http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/julio/juev2/Honduras-Zelaya.html
Havana. July 2, 2009
Thousands in Honduras demand
Zelaya's return
TEGUCIGALPA.-An impressive demonstration yesterday flowed through the principal
streets of the Honduran capital in repudiation of the military coup and calling
for the return of Manuel Zelaya, the constitutional president.
On Wednesday the Honduran Congress
approved the suspension of several
individual rights during the hours
that curfew is in force, while Roberto
Micheletti's government has defied
the OAS ultimatum to reinstate the
deposed president, Manuel Zelaya.
The demonstrators converged in the vicinity of the Presidential Palace, where
on Monday hundreds of soldiers with assault rifles and water cannon trucks
fired on a large group of people backing Zelaya.
"We want Mel, we want Mel now," chanted the march participants, using the
president's nickname.
They had come together earlier at the intersection of several streets some 500
meters from the entrance to the Presidential Palace, where popular leaders
called for civil disobedience until Zelaya's return.
The People's Resistance Front is now in its third day of a general strike until
democracy is reestablished and the authorities voted into power in the last
election are returned to government.
The Front is composed of three central labor union groups and campesino, youth,
student, human rights, and other social organizations.
The popular leaders explained that the constitution lays down that no citizens
are obliged to subject themselves to the usurpers of power and that the
constitution awards the people the right to rise up against them. (PL)
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