As the executive jet carrying Manuel Zelaya swooped low over Honduras's main airport, the deposed president turned to the television crew he had invited along for the ride, who were broadcasting his observations to the cheering supporters a few hundred feet below. "If I had a parachute, I would immediately jump out of this plane," he declared.
It was a typically vainglorious gesture from a man who, earlier in the flight from Washington, had already compared himself to Jesus. "The blood of Christ is coursing through my veins," proclaimed the mass-going Roman Catholic. "Soon I will be with you all to raise the crucifix."
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