Translated (hurriedly) from my friend Oscar:

Originally posted Friday at 00:55

Today in the morning my computer died from a terrible virus that smoked my startup disk. Strange, because I have a good anti-virus program. If we were living under normal conditions I might think I'd been careless, but given the conditions in which we find ourselves, I should think that Honduran intelligence has become sophisticated enough to kill the computers of the resistance. So as it is, I'm writing from another machine.

The marches keep growing. The quantity of people who mobilized today was impressive, more, much more than on previous days and we keep growing. It was a beautiful sea of people, a popular fiesta that raised everyone's morale and made us believe that yes, it is possible to change this world. Among the protesters I could see people who had never marched for anything in their lives and today they were there.

The prominence among the marchers of the figure of Carlos Eduardo Reina, son of one of the most well-known politicians from the left of the liberal party, drew my attention. It gave the impression, that with all that's going on, they're trying to raise his profile among people to be able to make him a party figure in the future. It's not surprising, more than one hero will likely come out of this crisis. As I said yesterday, the contrast between the two marches is clear, elegant society ladies dressed in white arrive to the protest in their prada and yell that we are all equal while on the other side of the city the poor shouts No, we are not all equal!

For tomorrow another march is planned in front of the Universidad Pedagógica. Hopefully it will be even bigger than today's. Just five blocks away from ours, the Right called another march (of the whites, because they are dressed in white), to support the coup. Their decision was intentional and it is because they are trying to provoke confrontations. They've taken everything from us, and now they want to take our streets. The difference is that they have the army and the police who are working to defend them from the "filthy protesters," as one kind woman said while watching them pass in front of her house.

In the rural areas of the country the situation is more violent, arrests and repression continue, as does the persecution of artists, communicators, mayors and popular leaders. They silence local channels while they ask the army for help for fear of retaliation by the people. Regular people (those who haven't taken a side) are confused, one the one hand they feel one thing, and on the other the media is telling them something else. One thing that all this has shown is the power of the media and the huge difficulty that we in the popular movement face because we lack alternative and independent media. Although even those of us who have access have been shut out.

This country has grown and it has grown a lot. We know now that we are not all equal. We know now that we don't all want the same thing. Now we know that only the people can save the people.

They will not win.