Power Cuts Silence Media
Various media have been silenced by having their electrical power cut. Radio Globo reports that Channel 36, Cholusat Sur, has no power and cannot get ENEE, the electric company, to respond to their phone calls. Channel 36 has no backup power. Radio Globo also reports that its power has been cut, but it has backup power for now, and it has put out a call for anyone with a spare generator and fuel to donate to them. In addition, they report that power has been cut to the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.ENEE has been taken over by the military according to the person who answered the phone when Radio Globo called.
Llamado Urgente
¡Atención compañeros y compañeras!
Hay que hacer un llamado urgente.
El toque de queda va a tomar a mucha gente que viene
por la carretera.
De Santa Bárbara viene gente.
Hay que responsabilizar a la policía de lo que le pueda suceder
a la gente.
Este es un crimen de lesa Humanidad.
Tenemos derecho a la movilidad, a circular por el suelo patrio
y juntarnos con los nuestros. Venimos en paz. Estamos en paz.
Ellos han matado a nuestra gente, el pueblo ha sido pacífico, a pesar de qu hemos puesto los mártires.
No queremos más mártires, no queremos que aumenten la factura del crimen
los golpistas, aclamamos paz.
No al toque de queda.
Candelario Reyes
Honduran Tensions Rise As Curfew Enforced
TEGUCIGALPA , September 21 -- An emergency curfew was put into order by the Honduran government today as tensions escalate upon the return of the country's ousted president, Manuel Zelaya. The center of the city, and particularly the area around Colonia Palmira, where Zelaya was reported to be, burst into a moving mass of traffic jams and people rushing to return home from work in advance of the 4 PM curfew.
Stores are now closed and traffic has mostly emptied off the streets but despite the swift government response to Zelaya's return the former president is continuing to speak to large crowds of followers. The interim government led by Roberto Micheletti threatened it would arrest Zelaya if he returned to the country but no such arrest has been carried out.
This is the first time that Zelaya has returned to Honduras since his June 28 removal. In recent weeks, Washington has increased pressure on the interim government to restore Zelaya to power, cutting all aid to the country and even revoking the visas of members of the diplomatic mission and some of its federal judges. Zelaya himself met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to discuss the situation.
Honduras has experienced an unprecedented polarization in the past few months, and this is plainly visible in the urban political epicenter of Tegucigapla. Political graffiti mars almost every wall of every building in the city with slogans in support of the 'golpistas', the interim government, or of the 'resistencia' of Zelaya's followers. The graffiti of one wall denounces the current interim president, Micheletti, as 'Pinocheletti', or a Pinochet-styled fascist leader, while the adjacent wall imprecates Zelaya as an extreme leftist string-pulled by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
There have been brief electricity outages and a call by Zelaya for his followers to take to the streets but other than this the curfew seems to be precipitating a relative calm.
Stores are now closed and traffic has mostly emptied off the streets but despite the swift government response to Zelaya's return the former president is continuing to speak to large crowds of followers. The interim government led by Roberto Micheletti threatened it would arrest Zelaya if he returned to the country but no such arrest has been carried out.
This is the first time that Zelaya has returned to Honduras since his June 28 removal. In recent weeks, Washington has increased pressure on the interim government to restore Zelaya to power, cutting all aid to the country and even revoking the visas of members of the diplomatic mission and some of its federal judges. Zelaya himself met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to discuss the situation.
Honduras has experienced an unprecedented polarization in the past few months, and this is plainly visible in the urban political epicenter of Tegucigapla. Political graffiti mars almost every wall of every building in the city with slogans in support of the 'golpistas', the interim government, or of the 'resistencia' of Zelaya's followers. The graffiti of one wall denounces the current interim president, Micheletti, as 'Pinocheletti', or a Pinochet-styled fascist leader, while the adjacent wall imprecates Zelaya as an extreme leftist string-pulled by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
There have been brief electricity outages and a call by Zelaya for his followers to take to the streets but other than this the curfew seems to be precipitating a relative calm.
Clinton urges dialogue, calm in Honduras
Source: Reuters
NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the de facto government must find a way to talk and to avoid violence following his return to the Central American nation. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, speaking after a meeting with Clinton on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, also told reporters that he would be willing to go to Honduras to try to mediate if both sides wished. (Reporting by Arshad Mohammed, editing by Anthony Boadle)
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