Honduras'
Border Inhabitants Demand
End Of Curfew
Tegucigalpa - The
Honduran inhabitants of the border area with
Nicaragua on Monday demanded authorities to
end the curfew imposed last Friday and to
allow the passing of goods to supply the
local markets.
The curfew was introduced on Friday when
ousted and exiled Honduran President Manuel
Zelaya tried for the second time to reenter
the country.
In response, the Honduran interim government
imposed an emergency curfew of 12 hours from
6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. local time on the
border region.
Twenty military checkpoints were set up
along the highway that links national
capital Tegucigalpa to the border with
Nicaragua in Las Manos sector, some 125 km
east of the capital.
The inhabitants from El Paraiso, 110 km from
Tegucigalpa, told a local radio station that
they demand the end of the curfew because
they are running out of food.
"The road is blocked for the entrance of
merchandise and that is not possible; we
cannot buy butter and other food in the
markets," a lady told the local radio
station "Radio America."
Thousands of Zelaya's followers went to the
border with Nicaragua and they now have
neither food nor medicines, and they have
also found themselves unable to return to
their places of origin.
Zelaya tried on Friday to return to Honduras
by crossing the Honduran-Nicaraguan border,
but had to return to the Nicaraguan side
after making a brief entry into Honduras at
the border town of Las Manos.
The deposed leader made his first attempt to
return on July 5 aboard a Venezuelan plane,
but failed to land in the capital as the
runways of the Toncontin airport were
blocked with military vehicles.
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