Honduran police detained two Nicaraguans and two Hondurans along with several rifles, and interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti claimed the weapons were part of a plot to attack him during Sunday’s presidential election.
The suspects, weapons, communications equipment and gun sights were found during a raid on a house in the city of El Progreso, north of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, authorities said on Tuesday.
“Today, police informed me that there was going to be an attack against me in the city of Progreso when I went to vote,” Micheletti said at a news conference.
Micheletti is from Progreso.
Micheletti, who was named acting president after a June 28 coup removed president Manuel Zelaya, has said he is taking a temporary leave from office from today to Wednesday, when the congress is expected to decide whether to reinstate Zelaya to serve out the final weeks of his term. He hopes the leave will win more international recognition for the vote.
Zelaya’s ouster over his push to overhaul Honduras’ Constitution has isolated Micheletti’s government diplomatically and led many countries to say they will not recognize the election, which was scheduled before the coup.
Zelaya, whose term ends on Jan. 27, says the vote is an attempt to legitimize the coup and the results should not be recognized.
Honduras’ electoral tribunal wants observers for the election so much that it is looking for them on the Internet.
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