Zelaya warns of assassination plots

(Press TV) -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has accused the interim political establishment of plotting to assassinate him while he is in refuge.

Speaking via telephone to the Spanish National Radio (RNE) from his sanctuary at the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, on Wednesday, Zelaya referred to an earlier attempt on his life which was allegedly meant to occur as a suicide scenario.

"Today there is still the risk that the embassy will be assaulted and my suicide will be announced," said the ousted president.

"A group of mercenaries could enter here to carry out a killing," Zelaya told the Spanish radio.

Head of Honduran de facto administration, Roberto Micheletti rejected the allegation and noted that his government would not launch an attack on the Brazilian embassy.

Zelaya lashed out at the government for its conducts in recent days and said, "I have been imprisoned (at the embassy) by a military dictatorship which is preventing me from exercising my functions."

The ousted president, who stealthily returned to Honduras on Monday after three months of exile, went on to say that he would continue to fight the 'military dictatorship' that sacked him in a late June coup.

The latest development in the politically unstable Central American state comes in the aftermath of government revelations that Micheletti expressed readiness to hold direct talks with Zelaya.

Speaking on Tuesday, the interim Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez Contreras said on state television that Micheletti would engage in negotiations 'as long as he (Zelaya) explicitly recognizes the elections authorized by our constitution and scheduled for November 29'.

Honduras has been crippled by months of political turmoil that has continued to create clashes between the opposition and the de facto government and has left many searching for food and other basic daily needs.