Santiago - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya met with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Thursday, repeating his call for greater efforts by the United States to secure his reinstatement.

"(If the United States) applies lukewarm measures the coup will not be reversed," Zelaya warned in Santiago.

Zelaya was ousted on June 28 in a bloodless coup. He was exiled by the Honduran military, but his return to power has eluded him despite the strong support of the international community. Most countries and international organizations have refused to recognize the government set up after the coup, led by former Honduran Congress Speaker Roberto Micheletti.

Last week, US President Barack Obama again made very clear that he believed Zelaya "was removed from office illegally, that it was a coup, and that he should return." However, he rejected criticism that Washington is doing too little on the Honduran crisis.

"The same critics who say that the United States has not intervened enough in Honduras are the same people who say that we're always intervening and the Yankees need to get out of Latin America," Obama said in a press conference in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara. "You can't have it both ways."

In Santiago, Zelaya quoted the late Chilean President Salvador Allende, who is believed to have committed suicide during the military coup that brought brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet to power in 1973.

Zelaya also praised Chilean Jose Miguel Insulza, secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS), for his "courage" in handling the Honduran crisis.

Late Wednesday, Zelaya visited with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia.

"I am talking to many presidents to look for strategies to be considered by the OAS. One of them is to not recognize elections carried out in an illegal state," Zelaya explained.

Honduras is set to hold on November 29 a presidential election that was already scheduled prior to the coup.

"Coup perpetrators must understand that they have no future and that Zelaya's return must be immediate and unconditional," said Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim.(dpa)