TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- President Manuel Zelaya, a longtime Washington ally, said that U.S. apathy toward deepening poverty in Honduras led him to turn for help to Venezuela's leftist leader, Hugo Chavez.
Zelaya said in a new release yesterday that rising food prices began hitting Hondurans hard six months ago and he asked the local business sector, the U.S. and the World Bank for help. But he said his pleas fell on deaf ears and so he "sought out Chavez."
Chavez -- whose oil-rich nation has benefited from high world prices -- offered $300 million a year for agricultural investment in Honduras, where about 70 percent of the population lives in poverty, Zelaya said.
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