Honduran Embassy to the United States
Fact Sheet
The following is excerpted from a July 18, 2009, fact sheet released by the Honduran Embassy to the United States. The forced ouster of the democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras on June 28 originates from a conflict between the president and various elite sectors of the country. Though President Zelaya belonged to the centrist Liberal Party, he adopted an agenda of social and economic reform that was largely aimed at bringing relief and assistance to the poor. Government statistics estimate that the Zelaya administration’s social programs lowered the poverty level by 9.8 percent, from 46 percent of the…
