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Puta I am tired. I have been waiting for the OAS resolution in which they discuss suspending Honduras from the organization. The de facto government of Micheletti tried yesterday to decounce the organization, since it's not an internationally recognized authority, but it didn't work. All of this is ridiculous. The right is shouting sovereignty and independence. In the morning on the national channel Cardenal Rodriguez gave a speech taking a position in favor of the coup, calling for peace and "sanity" which in his terms mean that the people should let others decide for it. And just in case it wasn't clear, he ended his speech with a clear threat affirming that if Mel Zelaya returned to the country, the blood would flow. Mel plans to arrive tomorrow around midday.
Today's march was enormous. I know I say this every day, but this is how it feels. Each day the march is bigger, much bigger than the day before. In Tegucigalpa they say it was a protest of 250,000 people. In San Pedro Sula they're talking about a figure of 150,000. The media have always worked hard at telling us that we Hondurans are halfwits, passive, indifferent. But today they's seen that's not the case. Thousands and thousands of people walking for kilometers so their voices may be heard. It is truly impressive.
The work of organizing the resistance to maintain peace within the demonstrations must be recognized. Controlling thousands of people is hard work, and more so when the anger has been accumulating for decades, but they have achieved it well, there has not been violence and we hope it continues that way. Although looking at the posture of the de facto government and the threat of Cardinal Rodriguez and then hearing the ambassador of Nicaragua in the OAS who claimed to know of a plan to provoke bloodshed upon the arrival of Mel, it seems like violence is inevitable.
Here we are preparing for the worst, it seems we are living the new model of coup d'etat in which repression is more covered up, but it seems that it may be different from other coups in our memory, especially since we can see the de facto government more and more cornered and isolated from the world.
Tomorrow we await the arrival of more people for the march, although it's hard for me to imagine that even more people that we've already had could come. We await Zelaya's arrival, and we resisters maintain our morale and, with all our hearts, hope that his arrival will reflect the peacefulness (but without weakening our resolve) with which we have resisted.
They will not win!
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