Aide: Ousted Honduran president on route back home
A top aide of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said he was heading back to the country Thursday, while thousands of his supporters blocked roads to demand his return to power.
Patricia Rodas, foreign minister of Zelaya’s toppled government, said the deposed president was “on his way” back, but refused to say how he planned to enter the country or when he expected to arrive. Zelaya’s current whereabouts are unclear and Honduras’ interim leaders have promised to arrest him if he returns.
I haven’t been able to verify this article (h/t Kate), so take it with a grain of salt:Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Nicaraguan enemies already inside Honduras waiting for Zelaya’s return
Tegucigalpa, Honduras could become another Tehran by tomorrow night.
Hondurans are trying to get word out by Twitter that they are receiving threatening text messages on their cell phones tonight, telling them to stay inside and not leave their homes tomorrow night.
“Now more than ever I will be the first one out the door,” Honduran Pedro Martinez told Canada Free Press tonight. Pedro Martinez is the pseudonym we gave to the young Honduran professional that Canada Free Press (CFP) walked through Twitter hookup last week.
“Tomorrow might be a bad day,” Pedro tipped off CFP on twitter. “People are infiltrating Honduras thru (sic) Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua with the intention to create chaos.”
Meanwhile, in the capital, there were three protests which blocked the main highways, and the government has reinstated the curfew.
Over in Bolivia, where he’s helping celebrate Bolivian independence, Hugo Chávez warned of “a civil war in Honduras that could spillover Central America,” insisting that the US “withdraw its troops from Honduras.” Chávez also used the opportunity to insult the US, as is his custom, “The crude and bestial hand of the empire is there [in Honduras].”
Venezuelan troops were scheduled to parade during the Bolivian independence celebrations.
Still not verifiable, but I spoke with a Honduran friend of mine who just got back to the States and she said a lot of her family (in San Pedro Sula) has been hearing things strikingly similar to what the CFP said. For Hondurans’ sake, let’s hope it’s very wrong.
Well, you’ve probably read about a Soviet RPG being launched against the American hamburger franchise across the street from the Tegucigalpa Airport about 4:30 this morning. Fortunately, it didn’t explode, and authorities disarmed it.
But Chavez and Zelaya want back in power. If the World doesn’t show some Anti-Chavista support, it may happen.
I’m worried, and Retired here, but I’ll fight for a free Honduras.
World, please wake up quick!
From Tegucigalpa
safariman,
If Germany is any indication of the rest of the world, it will never show any support. It is perceived here as a typical third-world coup. I haven’t followed the more respected papers on this, but the TV reporting is totally superficial. Not that I’m surprised by that.