In Honduras, international pressure appears to be forcing a slight shift in the business elite that helped install the coup regime in June. Honduran business leaders reportedly told international diplomats this week they’d be open to a plan for the return of the ousted President Manuel Zelaya. But in addition to limiting Zelaya’s authority under the Costa Rica-brokered Arias accords, business leaders are also insisting Zelaya face trial on corruption charges and be forced to leave office when his term expires in January, despite spending most of the past three months in exile. The plan was discussed at a meeting at the residence of the US ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, last Sunday. A Zelaya adviser says the elite’s proposals were “born dead” because they presuppose his guilt. Zelaya remains inside the Brazilian embassy, where he has taken refuge since returning to Honduras last week.