The airplane has been circling above the airport for about 5 minutes. President Zelaya is inside, along with Miguel D'Escoto, Secretary General of the UN General Assembly, Foreign MInister Patricia Rodas.

The Honduran military has placed military vehicles and forces all along the airport's runway to prevent the airplane from arriving....this is happening right now...the plane is circling trying to figure out how to land....the military is trying to stop it. Thousands of Zelaya supporters are applauding his arrival around the airport.

The OAS does have credibility in calling balls and strikes in Latin America...

President Manuel Zelaya is speaking live with Telesur, explaining he was forced to land in Managua, Nicaragua after the Honduran coup government and military forces prevented his arrival by placing human obstacles and vehicles along the airport runway in Tegucigalpa.

the first thing you do is murder the person you're staging the coup against, you don't whisk him off to a foreign country! there can't be two, living, current presidents, it just confuses the people. especially if the coup'd president happens to be particularly popular with the bulk of the population.

There is evidence that the Obama administration was intimately involved in pre-coup plans to oust Zelaya, The New York Times last week cited an unnamed US official as saying that Llorens and Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. spoke to "military officials and opposition leaders" in the days before the coup. The official said, "There was talk of how they might remove the president from office, how he could be arrested, on whose authority they could do that."

Both Llorens and Shannon were top advisers on Andean affairs to President Bush in the period leading up to and during the US-backed coup that briefly toppled Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in 2002.

Since the Honduran coup, the Obama administration has refused to take any serious measures against the new regime. It has merely suspended some military contacts, pending the results of its "study" to determine whether a coup actually occurred.

The US accounts for 70 percent of the country's exports, and remittances from Hondurans in the US comprise 20 percent of the impoverished country's gross national product. Were Washington to impose a trade embargo, the new regime would be forced to back down.

It is inconceivable that the coup regime would maintain its hard line without tacit backing from Washington. US State Department spokesmen, moreover, publicly urged Zelaya not to attempt to return to Honduras, and the US, through its closest allies in the OAS--Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia--defeated provisions in the OAS declaration suspending Honduras that would have required member states to cut off bilateral cooperation with the country.

Zelaya was not running in November; he proposed ways to change the constitution.

According to this AP story,

If he returns, Zelaya faces arrest for 18 alleged criminal acts including treason and failing to implement more than 80 laws approved by Congress since he took office in 2006.

Article 239 -- No citizen that has already served as head of the Executive Branch can be President or Vice-President.

Whoever violates this law or proposes its reform, as well as those that support such violation directly or indirectly, will immediately cease in their functions and will be unable to hold any public office for a period of 10 years.

Emphasis added.