Zelaya's Wife
Returns To Capital,
Joins Demonstration
Tegucigalpa - Wife of
ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya
returned to the capital Friday and joined a
demonstration against the interim
government.
Xiomara Castro had been since June 24 in El
Paraiso, east of the country, together with
her daughter and other relatives, since the
interim government prevented them from
crossing the Nicaraguan border to join
Zelaya.
Castro arrived in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran
capital on Friday to join the Front of
National Resistance, which for the second
consecutive day has marched on Tegucigalpa’s
streets.
"We are going to continue the fight, we have
solidarity with the people who were attacked
yesterday," Castro told supporters in front
of the government palace.
"Today that olive-green uniform means
repression, today that olive-green uniform
means dead," she said.
Hundreds of Zelaya's followers took to the
streets on Friday to block highways for a
second day after demonstrations on the
previous day were dispersed by police with
tear gas.
On Thursday, at least six people were
injured and 88 were detained during
demonstrations. Police has said it will
immediately disperse any kind of protests.
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