Honduran people now fighting alongside their president
THE legitimate president of Honduras, José Manuel Zelaya, has returned to his country and confirmed that he will continue the struggle until constitutional order is restored, Telesur reports after contacting the president at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.
"I am not going again. Last time they grabbed me due to my carelessness, when I was sleeping, but not now," he told thousands of members of the National Front against the Coup d’État, who have been arriving in that part of the capital, Palmira district, since early this morning.
Zelaya proclaimed a new slogan before his supporters: homeland, restitution or death, in the midst of a grand ovation from his followers, who have spent 86 days in the streets calling for the return of the democratically elected president.
Thousands of people remained around the Brazilian embassy as night fell, despite the curfew decreed by the de facto government, which also ordered the closure of Honduran airports.
Radio Globo station announced that electrical power has been cut in the area of the Brazilian embassy and the location of the TV Channel 36, which remains off the air.
Brutal repression in Tegucigalpa
Army and police suppress demonstrators outside Brazilian embassy and threaten to detain President Zelaya
TEGUCIGALPA, September 22. — From 05:00 today, hundreds of police and soldiers began to seal off the area where the Brazilian embassy is located and to violently attack peaceful demonstrators who had taken up position around President Manuel Zelaya Rosales’ current location.
Tanks, tear gas, lead and rubber bullets, water cannon trucks and liquid irritants were indiscriminately used to clear the area, thus leaving the legitimate president of Honduras awaiting a possible invasion and his detention, an intention announced by the usurping president, Roberto Micheletti, a few hours earlier.
The protestors, primarily women with children, the elderly and young people began to disperse toward the capital city center and were savagely pursued by several squads of soldiers and police agents attacking them from the north and cutting off their exit path.
"I consider that the position taken by the current regime is to intensify the repression. However, over these 87 days, the population has acquired great courage in their defense of democracy. The next few hours are going to be very difficult for the people," Radio Globo correspondent Carlos Paz confirmed.
Translated by Granma International
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