Zelaya supporters say it's time to move on

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Source: AP

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduran activists have ended five months of daily protests demanding the reinstatement of their president since he was ousted in a coup, say they're moving on now that Congress has voted to keep Manuel Zelaya out of office.

Juan Barahona, who has been leading protests since late June when Zelaya was forced out of the country, said Friday that his supporters are "closing that chapter" of their struggle.

Barahona said it's time for Hondurans who support policies in favor of the poor and other themes that Zelaya espoused to shift their focus to the 2014 elections.

Hondurans elected conservative, wealthy rancher Porfirio Lobo to be their new president in the Nov. 29 elections. Lobo says that when he takes office in January he will finally end the political crisis that has isolated one of Latin America's poorest countries.



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