Saturday, August 01, 2009

Honduras: Zelaya's wife returns for demonstration

FOCUS Information Agency - Wife of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned to the capital Friday and joined a demonstration against the interim government, Xinhua News Agency infromed.

Xiomara Castro had been since June 24 in El Paraiso, east of the country, together with her daughter and other relatives, since the interim government prevented them from crossing the Nicaraguan border to join Zelaya.

Castro arrived in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital on Friday to join the Front of National Resistance, which for the second consecutive day has marched on Tegucigalpa’s streets.
"We are going to continue the fight, we have solidarity with the people who were attacked yesterday," Castro told supporters in front of the government palace.

"Today that olive-green uniform means repression, today that olive-green uniform means dead," she said.

Hundreds of Zelaya's followers took to the streets on Friday to block highways for a second day after demonstrations on the previous day were dispersed by police with tear gas.
On Thursday, at least six people were injured and 88 were detained during demonstrations. Police has said it will immediately disperse any kind of protests.
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