Honduran people
now fighting alongside their president
THE
legitimate president of Honduras, José Manuel
Zelaya, has returned to his country and confirmed
that he will continue the struggle until
constitutional order is restored, Telesur reports
after contacting the president at the Brazilian
embassy in Tegucigalpa.
"I am not going again. Last time they grabbed me
due to my carelessness, when I was sleeping, but not
now," he told thousands of members of the National
Front against the Coup d’État, who have been
arriving in that part of the capital, Palmira
district, since early this morning.
Zelaya proclaimed a new slogan before his
supporters: homeland, restitution or death, in the
midst of a grand ovation from his followers, who
have spent 86 days in the streets calling for the
return of the democratically elected president.
Thousands of people remained around the Brazilian
embassy as night fell, despite the curfew decreed by
the de facto government, which also ordered the
closure of Honduran airports.
Radio Globo station announced that electrical
power has been cut in the area of the Brazilian
embassy and the location of the TV Channel 36, which
remains off the air.
