Chavez says Zelaya to return to Honduras "in hours"

Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:40am EDT

LA PAZ, July 17 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday the ousted Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya would return to his country "in the coming hours."

Chavez, an ally of the president who was toppled in a June 28 coup, said Honduras had been "an ungovernable country" since Zelaya was overthrown. (Reporting by Carlos Quiroga; Writing by Helen Popper)







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