The greatly anticipated event of the day has been the meeting that were supposed to happen in Costa Rica between the two presidents of Honduras. There was a lot of fear, I should mention, about closed-door negotiations in which the popular agenda that more or less embraced Mel Zelaya and which, I believe, motivated the coup d'etat, would be set aside. But it seems that the result of the meetings was something else. Micheletti insists on staying in power and refuses to recognize the institutional breach, and so the resistance goes on, resisting. Up until now nothing has resulted from the negotiations in Costa Rica and that puts us in an even more difficult situation.

I cannot deny that we are tired. No group or social organization can maintain massive mobilization in the streets for long without wearing people out. But they indignation and the will persist.

The right wing has announced its plan to survive the diplomatic blockade by making use of the Central Bank reserves which add up to more that 2,000 million Lempiras. This would leave the country in a terrible economic situation for the coming year. It's a joke to hear them talking, using Cuba as an example of a country that could live through a blockade for years while the immigration agency announces the expulsion of 300 Cuban educators who have been working on a literacy campaign for the past four years. Do they really think they can sit out a blockade? Do they think that they can copy the Cuban model of resistance in a country where the dominant classes have never had to sacrifice anything for their lifestyle? I don't think so, and I'm sure they don't either. But if they go on holding their ground as the dominant bloc with such resolve, it must be for a reason. Certainly they must be assured of the support of certain sectors of the U.S. government, which provides them courage. It is likely that the financial backing for all this has come from the darkest sectors like drug trafficking that are now celebrating their fiesta of impunity in Honduras, as the whole apparatus of repression has come down on the people, but what is certain is that, this fight that we are engaging in is not just ours.

It is shocking to hear Ramon Custodio declare to the press that there are no political prisoners in Honduras while the police report having captured more than 60 Venezuelans and more than 100 Nicaraguans as suspected instigators of the resistance, accusing them of sedition and terrorism. Today, upon leaving the offices of COFADEH [Committee of Families of Disappeared Detainees of Honduras], the father of Isis Murillo (the youth who was killed on July 5th outside the airport) was captured and detained. In statements to the press, David Murillo said that he had ten more sons to sacrifice for the resistance and this angered the structures of power.

They have invested large sums of money to inform people on the radio that it is unpatriotic to continue to protest, "to burn tires, deface walls, and place bombs is to not love Honduras," they say, and then order people to seek for peace and democracy in the crisis. After this particular spot the one for Elvin Santos, the official candidate [for Zelaya's party], came on, trying to convince Zelaya that, if he loves Honduras, he should not return. And although we have to watch all of this with a certain level of amusement due to its absurdity, it certainly gives the impression that the crisis is going to get worse.

How should we resist now, when we foresee a prolonged need for resistance? How can we articulate our aims from within a historically fragmented left, with its vices and authoritarians, when we now need to look at a much broader picture than the return of Mel Zelaya to the presidency? We have to be creative and brave, to loosen ourselves from the chains of legality by which we in the resistance have allowed ourselves to be bound up to this moment. Refusing to respect authority, on a constant and ongoing basis, refusing to recognize the usurpers and starting a true popular insurrection that seeks to create a plan for a nation from below. Are we ready for this? We will see in the coming days.

¡NO PASARAN!