President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya of Honduras aims to return on Thursday from his brief exile in Costa Rica, to which he was removed by the military in his pyjamas. He has pledged to abandon plans to ignore the law of his country and carry out a non-binding referendum on setting up an assembly to rewrite it (in order to run for a second term). The constitution can be changed, but not in the way he went about it. The Honduran opposition perceived distinct shades of Chavez, the military performed a co