HONDURAS: “Coup Perpetrators Try to Intimidate Zelaya’s Family”
July 30, 2009
HAVANA, Cuba, July 29 (acn) The wife of Honduran constitutional president Jose Manuel Zelaya, Xiomara Castro, denounced on Wednesday that followers of the coup perpetrators tried to intimidate her along with other relatives, and ordered them to leave the country. The First Lady told Telesur television network that a caravan of vehicles came during the first hours of the day, that there were shots and that by way of megaphones they were told to leave the hotel, the Prensa Latina news agency reports. Zelaya’s wife added that there’s a lot of pressure on them, that followers of the coup perpetrators circulated around the city demanding her through the megaphones to get out and dialogue with a commission to get to an agreement with respect to her departure from El Paraíso. Although there has been a permanent curfew in that department since Friday, the intimidating groups maneuvered freely, and were even escorted by soldiers, she added. Xiomara explained that they arrived to the place where she and her family are now located by way of deception, accompanied by a judge who never showed them the resolution of the Supreme Court that authorized the transfer of the relatives and the rest of the people who were going to meet Zelaya. When we arrived to El Paraíso, we were told that only Zelaya’s relatives could continue their way, then they said only I, and later on only my daughter, Xiomara Hortensia. That’s why we decided to interrupt the trip; we lacked safety, added the interviewee. The idea was to use with us a mechanism similar to the one used by the military to take Zelaya out of the country, and then also prevent our return to Honduras, she emphasized. She reiterated that their demands are free movement, the elimination of the military posts, and the elimination of the state of siege maintained in El Paraíso for more than six days now. We demand that they let us get to the Nicaraguan border to meet with the President and other Hondurans gathered in Ocotal, said the Honduran First Lady in her statements to Telesur. worldnews/trm/trm/aga Intentan intimidar golpistas a familia de Zelaya Cuban News Agency www.cubanews.ain.cu ainnews@ain.cu
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