Honduras erupts into violence as president tries to fly home

Telegraph,co.uk ^ | 12:06AM BST 06 Jul 2009 | Philip Sherwell at Tegucigalpa airport, Honduras

[justa-hairyape]

Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras ousted in a coup, is attempting to fly home from Washington and reclaim his office, sparking clashes between his supporters and the security forces which have led to at least one death.

At least one person was killed and several were injured as soldiers opened fire and let off tear gas rounds after at least 10,000 supporters of the Leftist leader descended on the airport outside the capital, Tegucigalpa.

As his supporters mobbed the airport, soldiers were deployed en masse. Violent confrontations then erupted along the perimeter fence. As demonstrators tried to rip down the fence, police fired tear gas and came under attack from a hail of stones. Shots then rang out and at least one young man was killed, shot in the head, according to several witnesses.

[smokingfrog]

A jet carrying deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya was unable to land at Tegucigalpa's airport Sunday evening amid a tense standoff between government troops and Zelaya's supporters.

[Ann Archy]

WHO paid them $150.00????

[justa-hairyape]

Barry, question: Is this violence in Honduras over the return of Zelaya a “robust debate” or “low level terrorism”?

That is the point. The MSM cheerleaders are too stupid to even realize when they are making their Idol look bad.

[Kansas58]

With politicians, and heads of State, exile is often the best way to handle these situations.
Just think it through.
In prison, in the same country, he is a martyr.
Kicked out of the country, he is actually much easier to control, and it is actually much harder for him to control his Marxist followers.

[Lexinom]

The wife of former President Zelaya is what I read.

[paulycy]

attempting to fly home from Washington

I missed this the first time around. Did 0bama meet with this guy today and not say a word about it? Then send him on his way to try to reenter Honduras? WTH is going on here?

[Chickensoup]

This is proof that one never lets a leader who has created treason by not following the country’s constitution go. They have a way of disrupting and turning up and causing war.

In the past, they have been executed. If this clown had been executed, it would have been a done deal.

[Ann Archy]

Soooooo the DICTATORS WIFE is PAYING THE PEASANTS $150.00 to RIOT and DIE??? Wow....Bammy and Michele will get ideas!

[justa-hairyape]

Did 0bama meet with this guy today and not say a word about it?

Someone claimed that the coup players were meeting at the UN, but why did the plane leave from Washington ?

[paulycy]

why did the plane leave from Washington ?

HEY NEWS REPORTERS: I'd really like to know what this guy was doing in Washington today if you could please find out? You know, DO YOUR JOBS!

[Lexinom]

That’s what I read. Now, it was from Twitter and translated from Spanish, so take with a grain of salt. However, it is highly consistent with how they operate so I had little trouble believing it.

[Dysart]

HEY NEWS REPORTERS: I'd really like to know what this guy was doing in Washington today if you could please find out? You know, DO YOUR JOBS!

[paulycy]

Yeah, you’re right. They’re busy. :0/

[AmericanInTokyo]

That isnt the HALF of it. North Korea is thrice the importance and danger of Honduras...and yet we still have all this Michael Jackson crap.

If the American PEOPLE want this puke news, then the problem is not the news outlets. They are merely dispensing the bread and circuses the masses want. Sad.

[sockmonkey]

Someone claimed that the coup players were meeting at the UN

And the President of the UN General Assembly who accompanied Zelaya on his plane is the former Foreign Minister of the Sandanistas. Unbelievable.

[catfish1957]

"Anyone hear from The One?"

He's getting rocky road with mix ins. He can't be bothered with global politcs that are 1500 miles south of us.

[Dysart]

I’ve been busy reading the pro-zela blogs and tweets, and they are getting very organized and they are openly and unapologetically communist; some based here in the U.S. I have pretty bad feeling about how this will play out. After all, who will support Democracy in Honduras now that O has so quickly thrown his support to the Zelaya?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Breaking: El Salvador mobilizing support for the Honduran communist ex-president in exile, Zelaya, through the FMLN (National Liberation Front of Farabundo Marti) organization/current government. They are heading onto the roads out of El Salvador leading into Honduras. I am listening to this on Telesur TV from Communist Venezuela live. They keep airing footage of Honduran troops firing on Communist mobs trying to storm the Honduras airport and take down the fence. Telesur TV calling for armed uprising, through the "civilian organizations" at the popular masses level, with weapons, to take down the "fascist coup" in Honduras.

They are all ganging up on poor Honduras trying nothing more than to fight the communists and potential unconstitutional dictators-for-life.

[AmericanInTokyo]

[justa-hairyape]

Yikes.