Honduras: Road Blocks Demand Coupists Out
Honduras: Road Blocks Demand Coupists Out
Tegucigalpa, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) The
National Front against the
Coup in
Honduras extended today the road blocks to vast regions in the country to demand the end of the de facto regime and the return to the institutional order.
Zelaya Meets Fernandez in DomRep
Hondurans Must Save Honduras
The blocks include the roads linking the capital with San Pedro Sula, second city in importance and the one leading north where the main industrial zone of the country is located.
Roads and bridges in Progreso, Olancho, at the border with Guatemala and El Salvador and in all the Caribbean coast, where US transnationals ship banana, said Juan Barahona, coordinator of the Popular Bloc.
"The Honduran people maintains street resistance. We have blocked the country," declared Barahona in an interview with Prensa Latina. The popular leader denounced army repression against peaceful demonstrations and the arrest during the last hours of at least five youths in Tegucigalpa and Olancho.
The Central American country entered today in its 13rd day under curfew decreed by the de facto regime which took power after the coup d�Etat against president Manuel Zelaya.
"We are decided to continue the struggle until the coupists are ousted," expressed Barahona and announced the continuation of protests and the celebration of a National Assembly next week to define new strategies.
About talks in Costa Rica with the mediation of president Oscar Arias, Barahona said the coupists are playing to delay their time in power, showing they have the empire support.
Zelaya Meets Fernandez in DomRep
Santo Domingo, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Honduran Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya began talks here Friday with his Dominican peer Leonel Fernandez shortly after his arrival at Las Americas International Airport.
The leader arrived at nearly 7:00 (11:00 GMT) on a private flight and was welcomed by the Presidency Secretary Cesar Pina Toribio.
Zelaya's visit was announced Thursday afternoon by presidential spokesman who only talked about his arrival and meeting with Dominican President.
Zelaya was welcome with military honors at the National Palace, Executive headquarters, in Gazcue central district and immediately met his host.
Hondurans Must Save Honduras
Mexico, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Only the people can remove the illegitimate government of Honduras and bring back Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya, Culture Minister Rodolfo Pastro Fasquell of that country stated here.
Fasquell spoke in front of his country's embassy in Mexico, where social, grassroots and union movements demanded an end to the coup d'etat, and said Costa Rican President Oscar Arias must not negotiate with the illegitimate government of Roberto Micheletti.
Referring to the criminal action imposed on the Central American nation, the official, visiting Mexico thanks to a political operation that removed him from obligatory refuge in his native land, recalled an old saying of the continent, "People only redeem the people."
The world must know that what has passed is a plot by business people from corporations who wanted to maintain their privileges, against the development of their nation, Fasquell declared.
Honduras has the highest and most monstrous rates of poverty in Latin America, he recalled.
The link provides numerous articles to show the anti junta consensus in all of Latin America. And, as shown above, the majority in Honduras clearly support President Zelaya against the criminal and treasonous elements in the junta.
