Hondurans Demand President
RestitutionTEGUCIGALPA, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina)
Hondurans went out to the streets Sunday to demand the return of
President Manuel Zelaya, kidnapped at dawn by military troops, in a
moment of uncertainty because there is fear for the physical
integrity of the Honduran leader.
The news of the coup runs from one mouth to another, because the
main media, in favor of the oligarchy, silence the details of the
kidnapping.
Officials, political leaders and workers said that up to the
moment the signal of the Honduran state Channel 8 of television was
taken out of the air to prevent that the people knows the truth.
However, the Hondurans are mobilized and numerous people went to
the Presidential House claiming to the Army for the liberation of
Zelaya, but social leaders, interviewed by TV network TELESUR,
assured that the military do not hear the popular demand.
Those mobilized call the soldiers traitors, in a confrontation
ascending of tone.
Some of the trucks of the Army, surrounding the presidential
house, go back for moments because of citizens pressure using stones
to face the soldiers.
Houses and offices of the main leaders of the nation were taken
by the military, but Honduran Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas
assured that there would not be a step back in the fight for the
rights of the Honduran people.
The kidnapping of Zelaya, Rodas noticed, is a crime against our
democracy.
These incidents have as origin the decision of the oligarchical
groups of sabotaging the development of the popular consultation of
this Sunday, as a first step for the future convoking to a
Constituent National Assembly and to reform the Constitution for the
sake of defending the elementary rights of the Hondurans.