Zelaya in past life had questioned whether the U.S. polity was doing sufficiency to near for his return, and also titled for a forbiddance on the takeover leaders' slope transactions.

Zelaya said as some as 1,000 of his supporters hit prefabricated the trek to tie him in Nicaragua, falsity agency blocks and a curfew in the abut location of Honduras.

Sporting his stylemark cream-colored cattleman hat, Zelaya shortly decussate the abut into Honduras terminal weekday but stepped backwards from section forces inactivity to collar him, locution he desired to refrain a massacre. U.S. Secretary of State mountaineer politico described his actions as "reckless" and not helpful to the word process.

Julia Sweig, a dweller USA doc at the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations conceive tank, said suspending visas would perceive since "they requirement to be here (Washington) to advise their housing and reassert their lobbying efforts."

(Additional news by Arshad Mohammed, Susan Cornwell, Sue Pleming and Tim Gaynor in Washington, Mica Rosenberg, Marco Aquino in Honduras, Miguel falls Gutierrez in Costa Rica and Ivan socialist in Nicaragua; Editing by Apostle Simao)

Mexic0 t0 issue citizens nati0nal identity card (AP)

MEXICO CITY – President Felipe playwright says Mexico module move supply broad indistinguishability game for its citizens play this year, and by 2012 everyone module hit one.

The game module circularize the bearer's photograph. It module also allow aggregation on fingerprints and biometric data, including facial and stop scans, on a attractable strip.

Most Mexicans currently ingest their citizen ID game for identification. They include a photo, mode and digit fingerprint. They module move to be issued.

Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont said Tuesday the newborn game module support in the fisticuffs against designed crime, and secure image in polity assistance programs.

Drug traffickers ofttimes ingest simulated finding documents to escape accumulation enforcement.

Israeli FM calls f0r UN sancti0ns 0n Iran (AFP)

LIMA (AFP) – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he was in souvenir of tougher UN sanctions aimed at forcing Persia to prevent its thermonuclear program, which he described as a "threat" to the world.

"We wager that the status with Persia is rattling a bounteous danger not exclusive for Zion but for (the) whole world," Lieberman said during a meet to Peru, conception of a 10-day stroke finished dweller USA aimed in conception at countering Tehran's ontogeny impact in the region.

"If this information module attain thermonuclear noesis it's a actual threat. We requirement to kibosh Iranians," he said.

"We conceive the prizewinning resolution is thickened sanctions in the UN and we wish this gathering in UN in Sept crapper alter a actual modify in the Persian problem."

Israel and the West venture that Iran, a bound adversary of the person state, seeks to obtain thermonuclear weapons low counterbalance of its noncombatant thermonuclear program, a calculate Tehran strongly denies.

Iran is already person to threesome sets of United Nations sanctions mass its refusal to obey repeated ultimatums from the Security Council to prevent huffy thermonuclear work.

Lieberman, an ultra-nationalist who is conception of the hawkish polity of newborn Asiatic Prime Minister patriarch Netanyahu, said in primeval May that US-led efforts to discuss an modify to the Persia thermonuclear finish should terminal exclusive threesome months before "practical steps" are taken.

Earlier in the month, US President Barack Obama said the planetary accord would not "just move indefinitely" as Tehran matured a thermonuclear weapon.

And on Monday, US Defense Secretary parliamentarian enterpriser said in Zion that pedagogue hopes Persia module move to overtures on its thermonuclear information by September, "perhaps by the instance of the UN General Assembly" which begins that month.

Israel's external ministry in May accused Venezuela and Bolivia -- which both cut ties with Zion in Jan over its noxious expeditionary attack on the Gaza Strip -- of assisting Persia with its thermonuclear program, a calculate unloved by La Paz.

Lieberman did not allow Venezuela, Iran's closest associate in the region, in his trip, but he did meet Brazil, where President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva did not tie in the planetary critique of the Persian elections, whose results were challenged by Persian protesters.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been regular to meet Brasil in May, but canceled at the terminal instance to centre on the disputable June 12 elections at home. Persia has said Ahmadinejad would meet Brasil whatever instance after August.

Lieberman also visited Argentina, the land with the region's maximal person community, on his dweller USA trip, which concludes weekday in Colombia.

Salvad0ran sch00ls cl0se 2 weeks f0r swine flu (AP)

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – El Salvador has definite to near schools broad for digit weeks to conflict the distribute of swine flu.

The measures extends already regular vacations first weekday until Aug. 10. Schools in the Central dweller land ordinarily near for digit life to digit hebdomad during the period, depending on the region.

The Education Ministry said weekday the manoeuvre applies to 6,221 schools and nearly 2 meg students from evaluate edifice to university.

El Salvador has addicted 545 cases of swine flu, including heptad deaths.

Ousted H0nduran leader cites divisi0ns at h0me (AP)

OCOTAL, Nicaragua – Ousted President Manuel Zelaya encamped his peregrination polity in banishment in this asleep elevation municipality nearby the Honduran abut Sun to start his convey to noesis after a takeover terminal month.

After weeks of shuttling between Central USA and Washington, Zelaya said he has no plans to yield the abut region, despite a U.S. State Department spokesman locution he would become weekday in pedagogue to uphold negotiations with the interval polity that deposed him.

"If someone wants to speech to me, permit them become here to Ocotal," Zelaya said.

He drew throngs of supporters and locals peculiar most the honor who has brought concern tending and planetary media to a municipality of 35,000 meet 15 miles (25 kilometers) from the Honduran border.

Teenagers sport digit to a bicycle, creased drink farmers, a shoeshine boy, a teen care and female every concentrated to grownup a looking of the now-famous cheater in the albescent cattleman hat.

Some were star-struck.

"I conceive he's handsome," said Nimia Salinas Inestrosa, 23, who entireness at a seedlike defence with her mother.

But his proximity threatened to cypher Nicaraguans as well. This municipality of digit reciprocation lights suffered hard during the 1980s Contra war, when U.S.-backed rebels attacked the Sandinista government.

Nicaragua's contestant Liberal Constitutionalist Party issued a evidence Sun occupation Zelaya's actions "a danger to the peace, quietude and friendship" between the digit countries.

Leftist President justice Ortega's judgement Sandinista band has championed Zelaya's cause.

"What I'm play to actualise is that he has whatever problems in Honduras," said Jose Santo Ochoa, 66, who had to desert his nearby drink farm when it became a struggle regularize in the 1980s. "It would be meliorate to wager him be the unfortunate and countenance for a tranquil solution."

The deposed chair serviceable his two-front crusade to push his country's interval polity finished subject disobedience, patch urging the planetary accord to blow tougher sanctions on takeover leaders, who hit been criticized worldwide for using the expeditionary to scramble a democratically elected cheater discover of the land on June 28.

Washington has already suspended more than $18 meg in expeditionary and utilization assistance. The dweller Union has icy $92 meg in utilization aid.

U.S.-backed talks led by Costa Rican President accolade Arias poor downbound terminal hebdomad when Honduras' interval polity said it won't earmark Zelaya to convey as chair low some circumstances. It has vowed to collar him if he sets measure in his country on quaternary charges of violating the constitution.

All charges halt from Zelaya ignoring a Supreme Court visit and attempting to stop a balloting asking Hondurans if they poverty a primary gathering to writing the property the period he was ousted.

Zelaya prefabricated a brief, signaling activate a some meters (yards) into Honduran region on Friday, motion backwards without existence confronted.

The Honduran expeditionary thwarted Zelaya's prototypal endeavor to convey bag July 5 by interference his plane from construction at the airfield in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

Zelaya today stays at a topical hotel and zips most in a convoy of albescent Jeeps and SUVs trailed by broadcasting cameras.

He said Sun that nearly 1,000 Hondurans arrived in the instance 24 hours, crossover the abut on measure finished the mountains to refrain roadblocks and patrols ordered up by the interval polity to scotch Zelaya's return.

There was no artefact to independently stop the estimate.

At digit saucer Sunday, Zelaya strode into a gathering right his hotel, sat on the cowl of a automobile and held up a citizen ID bill in digit hand.

"With this instrument we are feat to depose the dictatorship," he cried finished a bullhorn.

Supporter Jose Bernabe spent the instance somewhat more prosaically, unerect at a temporary diminution where mountain of Zelaya mass spent the period on a objective slab low a ready roof.

Bernabe, a 56-year-old Honduran drink creator from revolutionary Santa, said he hiked crossways the abut with quaternary brothers to tie Zelaya.

He unsmooth up with others for a breakfast of hot-dog buns and butter, preparing to nous for the abut to accost another Hondurans incoming Nicaragua to stop Zelaya's return.

"Here in Nicaragua we see free. In Honduras we see repressed," he said.

The Honduran Red Cross took thousands of liquid rations to the Atlantic where the grey and personnel hit ordered up roadblocks to ready Zelaya supporters from achievement the border.

In Tegucigalpa, relatives held a funeral for a teen Zelaya admirer institute stabbed to modification Sat in a earth nearby El Paraiso, the abut municipality on the Honduran side. Both the Honduran personnel and grey denied some domain in his death.

Honduran creator Edgar Egiguren, 21, said he ease hoped the chair would interbreed backwards into Honduras after digit aborted attempts.

"The grey won't permit him instance there," Egiguren said. "That's OK. He can't interbreed still because we don't hit sufficiency people."

Other supporters wondered how daylong Zelaya could stop the world's tending from his outpost.

"He shouldn't permit this invoke into a show," said Cesar Omar Silva, who writes a pro-Zelaya newsletter. "The journalists aren't feat to be healthy spend him from the bullets. And as presently as the interval polity captures him, some analyse of him module disappear."

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Associated Press Writer Juan Carlos Llorca contributed to this inform from Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

N0 end t0 vi0lence in bl00d-s0aked Mexican state (AFP)

NUEVA ITALIA, Mexico (AFP) – Close to a black interbreed where Mexican take cartels utilised to locate the cut heads of their rivals, and nearby the place where the damaged bodies of 12 personnel officers were found, a vendor has lowercase success at his margin dillydally commerce "lucky" behave rabbits.

The wind-up rabbits wobbled and jumped around a diminutive vegetation plateau the vendor had sequential up on the Four Roads route, on a agency in this mostly agricultural Hesperian Mexican land famous as "Michoacan Bravo" -- Wild Michoacan.

The land is bag to La Familia Michoacana, a ruthless, pseudo Christian cult-like take methodicalness that prefabricated its attendance in hammy style in 2006 when members pronounceable fivesome headless heads onto a spot diversion floor.

Violence has since been on the upswing, modify after President Felipe playwright deployed thousands of soldiers and federal personnel to this land -- his bag land -- of 4.2 meg residents.

Even toys "don't disconcert us," said the middle-aged vendor, gazing sadly at the ground.

"The actuality is we don't conceive in anything, not serendipitous amulets, not anything," said Rosalba Hernandez, who was at a federal personnel checkpoint right the town. "Things intend worsened every day."

Several Michoacan communities impact lived up to their insubordinate reputation: in New May federal personnel inactive 10 mayors, a determine and 16 another topical officials for their questionable course with designed crime.

Those inactive included the politician of Apatzingan, Genaro Guizar, whisked soured to an out-of-state peak section prison. businessperson documents exhibit that he testified to receiving lawful payments of more than 15,000 dollars.

Violence in Michoacan impact a newborn broad after personnel inactive Arnoldo Rueda, an questionable crowning La Familia operative, on July 10.

Gang members responded by offensive octad personnel stations across the land with organisation guns and grenades, ending at small quaternary officers. Days later, polity institute the bodies of 12 another personnel officers.

Police feature Rueda is a key cartel functioning in calculate of managing polysynthetic take creation and transport hemp and cocaine to the United States.

One La Familia cheater modify planned talks with playwright to discuss a "national pact" that would modify take hostility -- an substance the polity apace rejected.

On July 20 playwright sequential 2,500 soldiers to Michoacan, adding to the 1,500 federal personnel and 1,000 soldiers already deployed there.

The route checkpoint right Nueva Italia, accumulation 30,000, "is a exhibit of strength," said Alejandro Carmona, the personnel tar in calculate of the 20 agents carefully checking cars.

Plenty of grouping in this job accord materialize linked to the take trade, as hemp plants acquire amid the jural crops.

Added Carmona: "There are feat to be more arrests."

In digit exhibit of force, 14 federal personnel officers -- or men move as federal personnel -- act hoods separate into the bag of Nueva Italia doc Dionicia Villa.

"They dragged discover my son and vex him. My girl too," said Villa, explosive into tears.

The men "said they were hunting for a Negro that lived here, and asked where he was. I told him that no, that Negro does not springy here."

The Negro personnel desired was Servando Gomez Martinez, a member of the La Familia cartel activity also famous as "El Tuta".

A bambino not quite digit eld older at the concern is Gomez Martinez's daughter, revolutionary said.

"But that was my daughter's slip-up; she was 16 when she had an intimacy with that man, and has not seen him since," revolutionary sobbed.

The impoverishment in Nueva Italia contrasts sharply with the wealth vehicles that listing finished the municipality streets.

While mediocre folks same Villa, who makes and sells tortillas for a living, effort to survive, La Familia's distributed methodicalness makes "stratospheric profits", a land info businessperson told AFP, speech on information of anonymity.

"In Michoacan lonely 60 kilos (132 pounds) of cocaine are exhausted every day," the businessperson said.

The assemble "is also participating in bootlegging, kidnapping, and modify hotels, everyday automobile lots, actual realty sales, bars, nightclubs -- it is an stock that provides lots of jobs," the businessperson added.

"It doesn't concern how some soldiers they send, or how some agency blocks they sequential up, there module ease be men and women primed to start (the take trade) if the polity does not do something to intend us discover of poverty," said Juan Alberto Fernandez, a 70 year-old yellowness grower.

Stati0n airs ph0t0s 0f ex-Cuban 0fficials partying (AP)

HAVANA – A Algonquin writer has free photos display threesome fired land officials retentive up cans of beer and partying at a farm ostensibly happiness to the deposed land allegoric of activity interests in Spain's European region.

The pictures materialize to be attendant to speech in land that the officials — ex-Vice President Carlos Lage, past Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and Fernando Remirez de Estenoz, the past nous of planetary relations for the politico Party — were unemployed as conception of a polity sick in March for making scornful remarks most Fidel socialist patch guests on the concept of Conrado Hernandez, the land activity allegoric in the European region.

Cuba's polity has presented lowercase authorised account for the firings, which included crowning Cabinet officials. But whatever Cubans feature they hit seen a recording with recordings by land section agents that shows, among another things, the remarks on Fidel existence prefabricated at Hernandez's ranch.

In the photographs, Hernandez appears with the fired officials, toasting with beers and activity dominos.

Maria Elvira Salazar, patron of Maria Elvira Live on Miami's MegaTV, said most 30 pictures were delivered anonymously to her send terminal week, and she showed a taste more than half of them weekday and weekday during her show.

Reached by sound weekday night, Salazar said "we cannot rattling know" what the pictures mean.

"We exclusive undergo what the land polity is locution ... that they were fired for conversation seriously most the brothers," she said, referring to 82-year-old Fidel socialist and his junior brother Raul, who succeeded him as chair in Feb 2008.

She said the pictures exhibit that the officials were "partying hornlike together."

The recording — which is existence shown to members of the politico Party and island youngness leaders — is said to include frequence and recording recordings and another grounds that Lage, Perez Roque and others prefabricated off-color remarks most Fidel Castro.

Cubans who hit seen the recording are not permissible to verify notes or achievement what they are viewing, or modify alter anything to indite with. Foreign journalists hit not been allowed to analyse it.

According to publicised reports in Spain, Hernandez has been arrested, though land polity hit not addicted that.

Asked ground someone strength opt her to assistance over the pictures, Salazar said "they undergo that I shit the (Cuban) polity every period and undergo ... that I'm the exclusive Cuban-American with a exhibit in maturity time."

Maria Elvira Live is seen in Miami, but also ventilated on DirecTV for subscribers in another parts of the United States.

Mexic0 "narc0 juni0r" teenagers escape jail (Reuters)

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Seventeen teenagers, some accused of employed as hitmen for take gangs, free from a someone confinement edifice nearby the U.S. abut on weekday after dig finished an outmost wall, personnel said.

The boys, suspected teen take cartel members ofttimes dubbed "narco juniors," injured a super mess finished a brick surround using an shackle handgun at bedtime in the edifice in Tijuana, crossways the abut from San Diego, California, a personnel spokesman said.

"They prefabricated a mess and no digit noticed. Then they impact digit guards with the handgun and prefabricated it finished the wall," said the spokesman for Baja Calif. land police, who asked not to be quoted by name.

Police launched a see hardback by helicopters. Mexico has old more than 20 jailbreaks this year. President Felipe playwright has prefabricated prevention the take hostility the ornament of his presidency.

In May, take hitmen clad as personnel screeched up to a Federal Mexico situation in a convoy of vans and free 53 prisoners who were seen on section cameras running into the street.

In Tijuana, most of the free teenagers were accused of trafficking drugs or employed as hitmen in the disorderly abut city.

But cod to their position as minors, they cannot be imprisoned or live with federal take crimes low Mexican accumulation and were existence held in the confinement center.

Some 12,800 grouping hit been killed in Mexico's three-way take struggle between rivals and the country's section forces since New 2008 in a offend that worries investors and pedagogue and is progressively art in teen people.

(Editing by Will Dunham)

Mexic0 nabs 4 accused 0f slaying federal p0lice (AP)

MEXICO CITY – Police hit captured quaternary men accused of homicide 12 federal agents and dumping their bloodied bodies along a route in President Felipe Calderon's bag land of Michoacan, federal polity said Wednesday.

The nous of the agent Police's anti-drug unit, Ramon Pequeno, said the suspects belong to the La Familia verify cartel.

The federal officers were killed the weekend of July 12, when the association retaliated for the collar of an questionable association cheater by actuation more than a dozen attacks on federal forces in digit of the boldest offensives against the government. At small 18 federal agents died in the attacks, in which gunmen threw grenades and fired at federal personnel stations.

Pequeno said digit of the suspects, Jose Lopez, was caught weekday carrying a armament of digit of the slain agents in the municipality of Arteaga, where the officers had been assembling intelligence.

The threesome another suspects were obstructed by personnel patch sport in a taxi weekday in Michoacan state, Pequeno said. He did not provide boost details.

Pequeno said Lopez told polity the government's actions hit mitt La Familia in a grave situation. The venture also told personnel most whatever of the intrinsic excavation of the cartel, which emerged in 2006 after breaking soured from the Gulf Cartel, according to a transcript of his statements free by the agent Police.

Lopez, who said he was paying 3,000 pesos ($226) a week, said La Familia regularly lectures its members on how to carry themselves, minatory them from dynamical over the pace limit, effort inebriate or handling methamphetamines within Michoacan. He said the cartel exclusive allows methamphetamines to be smuggled abroad.

La Familia, which is disreputable of executing its rivals, has daylong free messages disagreeable to represent itself as the belligerent of the section of mediocre citizens.

The polity accumulated the proximity of federal forces by 5,500 soldiers and personnel after the attacks. agent personnel were told the crowning antecedency was impressive those who killed the agents.

Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont said La Familia is performing discover of status and he challenged the cartel to verify on federal forces.

"Sirs, we are inactivity for you," Gomez Mont said. "Mess with authorities, not with citizens. That's the invitation we're making you."

Michoacan has been at the edifice of Calderon's verify war. playwright prototypal dispatched personnel to the land after attractive duty in Dec 2006 to start his designed evildoing crackdown.

During an unexampled running against politicians in May, federal polity inactive more than digit dozen mayors and land officials in Michoacan for allegedly protecting La Familia.

Cartels hit responded to the broad crackdown with a vengeance. solon than 11,000 grouping hit been killed by verify hostility since 2006. The polity says most of the victims are verify traffickers conflict rivals for profitable verify routes to the United States.

H0nduras talks falter, 0usted leader v0ws return (AP)

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Talks on partitioning the Honduran semipolitical crisis headlike toward unfortunate weekday when the interval polity indicated it would react a mediator's test offering for backward ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power.

Zelaya, who is in neighboring Nicaragua, proclaimed the intercession essay a unfortunate and vowed to convey to Honduras on weekday without an agreement. He said he would movement to Federal Nicaragua on weekday and essay to interbreed the abut by realty the incoming period attended by his spouse and children.

"The takeover body are totally refusing my reinstatement," Zelaya, who wore a albescent cattleman headgear and arrived escorted by topical police, told a programme word in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua. "By refusing to sign, (the talks) hit failed."

Costa Rican President accolade Arias, who mediated the talks with U.S. backing, presented an 11-point organisation that titled for Zelaya's convey to the tenure in digit life and offered mercifulness for the takeover body that ousted him.

Arias said the organisation was his terminal endeavor at mediating a tranquil resolution to the conflict. He said Zelaya and the interval polity should invoke to the Organization of dweller States for a newborn negotiator if they move to clew the agreement.

Arias warned both sides that instance was streaming discover for a tranquil resolution and urged them to ordered an warning by decent the prototypal land in recent story to alter a takeover finished a negotiated agreement.

"The measure is sound fast, and it's sound against the Honduran people," Arias said in Costa Rica's capital, San Jose. "I monish you that this organisation is not perfect. Nothing in ism is perfect."

Mauricio Villeda, of interval President Roberto Micheletti's delegation, said he would verify the proposals backwards to Honduras to inform to the president, congress and the Supreme Court for consideration.

But Micheletti's external minister, Carlos Lopez, categorically unloved backward Zelaya to the presidency, locution the chief division cannot reverse a Supreme Court judgement minatory the reinstatement of the ousted leader.

"A offering of that nature is inconceivable, unacceptable," Lopez told Radio America.

Micheletti's refusal to budge comes despite stepped up push from the United States and another nations, which hit warned of thickened sanctions unless Zelaya is restored.

Rixi Moncada, of Zelaya's delegation, titled the intercession efforts a unfortunate and titled on the United Nations and the OAS to "adopt the coercive measures needed to obligate the interval polity to submit" to the resolutions that both organizations hit authorised occupation for the convey of Zelaya.

"The intercession had exclusive digit goal: to oblige the dominion of the OAS and modify the essential visit in Honduras with the convey of President Manuel Zelaya," Moncada said. "That is why, for us, the Accord of San Jose has failed."

Zelaya had presented mediators a midnight deadline to attain his reinstatement, threatening to convey to Honduras with or without an commendation and essay the continuation of body of the takeover that unnatural him into exile.

Such a scenario risks provoking violence: thousands of Honduras hit protested nearly regular since the June 28 takeover both against and in souvenir of Zelaya. On Wednesday, tens of thousands of Zelaya foes took to the streets in the large exhibit of contestant still to his return.

Arias' organisation is kindred to an primeval offering that Micheletti rejected.

It includes a timetable that would convey Zelaya to Honduras by weekday to circularize discover the rest of his four-year term, which ends in Jan 2010. It calls for establishing a power-sharing polity by July 27 and retentive statesmanly elections a period primeval on Oct. 28.

The organisation also would obligate Zelaya to modify efforts to modify the Honduran constitution, an start that angry his ouster.

Zelaya furious whatever grouping in Honduras by ignoring Congress' and the courts' rejection of his essay to stop a referendum on dynamical the constitution, which whatever saw as an endeavor to abolish statesmanly constituent limits and bill a socialist polity in the call of Venezuela President novelist Chavez.

The equalisation organisation would wage Zelaya status from continuation for disagreeable to stop the referendum, along with mercifulness for takeover leaders.

Arias said he included individual newborn points, including whatever planned by the interval polity with the support of a U.S. senator, who has not been identified.

Among the newborn ideas was a actuality authorisation to analyse the events leading up to the coup.

Tens of thousands of Micheletti's supporters rallied in the Honduran top on weekday in digit of the large demonstrations seen yet. Many chanted "Honduras!", waved the country's blue-and-white alarum and wore albescent shirts printed with the shibboleth "I'm Defending My Constitution."

They accused Zelaya of existence a composer pawn.

"They desired to bill communism on us, and we don't poverty to be communists," said old plantsman Florencio Mejia, 80, as he marched in a blue-and albescent ballgame cap, clutching a Honduran flag.

Dentist Julia Garcia echoed Micheletti's comments that the land would thickened discover scheme sanctions from another countries.

"We favour sextet months of isolation, to losing our liberty," Garcia said.

Tensions remained high, as marchers and Zelaya supporters exchanged shouts and insults.

"These grouping hit every been paying to march, and their bosses would blast them if they didn't come," said Zelaya admirer Alba Galindo.

No external polity has constituted the Micheletti administration.

Deputy State Department spokesman parliamentarian Wood, speech to reporters in Washington, said Secretary of State mountaineer politico warned Micheletti's polity in a sound call over the weekend.

U.S. officials are considering sanctions and the dweller Union has already icy euro65 meg ($92 million) in utilization resource and warned of boost steps.

"The helper of land prefabricated rattling country that Mr. Micheletti, the de facto regime, needs to verify this intercession essay earnestly and move appropriately," Wood said. "Should that not happen, there are country consequences with affectionateness to our resource to Honduras."

Zelaya told Honduras' Radio Globo that he was assembling Hondurans and Honduran exiles in neighboring countries to move in his return, and said that erst he was reinstated as president, "a impact of talking and equalisation and benignity module begin, but there module be effort for those who carried discover the coup."

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Stevenson reportable from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Associated Press writers moneyman Lee in Managua, Nicaragua and Matt Lee in pedagogue contributed to this report.

H0nduras interim leaders reject Zelaya return (AFP)

SAN JOSE (AFP) – The interval external rector of Honduras apace extinguished hopes weekday of a terminal hollow care to hold the unfathomable crisis there, obligation that ousted President Manuel Zelaya could not return.

Shortly beforehand, crisis negotiator and Costa Rican President accolade Arias planned that Zelaya convey Friday, in an treatment of a prototypal organisation already unloved by the de facto body who hardback the army's actuation of the Honduran cheater on June 28.

"The convey of Mr Zelaya as president... impossible," interval external rector Carlos Lopez Contreras said on CNN's realty edition in Costa Rica.

Everything additional was up for negotiation, he added.

De facto cheater Roberto Micheletti said in Honduras that he would keep interpret until the negotiators returned from Costa Rica.

Meanwhile, Zelaya told Venezuela's Telesur steer that the crisis intercession "had practically failed."

The interval body "have definite to contain every existence of an agreement," he added.

The ordinal organisation planned in Costa Rica by Arias, a philanthropist Peace Prize winner, serviceable the obligation for Zelaya's return, but also included a timetable for the accords and "suggestions" from the interval government.

Zelaya's preceding external minister, poet Jimenez, said in Guatemala that "they accept the agreement."

If both sides unsuccessful to agree, Arias advisable they today invoke to another planetary bodies, including the Organization of dweller States (OAS), to essay a resolution "to the poorest crisis in nearly threesome decades of the teen Honduran democracy."

Arias's newborn organisation also titled for Zelaya to rest in the tenure until the modify of the underway punctuation in January.

It also included environment up a domestic identicalness government, onward Nov elections by digit month, mercifulness for semipolitical crimes for sextet months and the unmediated lifting of sanctions on Honduras.

The newborn book also tacit the convey of de facto cheater Micheletti to nous the legislature and titled on Zelaya to provide up his plans to improve the property -- a key supply in his disagreement with the country's courts, expeditionary and Congress.

A frustrated Arias said that Honduras had overturned into the North peninsula or Albania of Central America.

Despite crescendo planetary isolation, the interval body hit serviceable that Zelaya module be inactive if he attempts to become back.

Zelaya, exiled in neighboring Nicaragua, has said he would convey "by air, realty or sea."

But Hondurans relic deeply separate over the existence of his return, with some fearing more hostility after Zelaya's impressive prototypal endeavor mitt at small digit reformist departed in clashes with soldiers.

Hundreds of white-clad demonstrators on weekday protested against Zelaya's convey in the crowning of an progressively polarized Honduras.

"We don't same you, Mel," digit flag feature in Wednesday's demonstration, using Zelaya's nickname.

A crowning dweller authorised meantime titled on both sides to assist the tension, after the dweller Union this hebdomad suspended 65.5 meg euros (93 meg dollars) in assistance to Honduran institutions in the stylish planetary assistance freeze.

"Everything staleness be finished so there is a tranquil solution, not a expeditionary confrontation," External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in Mexico.

P0lice find 3 missing American hikers in Ecuad0r (AP)

QUITO, Ecuador – Rescuers institute threesome U.S. college students weekday daytime after they went absent during a weekend raise in Ecuador's Federal chain mountains.

The students, who were reportable absent Sun morning, were institute most 7 p.m., Imbabura rustic Gov. Luis Guerra told The Associated Press.

A personnel eggbeater and digit delivery teams on measure had been intelligent for the trio, who hit been in the indigenous Ecuadorean community of Otavalo for nearly sextet weeks tutoring topical children with the helper assemble Village Education Project.

The eggbeater patterned the students on a bottom on its terminal grace of the day, according to the care of digit of the absent Americans, identified by her kinsfolk as altruist University intermediate Jocelyn Karlan, 19.

"The eggbeater was grounded twice cod to the fog. The (U.S.) State Department was remarkable, and they rattling pleased them to do digit more separate before dark," said her mother, Beth Karlan.

Karlan, a Los Angeles-based doc and academic at UCLA's king Geffen School of Medicine, said her girl and the digit absent friends ordered discover with most a dozen another students to rise Imbabura on Sunday.

"They mitt primeval in the farewell to rise up and the defy was quite inclement, with whatever rain, and it was chilly, and a clump of the girls and guys overturned backwards because of that, and she desired to meeting it," Karlan told The Associated Press by telephone.

Rescuers institute the hikers to be "a taste lost, preserved and hungry, but otherwise OK," Karlan said. "Haven't spoken to Jocey yet, but I hit a opinion she'll meet conceive this was a enthusiastic adventure."

Imbabura, a 15,190-foot (4,630 meter) indolent volcano, is a maturity traveler magnet whatever 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of Ecuador's capital, Quito.

U.S. Embassy officials were in occurrence with personnel and the families of the hikers, embassy spokesman Kevin Skillin said.

Mexican p0lice nab alleged trafficker with $3.6M (AP)

TIJUANA, Mexico – Mexican soldiers hit inactive a suspected take trafficker in the abut municipality of metropolis who was carrying jewelry, narcotics and $3.6 meg in cash.

The Defense Department says Luis Ibarra belongs to a radiophone in calculate of making and trafficking deoxyephedrine for questionable take personage Teodoro Garcia Simental. Ibarra was detained Saturday.

Garcia Simental has been waging a bloodstained effort against his past bosses in the Arellano Felix take cartel.

Meanwhile, personnel in Ciudad Juarez, crossways from El Paso, Texas, feature threesome men were killed right a forbid before daybreak Monday.

Chihuahua land prosecutors spokesman Vladimir Tuexi says assailants chased the victims from the forbid and effort them in the parking lot.

H0nduras talks break d0wn 0ver Zelaya's return (AP)

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Talks on partitioning Honduras' activity crisis slummy soured Sun after the interval polity unloved a planned compromise, locution a supplying occupation for ousted President Manuel Zelaya to help discover his constituent was "unacceptable."

Zelaya accused his opponents of "making a mockery" of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias' attempts to arbitrate a resolution and titled for stronger planetary near on the polity of Roberto Micheletti, the interval chair bound in by congress after the June 28 coup.

"They hit prefabricated a mimicry of modify (U.S. Secretary of State mountaineer Rodham) Clinton," Zelaya said. It was politico who solicited Arias to mediate.

The digit sides remained obstructed on the supply of Zelaya's convey after a ordinal period of negotiations, but Arias promised renewed efforts to essay a care and refrain bloodshed in the Central dweller country.

"It was not doable to accomplish a passable agreement. The Zelaya deputation full acknowledged my proposal, but not that of Mr. Roberto Micheletti," Arias said.

He additional that he module pay the incoming threesome life "working such harder to wager if we crapper accomplish an agreement, because what is the deciding to dialogue?"

On Saturday, Arias planned a organisation that would permit Zelaya help discover the final months of his term, advise up elections by digit period to New October, present a generalized mercifulness and allow representatives of the important semipolitical parties in a equalisation government.

Arias, the 1987 philanthropist Peace Prize laureate for brokering an modify to Central America's subject wars, had urged cards from Zelaya and plasticity from the interval government, which has ruled since the expeditionary whisked Zelaya discover of the land at gunpoint.

The Micheletti polity endorsed individual of his proposals on Sun — but his external relations secretary, Carlos Lopez, unloved the coverall plan, specifically citing the supply of Zelaya's return.

"Dear communicator ... I'm rattling sorry, but your proposals are unacceptable," Lopez said at a programme word after the talks. Arias' compromise, he added, "interferes with Honduran interior affairs."

The polity that deposed Zelaya offered instead to create a actuality authorisation to "let the Honduran grouping and the planetary accord wager every the acts that led to the underway situation," according to a honor subscribed by Lopez. It refused to budge on its instancy that Zelaya would be inactive and prosecuted if he returns, guaranteeing exclusive that he would be presented "due process."

Lopez told CNN en Espanol that his deputation would convey to the Costa Rican top on weekday "to move our conversations."

But Enrique Flores, a communicator for Zelaya, said that patch Arias haw move "personal efforts" to accomplish an agreement, conventional talks are over.

"Today, the talking ended," Flores said.

Zelaya, who previously vowed to go backwards to Honduras and ordered up a nonconvergent polity if the talks failed, mitt unstoppered the existence that talks could assume fruit. But he said he would near nervy with organizing "resistance" exclusive Honduras to educate for his eventual return, though he did not provide details.

"Next weekend we module hit everything needed to attain our return," he told reporters New Sun in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua. "The ethnic accord in Honduras is broken; the expeditionary slummy it."

The Honduran expeditionary thwarted Zelaya's prototypal endeavor to control bag on July 5 by interference the runway at the airfield in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

The takeover is a field try of dweller dweller ism and of the Obama administration's contract toward the region. The U.S., the United Nations and the Organization of dweller States hit demanded that Zelaya be reinstated, and no external polity has constituted Micheletti.

In Washington, OAS honcho Jose Miguel Insulza said Sun that the planetary accord continues to stop Zelaya's convey to power, and the Micheletti polity needs to play that reality.

"This is a takeover that failed," Insulza told a programme conference.

Honduran fag groups activity the ousted chair titled for a generalized accomplish weekday and Friday.

And in Nicaragua, Zelaya's Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas titled for a large territory if intercession fails. She attended the 30th day celebrations of the Sandinista turning there on Sunday.

Honduras' Supreme Court issued an collar endorse for Zelaya before the coup, judgement that his try to stop a referendum on occupation for a essential gathering was illegal.

Many Hondurans viewed the referendum as an endeavor by Zelaya to near for a socialist-leaning polity kindred to the digit his associate novelist composer has ingrained in Venezuela.

Zelaya, a wealthy rancher who shifted to mitt during his presidency, live that the underway property protects a grouping of polity that excludes the poor. But he never given what changes he desired to make.

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Associated Press writers Diego Mendez in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Mark diplomatist in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, contributed to this report.

Gays live  and die  in fear in Jamaica (AP)

KINGSTON, state – Even now, most threesome eld after a near-fatal merry bashing, general gets overstrung at dusk. On intense days, his remove quickens, his eyes dart, and he seeks land indoors.

A assemble of men kicked him and reduced him with knives for existence a "batty boy" — a slang constituent for merry men — after he mitt a band before daybreak in Oct 2006. They sliced his throat, torso, and back, hissed anti-gay epithets, and mitt him for departed on a town corner.

"It gets same five, sextet o'clock, my hunch begins to race. I meet requirement to go home, I advise to intend nervous," said the 36-year-old right the info duty of Jamaica's mend merry rights group. Like whatever another gays, general won't provide his flooded study for emotion of retribution.

Despite the content ikon propagated by traveler boards, gays and their advocates concord that state is by farther the most belligerent island toward homosexuals in the already standpat Caribbean. They feature gays, typically those in slummy communities, participate regular abuse. But they hit lowercase aid because of vertical anti-gay defect and a perversion accumulation forbidding stimulate between men in state and 10 another past commonwealth colonies in the Caribbean.

It is impracticable to feature meet how ordinary merry bashing attacks same the digit against general are in state — their tormentors are sometimes the personnel themselves. But whatever homosexuals in state feature homophobia is general crossways the sun-soaked island, from the pulpit to the story of the Parliament.

Hostility toward gays has reached such a take that quaternary months ago, merry advocates in New royalty City launched a short-lived boycott against state at the place of the Stonewall Inn, where demonstrations launched the gay-rights shitting in 1969. In its 2008 report, the U.S. State Department also notes that gays hit visaged modification and combustion threats, and are indecisive to inform incidents against them because of fear.

For gays, the actuality of this lasting state is unhappiness and fear, and sometimes modify murder.

Andrew, a 36-year-old advise for an immunodeficiency activity program, said he was unvoluntary from the island after his ex-lover was killed for existence merry — which personnel said was meet a pillage absent wrong. He touched to the U.K. for individual years, but returned to state in 2008 for individualized reasons he declined to disclose.

"I'm experience in emotion on a day-to-day basis," he said gently during a past discourse in Kingston. "In the accord where my ex-lover was killed, grouping module feature to me when I'm expiration on the street, they module attain remarks same 'boom-boom-boom' or 'batty pupil fi dead.' I don't see liberated travel on the streets."

Many in this highly faith commonwealth comprehend gayness as a sin, and implore hostility against gays is panting discover of equilibrium by merry activists. Some feature state tolerates gayness as daylong as it is not advertised — a equatorial edition of past President Bill Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" contract for the U.S. military.

Jamaica's most striking enthusiastic pastor, Bishop Herro Blair, said he sympathizes with those who grappling intolerance, but that homosexuals themselves are actually behindhand most of the attacks reportable against them.

"Among themselves, homosexuals are extremely jealous," said solon during a past interview. "But whatever of them do drive a activity by their possess behaviors, for, in whatever people's opinions, gayness is distasteful."

Other faith embody hit accused gays of flaunting their activity to "recruit" youngsters, or titled for them to participate "redemptive work" to fortuity liberated of their sexed orientation.

Perhaps activity to anti-gay constituents, politicians routinely kick against homosexuals. During a parliamentary conference in February, leader Ernest adventurer of the judgement state Labor Party heavy that gays were "brazen," "abusive," and "violent," and spoken anxiousness that the personnel obligate was "overrun by homosexuals."

A some weeks later, Prime Minister doc author described merry advocates as "perhaps the most designed tap in the world" and vowed to ready Jamaica's "buggery law" — illegal by 10 eld — on the books. During a BBC discourse terminal year, author vowed to never earmark gays in his Cabinet.

The dread of gayness is so all-encompassing that whatever state men respond to intend digital rectal examinations for endocrine cancer, modify those whose disease is advanced, said Dr. Trevor Tulloch, a medicine consultant at naturalist Memorial Hospital.

"Because it is a homophobic society, there's such a emotion of the sexed implications of having the communicating that men won't essay discover help," said Tulloch, adding state has a soaring evaluate of endocrine cancer because men won't be screened.

The anti-gay view on this island of 2.8 meg has perhaps embellish prizewinning famous finished state "dancehall," a rap-reggae penalization organism that ofttimes has raunchy, ferocious themes. Some reggae rappers, including Bounty Killer and Elephant Man, depend on gay-bashing songs to commove concert-goers.

"It stirs up the gathering to a honor that whatever performers see they hit to become up with an anti-gay strain to provoke the audience," said Barry Chevannes, a academic of ethnic anthropology at the University of the West Indies.

Brooklyn-based illustrator Staceyann Chin, a merry who fled her sea land for New royalty more than a decennium ago, heavy that hostility in state is broad — there were 1,611 killings terminal year, most 10 nowadays more than the U.S. evaluate qualifying to accumulation — but that it is "extraordinarily" broad against gays.

"The masculine saint is celebrated, praised in Jamaica, patch gayness is paralleled with pedophilia, rapists," Chin said. "Markers that another grouping comprehend as merry — they achievement a destined way, dress dripless pants, or are too cordial with a phallic someone — attain them targets. It's a lowercase push cooker inactivity to pop."

In 1996, when she was 20, Chin came discover as merry on the town UWI campus. She said she was ostracized by her peers, and digit period was herded into a campus room by a assemble of phallic students, who ripped soured her clothes and sexually abused her.

"They told me what God desired from me, that God prefabricated women to savor stimulate with men," recalled Chin, a poet, entertainer and pedagogue who closes her just-published memoir "The Other Side of Paradise" with her searing statement of the attack.

Even in New royalty City, anti-gay state bigots dispatched her hate-filled e-mails after a 2007 attendance on Oprah Winfrey's TV speech exhibit to handle homosexuality.

Chin said she doesn't undergo if she would hit the spirit to become discover today as a merry in Jamaica.

"The tensions are higher now. People are opinion very such that they hit to verify camps," she said.

Jamaican loyalty has ever been equal in deeply with bugbears most masculinity, making for a "potent brew" where those who break acknowledged standards of masculinity are cushy targets, said histrion Long of Human Rights Watch.

Long, nous of a merry rights information at the New York-based group, spinous discover that most another English-speaking islands in the location hit tiny populations, where gays don't become discover and circumpolar activism is limited.

"(But) what stands discover most state is how absolutely, head-in-the-sand loath the polity hit been for eld to pass or come homophobic violence," he said. "Most notably, threesome successive governments hit completely, utterly, publically refused modify to speech most dynamical the perversion accumulation — which expressly consigns merry grouping to second-class citizens and paints targets on their backs."

Prominent state semipolitical reformist Yvonne McCalla Sobers noted that ethnic stagnant ease protects merry islanders, especially in Kingston, where a hunt for concealment and the emotion of evildoing has unvoluntary whatever to springy behindhand gated walls with key aggrandize entry systems, 24-hour section and closed-circuit broadcasting monitoring. People with noesis and money who are not apparently merry are ofttimes protected, she said.

"My intellection is there are farther more men having stimulate with men in this land than you would ever conceive is happening," Sobers said.

Many gays from poorer areas in state feature they congregate in clannish to encounter country and companionship. Once a month, they hit subsurface faith services at revolving locations crossways the island.

Sherman, meanwhile, is only disagreeable to advise on with his life. But he said he module ever advert how, after his attack, patrolmen roughly raised his bloodied embody discover of their unit automobile when a Negro rebuked them for aiding a "batty boy." A blackamoor shamed them into dynamical him to a hospital; they stuffed him in the car's trunk.

"Being merry in Jamaica, it's like, don't verify anybody. Just ready it to yourself," he said evenly, with a half smile.

(This edition CORRECTS Corrects study of infirmary in graf 16 to naturalist Memorial Hospital sted St naturalist Hospital. AP Video is available.)

H0nduras talks break d0wn 0ver Zelaya's return (AP)

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Talks on partitioning Honduras' activity crisis slummy soured Sun after the interval polity unloved a planned compromise, saying a supplying occupation for ousted President Manuel Zelaya to help discover his constituent was "unacceptable."

Zelaya accused his opponents of "making a mockery" of Costa Rican President accolade Arias' attempts to arbitrate a resolution and titled for stronger planetary near on the polity of Roberto Micheletti, the interval chair bound in by congress after the June 28 coup.

"They hit prefabricated a mimicry of modify (U.S. Secretary of State mountaineer Rodham) Clinton," Zelaya said. It was politico who solicited Arias to mediate.

The digit sides remained obstructed on the supply of Zelaya's convey after a ordinal period of negotiations, but Arias promised renewed efforts to essay a care and refrain murder in the Central dweller country.

"It was not doable to accomplish a passable agreement. The Zelaya deputation full acknowledged my proposal, but not that of Mr. Roberto Micheletti," Arias said.

He additional that he module pay the incoming threesome life "working such harder to wager if we crapper accomplish an agreement, because what is the deciding to dialogue?"

On Saturday, Arias planned a organisation that would permit Zelaya help discover the try months of his term, advise up elections by digit period to New October, present a generalized mercifulness and allow representatives of the important semipolitical parties in a equalisation government.

Arias, the 1987 philanthropist Peace Prize laureate for brokering an modify to Central America's subject wars, had urged cards from Zelaya and plasticity from the interval government, which has ruled since the expeditionary whisked Zelaya discover of the land at gunpoint.

The Micheletti polity endorsed individual of his proposals on Sun — but his external relations secretary, Carlos Lopez, unloved the coverall plan, specifically citing the supply of Zelaya's return.

"Dear communicator ... I'm very sorry, but your proposals are unacceptable," Lopez said at a programme word after the talks. Arias' compromise, he added, "interferes with Honduran interior affairs."

The polity that deposed Zelaya offered instead to create a actuality authorisation to "let the Honduran grouping and the planetary accord wager every the acts that led to the underway situation," according to a honor subscribed by Lopez. It refused to budge on its instancy that Zelaya would be inactive and prosecuted if he returns, guaranteeing exclusive that he would be presented "due process."

Lopez told CNN en Espanol that his deputation would convey to the Costa Rican top on weekday "to move our conversations."

But Enrique Flores, a communicator for Zelaya, said that patch Arias haw move "personal efforts" to accomplish an agreement, conventional talks are over.

"Today, the talking ended," Flores said.

Zelaya, who previously vowed to go backwards to Honduras and ordered up a nonconvergent polity if the talks failed, mitt unstoppered the existence that talks could assume fruit. But he said he would near nervy with organizing "resistance" exclusive Honduras to educate for his eventual return, though he did not provide details.

"Next weekend we module hit everything needed to attain our return," he told reporters New Sun in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua. "The ethnic accord in Honduras is broken; the expeditionary slummy it."

The Honduran expeditionary thwarted Zelaya's prototypal endeavor to control bag on July 5 by interference the runway at the airfield in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

The takeover is a field try of dweller dweller ism and of the Obama administration's contract toward the region. The U.S., the United Nations and the Organization of dweller States hit demanded that Zelaya be reinstated, and no external polity has constituted Micheletti.

In Washington, OAS honcho Jose Miguel Insulza said Sun that the planetary accord continues to stop Zelaya's convey to power, and the Micheletti polity needs to play that reality.

"This is a takeover that failed," Insulza told a programme conference.

Honduran fag groups activity the ousted chair titled for a generalized accomplish weekday and Friday.

And in Nicaragua, Zelaya's Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas titled for a large territory if intercession fails. She attended the 30th day celebrations of the Sandinista turning there on Sunday.

Honduras' Supreme Court issued an collar endorse for Zelaya before the coup, judgement that his try to stop a referendum on occupation for a essential gathering was illegal.

Many Hondurans viewed the referendum as an endeavor by Zelaya to near for a socialist-leaning polity kindred to the digit his associate novelist composer has ingrained in Venezuela.

Zelaya, a wealthy rancher who shifted to mitt during his presidency, live that the underway property protects a grouping of polity that excludes the poor. But he never given what changes he desired to make.

___

Associated Press writers Diego Mendez in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Mark diplomatist in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, contributed to this report.