Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has returned to the country's border with Nicaragua for the second day running, demanding to be allowed home. He says he will set up camp on the Nicaraguan side to keep up pressure on the interim Honduran government. Speaking into a megaphone, he demanded to be allowed to see his family, who he has not seen since last month's coup. On Friday, he made a symbolic crossing over the border into Honduras but withdrew minutes later. The US, which opposed Mr Zelaya's dismissal and expulsion last month, has described his current attempts to return home as "reckless". Interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti dismissed Friday's brief return as a publicity stunt, saying Mr Zelaya's action was "ill-conceived and silly". The country's interior minister said that if the ousted president had dared go any further, he would have been arrested. Meanwhile, the Honduran armed forces have indicated they would not oppose a deal to restore Mr Zelaya to the presidency with limited powers, the New York Times reports. Curfew During Saturday's return to the frontier, the cowboy-hatted exiled president vowed to wait near the border.

Zelaya road show reaches border "Today we are going to set up camps here, with water and food. We are going to stay here this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow morning," he told a crowd of 150 supporters. But he said he would not attempt another crossing for fear of soldiers attacking his supporters, the Associated Press news agency reports. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticised Mr Zelaya's action, calling it "reckless" and "not conducive to the broader effort to restore constitutional order". Much of southern Honduras has been paralysed by the crisis, the BBC's Stephen Gibbs says from Honduras. A curfew remains in place day and night. Supporters of Mr Zelaya, describing themselves as a resistance movement, have blocked main roads, our correspondent says. Anti-Zelaya supporters protested about his planned return Dozens of trucks have been parked for several days in the approaches to the border, unable to make the crossing. And there is no sign as to when, or how, this will all end, our correspondent adds. Mr Zelaya has been in exile since 28 June when a coup forced him from power. The government which replaced him says he was attempting to stay in power indefinitely. He insists he remains the democratically-elected leader of Honduras. The talks in Costa Rica aimed at resolving the political crisis broke up last week with no agreement between the two sides.



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