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Honduras regime wavers amid international uproar

AFP, Tegucigalpa
Honduran de facto leaders followed a clampdown on dissent Monday with a promise to recon -sider curbs on rights and resume mediation efforts, as deposed President Manuel Zelaya called for help from the UN.
The deep divides within the Central American country echoed beyond its borders as the Organisation of American States failed after more than 10 hours of debate to reach consensus on the crisis sparked by the June 28 coup. . Amid widespread International criticism, Honduras’ de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said he was prepared to rescind a decree restricting civil liberties so that upcoming presidential polls are not affected.
"We're worried that this decree could affect the elections," Micheletti told journalists in Tegucigalpa, hours after soldiers shut down two dissident media outlets under the new measures.
"If it's necessary, we'll revoke it," Micheletti said.
Protesters earlier taped their mouths shut to symbolize the loss of their right to express themselves as they were prevented from answering Zelaya's call to converge fora mass protest.
The ousted leader meanwhile appealed to the UN General Assembly to restore law in Honduras in an address he gave by telephone from his refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa --where he emerged after a surprise return last week.
"Anybody who had any doubt that a dictatorship is taking hold of my country, now with what has happened in the last 93 days of repression, I think any of those doubts that might have existed are dispelled," Zelaya said over a cell phone held by his foreign minister Patricia Isabel Rodas Baca.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) was one of several groups to criticise the censor-
ship imposed by the de facto government, and was particularly damning about a decree banning public statements deemed to offend officials or the government.
"Roberto Micheletti has effectively outlawed public criticism," said Jose Miguel Vivanco. HRW's Americas director.
"This kind of decree has been the norm for authoritarian rulers, from Chile's Pinochet to Cuba's Castros."
While Latin American countries repeated calls to restore Zelaya to the presidency, a senior US representative to the Organisation of American States (OAS) broke ranks and criticised Zelaya's return, brandingit "irresponsible."
"The return of President Zelaya to Honduras, absent an agreement, is irresponsible and serves neither the interests of the Honduran people nor those seeking a peaceful I reestablishment of a democratic order in Honduras," said Lewis Amselem.