 Day 14
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Honduras: Road
Blocks Demand Coupists
Tegucigalpa - The National Front
against the Coup in Honduras extended today
the road blocks to vast regions in the
country to demand the end of the de facto
regime and the return to the institutional
order.
The blocks include the roads linking the
capital with San Pedro Sula, second city in
importance and the one leading north where
the main industrial zone of the country is
located.
Roads and bridges in Progreso, Olancho, at
the border with Guatemala and El Salvador
and in all the Caribbean coast, where US
transnationals ship banana, said Juan
Barahona, coordinator of the Popular Bloc.
"The Honduran people maintains street
resistance. We have blocked the country,"
declared Barahona in an interview with
Prensa Latina. The popular leader denounced
army repression against peaceful
demonstrations and the arrest during the
last hours of at least five youths in
Tegucigalpa and Olancho.
The Central American country entered today
in its 13rd day under curfew decreed by the
de facto regime which took power after the
coup d�Etat against president Manuel Zelaya.
"We are decided to continue the struggle
until the coupists are ousted," expressed
Barahona and announced the continuation of
protests and the celebration of a National
Assembly next week to define new strategies.
About talks in Costa Rica with the mediation
of president Oscar Arias, Barahona said the
coupists are playing to delay their time in
power, showing they have the empire�s
support. |
