We’ve heard from our partners within the Brazilian Embassy that Honduran troops have cordoned off a 6 block perimeter around the Brazilian Embassy. They’ve cut communications lines and have tear-gassed those inside and nearby.
The Frente Naciónal Contra el Gólpe reports that about five police stations have been taken by the Resistance. Meanwhile, in the Kennedy, in Tegucigalpa, the police are using live bullets and teargas against the crowds. Our delegation is in a nearby neighborhood and can hear chanting – “Adelante, Adelante – la lucha es constante. Forward – forward – the struggle is constant.”
According to COSIBAH, the Honduran banana worker federation, there are some two thousand people detained in front of the Dippsa gas station in the Villa Nueva community.
COSIBAH was informed that the military stopped these citizens while they were traveling to the capital from the surrounding towns to show their support for the returned president.
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Another person shot at the demonstrations at the Hato de Enmedia about 2 hours ago, according to our partners.
The nonviolent protestors of Tegucigalpa maintain their hold of the streets and highways, despite the repression.
U.S. citizens should contact the U.S. State Department and their Congressional Representatives to demand that the U.S. government:
Members of the Quixote Center delegation just returned from visiting people who had gone to the Hospital Escuela for treatment. 18 wounded were treated at this hospital after the attacks on the protesters who were at the Brazilian Embassy this morning. At least 3 whose injuries were serious enough to warrant outpatient surgery
The protesters camped out in front of the Brazilian Embassy were violently attacked and removed from the Embassy with live rounds of ammunition and tear gas. There are at least 4 people wounded. President Zelaya was in the middle of an interview with Radio Globo early this morning from inside the Brazilian Embassy, struggling to talk through the tear gas, when the Radio Globo signal was once again cut.
The curfew started yesterday at 4pm has been extended until 6pm today.
