Zelaya supporters rally in the streets

[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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[bluesmail]

1. As I'm smiling I'm thinking

and I am hopeful there will be no more bloodshed. :evilfrown: (edit for flubbing spelling, or is it)?

[David__77]

2. Hopefully the army won't attack the sovereign people.

If there is violence, it is the fault of the coup plotters and the armed forces and police. The people, as Zelaya pointed out, have the sovereign right to use means to claim political power from the coup plotters.

[lexanman]

3. just curious

was it the School of the Americas that trained and installed much of the Honduran government? Seems Honduras was principal in Iran/contra. We seem to have been there for quite some time.

[EFerrari]

4. There are officers, including the top one Velasquez, that are all grads.

You bet.

Welcome to DU, lexanman.

[lexanman]

5. thank you

Ive been reading up on it and trying to rationalize the viewpoint that it wasnt a coup. I can find no such rationalization. I try and look at both sides. It appears to have been a coup with corruption in the military and judiciary of that country almost completely to its core.

[Vidar]

6. Welcome to DU.

[lexanman]

7. thanks

[Vidar]

8. Best wishes & safety to Zelaya and his supporters.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Zelaya 'to return if talks fail'

Ousted Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya has said he will return to the country whether or not a deal is reached to end the political crisis.

Mr Zelaya's wife said midnight on Saturday was the deadline for a deal to be reached at talks in Costa Rica between the country's political rivals.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8156613.stm