
A police officer stands next to a graffiti as supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya...

A police officer stands next to a graffiti as supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya block a road in Tegucigalpa, Friday, July 17, 2009. Allies of ousted President Zelaya say U.S.-backed talks in Costa Rica this weekend may be the last chance to avert a clash, perhaps even civil war. Graffiti reads in Spanish "Micheletti, your government is finished" in reference to Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

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Many Hondurans viewed the proposed referendum as an attempt by Zelaya to push for a socialist-leaning government similar to the one his ally Hugo Chavez has established in Venezuela.
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Associated Press writers Diego Mendez in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Mark Stevenson in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, contributed to this story.
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