Zelaya heads for border showdown

Honduras's de facto government shut its southern border with Nicaragua Thursday, hoping to block President Manuel Zelaya's bid to return home a month after he was ousted in a coup.
Zelaya on Thursday completed the first stage of a dramatic bid to end his military-imposed exile, travelling to the border town of Esteli, northern Nicaragua, and vowing to cross the nearby frontier on Friday or Saturday.
Defying government threats to arrest him and multiple warnings that the move would likely prompt bloodshed, Zelaya boarded a 50-vehicle caravan in the Nicaraguan capital Managua, accompanied by a phalanx of media and supporters.