1. What actions has the Honduran government taken in response to ousted President Zelaya's secret return and residence in the Brazilian Embassy?

2. What is ousted President Zelaya calling on his supporters to do?

3. Why is Costa Rican President Arias no longer authorized by the Honduran government to serve as mediator?

4. How did interim President Roberto Micheletti respond to Brazilian President da Silva's call for Mr. Zelaya to refrain from doing anything that would cause the Honduran military to storm the embassy?

5. Read the excerpt below from a wsj.com op-ed on U.S. involvement in the Honduran situation.
(wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574427403985118892.html)
a) Do you agree with U.S. support for ousted President Zelaya? Explain your answer.
b) Do you agree with the recommendation of the editors "the best solution to avoid violence would be for the U.S. to urge Mr. Zelaya to turn himself over to Honduran authorities for arrest and trial"? Explain your answer.

The U.S. has since come down solidly on the side of - Mr. Zelaya. While it has supported negotiations and called for calm, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have both insisted that Honduras must ignore Mr. Zelaya's transgressions and their own legal processes and restore him as president. The U.S. has gone so far as to cut off aid, threaten Honduran assets in the U.S. and pull visas to enter the U.S. from the independent judiciary. The U.S. has even threatened not to recognize presidential elections previously scheduled for November unless Mr. Zelaya is first brought back to power - even though he couldn't run again.

Now that he is back, Mr. Zelaya and his allies aren't calling for calm. His supporters have flocked to Brazil's embassy with cinder blocks, sticks and Molotov cocktails. "The fatherland, restitution or death," he shouted to demonstrators outside the embassy. In anticipation of trouble and with concern for public safety, President Roberto Micheletti announced a curfew. But when police tried to enforce the curfew, the zelayistas resisted and there is now a Honduran standoff.

On Monday Mr. Zelaya said he owed his return and political survival to "the support of the international community." He's getting support from Nicaragua's Sandinista President Daniel Ortega, the former guerrilla group FMLN in El Salvador, and especially from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. But let's face it: None of that support would mean very much without the diplomatic and sanctions muscle of the U.S.

If the U.S. didn't know about Mr. Zelaya's stealth return, it ought to feel deceived and drop its support. Now that he's back in Honduras, the best solution to avoid violence would be for the U.S. to urge Mr. Zelaya to turn himself over to Honduran authorities for arrest and trial.