TEGUCIGALPA, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti Wednesday accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of intervening Honduras' affairs.

    "The intervention of the government of Hugo Chavez is clear and definite in the situation that Honduras is experiencing," Micheletti said.

    Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was removed from office in a military coup Sunday afternoon, just hours after some 200 soldiers surrounded his official residence in the Honduran capital and forced him to board a plane to Costa Rica after a referendum scheduled for Sunday on changing the country's constitution has put Zelaya at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature.

    The Honduran Congress announced later Sunday that Micheletti would replace Manuel Zelaya as the country's acting president.

    Chavez called the coup "troglodyte," saying his nation would not recognize anyone other than Zelaya.

    The Organization of American States (OAS) has also condemned the coup and earlier on Wednesday gave the coup leaders in three days to reinstate Zelaya, saying otherwise the country will face the suspension of its OAS membership.

    "Why didn't the OAS and others understand what was happening in Honduras?" Micheletti said at his Wednesday press conference.

    "We have the strength and the faith" to overcome the difficulty and that "the whole world will recognize what we had done was in favor of legality, the rule of law and the constitution of the republic," Micheletti said.