El Pais reports that the prosecutor charged with fighting corruption in Honduras has asked the country's Supreme Court for a warrant against the junta members responsible for ousting the country's democratically elected President last summer, a coup about which IntLawGrrl Naomi Roht-Arriaza posted.The charge to be investigated should the anti-coup case be opened: abuse of authority and unconstitutional expatriation.(Meanwhile, the ousted President, Manuel Zelaya, is living in refuge at the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.)
The move coincided, El Pais noted, with an official visit by Craig A. Kelly, the United States' Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Western Hemispheric Affairs.
Prosecutorial efforts soon may be short-circuited, however; Honduran legislators are set next week to consider a blanket grant of amnesty.
