"Don't let today be the day democracy dies in Honduras"

Canada Free Press (CFP) sources in Tegucigalpa, Honduras tell CFP that today will be one of “widespread rebellion” in the capitol. “It’s three months to the day when President Manuel Zelaya was sent packing and the interim government has suspended civil liberties in a desperate attempt to maintain public order. “Our prayer to the Creator is that that today won’t be the death of democracy in the beautiful country of Honduras,” our source told CFP in a midnight telephone call.

The sources, walked through using Twitter by CFP’s IT chief Brian Thompson, have been keeping in touch with the outside world for the past three months through Tweets. One of them, a victim of threats on his life from Zelaya supporters, has separated from his family to go into hiding. “We spent the weekend taking food and water to police officers. We know what is going on in the streets of Tegucigalpa and we are worried. “There was a protest 12 blocks long by the resistance to Zelaya but very little coverage of it.” Still holed up at the Brazilian embassy, Zelaya has called on his backers to stage mass protest marches in what he called a “final offensive” against the government. Supporters who have taken Zelaya at his word have teemed into the city from outside provinces and will march on Tegucigalpa streets today. Honduran officials also issued an ultimatum to Brazil yesterday, giving the South American country 10 days to decide whether to turn Zelaya over for arrest or grant him asylum. Officials have not budged on their position of wanting Zelaya taken out of their country. Honduran CFP contacts worry that the international community, led by the Obama administration has turned a deaf ear against them. The sources sent a copy of the August 2009 Report for Congress (Honduras.pdf) as a reminder that the removal of President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosale’s removal from office was legal under the Honduran Constitution.