Violent clashes continue in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa after President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup on Sunday. This amateur video, filmed on Monday, appears to show a presidential supporter run over by a military vehicle.
The coup took place the day Zelaya had arranged an unofficial referendum to ask the country's citizens whether he could stand for a second term in office - something which the constitution does not allow. Parliamentary speaker Roberto Micheletti was voted in by Cogress later that afternoon, while ousted President Zelaya remained in Costa Rica, where he had been hastily sent into exile, while still in his pyjamas.
Protestors supporting Zelaya took to the streets the same day and were met with riot police, leading to violent clashes. Media reports of events however were scarce and contradictory after a media blackout was enforced by interim President Micheletti. The following amateur video was posted by a citizen media website called Habla Honduras, which says that the man hit by the vehicle is 30-year-old Rosel Ulises Peña, a state telecommunications worker.
Posted by Habla Honduras on Monday, July 29.
Maria Lopez (not her real name) is a design student from San Pedro Sula. She supports ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
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Bolivian press confirmed that Rosel Ulises Peña died. In any case, there hasn't
been any confirmation of him being alive or hiding. Many people have been
presumed dead and then underground media confirmed them alive and in hiding.
This person, on the contrary, hasn't. The video is pretty clear.
Yesterday there was a sit-in in support of the coup. Private companies gave their employees the day off in order to attend the sit-in. I believe payment or threats about firing them were also incentives.
The people against this are heading over to the capital, some are leaving the country. Some people have had their electricity cut off, the radio stations are only transmitting music, and the ones in favour of the people have been cut off or are transmitting underground. People are getting their information through the Internet. Well, those that can anyway. In my case, I am watching CNN and Telesur [pan-Latin American TV station] closely, I have refused to turn on my normal TV and read the local newspapers because ever since the beginning of the year there have been anti-government campaigns all over the channels.
Many universities are still open, like mine, but many students don't turn up because they're not sure if classes are on, and some can't even get here because, if they live in Progresso, [another part of the city], then they can't cross the bridge since it's blocked by the armed forces. [I've also heard that] in other places of the country, the leaders that supported the president (my president Manuel Zelaya) are being sent to jail."
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Doomed again and again to relive history
Submitted by cottus (not verified) on Mon, 06/07/2009 - 04:04.Why doesn't anybody learn from history? Is it because 'history' is the plaything of elites? It is because history is so boring? Or is because people are too impatient with the slow march of history? Is it because people think they are smarter, better than history?
As another charismatic 'Dictator for life' wannabe stumbles on his way to conquering history, don't the Zelaya supporters in Honduras look at Cuba, look at North Korea? Can't they make comparisons with Costa Rica? South Korea?
I pity the stupid buggers that ended up being made the martyrs in these endlessly repeated charades. It is a pity that he won't now be able to join the ranks of millions of us around the world, who, older and wiser, hit ourselves on the head and say "Boy I sure did a lot of stupid things when I was kid".
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