Brazil will not recognize the winner of this weekend's election in Honduras as a legitimate president, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said Thursday.
Honduras will hold elections on Nov. 29 in hopes of ending a political crisis that began when soldiers toppled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, installing Roberto Micheletti as the country's de facto leader.
Asked whether Brazil would recognize the president emerging from elections in Honduras, Amorim said: "No, it will not."
Much of Latin America would not back the winner of Sunday's poll in the Central American nation, foreign policy advisor Marco Garcia said.
