Zelaya''s Return Fuels Popular
Resistance
Tegucigalpa - President Manuel Zelaya''s return to
Honduras has added fuel to popular
resistance and has revealed the
contradictions in the foundations supporting
the coup d''etat, the newspaper Tiempo said
in an editorial.
The newspaper noted that the Honduran people
have proved their loyalty to the Republic by
supporting Zelaya's efforts to return home
and recover the presidential mandate that
was snatched from him at gunpoint.
"The president's contact with the people who
walked on roads flanked by rifles, by
suffocating gases, to reach the bordering
checkpoint of Las Manos, became a symbolic
event of extraordinary personal and
political courage," Tiempo noted.
The San Pedro Sula-based newspaper pointed
out that the meeting was decisive to comply
with the primordial goal: "the restitution
of constitutional order, that is, the end of
the facto regime."
Tiempo predicted more repression by the coup
leaders to contain the defeat, and noted the
need to make diplomatic actions more dynamic
to enforce the UN and OAS resolutions on the
restoration of constitutional order.
Zelaya arrived in Honduras on Friday at the
bordering checkpoint of Las Manos, which is
strongly guarded. He went to Nicaragua later
to assess the possible ways to return home.
The de facto regime, headed by Roberto
Micheletti, threatened to arrest Zelaya, and
launched a ferocious repression against
thousands of demonstrators who welcomed the
president on the bordering town of El
Paraiso.
Despite repression, Hondurans will continue
to arrive at the border on Saturday to
support the restitution of constitutionality
and the end to the dictatorship, farmer
leader Rafael Alegria said.
"We have a general slogan: to resist, to
resist and to resist," Alegria stressed.
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