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[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Age (Australia)

Zelaya supporters rally in the streets
Noe Leiva
July 18, 2009 - 7:09AM

Thousands of supporters of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya have again blocked key roads amid talk that their leader would soon return to Honduras.

For a second day running, members of the Popular Resistance movement shut down a stretch of highway leading north from the capital on Friday. Riot police wearing heavy protective gear monitored the crowd in the sweltering heat, but did not intervene.

Pro-Zelaya demonstrators also cut off traffic between Honduras' second city, San Pedro Sula, and the port city of Puerto Cortes, and blocked a highway that tied up traffic to and from neighbouring El Salvador and Guatemala.

Interim Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti reimposed a late-night curfew on Thursday to curb disturbances by Zelaya supporters that have shaken the country following the June 28 military-supported coup.



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