Ousted President Zelaya says back in Honduras

[cal04]

Source: Associated Press

Deposed President Manuel Zelaya said Monday he has returned home to Honduras to reclaim his presidency, defying threats of arrest and summoning supporters.

While the State Department confirmed on Monday that Zelaya is in Honduras, his exact whereabouts were unclear, possibly in an attempt to avoid capture.

"I cannot give details, but I'm here," Zelaya told the local TV Channel 36. His voice, but not his image, were transmitted.

One of his key aides said Zelaya was at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, and a woman who answered the telephone at the embassy confirmed this. "I saw him," said the woman, who refused to give her name.



HONDURAS CRISIS:Ousted leader is in the Brazilian embassy in the capital, Brazilian officials confirm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8267775.stm

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090921/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup

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Live Blog: President Zelaya Has Returned to Honduras
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3439/live-blog-president-zelaya-has-returned-honduras

[Tarc]

1. Good news, which of course means FReeperland is having a shitfit

[UTUSN]

2. So his status is: Fugitive from his country's legal system. Yawn if "Freeper" is used, breaking DU

rules.

[Ghost Dog]

3. Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, appears to be confirmed

by various sources.

http://www.telesurtv.net/
http://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/canal/senalenvivo.php

[rabs]

4. Brazilian government has confirmed it

Photos on the link from O Estado de Sao Paulo

http://www.estadao.com.br/home/

[Judi Lynn]

6. Thanks, rabs! He's looking healthy. Hope he will stay that way. n/t

[rabs]

10. Call is out for massive resistance march to converge on Tegucigalpa

Resistance and labor leader Barahona issued a plea for the gorilettis not to provoke a massacre. Situation is dicey because no one knows how the golpistas who control the army and police will react.


There is a saying in Central America:

"Se siente el jaguar afuera de la tienda." (The jaguar can be felt outside the tent.)

Well, the jaguar (Zelaya) is no longer outside goriletti's tent, he is INSIDE it.

Btw, Radio Globo reception is spotty, suspect it is being censored somehow (electricty cutoff or something)

[Judi Lynn]

11. This would be a superior moment for the military and police to put on the brakes on this coup,

after having adequate time to realize how fully the population opposes the highjacking of their Presidency by special interests.

It seems absolutely dangerous now, but the fact the people have been completely peaceful should serve as a warning to the gorilettis they are asking for the sky to fall on them if they send the military to harm them in greater numbers than the ones they have already killed and tortured, with the police.

Thanks for the Radio Globo update. Considering what the coup people have done to send the army into the studios already, and to surround them with soldiers, it's very likely they are interfering right now, when the people are completely concerned with what's going on with their elected President.

[Judi Lynn]

5. U.S. confirms Zelaya returned to Honduras

Updated 15m ago
U.S. confirms Zelaya returned to Honduras


Yahoo! Buzz Digg Newsvine Reddit FacebookWhat's this?TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The U.S. State Department confirms that deposed President Manuel Zelaya has returned home to Honduras to reclaim his presidency.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly says in Washington that U.S. officials have confirmed that Zelaya is in Honduras. But Kelly adds: "Where exactly he is, I don't know, and we're just trying to find out more details."

Officials of the interim government that ousted Zelaya earlier denied his claims that he had returned to Tegucigalpa. And a U.N. official denied that he was at the United Nations office he said he was speaking from in an interview with a local television station.

"I cannot give details, but I'm here," Zelaya told the local TV Channel 36. His voice, but not his image, were transmitted. He said he was at the United Nation's headquarters in his homeland.

~snip~
Zelaya, who said he would hold a news conference Monday afternoon in Tegucigalpa, was forced out of the country at gunpoint on June 28. Interim leader Roberto Micheletti has repeatedly said a jail cell awaits Zelaya if he comes back.

Since then most international leaders have condemned Micheletti, terminating aid and demanding Zelaya's return. Micheletti has said he will step aside after presidential elections are held as scheduled in November.

Leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also insisted on Monday that his ally Zelaya had indeed returned.

"President Manuel Zelaya, along with four companions, traveled for two days overland, crossing mountains and rivers, risking their lives. They have made it to Honduras," Chavez said.

More:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-09-21-honduras-leader_N.htm

Check for updates:

President Zelaya Has Returned to Honduras
2009 September 21
http://hondurasoye.wordpress.com/

[David__77]

7. Wonderful news!

Strikes right at the heart of the fascists!

[Judi Lynn]

8. El Universal,Caracas,opposition paper:Zelaya confirms his stay at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras

CARACAS, Monday September 21, 2009
Zelaya confirms his stay at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras


Deposed Honduras President Manuel Zelaya confirmed on Monday that he was at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa and encouraged his followers to rally near the diplomatic mission, Efe reported.

During a telephone conversation with a Honduras TV channel, Zelaya reclaimed to be the legitimate president elected by the people and urged the Honduras armed forces and the people to be calm.

"I, the man who always put out his hand, make an appeal to you to keep calm in order to prevent violence or arms. The people who are with us are unarmed, peacefully, happily chanting slogans, because today (Monday), sure enough, is a holyday for all of us."

Zelaya noted the support by the Brazilian embassy and multilateral organizations, such as the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of American States (OAS).

http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/09/21/en_pol_esp_zelaya-confirms-his_21A2766167.shtml

[cal04]

23. thanks Judi Lynn

:hi:

[Judi Lynn]

27. Great story you broke, cal04! Good way to start a week, hopefully.

Here's a truly crappy headline from the L.A. Times:

Honduras' Manuel Zelaya sneaks back into capital
The ousted president speaks to journalists from the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, saying he seeks reconciliation. It is not clear how he managed to enter the country.

By Alex Renderos
September 22, 2009

http://www.latimes.com.nyud.net:8090/media/photo/2009-09/49398114.jpg

Zelaya greets supporters at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.
(Orlando Sierra / AFP/Getty Images)

Reporting from San Salvador - Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a military coup nearly three months ago, pulled a fast one on his enemies today, sneaking back into the country in an effort to reclaim his office and taking refuge at the Brazilian Embassy.

"I am urging the people who participated in the coup: Together, we can attempt to open dialogue," Zelaya said in one of a number of interviews he gave from inside the Brazilian mission in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.

Journalists in the city confirmed seeing Zelaya in the embassy, as supporters rallied outside.

The de facto government has steadfastly ignored international demands that Zelaya be reinstated. It has threatened to arrest him if he set foot on Honduran territory. Interim President Roberto Micheletti, who replaced Zelaya after the June 28 coup, initially denied Monday that Zelaya was back in the country, calling such claims "terrorist propaganda."

More:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-honduras-zelaya22-2009sep22,0,545086.story

(The photo doesn't look like Zelaya's sneaking to me!)

[Odin2005]

9. Vaya Zelaya, Vaya!!!

:D

[Judi Lynn]

12. Ousted Honduran president says ready to start dialogue

Ousted Honduran president says ready to start dialogue
2009-09-22 03:57:40

TEGUCIGALPA, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Monday that he managed to re-enter Honduras after evading various obstacles, and that he is now ready for dialogue to "rebuild" the country.

In a phone conversation with some local media, Zelaya said that "it (his return) was done (through) a very pacific strategy, very right for not producing any violent event."

"I am in the capital (Tegucigalpa) making some procedures, in a couple of hours we will tell you the place where we are to begin the dialogue to rebuild Honduras," Zelaya said.

Zelaya said he and his team will begin the dialogue in order to return respect and sovereignty to the Honduran people.

Meanwhile, de facto leader of the country Roberto Micheletti said that Zelaya's declaration was merely a "psychological war."

Micheletti asked the people to stay calm because Zelaya "is in a suite in Nicaragua" and tomorrow he will attend a meeting at the United Nations in New York.

More:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/22/content_12093396.htm

[EFerrari]

15. LOL

[Joanne98]

13. Here's Honduras twitter .........

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Honduras

It will be hopping pretty soon.

[cal04]

24. thanks for the link Joanne98

:hi:
It's hopping already

[EFerrari]

14. Does anyone know if his daughter had her baby yet?

[rabs]

16. Latest photos from Tegucigalpa

http://www.elheraldo.hn/Secciones-Secundarias/Fotos/Pais

There is a news blackout from inside Honduras at this time but:

State Department spokesman has called on the goriletti government to abstain from violence.

OAS meeting in emergency session in Washington at this moment.

OAS secretary general Insulza to travel to Tegu. tomorrow.

Honduran army leader says he will not sent troops into the streets (he has lied before, may be lying now).

Thousands upon thousands gathered before Brazilian Embassy.

[Judi Lynn]

17. Is that his wife on the phone behind President Zelaya, in photo #1?

If so, it must be the first time they've been together since he was kidnapped at gunpoint.

Thanks for these great photos.

Hope Insulza and his group will also be safe in their trip to assist, and successful.

[rabs]

19. Think it is his wife, she was reported in the embassy

btw, those photos of the police and the crowds were taken in front of the United Nations building when it was thought Zeyala was there. Instead he was at the Brazilian Embassy.

Curfew has been declared in the capital.

Telesur covering OAS emergency meeting right now.

http://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/canal/senalenvivo.php

[cal04]

18. OAS convenes extraordinary session apropos Honduras

The Organization of American States (OAS) called for Monday an extraordinary session at the Permanent Council to deal with the Honduras case, after the return of deposed President Manuel Zelaya.
http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/09/21/en_pol_esp_oas-convenes-extraor_21A2766853.shtml


Zelaya confirms that Insulza arrive in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday (after translation from Google)
The constitutional president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, announced that the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza, will arrive Tuesday to Tegucigalpa to support him in his return to power and called the Honduran people to come to accompany him to restore the constitutional thread in the nation.
http://www.telesurtv.net/

[rabs]

20. Golpista regime has just declared a curfew

throughout the country.

it will run from 4 p.m. today (6 p.m. Eastern) until 7 a.m. (9 a.m. Eastern) tomorrow.

Difficult to see how it will work, because there is a massive crowd of zelayistas at the Brazilian Embassy.

Keeping fingers crossed that troops/police will not open fire.

[Judi Lynn]

21. They are writing themselves a blank check to clear the streets violently of ALL protesters, right?

They did this at the beginning of their violent coup to keep people from protesting then, and then they kept extending it, until it looked as if everyone was imprisoned in his/her house. THEN they allowed pro-coup people to demonstrate to show their support of the violent coup.

So slick, easy to accomplish with the control of their military. For a while, they had even cut the phone service everywhere so people couldn't communicate with each other from their homes.

One DOES wonder how far you can trust the military head to not fire on these protesters, using the excuse they "thought" they were being fired upon....

That's a wrongful curfew, like the others. What a shame.

[cal04]

22. thanks rabs for all the updates

:hi:

[rabs]

26. You're welcome Cal04 ...

Latest:

The Brazilian government has just warned the golpista regime not to attack its embassy in an attempt to arrest Zelaya.

In Washington, the OAS has demanded in a resolution that the gorilettis guarantee the physical integrity of Zelaya.

In Caracas, Chavez detailed how Zelaya made it to Honduras, "crossed mountains, forded rivers with only four supporters for two days."

Caravans are heading to Tegucigalpa despite the curfew declared by the golpista.

And :hi: backatcha ...

[cal04]

25. Presidential Statement confirming Zelaya return

PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT CONFIRMING PRESIDENT' S ZELAYA RETURN TO HONDURAS
PRESS RELEASE
http://hondurasemb.org/

ZELAYA RETURNS TO HONDURAS

The Constitutional President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya Rosebushes, confirmed today that is found in Tegucigalpa.

The proxy of the Hondurans in its first statements affirmed that "I am in the capital doing some managements and inside some two hours, we will say the exact place where we are located in order to initiating the dialogue for the construction of the democracy in Honduras".

Being referred to his return the President qualified as "atypical" the strategy of his return and he assured that "he was very correct for cause absolutely no indication of violence".

The maximum representative of the Hondurans said that he will continue with the I talk national and international that permit to the Honduran town to return for the statutes of the respect to the sovereignty.

"It is a very important event, now that gather the president of United Nations this week, in which I expect to have the support and so much forceful resolutions of United Nations and OAS so that this dialogue be fruitful and that return the peace and the tranquility after 86 resistance fight days" added.

[cal04]

28. Brazil Confirms Manuel Zelaya At Embassy, Chants of "Yes we could!

http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=20090921012799

Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is taking shelter at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras amid an effort to initiate political dialogue in that country, Brazil's Foreign Relations Ministry confirmed Monday.

The ministry didn't immediately release a statement on the matter. Brazilian Foreign Relations Minister Celso Amorim, however, later said he had been in contact with Zelaya.

"I spoke personally with him and welcomed him to Brazilian territory," Amorim said during a visit to the Brazilian mission of the U.N. in New York, according to the Estado news agency.

Amorim said that Brazil's government had no involvement with Zelaya's arrival at the embassy in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. He called Zelaya Honduras' legitimate president, however, and said that Brazil would intercede with the Organization of American States to assure Zelaya's safety and right to hold peaceful dialogue while in Honduras.

"If the OAS is not for guaranteeing a democratic government, what's it for?" Amorim questioned.



Chants of "Yes we could! Yes we could!" bellowed from the crowd.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/21/AR2009092102063.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[Vidar]

29. K&R

[rabs]

30. Honduran army has blocked off access to presidential palace

with street barricades and troops.

There is total vehicular chaos in the capital. Golpistas declaration of curfew caught everyone by surprise and did not give the people time to get home.

Scores of thousands of people still on the streets, even though the curfew went into effect a little more than an hour ago.

[Judi Lynn]

31. Amazing. They should have given the people notice enough to safely get home. Idiots!

Sounds as if they are panicking, scared to death.

Sure hope the military/police won't get vicious with the people. They've done enough of that for the pinochettis, already.

[rabs]

32. Goriletti Micheletti just went on mandatory nationwide radio and TV network

and he is not backing down.

Said Zelaya's return had been "irregular" and that he was a "guest" in Brazil's Embassy.

Said Zelaya's return did not change "our reality" and that Z. had been "legally removed" from the presidency.

Goriletti said Zelaya had returned to "obstruct" the upcoming presidential elections on Nov. 29.

Goriletti asked Brazil to honor an arrest order against Z. and to turn him over. Asked the people to have "confidence and faith in his government."

(Source for above, resistance Radio Globo)

[Ghost Dog]

33. (For Spanish readers) Allow me to post just a few comments

posted in their turn at El País (smells like bloodshed...): http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Zelaya/advierte/nadie/le/volvera/sacar/Honduras/elpepuint/20090921elpepuint_9/Tes

* 84 francisco - 21-09-2009 - 23:39:51h le escribo desde honduras..y el 90% de los hondureños queremos el regreso a la legalidad y la intitucionalidad de nuestro pais..NO QUEREMOS A LOS GOLPISTAS

* 83 Zelaya contra la extrema derecha - 21-09-2009 - 23:36:53h No se engañen señores... Honduras siempre ha sido una colonia norteamericana. Las multinacionales americanas son dueñas de las tierras, explotan a sus trabajadores de forma inhumana, y pretenden explotar las nuevas reservas de petróleo encontradas. Tener a un presidente con ideales socialista era una amenaza,y la extrema derecha hondureña, aliada de las multinacionales, simplemente dio un golpe de estado para evitarlo. Ilegalizaron un referendum que era legal, para poder acusar a Zelaya y legitimar lo inexcusable. Pero al fin el empobrecido pueblo despierta, y a pesar de la opresión y las censuras, salen a la calle a pedir que les devuelvan la democracia

* 82 Lbertad - 21-09-2009 - 23:36:04h Espero que el mundo sepas, de corazón,esa gente que s e ve en las calles, apollando al zelaya , son vagos y delicuentes, la gente que trabaja no invade calles, esa gente que esta esperando, que le caiga el vocado de arriba, esta es la realidad el Hondureño honesto, esta en sus labores cotidianas, lo digo para que sepan quien apolla ese traidor vende patria comunista,que el mundo abra los ojos y vean quien es ese monstruo, llamado mel zelaya fuera de mi Patria engaña bobos

* 81 kalelo de Nicaragua - 21-09-2009 - 23:22:12h Roberto H #62 La historia esta repleta de regimens que se imponen a la mayoria. Todo Europa (las monarchias), Iraq, Iran, toda Africa, Somoza de Nicaragua al igual que Ortega, Bautista y los hermanso castros etc etc etc.... Felipe #72, esa cifra se revelo por latinobarometro 3 semanas antes de fuese derrocado.

* 80 libertad, - 21-09-2009 - 23:18:58h En Honduraas no hubo golpe de estado,que quede bien claro el 90 por ciento d elos Hondureños,no deseamos jamas que vuelve , ese vend e Patria, si nos dejan, este asuntos alos Hondureños, por favor y se acabó, arriba HONDURAS. ,TE QUEREMOS LIBRE de comunismo chavista,e.t.c. viva mi Ptria, viva Michelte y la constitucion, adelante, ejercito de Honduras. Hombre, mujeres, a defendernos como sea pocible,de todos los tiranos,y seremos libres, para siempre,

[rabs]

34. From your link to El Pais

El derrocado presidente de Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, que regresó por sorpresa este lunes a Tegucigalpa, donde se encuentra acogido en la Embajada brasileña, advierte de que nadie le volverá a sacar de su país y que la consigna seguirá siendo "patria, restitución o muerte". Así lo expresó ante miles de sus seguidores congregados frente a la legación diplomática, mientras el Gobierno de facto, encabezado por Roberto Micheletti, pedía a Brasil que le entregara a Zelaya y responsabilizaba a ese país "de los actos violentos que se puedan suscitar".

Goriletti said he would hold Brazil "responsible for any acts of violence that could occur."

It sounds like a license to go into the embassy and take Zelaya out by force and if anyone is hurt or killed, then it will be Brazil's fault.

Just by saying that, Goriletti is going to highly piss off Lulu da Silva.

[Ghost Dog]

35. Looks like a potentially nasty situation, yes.

I've no idea what the armed forces in Honduras are like, these days.

But I guess I can imagine. :(

While regretting the necessity of outside intervention, I reckon we need to see some serious, humanity-oriented, high-powered international diplomacy going on here pretty damned quick.

Edit: I see the OAS in emergency session has agreed to a statement including signing the "San José Declaration" (the Arias initiative); but, according to Nicaragua's Ambassador, Zelaya did but does not now agree. (¿?) - http://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/58072-NN/delegacion-de-la-oea-partira-a-honduras-para-propiciar-firma-del-acuerdo-de-san-jose/

[EFerrari]

36. LOL! Their freepers can't spell either!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

37. Ha, good catch! nt

[roody]

38. k and r

[EFerrari]

39. Kick

[pinto]

40. Honduras curfew as Zelaya returns (BBC)

Honduras curfew as Zelaya returns



The Honduran authorities have imposed a round-the-clock curfew and shut down airports after the dramatic return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Mr Zelaya has taken refuge in Brazil's embassy in Tegucigalpa. Many of his supporters later gathered outside.

He said he had crossed mountains and rivers to return to the capital, where he said he was seeking dialogue.

In a televised address, interim leader Roberto Micheletti demanded that Brazil hand over Mr Zelaya to stand trial.

Mr Micheletti said Brazil would be held responsible for any violence.

"A call to the government of Brazil: respect the judicial order against Mr Zelaya and turn him in to Honduran authorities," he said. "The eyes of the world are on Brazil and Honduras."

Brazil's Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, warned that any threat to Mr Zelaya or the Brazilian embassy would be a grave breach of international law.

Mr Zelaya's return took officials by surprise, with Mr Micheletti at first denying the deposed leader was in the country.

<updates at>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8268056.stm

[Judi Lynn]

41. Zelaya Return Aids Honduras Settlement, Clinton Says (Update1)

Zelaya Return Aids Honduras Settlement, Clinton Says (Update1)
By Blake Schmidt and Daniel Cancel

Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Honduras’s deposed President Manuel Zelaya breathed new life into his efforts to regain office by slipping into the country and taking shelter in the Brazilian Embassy, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.

Clinton, speaking in New York after meeting with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who has mediated the Honduran political crisis, said Zelaya’s return to the capital, Tegucigalpa, created the chance to restore “constitutional and democratic order” and move ahead with elections in November.

Zelaya’s homecoming “makes it easier for us to put some more pressure on the de facto government,” Arias said last night in New York, adding achieving his return was the main hurdle to implementing the so-called San Jose 11-point plan.

Even as Clinton and Arias called for dialogue, the deposed president’s presence in the city is likely to move the conflict into the streets, said Brookings Institute analyst Kevin Casas- Zamora. Arias’s role as mediator is “finished,” Acting President Roberto Micheletti said late yesterday, Agence France- Presse reported.

More:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=acHI3G5BEm5s

[Judi Lynn]

42. Hondurans ignore curfew to celebrate return of deposed President

September 22, 2009
Hondurans ignore curfew to celebrate return of deposed President
Anne Barrowclough

http://www.timesonline.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/multimedia/archive/00617/ZELAYA2_PIXEL_SIZE__617208a.JPG

(AFP/Orlando Sierra)
President Zelaya with his daughter Zoe after his dramatic return

http://www.timesonline.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/multimedia/archive/00617/ZELAYA3_PIXEL_SIZE__617210a.JPG

(AFP Photo/Orlando Sierra)
Thousands of supporters turned out to hear the ousted President speak at the Brazilian embassy


Thousands of supporters of Manuel Zelaya, the deposed President of Honduras, surrounded the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, last night, dancing and cheering the President, who was sheltering inside.

Chanting "Yes we could, yes we could", Mr Zelaya's supporters ignored a 26-hour curfew imposed by the interim government to remain outside the embassy, where Mr Zelaya took refuge after making a dramatic return to the capital on Monday

The government was taken by surprise Mr Zelaya's sudden return, and immediately suspended all flights to Tegucigalpa and ordered checkpoints to be set up on roads leading to the capital to keep his supporters from other regions.

Electricity was cut off for hours at a time on the block where the embassy is housed and in areas of Tegucigalpa where news media offices are located.

More:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6843807.ece

[tama]

43. Al Giordano reporting:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3439/live-blog-president-zelaya-has-returned-honduras

[tama]

44. Latest developments (Narconews):

3:37 p.m.: The coup regime makes its first move, declaring a military curfew in effect from 4 p.m. to 7 a.m. What's not clear is whether it will be obeyed by the crowds converging around the Embassy, and what the regime's next move will be if the public disregards its curfew.

4:21 p.m.: The military curfew began 21 minutes ago, but a multitude of citizens continue to congregate in front of the Brazilian embassy, making and listening to speeches against the coup regime. In other words: What if they called a curfew and nobody stayed home?

4:31 p.m.: Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim says that he doubts very much that the Honduran coup regime would commit "a flagrant violation of International Law" by invading his country's embassy in Tegucigalpa.

4:56 p.m.: The regime is trying everything. Cell phone service is being screwed with again for the past hour. Channel 36 has gone off the air. Radio Globo's Internet site is down. Here is an alternate link to Radio Globo's live stream. Keep storming the gates of the information blockade.

5:06 p.m.: Radio Globo reports that a caravan of more than 2,000 vehicles filled with coup opponents is en route from the state of El Paraiso to the national capital. Also reports massive traffic jams in Tegucigalpa now, an hour after curfew took effect.

5:21 p.m.: Coup "president" Micheletti just spoke on a "cadena nacional" (in which all TV, radio and cable stations are required to broadcast his message). He confirmed that Zelaya is in the country, insisted that the June 28 coup was "legal," said Zelaya will have to face charges against him, insisted that the country is in complete calm (if so, then why the military curfew?), attacked the government of Brazil for protecting Zelaya in its Embassy, and told everyone that the National Police and the National Army are behind him. He ended with shouts of "Viva Honduras" to a small group of coup functionaries. He sounds frightened, but is digging in his heels.

Upon the termination of his broadcast, a woman on Radio Globo mocked him mercilessly, saying "no one owes obedience to an order by a de facto regime," and noted that the curfew was called just ten minutes before it took effect, leaving millions of Hondurans to have to get home from work but without enough time to do it. "Nobody is obeying the order," she said. "Nor should they."

5:30 p.m.: I'll be live on Flashpoints radio (available at the KPFA website), hosted by Dennis Bernstein, at the top of the hour (8 p.m. ET, 5 p.m. PT) to talk about the situation in Honduras. There will also be a report from Tim Russo - professor at the upcoming Narco News School of Authentic Journalism - who was in front of the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa today when President Zelaya appeared from the balcony to greet the crowd, and took audiotape of the moment.

5:42 p.m.: Leaders of the Liberal Party bloc that turned against the coup have now signed a public letter calling on party members "in all the popular barrios" of Tegucigalpa and throughout the country to converge on the Brazilian Embassy to protect President Zelaya. Radio Globo just read the letter live on the air.

5:50 p.m.: The coup regime has just cut electricity to entire neighborhoods surrounding the Brazilian Embassy and Channel 36 TV. How long do you think it will take the people to install a generator in each place? The same will happen when the regime cuts the water, the next likely step coming from that form of logic. And the people will usher in water trucks to refill the tanks. Hell, they'll bring it cup by cup if they have to! This is a losing gambit by the Micheletti regime because it does not have control of the street.

6:52 p.m.: As predicted in the previous update, the regime's attempt to cut electricity to the Brazilian Embassy is already an epic fail. Tim Russo just reported live on that Flashpoints radio show from inside the Embassy as the electric power went back on! A discussion about a half hour prior, on Radio Globo, included a call for generators and a pledge by the head of the electrical workers union to send technicians to set them up. A half hour later, there was light. An organized people can never be beat. That is the lesson of Honduras.

8:17 p.m.: The coup regime has just extended the military curfew until 6 p.m. tomorrow evening, which means nobody goes to work on Tuesday, not even during daylight hours, and all stores will be closed. (Schools were already out as the teachers unions called a national strike and for their members to come to the Brazilian embassy.) Meanwhile, the US State Department has recommended that US citizens avoid all non-essential travel to Honduras. It's as if there's a general strike without it even being called for!

[rabs]

45. Golpista police trying to disperse crowd at Brazilian Embassy

Firing tear, pepper gas, rubber bullets, water cannon trucks. Some people have been reported injured.

Zelaya speaking on resistance station Radio Globo calling on resistance to remain firm. Said snipers had been spotted on buildings near the embassy.

Live on Radio Globo as write this 6:20 a.m. Honduran time (8:20 Eastern)

http://www.radioglobohonduras.com/

[Quantess]

46. Interesting thread.

[roody]

47. What is happening now?

[EFerrari]

48. The Pinochettis are arresting people outside the embassy.

But what they hope to achieve is unclear. They can't arrest all of them.

Radio Globo says they can't go out to find food, they are under siege essentially.

The thugs have shut down the airports so the OAS can't land today.

[Judi Lynn]

49. Photos from Honduras:

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Tue Sep 22, 4:20 PM ET .

A supporter of ousted Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya, kicks a tear gas canister launced by riot squad agents and members of Honduran army trying to drive them away from the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa. The United States pledged Tuesday to do whatever it can to help Brazil's embassy in Honduras.
(AFP/Jose Cabezas)

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Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya sleeps inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 22, 2009. Zelaya ended almost three months of exile by sneaking back into Honduras on Monday, seeking refuge at the Brazilian embassy to avoid being arrested.
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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A riot squad agent shoots tear gas at supporters of ousted Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya, in an effort to drive them away from the surroundings of the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa. Honduran soldiers surrounded Tuesday the Brazilian embassy where Zelaya is holed up to avoid arrest, after using tear gas to drive away thousands of his supporters.
(AFP/Jose Cabezas)

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A riot police officer walks in front of the Brazilian embassy where Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya has taken refuge in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Honduras' airports and borders were closed Tuesday, while baton-wielding police fired tear gas to chase thousands of demonstrators away from the embassy where Zelaya is holed up to avoid arrest. The graffiti on the wall reads in Spanish 'The time of your death has arrived, you miserable coup makers'.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Soldiers walk after dispersing supporters of ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, outside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 22, 2009.
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

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Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya rest in the Brazil's embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept 22, 2009. Police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators Tuesday morning, chasing them away from the Brazilian embassy where their deposed president who snuck back into the country remains holed up, avoiding threatened arrest.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Tue Sep 22, 12:30 PM ET .
Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya rest inside of the Brazil embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept 22, 2009. Police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators Tuesday morning, chasing them away from the Brazilian embassy where their deposed president who snuck back into the country remains holed up, avoiding threatened arrest.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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A supporter of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya throws a stone during clashes with riot police outside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators Tuesday morning, chasing them away from the Brazilian embassy where their deposed president who snuck back into the country remains holed up, avoiding threatened arrest.
(AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

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Supporters of Manuel Zelaya cover their ears after Honduran soldiers set up a loudspeaker that emitted a shrill sound to disperse people from the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Honduran soldiers have surrounded the Brazilian embassy where deposed president Manuel Zelaya is holed up seeking reinstatement, using tear gas to drive off thousands of his supporters.
(AFP/Orlando Sierra)

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Honduran soldiers surround the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Honduran soldiers have surrounded the Brazilian embassy where deposed president Manuel Zelaya is holed up seeking reinstatement, using tear gas to drive off thousands of his supporters.
(AFP/Orlando Sierra)

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Soldiers stand guard after the dispersal of supporters of ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, outside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 22, 2009. Honduran police dispersed hundreds of supporters on Tuesday outside the Brazilian embassy where ousted President Manuel Zelaya took refuge after sneaking back into the country in a bid to return to power.
REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (HONDURAS POLITICS CONFLICT)

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Supporter of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya run for cover during clashes with riot police in front of the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept 22, 2009. Police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators Tuesday morning, chasing them away from the Brazilian embassy where their deposed president who snuck back into the country remains holed up, avoiding threatened arrest.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Police uses water canons against supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya during clashes near the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept 22, 2009. Baton-wielding police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators Tuesday morning, chasing them away from the Brazilian embassy where their deposed president who snuck back into the country remains holed up, avoiding threatened arrest.
(AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

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Police officers push a police car burned during clashes with supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya near the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Baton-wielding police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators Tuesday morning, chasing them away from the Brazilian embassy where their deposed president who snuck back into the country remains holed up, avoiding threatened arrest.
(AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

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A soldiers points a speaker towards supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya after clashes outside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Baton-wielding police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators Tuesday morning, chasing them away from the Brazilian embassy where their deposed president who snuck back into the country remains holed up, avoiding threatened arrest.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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A supporter of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya looks at soldiers walking in front of the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, after Zelaya supporters clashed with riot police Tuesday, Sept 22, 2009. Baton-wielding police fired tear gas at thousands of demonstrators Tuesday morning, chasing them away from the Brazilian embassy where their deposed president who snuck back into the country remains holed up, avoiding threatened arrest.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya speaks on a cell phone next to his wife Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, front, at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Just one day since the daring return of deposed President Manuel Zelaya, the interim leaders who overthrew him again struck back at Hondurans who have challenged their rule since their June 28 coup.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Supporters of ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya cover their faces as they react to the tear gas fired upon them by police, inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 22, 2009. Honduran police dispersed hundreds of supporters on Tuesday outside the Brazilian embassy where ousted President Manuel Zelaya took refuge after sneaking back into the country in a bid to return to power. A Reuters photographer at the embassy said police fired tear gas at the protesters and at least two tear gas canisters landed inside the embassy compound. Zelaya remained inside the embassy and accused police of preparing an attack.
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS POLITICS CONFLICT)

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Supporters of ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya are seen on a roof outside the Brazilian embassy after police fired tear gas, in Tegucigalpa September 22, 2009. Honduran police dispersed hundreds of supporters on Tuesday outside the Brazilian embassy where ousted President Manuel Zelaya took refuge after sneaking back into the country in a bid to return to power. A Reuters photographer at the embassy said police fired tear gas at the protesters and at least two tear gas canisters landed inside the embassy compound. Zelaya remained inside the embassy and accused police of preparing an attack.
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Tue Sep 22, 9:17 AM ET .
A supporter of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya clashes with riot police in front of Brazil embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept 22, 2009.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Tue Sep 22, 9:10 AM ET .
A supporter of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya runs during clash with riot police in front of Brazil embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept 22, 2009.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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Supporters of Manuel Zelaya celebrate his return to Tegucigalpa. Zelaya made a surprise return home in a dramatic twist to the country's crisis on the eve of a meeting of world leaders in New York.
(AFP/Orlando Sierra)

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Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya remain outside the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, in support of him, September 21,2009. Honduras was deep in crisis after Zelaya's surprise return to the Central American country raised the specter of violent street protests and a diplomatic fight with Brazil. Zelaya, a leftist, sneaked back into the country on Monday and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy to avoid arrest, almost three months after he was toppled in a coup.
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Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya sit outside the Brazilian embassy in Honduras in support of him September 21, 2009. Honduras was deep in crisis after Zelaya's surprise return to the Central American country raised the specter of violent street protests and a diplomatic fight with Brazil. The sign reads "No Parking Brazilian Embassy.
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Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya speak during a interview with local media inside Brazil's embassy in Tegucigalpa, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009. Zelaya said he returned to Honduras Monday to reclaim his presidency, defying threats of arrest and rallying supporters.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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A supporter of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya shouts slogans outside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 21, 2009. Honduras was deep in crisis after Zelaya's surprise return to the Central American country raised the specter of violent street protests and a diplomatic fight with Brazil. Zelaya, a leftist, sneaked back into the country on Monday and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy to avoid arrest, almost three months after he was toppled in a coup.
REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (HONDURAS POLITICS CONFLICT)

(He has wrapped himself in the flag!

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Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya welcome him outside the embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa September 21, 2009.
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

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Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, left, and his daughter Hortensia gesture to supporters from inside Brazil's embassy in Tegucigalpa, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Zelaya said he returned to Honduras Monday to reclaim his presidency, defying threats of arrest and summoning supporters.
(AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

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Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya gather as he arrives, outside the embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa September 21, 2009. Zelaya has taken refuge inside the embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, Telesur television network reported on Monday.
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Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya wave as he arrives, outside the embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa September 21, 2009. Zelaya has taken refuge inside the embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, Telesur television network reported on Monday.
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS POLITICS CONFLICT)

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Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya waves the Honduran flag inside the Brazilian embassy after his arrival in Tegucigalpa September 21, 2009. Zelaya sneaked back into Honduras on Monday almost three months after he was toppled in a coup, and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy to avoid arrest by the de facto government.
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS POLITICS)

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nter]Xiomara Castro de Zelaya wife of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, reacts during a mass to celebrate his husband's birthday in Tegucigalpa, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009. The girl is the couple's granddaughter, Irena Melara.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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An employee of Honduras' Telecommunications Council, CONATEL, second left, confronts supporters of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya after inspecting the headquarters of Channel 11, a local television station in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Zelaya's supporters threw water and scuffled with CONATEL employees after an inspection they said is part of a plan to close the channel.
(AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

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A policeman talks to a soldier near a rally in support of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya in Tegucigalpa September 17, 2009. The graffiti on the reads: "Come back Mel now", with reference to Zelaya.
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido (HONDURAS POLITICS CONFLICT)

[Judi Lynn]

50. More similar images, Yahoo news:

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Manuel-Zelaya/photo//090922/photos_pl_afp/34165f34913ffb3bb7fd473095082e82//s:/afp/20090922/pl_afp/honduraspoliticscoupusbrazil#photoViewer=/090922/photos_pl_afp/34165f34913ffb3bb7fd473095082e82

[Ghost Dog]

51. One is reminded (saving the differences) of US methods to expel Noriega from the Vatican Embassy

in Panama City in December 1989.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,969132,00.html

Thanks, School of the Americas.

[Ghost Dog]

52. nb. See follow-on thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4071538