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Honduras coup update - July 28

Toni Sola of Tortilla con Sal is actively supporting the thousands of Hondurans who are sneaking past the military blockade (and an 18 hour curfew) to support their elected President, 'Mel' Zelaya, who is challenging the de-facto government to let him re-enter his country. Hundreds of thousands of Honduran people have maintained a rage against the coup. The level of popular support for the illegally 'exiled' President has taken all by surprise, including the international community, and the people of Nicaragua. Suddenly over four thousand supporters for Zelaya have poured over the border. With the psychologically unsound levels of military repression occurring within Honduras, they have become not only 'protestors' but also refugees. A moot point over how they will be defined in the mainstream media. (apologies for the poor sound quality of the interview taken under difficult conditions).

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Original audio source (ToniTortilla28Jul09.mp3)

Mainstream Agenda smashed on Honduras Coup - Independent observer comments

Observer 'Toni' Sola headed up to 'Las Manos', border town between Nicaragua and Honduras where there is a a standoff between President Zelaya (elected President of Honduras) and the 'goons' of the golpistas (the 'coup controllers' who shot down his front door and put him on a plane to Costa Rica).

More to come on the background of the coup, but interesting is Toni's encounter with the 'mainstream media' where this standoff was happening.

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Original audio source (Endpiecetortillaconsal_26_Jul_2009.mp3)

Honduras coup Pt. I - eyewitness report

Toni Sola of Tortilla con Sal travelled to Las Manos with the entourage of President Zelaya when the President made an attempt to reenter Honduras from the Nicaraguan border. He was hugely impressed with the numbers of Honduran supporters of President 'Mel' Zelaya, and the efforts they made to be at the border to greet him, in defiance of a militatry bockade. Many crossed over to the Nicaraguan side of the border where it looks as though a protest 'Peace Camp' is in the process of being established.

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Original audio source (ToniconsalPt1_26_Jul009_.mp3)

Honduras coup Pt. II - eyewitness report

Toni Sola - Tortilla con Sal - telling us what it was like to be at the border between Honduras and Nicaragua while President 'Mel' Zelaya attempts to reenter his country agaisnt the wishes of the military regime that expelled him during the coup of June 28. It is a waiting game, with Zelaya supporters shutting the country down until he is reinstalled as President, while the military tries to destroy the will of the people and the popular resistance through increasing repression and militarization. Toni talks about the latest casualties of the latest wave of repression.

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Original audio source (ToniConSalPt2_26_Jul_2009.mp3)

Honduras - Se preparen regreso del Presidente Zelaya

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Israel Salinas, syndicalista y Secretario General del CUTH habla con radio communitario sobre las preparaciones del pueblo para el regreso imminente del Presidente Zelaya. El pueblo Hondureno esta movilizandose hacia la frontera con Nicaragua, pero las fuerzas armadas de los golpistas tambien estan preparandose para intentar a prevenir la llegada del presidente en su pais.

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Original audio source (IsraelSalinas24_Jul_2009.mp3)