9/30 - Live Blog on the Honduras Resistance

BBC - Honduran Police Evict Zelaya Supporters
Honduran police on Wednesday began evicting supporters of toppled President Manuel Zelaya from government office buildings where they had holed up for three months to protest his ouster in a military coup. Riot police surrounded the National Agrarian Institute (INRA) in Tegucigalpa early on Wednesday and cleared out 57 Zelaya supporters from the two-story building, where farm workers had protested since the June military coup.
Video:


Zelaya interview with Telesur - At least 100 people have been assassinated by the Micheletti regime, said Zelaya in the interview.


Dr. Juan Almendares discuss the use of chemical attacks and LRAD by the regime:


Doctor Luther Castillo Harry the head of the Foundation "Luagu Hatuadi Waduhenu" (For the Health of our People) reports that the Micheletti regime is shutting down Garifuna hospitals and health projects.

9/29 - Live Blog - Golpe de Estado Honduras

Radio Globo back!! The station is now broadcasting over the Internet from a clandestine location in Honduras. They are calling on people to go to its seized studios on Bulevar Morazan this morning at 8 a.m.

Listen to Radio Globo Here (click listen) and at www.radioglobohonduras.com

Video of Radio Globo after military raid.


Televisa - Radio Globo reporters beat by military during raid on station

Via Adrienne Pine - El Tiempo's website down. Not terribly surprising in light of the strong anti-coup El Tiempo Staff Editorial, titled "The Real Goal of the 45-Day Curfew is to Torpedo November's Electoral Process", translated by Kristin Bricker at Narco News, and the long letter from Jaime Rosenthal, owner of El Tiempo, to the Honduran people, posted here in Spanish.

Speeches and images from yesterdays protest at the Universidad Pedagógica HERE

El Universal - Micheletti handed out another ultimatum, this time to the governments of Spain, Argentina, Venezuela and Mexico.

"In the case of those countries that unilaterally decided to break diplomatic relations with Honduras... the situation of Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Venezuela, I'll let them know that the government will not receive diplomatic agents from those countries."

NYT - Micheletti Reconsiders Restrictions On Civil Liberties:
The de facto government backed off last night from its attempt to shut down protests and limit free speech after congressional leaders warned that they would not support the measure. The revolt by Congress, the first public fracture in the coalition since the coup. In a televised news conference Monday evening hours after soldiers forcefully shut down two dissident media outlets under the new measures., Micheletti asked for “forgiveness from the Honduran people” and said he would ask the Supreme Court to lift the decree “as quickly as possible.” Leaders who confronted Mr. Micheletti on Monday appeared to be concerned that the decree went too far and would undercut the legitimacy of the election and jeopardize the reinstatement of foreign aid, which had accounted for 20 percent of the country’s budget.

Al Jazeera - Protesters, OAS meeting only about the diplomats refused entrance to Honduras on Sunday), shutdown of Radio Globo and Channel 36, etc.


El Libertador -There has been a drastic increase in mysterious deaths since the first days of the coup. According to the Committee for Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH) there have been more than 100 such deaths since the de-facto government took power. One of the principle characteristics of the executions is the peoples connection to the resistance movement.

Mel Zelaya addresses United Nations via cellphone (YouTube)

U.S. State Department Issues Statement on Honduras:
The United States views with grave concern the decree issued by the de facto regime in Honduras suspending fundamental civil and political rights. In response to strong popular opposition, the regime has indicated that it is considering rescinding the decree. We call on the de facto regime to do so immediately. The freedoms inherent in the suspended rights are inalienable and cannot be limited or restricted without seriously damaging the democratic aspirations of the Honduran people. We remind the de facto regime of its obligations under the Vienna Conventions to respect diplomatic premises and personnel, and those under their protection.

Narcosphere: Interim Government Hires Fiction Writer to Hawk Coup Regime

Micheletti junta shelling out $292,000 for D.C. flack attack. Washington, D.C.-based Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates (CLSA), claims among its founding partners Peter Schechter, who also is a published fiction writer. His first book, “Point of Entry” [not to be confused with the 1981 heavy metal album by Judas Priest of the same name] is fashioned around a plot pulled right out of low-budget B-movie script.

DemocracyNow: Internal Pressure Forces Honduran Coup Regime to Reverse Civil Liberties Crackdown, But Repression Continues

DN speaks with Andrés Conteris from inside the embassy where Zelaya is hiding and with Luther Castillo, a Honduran doctor who is in Washington to speak with US lawmakers.

Resistance Music from the Honduran Coup

Resistance Music Coming out of Honduras:
Radio Globo has been playing a lot of great music coming out of the resistance movement in Honduras, but its tough to track down. If you have any links leave them in the comment section

Polache- Video I shot during protests days after the coup




Cafe Guncasco - "El club de los idiotas"


Viene Mel, Urge Mel


eli el crack -"Golpistas tienen miedo" Reggaeton Contra el Golpe


Un Zapatazo- Giordano Morel Klaus Koch


Abyayala


Soldado Unete al Pueblo


Pez Luna

Live: OAS Special Meeting on Honduras

Live webcast of the special meeting of the OAS Permanent Council to continue considering the situation in Honduras

ENGLISH
SPANISH

Brazil: "We highly doubt elections will be held, and if they are they are they will not be valid or fair."

Argentina: "I think that in anything we say about Honduras in recent times, we are discussing whether we are inclined to accept an electoral process as legitimate when it is carried out by the de facto, coup government. If we tolerate an electoral process from the hands of anyone but Manuel Zelaya we are setting up a system of condemning coups and then accepting the illegitimate elections the coup regime holds afterwards to justify its illegal actions. We cannot accept elections held under anyone except Manuel Zelaya."

Various Reports on Honduras Today

DemocracyNow: Honduran Coup Regime Imposes Media, Protest Crackdown



Efe: Micheletti says Brazilian Embassy will lose its diplomatic status if it doesnt turn over Zelaya


Telesur: Military vehicle runs over international journalists


RadioGlobo: Final broadcast from RadioGlobo as the military storms the radio station. RadioGlobo asks for the support of the Honduran people as the military breaks down the doors to the radio station and calls on the military to respect the freedom of expression and freedom of press.


Mi Nacion: Compilation of video clips of Honduran resistance and military oppression

9/28 - Honduran Resistance Updates

People are massing at the Pedagogical University in spite of massive police and military presence throughout Tegucigalpa

Telesur has video and photographs of the military shutting down Radio Globo

Honduras in Lucha: President Zelaya warns again that attack against embassy is imminent.

The regime is rounding up, detaining and torturing people in stadiums. Several reports have come out of 75 or more people currently being tortured in the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa, and other reports like the one below from various other stadiums. Ominously reminiscent of Pinochet's Chile.

Dr. JUAN ALMENDARES ON TORTURE OF TEACHER, AUGUSTINA FLORES
Translator: Dr. Norman Givan

Dr. Juan Almendares, Honduran medical doctor and award-winning human rights
activist and current president of the Honduran Peace Committee as well as
the past secretary of the Coordinating Committee of Popular
Organizations.

I, Juan Angel Almendarez Bonilla, Honduran doctor, member of the Medical
Association of Honduras, registration number No 430, Executive Director of
the Center for Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims
and their Families (CPTRT) duly authorized by the person concerned and their
families, am bound for ethical reasons and respect for human rights to
submit the following testimony to both national and international human
rights organizations and world public opinion, regarding the violence and
torture of the subject Agustina Flores Lopez, a teacher of fifty years
specialising in Educational Management.

On 24 September at 6:30 pm, I was called by Berta Ceres, leader of the
Lenca indigenous organization COPINH, sister of Agustina and the President
of COFADEH, Berta Oliva, to urgently assess the condition of health of
Agustina, who is incarcerated at the Criminal Investigation Directorate
(DGIC) in Comayagla.

We visited with the team and Berta Ceres of COFADEH at the DGIC on 24
September 2009 at 7 PM ET close to the hour of curfew. The authorities in
control at that time allowed us to speak with and review the teacher.

By her own account Agustina Flores Lopez was taken prisoner by eight
policewomen on Tuesday 22 September between 6.00 and 6:30 am, while walking
in the area near the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.

“While one twisted my arms behind my back the other hit me on the face,
squeezed my neck and assaulted me. I had already been handcuffed– and I
recognised one of them with the surname Garcia. During the beating they
shouted at me” YOU ARE THE DOGS OF RESISTANCE, ITS GOOD THAT YOU SHOULD BE
FUCKED UP.

“First, they took me to Manchen and the patrol was carrying six members of
the resistance who had been beaten up. Then I was taken to the Chochi Sosa
Stadium where at first there were 11 detainees; but later I managed to see
about thirty members of the resistance who had been beaten and wounded.

Then I was moved on to the CORE VII detention center. They took my cell
phone and to date it has not been returned.

A clinical description of Agustina shows the following features:

Profound sadness, facial deformities and pain afflicting various parts of
the body: face, neck, back, arms and legs by the multiple traumas caused by
police. Occasional dizziness and vertigo with frequent loss of balance. Does
not remember whether she lost consciousness; sometimes are confused and
sleepy.

Has a history of suffering Primary Sjogren’s syndrome, with dryness of
ocular and oral mucous membranes and autoimmune problems that make her
susceptible to severe infections, especially under extremely unsanitary
conditions in prisons. She is under treatment for hypothyroidism, with two
hundred micrograms of levothyroxine. During her capture the taking of
levothyroxine tablets was suspended, putting her life in extreme danger.
This medication should be adjusted periodically under strict medical
supervision because of the extreme stress and the physical and psychological
torture under which teacher Lez Flores has been under.

Another of her major problems is hypertension. At the time of examination
she had a reading of 220/100 mmHg, which exceeds the value for
predisposition to cerebral vascular haemorrhage, due to the traumatic
situation in which she lives deprived of liberty.

Among other findings:

Bruises from blows, with bruises below her lower lip and right labial region
with inflammatory edema of the right half of lower lip, contusion area on
the labial mucosa on the same side and right molar area ecchymosis of
approximately 4 cm in an almost rectangular form.

Pain in the antero lateral left neck with blunt injuries and severe pain and
spasms of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Neck movements associated with
paresthesia (tingling) in both bilateral upper limbs.

Severe pain that follows the anterior and lateral thigh.

Severe pain in the shoulder region, upper trapezius area and the back lumbar
region of the spine and pain adjacent to both sides of the traumatic spinal
injuries she received during capture.

Blunt injuries and muscular aches on the internal lateral left forearm.

Multiple injuries in blunt multiple trauma axillary, anterior right inner
arm.

Bruises on the left elbow region and posterior aspect of left arm and
ecchymotic circular lesions in the lower third of the inside of her left
arm.

Based on the above I consider that Agustina Flores Lopez has high risk to
her health as result of her imprisonment and should be transferred
immediately to a hospital and placed under medical supervision for physical
and psychological politraumatizatiwbr>n; to be evaluated by specialists in
Neurology, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy,
and provided counselling and under other conditions by trained personnel in
torture CPTRT. In a beautiful gesture Agustina told me that one of her major
concerns is not fulfilling her duties as a tutor to my grandchildren. Her
eyes filled with tears when she stated that one of the most horrible
experiences in her life has been to share the suffering and inhuman and
degrading treatment suffered by detainees in Honduras

Based on the above we demand the immediate release of Agustina Flores
Lopez; in addition to which, we have a moral obligation to demand freedom
for each and all political prisoners in Honduras following the military
coup.

According to information provided by the Association for Freedom of
Political Prisoners most of these people are deprived of their liberty in
the “Marco Aurelio Soto” National Penitentiary and accused of crimes and
sedition:

1. SANTOS GARCIA REYNARD MONCADA (Paradise)
2. ORLANDO GARCIA JOE MONCADA (Paradise)
3. MARIA GARCIA ANTOLINA HERNANDES (Paradise)
4. JOAQUIN GARCIA OSCAR MONCADA (Paradise)
5. ASUZENA GLADYS LAGOS (Paradise)
6. VICTOR RAMOS ADOLFO IZAGUIRRE (18) (Paradise)
7. MARIO ENRIQUE MOLINA DGIC (Tegucigalpa)
8. PORTA ANTONIO ALVAREZ (SPANISH)
9. MILTON MARTINEZ MATTHEW RYE (Tegucigalpa)
10. WALTER JOEL RODRIGUEZ ANDEAN (Tegucigalpa)

Two youths left with interim measures with the false charge of Aggravated
Robbery:

KOREA Ibraham VICTOR MARTINEZ
ARIEL FRANKLIN OLIVE BAQUEDANO

No, no basta rezar. Hacen falta muchas cosas para conseguir la paz. (video)

Micheletti Suspends Constitution and Detains 6 OAS Diplomats

Via Al Giordano: Micheletti has made public the following decree, which bans freedom of assembly, transit, the press and orders National Police and the Armed Forces to arrest and detain any person suspected of exercising those rights. It has also detained six foreign diplomats from the Organization of American States (OAS) - two US officials, two Canadian, one Colombian and Chilean OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza - for six hours in the Toncontin International Airport, barring their entrance into Honduras.

UPDATE! - Military and police assault and close Radio Globo (via Contraelgolpe)
BBC - Troops raided Radio Globo and Cholusat Sur TV. The raid on Radio Globo early on Monday was the second on the station since Zelaya was ousted in June. Radio Globo journalist, Carlos Lopez, said soldiers had "confiscated everything", including cameras and the keys to vehicles.

Audio of the last transmission from Radio Globo (youtube)

Good alternatives to Radio Globo providing live reports on Honduras:

Radio Progreso
Radio lo Nuestro
11:22 am ET - Telesur streaming special OAS Session on Honduras

Here is the decree:
Translation via Al Giordano:

Decree:

Article 1. For a period of 45 days beginning with this decree’s publication, the Constitutional rights of Articles 69, 72, 81 and 84, are suspended.

Article 2. The Armed Forces will support, together or separately with the National Police, when the situation requires, to execute the necessary plans to maintain the order and security of the Republic.

Article 3. The following is prohibited:

First: Freedom of transit, which will be restricted according to the parameters established by press releases broadcast on all radio and TV stations by the President of the Republic, which will be in effect in all national territory and during curfews, with the exception of cargo transport, ambulances, and urban traffic in the cities excluded in said communiqués, and medical personell and nurses that in those cities work during curfew hours.

Second: All public meetings not authorized by police or military authorities.

Third: Publication in any media, spoken, written or televised, of information that offends human dignity, public officials, or criticizes the law and the government resolutions, or any style of attack against the public order and peace. CONATEL (the Honduran communications commission), through the National Police and the Armed Forces, is authorized to suspend any radio station, television channel or cable system that does not adjust its programming to the present decree.

Article 4. It is ordered:

First: Detain all persons who are found outside of the established orders of circulation, or that in any manner are suspected by police and military authorities of damaging people or property, those that associate with the goal of committing criminal acts or that place their own lives in danger. All detainees will be read their rights, and at the same time must be brought to be booked in a police station of the country, identifying all persons detained, their motives, the hour of arrest and release from the police station, recording the physical condition of the detainee, to avoid future accusations of supposed crimes of torture.

Second: All persons detained must remain confined in the legally established detention centers.

Third: All public offices, national, state and municipal, that have been occupied by demonstrators or have persons inside of them engaging in illegal activities will be cleared.

Fourth: All Secretaries of State, decentralized institutions, municipalities and other state organisms must place themselves at the orders of the National Police and Armed Forces without any equivocation, along with all means at their disposal, for the development of these operations.

Article 5. The present Decree becomes law immediately, being duly published in the Official Daily “La Gaceta” and will be sent to the National Congress to be made law.

Ordered from the Presidential Palace in the City of Tegucigalpa, municipality of the Central District, on the 22^nd of September of 2009.

ROBERTO MICHELETTI BAIN

CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

The four articles of the Honduran Constitution that have been declared suspended for the next 45 days by this decree are:

Article 69: Personal liberty is inviolable and only through law can it be restricted or suspended temporarily.

Article 72: The expression of thought by any media, without censorship, is free. Those who interfere with this right or through direct or indirect means restrict or impede the communication and circulation of ideas and opinions will held responsible by the law.

Article 81: Every person has the right to circulate freely, leave, enter and remain in national territory.

No one can be obligated to move from his home or residence except in special cases in accord with the law.

Article 84: No one can be arrested or detained except through written order by competent authorities, executed through legal formalities and for motives established by law.

Notwithstanding, open delinquency can be apprehended by any person only to deliver the delinquent to the authorities.

The arrested or detained person must be informed clearly of his rights and the facts of the accusations against him, and, additionally, authorities must permit him to communicate his detention to a family member or person of his choice.

Here is the second page of the decree:

The complete absurdity of this is that the justification of removing Zelaya from power was because he was supposedly attempting to ratify the constitution. Where is the supreme court and military now that the constitution has been suspended, and all basic liberties have been stripped from the Honduran people. How anyone could continue to support the coup is unbelievable.

“Today is the day in which we call for peaceful resistance, for demonstrations for 24 continuous hours. You, my dear Hondurans can’t lose your rights because someone, or a coup, restricts public liberties, violates human rights, murders and detains.” -President Zelaya

Updates from last night: (HondurasOye)
President Zelaya announced, over Radio Globo, that he will launch the final offensive to regain power calling on all his followers to march to Tegucigalpa. He called on all towns and villages to go to the capital. Zelaya said “I ask for a patriotic move from all Honduras, and that everyone who is able come to Tegucigalpa to fight for a final offensive.”

The first woman to die as the result of golpista repression, Wendy Elizabeth Avila, was overcome by the gases emitted by the golpista authorities yesterday. She went to the hospital and died today of pneumonia.

Radio Globo and Channel 36, two of the only remaining independent news outlets in Honduras, were publicly ordered shut down by military.

In the neighborhood of Ramon Amaya Amada, in Tegucigalpa, is under brutal repression with many people wounded. A Telesur team is reporting some journalists were run over by a military vehicle.

Live Blog - Deadlines, Death Threats, Chemical Attacks, Media Censorship

Reuters - Regime rejects visiting OAS delgation: The Honduran de facto government on Sunday refused to allow a delegation of the Organization of American States entry into the country

El Libertador - Marco Antonio Canales Villatoro was assassinated yesterday in front of a protestant church he attended in downtown Tegucigalpa. Canales Villatoro is the nephew of Radio Globo owner Alejandro Villatoro.

Al Jazeera video inside the Brazilian Embassy.


Chemical Weapons being used in Honduras
Dr. Juan Almendares
(Dr. Almendares is a Honduran medical doctor and award-winning human rights activist. He is the president of the Honduran Peace Committee, as well as the past secretary of the Coordinating Committee of Popular Organizations.)

The occupants of the Brazilian Embassy accompanying President Manuel Zelaya
Rosales, wife and family, as well as people in communities and protestors
are being attacked with chemical weapons launched from helicopters or
aircraft; and sophisticated sonic and electromagnetic radiation devices that
produce severe diarrhoea, vomiting, nosebleeds and gastrointestinal
disorders.

The clinical symptoms manifested are consistent with the use of toxic
substances such as: pesticides, chemical compounds and gases, radioactive
substances like radioactive cesium and toxic mushrooms.

We are urgently appealing for an international medical mission and to the UN
World Health Organization (WHO; this is an irregular war against the people
of Honduras. The armed forces have not allowed access to the Brazilian
Embassy for doctors or the International Red Cross; violating all treaties
and international conventions on health, respect for human rights

Please make this urgent call on behalf of life and love of humanity.

Radio Globo - Channel 36 shut down by the regime. Radio Globo signal frequently interrupted. Radio Progreso director continues to receive death threats. The regime is running a direct interference to block Radio Globo's broadcast in Tegucigalpa and various cities across Honduras.

Video from yesterdays protests in Tegucigalpa.

De-facto Government Issues Brazil an Ultimatum

Reuters - Brazil says won't comply with Honduras ultimatum: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Sunday his nation would not comply with a demand from Honduras' de facto government to decide the status of ousted President Manuel Zelaya in 10 days. He demanded an apology from Honduras' de facto leader, Roberto Micheletti.

CNN - Honduras is accusing Brazil's government of instigating an insurrection within its borders. "Since the clandestine arrival to Honduras by ex-president Zelaya, the Brazil embassy has been used to instigate violence and insurrection against the Honduran people and the constitutional government," the secretary of foreign affairs for Honduras' de facto government said in a statement late Saturday night.

Reuters -Zelaya can stay in embassy as long as wants - Lula

PressTV - Micheletti Unwilling to Meet with Zelaya: Micheletti, has rejected a direct meeting with deposed President, Manual Zelaya. Micheletti slammed the opposition for the ongoing disturbances, calling them "bums looking for an opportunity to steal." He said that Zelaya could leave Honduras "either through political asylum or by obeying the courts."

Hondurans Pay Price of Coup

Live Blog: La Lucha Sigue

BBC Report The regime announce that the curfew has been lifted. Plans to organize pro-coup protest, multiple first hand accounts on Radio Globo of business leaders forcing workers to attend rally.

Honduras Oye: "At least four persons dead, including an 8 year-old child. The President of the Union of Workers of INFOP reported shot yesterday has now died.

Between 30,000 an 60,000 demonstrators participated in the demonstration at the Pedagogical University yesterday. The repression from police was severe and dozens of people were seriously injured."

Honduras en Lucha - Multiple cases of torture of Zelaya supporters:

The first photo is of 51 year old Carlos Humberto Izaguirre who was tortured by the national police. The second photo is of Walter Javier Rodriguez, a 21 year old who was detained and tortured in two police posts in Tegucigalpa. Rodriguez was sitting on a curb near his house we he was attacked by police. "First they took me to a police post in Colonia Alemania and then to the 4th police station of Belen. In both places they locked us up in a cell and began to beat us with tubes, brooms and anything they could find and told us they were going to kill us," said Rodriguez.



Video from protests in front of the Brazilian embassy. At 5:30am the military showed up to break up the peaceful protest, using live rounds and teargas.


12:56 pm - Radio Globo: Reports from inside Brazilian embassy, military is not letting food or water into the embassy.

AP Report: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has suspended technical assistance to Honduras' electoral court, saying presidential elections scheduled for November will not be credible. The total U.N. assistance pledge was $1.3 million.

Venezuelan President to address United Nations General Assembly:
Stream in English at 3:00pm ET below:

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Tiempo - Local Honduran paper, Tiempo, reports that police killed 18 year old Elvis Jacobo Euceda Perdomo for yelling "golpistas" at the police. Perdomo was on his way to a soccer field when he shouted at the passing patrol truck. An officer got out of the truck and began shooting at Perdomo while he was riding his bike away from the officers. Pedromo was shot in the head and back.

Honduran Resistance Updates

Yesterday Brazilian President Lula da Silva called for an emergency session of its Security Council to defend its sovereign territory.

UN General Secretary Ban ki-Moon announced that the United Nations has suspended its aid to the faux-elections in Honduras because they are, “not credible.”

Red Hondureña de Noticias and Radio Globo are reporting that the de-facto government is rounding up thousands of public and private workers to carry out an assault against the Brazilian embassy. Since yesterday reports have been filtering through the national and international press indicating that in the march of the "white shirts" or coup supports, soldiers will be dressed in red to provoke disturbances that will end with the death of various innocents participating and thereby justify the aggressions against the diplomatic mission, which will culminate with the assassination of all its occupants.

Honduran coup roundly denounced by international community, and any elections under the de-facto government will not be recognized.

Brutal Repression Against the Honduran People

Venezuelan TV is reporting 3 dead, and is corroborating other stories that there are over 300 people being detained in stadiums across Honduras.

"We will continued to the last consequences, be it here on this street or in any street over there supporting the resistance."

Micheletti on CNN en Español

The current regime may be completely isolated internationally, and roundly condemned by nearly every international body. But Michelleti doesn't mind because he "stays close to God!"

Live Blog - Resistance vs. Oppression

Viva la resistencia popular! Long live the popular resistance!

Video of neighborhoods in Tegucigalpa resisting the illegal curfews set by the coup regime:


10:04 am - Radio Globo's homepage is down, google RadioGloboHonduras and use the cached version of the site to access their broadcasts

-Tegucigalpa neighborhoods are defying the curfew and protesting against the coup

-People have come en masse chasing the police out neighborhoods, and have erected barricades to keep them out.

"They are now organizing to maintain those barricades. Tegucigalpa is beginning to look like the city of Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006." -Al Giordano

10:21 am - Curfew was just lifted for the afternoon, but the assembly of more than 20 people is prohibited. Reports are saying the resistance is preparing a march on Tegucigalpa.

10:56 am - Reuters: At U.N., Brazil's Lula demands Zelaya reinstatement

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the first world leader to address the U.N. General Assembly, called on Wednesday for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to be reinstated.

"The international community demands that Mr. Zelaya immediately return to the presidency of his country and must be alert to ensure the inviolability of Brazil's diplomatic mission in the capital of Honduras," Lula said, drawing applause from the hall.

11:47 am - Bloomberg: "Honduras’s ousted President Manuel Zelaya said the government of acting President Roberto Micheletti planned to storm Brazil’s Embassy in Tegucigalpa, kill him and call the death a suicide."

1:34 pm – Momento 24: Pro-Zelaya demonstrator died from bullet wounds.

2:17 pm - The military just interrupted Radio Globo's transmission. The transmission declared: "....under Article 293 of the Constitution the National Police must maintain the national security. The police has orders to maintain security. People who are breaking the curfew, who take children to illegal protests are responsible for the security of their own children and the police are not responsible for anything that may happen to them. Police will use all necessary force to maintain peace..."

3:00 pm - The Telegraph is reporting that a 65-year-old man, a Zelaya supporter, was killed in the poor Flor del Campo district of the capital on Tuesday night.

3:10 pm - Radio Globo is interrupted again by a de-facto government, the Minister of Industry and Commerce made an announcement declaring that Micheletti has full support from the business leaders and that the de-facto regime has opened all borders to allow the transit of goods, and that Honduras has reserves of gas and food and for the people to stay calm.

3:43 - People are being illegally detained in the Chochi Sosa baseball stadium.

3:47 pm - President of the Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional (INFOP) gravely wounded by a gunshot from the military while organizing workers in Col. Quezada

3:56 pm - Can't access Radio Globo any longer. If anyone knows any way to stream it let me know. I was running the stream live through a backdoor on their site after the homepage went down, but that isn't working any longer.

***Honduran newspaper El Libertador is reporting 10 people have been killed by military/police forces, 25 have been wounded with gunshots, 20 people are suffering stabbings wounds inflicted by the military, and 3 people are reported to have been tortured, one of whom showed El Libertador over 100 cigarette burn marks on his arm, and the other two had multiple broken bones.***

(Image from Paul Carbajal at Adrienne Pine’s Quotha.net of captives from yesterday’s arrests)

4:15pm - New link to stream Radio Globo!

Free TV : Ustream

4:33 pm - 4 buses filled with Zelaya supporters have been detained in La Ceiba

4:59 pm - Police are dispersing protesters in the Central Park of Tegucigalpa with teargas

5:11 pm - President Zelaya speaks with Radio Globo. He says the interim-government refuses to meet with him. The police have become a destructive force in Honduras, pawns of the oligarchy. There is extreme repression against the Honduran people. As the legitimate dignitary of Honduras, he asks for the U.N. to take the necessary actions.

Zelaya says he is working with various sectors in Honduras to reclaim his presidency. He denounces the military and coup, saying "the people must rule in Honduras, not rifles." He added, "the people are manifesting peacefully in the street and they are being murdered."

"The people live for democracy... everything we have lost during this (the coup) can be recovered. Tomorrow we will keep struggling for democracy, and we will continue struggling. My life is dedicated solely to the Honduran people." - Zelaya

5:24 pm - Michelleti on CNN, claiming that everything he is doing is constitutional. When asked how he responds to the fact that the international community almost completely supports Zelaya, he says he has God and the Honduran constitution on his side.

Live Blog: Coup Attacks Resistance

5:19pm - Radio Globo: Over 300 people arrested in Tegucigalpa-police firing live rounds and tear gas into crowds of protesters refusing to comply with curfew. Canal 36 shut down by military. 22 wounded currently being treated in Hospital Escuela.

6:02pm - AP Report: The United States pledged to do whatever it can to help Brazil's embassy in Honduras, which was surrounded by soldiers and had its lights, water and phone lines cut off after deposed President Manuel Zelaya took refuge there.

6:19pm - The de-facto regime just cut into Radio Globo's broadcast denouncing the Brazilian government for allowing Zelaya to stay there. They are demanding that Brazil turns Zelaya over to the military or take him out of the country.

Telesur reports two killed by military forces, many injured and even more detained. Embassy of Brazil still without electricity/water/phones:

Al Jazeera Report: Zelaya in Honduras - Coup Violently Represses Supporters

Live Blog: Pres. Zelaya returns to Honduras

2:40pm - AP Report: Exiled Honduran president returns to capital
Zelaya returned to Honduras and is calling the resistance to gather in
front of the United Nations building in Tegucigalpa to protect the
constitutional president of Honduras.

De-facto President Roberto Micheletti denies Zelaya's presence in Teguciglpa, claims he is in Nicaragua


2:46pm - AP Report: State Department Confirms Zelaya's Presence in Honduras

3:02pm - Al Giordano/NarcoNews: TeleSur reporter Adriana Sívori is now inside the Brazilian Embassy and confirms President Zelaya's physical presence there. TeleSur is showing images of uniformed National Police members, with billy clubs, shields, helmets and guns, surrounding the zone near the Brazilian Embassy

3:40pm - Radio Globo is streaming radio from the front of the Brazilian Embassy.
http://www.radioglobohonduras.com

4:35pm - Al Giordano:

"This is a textbook example of "dilemma actions." It puts the coup regime on the horns of a dilemma, in which it has no good options. It can leave Zelaya to put together his government again from the Brazilian embassy with the active support of so many sectors of Honduran civil society, or it can try to arrest the President, provoking a nonviolent ... Read Moreinsurrection from the people of the kind that has toppled many a regime throughout history.

Minute by minute, hour by hour, and, soon, day by day, the coup regime is losing its grip. At some point it will have to choose either to unleash a terrible violent wave of state terrorism upon the country's own people - which will provoke all out insurrection in response (guaranteed by Article 3 of the Honduran Constitution) - or Micheletti and his Simian Council can start packing their bags. Meanwhile, the people are coming down from the hills to meet their elected president. This is immediate history"

5:21pm - Interim government declares curfew

5:32pm - Organizers of the resistance are telling people to ignore the curfew and stay in the streets, and are telling the military that only Zelaya can call a curfew and that they dont want any blood spilled tonight. The OAS just called an emergency meeting right now.

5:50om - Regime cut electricity to the entire neighborhood surrounding the Brazilian embassy.

8:17pm - Interim government extends the military curfew until 6 p.m. tomorrow evening, which means nobody goes to work on Tuesday, not even during daylight hours, and all stores will be closed.

10:40pm - Radio Globo: "The coup regime is suspending all international flights to keep the OAS and UN officials out of the country. Honduras is in a state of revolution.The barrios are igniting with the fever of rebellion. This coup will fall!"

1:05am - Radio Globo: "We are in the final offensive, in spite of the curfew there are still over 20,000 surrounding the Brazilian embassy."

"We are here peacefully, unarmed because we are the people and don't fear the military. The military must serve the people and their democratically elected president, Mel Zelaya"