o Growing chaos in Honduras, Zelaya denounced attempts to kill him
The seizure increased in Tegucigalpa with a series of looting and vandalism recorded, some in full force curfew imposed by the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who from his refuge at the Brazilian embassy denounced attempts to assassinate him.
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"There is a climate of insecurity caused by Zelaya's supporters, who are facing the police in order to sow chaos and destruction especially in the capital and who ignore the curfew prevailing in the country," said on Wednesday AP spokesman for the Ministry of Security, Commissioner Orlin Cerrato.
The de facto government temporarily suspended the curfew decreed since Monday afternoon it was learned that Zelaya was in the Honduran capital, in spite of which there were citizens who gathered to confront the security forces and cause damage. El Pedregal, the neighborhood object of recent looting, he looked like a war zone with barricades that blocked the traffic and where journalists could only join the group.
"This will continue, no one can stop, people are hungry and we have to look for food anywhere," he told the AP Alberto Arce Cabrera, a painter of 43, who justified his participation in the looting because "I find food for my three children. "
"Here we support the coup Zelaya and not be able to stop us, we have chest to stop his bullets," said the man, accompanied by a youth group. "Aquí no entra la policía y cuando lo hacen solo se van de paso". "This does not include the police and when they do go the way alone."
Zelaya denounced the de facto government is "bombing (the Brazilian Embassy) with chemicals and high-frequency electronic signals that health affects us all." He said that within the enclosure is about 100.
On the eve "said they were going to storm the embassy and that they would declare a suicide on my part. I denounce before the international community that Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales was not committing suicide," the president toppled in a telephone interview with the cable television station Todo Noticias Argentina.
In El Pedregal, south of the city, hundreds of people swept between late Tuesday and early Wednesday two supermarkets, a sale of appliances, a bank and a distributor of mobile phones between late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Cerrato said that during the night and arose early the least 50 outbreaks of violence that must be placated with a total of 113 people had been arrested for his connection to those events. "We had to make efforts to send agents to so many different places of the city," he said.
Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, the capital's largest, said on Tuesday night joined three gunshot wounds, two women and a teenager. All three are out of danger, the doctor said Mario Sanchez.
The leader of the resistance against the coup, John Baker, told the AP that incidents and vandalism, and "everything that happens in our country has caused the repression unleashed by (the de facto president Roberto) Micheletti against of democracy. "
The de facto government on Wednesday suspended six hours curfew "in that span ... businesses open so that people buy food and their basic needs," said Information Minister de facto government, René Zepeda. But after four in the afternoon, again suspended the guarantees.
Thousands took advantage of the relaxation of the measures for emerging and there were long lines at gas stations and other businesses. "This is quite chaotic, are desperate for this situation," he told AP Eguigure Edie, a trader of 47 years was a long line to buy cheese for her family.
"We are like prisoners, this is unbearable, it's time (the de facto president Roberto) Zelaya and Micheletti sit down together and end this problem affects only the poorest," he added.
The suspension of the curfew was also used by hundreds of supporters of Zelaya began to congregate at the Pedagogical University to go to demonstrate in support of their leader. Barahona said the march will be to "demonstrate the power and strength" which is among the Hondurans that repudiates motion coup.
After meeting Tuesday with Micheletti, the president of the Council of Private Enterprise, Amilcar Bulnes, announced that the 62 organizations in your body "are available to the government (de facto) and we support him fully."
Brazilian President Lula da Silva, referring to the situation in Honduras in the UN assembly in New York said that "unless there is political will, we will see more shots like that deposed the constitutionally elected president Jose Manuel Zelaya of Honduras ... the international community demand that Mr. Zelaya return immediately to the presidency of his country. "
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El periodista de The Associated Press Marcos Alemán contribuyó con este despacho. The Associated Press reporter Mark German contributed to this report.
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