Honduras' Tourism Minister: "Don't Visit My Country!"

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By Tim Rogers / San Salvador Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009

... Ricardo Martínez presented a video at a recent convention in neighboring El Salvador. With a soundtrack of revolutionary music, it showed supporters of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya clashing with riot police in the streets of the capital Tegucigalpa.

Martínez, who was ousted from the government along with Zelaya after the country's June 28 coup d'etat, was apologetic but unflinching about showing the video. "I'd like to tell everyone to come to Honduras, and that it's a tranquil place and everything is beautiful, but you think I'd be successful with that message? Of course not" ...

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