I've followed the events subsequent to the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in June.  Apparently, he is set to return as President and will participate in the end of November elections:

Honduran rivals clinch deal to end crisis

By Sean Mattson
Fri Oct 30, 4:52 pm ET

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras is on the verge of ending a four-month political crisis after rival camps cut a deal that could return ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power and earn international support for a November 29 election.

Buckling under pressure from U.S. diplomats, negotiators for Zelaya, toppled in a June 28 coup, and the de facto leader Roberto Micheletti who replaced him, agreed to put an end to Central America's worst political turmoil in two decades.

The deal, a diplomatic victory for U.S. President Barack Obama, leaves it up to the Honduran Congress to decide whether Zelaya can be restored to serve the last few months of his term -- the question that caused earlier talks to stumble.

A Congress vote is expected in the next few days, after the Supreme Court gives a non-binding opinion on the matter.

"We've taken a first step," Zelaya said on Friday as negotiators put final signatures to the agreement, which will end months of isolation for the poor coffee-producing nation.

Towards the end of the article you can find this interesting sentence:

The deal would create a national unity government, a committee to verify that elections are fair and transparent and a truth commission to investigate the events of recent months.

That so reminds me of MiniTrue, the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984.

What the article doesn't explain is what's going to happen to the de facto President, Roberto Micheletti.  Micheletti wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal shortly after he took power in one of the most unusual coups ever to take place in a Latin American country.  What does "a national unity government" mean?  Will Micheletti be run out of town on a rail?

More to come in Honduras, that's for sure.

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