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Honduras: Curfew as Zelaya Returns


World  (tags: Honduras Coup, Democracy )

Ben
- 76 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The Honduran authorities have imposed a round-the-clock curfew and shut down airports after the dramatic return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Mr Zelaya has taken refuge in Brazil's embassy in Tegucigalpa. Many of his supporters later gathered...
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Simon Wood (300)
Tuesday September 22, 2009, 3:01 am
The majority of people in Honduras (e.g. Indigenous people, peasants and the working class in general) support the return of their democratically-elected president (Zelaya), and the egalitarian reforms and constitutional referendum that Zelaya was making and proposing, and that the coup-makers made a coup to stop.
 

Ben Oscarsito (322)
Tuesday September 22, 2009, 6:07 am
"The Road to Zelaya’s Return" (Upside Down World)
Nearly three months after being overthrown by a violent military coup, Honduran president Manuel Zelaya has returned to Honduras. "I am here in Tegucigalpa. I am here for the restoration of democracy, to call for dialogue," he told reporters. The embattled road to his return tested regional diplomacy, challenged Washington and galvanized Honduran social movements.
During a recent beach-side interview, with tropical breezes blowing along a sandy shore in the background, Honduran coup leader Roberto Michelleti told a Fox News reporter, “This is a quiet country, and a happy country.” However, since Michelleti took over on June 28, Honduras been anything but quiet and content.

Michelleti’s de-facto regime has ruled the country with an iron fist while popular movements for democracy have gained steam with nearly constant strikes, road blockades and massive street protests. The coup inspired a movement that is now seeking more than just the reinstatement of Zelaya, but the transformation of the country through a new constitution. Michelleti says presidential elections in November will proceed as planned, though few Hondurans, governments and international institutions say they will recognize the results given the violent situation in the country.
To be continued...
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2117/46/
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (256)
Tuesday September 22, 2009, 6:52 am
This is so sad, and a terible way to treat an old friend.. This new regime is acting out of fear, in the way that they are reacting... They need to debate and confront issues so that tis takes a lot of pressure off everyone
 

Catherine Hardy (12)
Tuesday September 22, 2009, 3:12 pm
Im an Honduran citizen..and everything here is out of control all because Manuel Zelaya who thinks he can pass above everyones and then he hides like a coward..I wish he will be in jail and everything ends in my beloved country ..
Please Internacional countries help us to end this..don't let Manuel Zelaya ruins our Honduras!..
 
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