Tension at Honduran Border
Tegucigalpa -
The Honduran border where President Manuel Zelaya reentered his country Friday remains
tense Saturday morning with the military and
police forces deployed all around the area,
blocking the movement of thousands of
followers of the leftist leader.
Prensa Latina special correspondent in the
area Ronnie Huete said in a phone
conversation that some 2,000 people stayed
the night in the community of El Arenal,
near the city of Danli, 60 miles east the
capital city of Tegucigalpa.
Demonstrators made bonfires on main streets,
chanting loudly in support of Zelaya, close
to where Honduran troops are deployed, he
said.
Huete explained that the troops blocked the
passage of several international
journalists, on their way towards the Las
Manos border crossing point, where Zelaya
was on Friday.
He added that 150 people are detained at a
police check point, where their mobile
phones were seized.
Honduras First Lady Xiomara Castro de Zelaya,
their daughter Hortensia, known as La Pichu,
and Zelaya's mother Hortensia Rosales are
all in a part of the eastern department of
El Paraiso.
Huete said Xiomara Castro has given a
message to the Honduran army several times,
in an attempt to prevent demonstrators from
being suppressed and to achieve free
circulation.
A number of the leaders of the National
Front against the Honduran coup, such as,
Juan Barahona, Carlos Humberto Reyes and
Rafael Alegria remain at the border area,
but phone contact with them has so far been
impossible.
The Honduran Coup Government has imposed an
18-hour curfew in border areas and the army
closed the border with Nicaragua.
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