Zelaya smuggled into Honduras embassy

CNN:

Ousted president Jose Manuel Zelaya has returned to Honduras, a Honduran diplomat in Washington told CNN on Monday.

U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly confirmed Zelaya was in Honduras, but could provide no further information.

"We have confirmed that he is in Honduras," Kelly told journalists, adding the State Department was trying to find out more details of Zelaya's whereabouts.

Enrique Reina, the Honduran ambassador to the United States, told CNN en Español that he could not divulge exactly where Zelaya was for security reasons.

Rodolfo Pastor, the charge d'affairs of the Honduran Embassy in Washington, said Zelaya was at the United Nations offices in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.

But Rebeca Arias, coordinator for the United Nations in Tegucigalpa, denied the leader was in the building.

"He's not here," she said, adding that Zelaya had called her late Monday morning and told her that he was in the country and would inform her within a few hours where he was.

Zelaya's announced return comes as the United States has stepped up its call for the current Honduran government run by de facto leader Roberto Micheletti to restore Zelaya to power.

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My speculation is that the State Department was at least aware of the smuggling of Zelaya into Honduras. This morning I did a post on the finding of the CRS that indicated that he was legally removed from office. I quickly got more than the usual number of hits from the State Department.

If the US State Department was in on this travesty, then they should be roundly criticized. They are trying to usurp the lawful government of a friendly government and put a despot want to be back in an office he is not entitled to. This is another example of how the Obama administration sucks up to our enemies and denigrates our friends while calling it "smart" diplomacy.

The BBC says Zelaya is in the Brazilian embassy. It is too early to tell what repercussions this will have.