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Another missed translation, day 8, originally posted Sunday, 05 July 2009 at 22:45
Shit I am sad. It's hard for me to not start to cry as I write this. We really thought that we would be able to recover our democracy without blood, with the song and dance that up until now has made up the resistance. But that's not how it was. The army shot at us and killed, injured, and profoundly wounded this nation. As the cardinal said, there will be bloodshed, and despite his threat we continue ahead. Having courage does not mean having no fear; it means having fear and going forth anyway.
Nobody listens anymore to any "authority" figure because we have all discovered that they are now the enemy.
Even more people joined today's march. Some media sources estimate it was 400,000 people. All of us in peace, everyone happy to be in the streets feeling ourselves to be united, strong, huge. We arrived at the airport and passed the police blockades talking with them. We don't want violence, we're not looking for confrontation. "Police, friend, our fight is not with you." [translator's note: rhyming chant in Spanish]
Around four in the afternoon, while the people of Honduras waited for Zelaya's plane (which couldn't land because of the tanks and trucks on the runway), some people began to break through the blockade protecting the airport and the army took this as a provocation and fired on the march.
Try to imagine, thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from the bullets and the gas. I was up front, I videotaped the soldiers shooting and I saw their faces of hate, of rage. The women at my side cried, helplessly shouting: we don't have weapons, stop shooting. But they continued shooting. At some point someone shouted that they were firing blanks, and people believed it and went ahead, but they were real and they killed. Isis Obed Murrillo Mencías, 19 years old, is proof of that.
Gathered around his blood, people began to sing the national anthem and I can assure you that I had never felt it resonate so deeply. "Oh Honduras your dead will be many, but they will all fall with honor."
At the end of the march we discovered that the government decreed a curfew beginning at 6:30. It was 6 and we didn't have any transportation. With difficulty we were able to find a safe location only to discover that a number of friends had been arrested and we still don't know where they were taken.
Micheletti thought that by shooting at us he would make our fear grow, but he is wrong. Tomorrow at the same time, in the same place the march will convene to show them, to show the Fascism of the entire world that ¡No pasarán!
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Mierda que estoy triste, me cuesta no comenzar a llorar al momento de escribir esta nota. Realmente creimos que ibamos poder recuperar nueestra democracia sin sangre, con baile y con la fiesta que ha sido hasta ahora esta resistencia. Pero no fue asi. El ejercito nos disparo y mato, hirio, lastimo profundamente esta nación. El cardenal lo dijo, habrá derramamiento de sangre y pese a su amenaza seguimos adelante. Ser valiente no es no tener miedo, es tener miedo y a pesar de ello seguir adelante.
Nadie escucha ya a niguna figura de "autoridad" porque todos hemos decubiertos que ahora son nuestro enemigo.
En la marcha de hoy se sumaron aun mas personas. Algunos medios manejar 400,000 personas. Todos en paz, todos felices de estar en las calles sintiéndonos uno, fuerte, grandes. Llegamos al aeropuerto y pasamos los cercos de la policía hablando con ellos. No queremos violencia, no buscamos enfrentamientos. "Policía, amigo, la lucha no es contigo".
A la altura de las cuatro de la tarde, mientas el pueblo esperaba el avión de Zelaya (que además no pudo aterrizar por los tanques y camiones en la pista), algunas personas comenzaron a romper la cerca que protege el aeropuerto y el ejercito tomó eso como una provocación y disparó contra la marcha.
Háganse una idea, miles de personas, cientos de miles de personas uyendo de las balas y los gases. Yo estaba en el frente, grabé a los soldados disparandonos y vi sus rostros de odio, de rabia. Las mujeres al par mio lloraban impotentes gritando: no tenemos armas, no nos disparen. Pero ellos seguían disparando. En algún momento alguién gritó que las balas eran de salva, la gente le creyó y se fue adelante, pero eran reales y mataban. Isis Obed Murrillo Mencías, de diesinueve años es prueba de ellos.
Al rededor de su sangre la gente comenzó a cantar el himno nacional y puedo asegurarles que nuncha lo había sentido tan profundamente. "Serán muchos oh Honduras tus muertos, pero todos caeran con honor".
Al terminar la marcha descubrimos que el gobierno decretó toque de queda a partir de las 6 y media. Eran las 6 y no teníamos transporte. Con dificultad logramos llegar a un lugar seguro para descubrir que varios de nuestros amigos están detenidos y aun no se sabe en dónde.
Michellety pensó que al dispararnos haría que el miedo creciera entre nosotros, pero se equivoca. Mañana a la misma hora, en el mismo lugar se reunirá la marcha para demostrarles, para demostrarle al Fascismo de todo el mundo que ¡No pasarán!
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