Honduras tonight: there will be blood

From what I can put together there are colonias throughout Tegucigalpa and communities throughout the country that are “in resistance.”  There are already reports of deaths throughout the country, and more violence is expected after dawn tomorrow.

The Michetti regime has apparently given up the ridiculous fiction that — being a junta run by civilians — they are not a coup government (um, Turkey, 1971 and 1997; Cuba, 1959; Peru 1992… and others, but those came to mind quickly), or having followed the letter of the constitution when it comes to succession (as in Mexico, 1913 and 1921 — both “constitutional” coups that put civilians into the Presidency by the way) the coup was not a coup, nor the regime a dictatorship.

Laughably (or tragically) the same day Micheletti’s ghost-written defense of his “government” appeared in the Washington Post, Mel Zelaya appeared in the Brazilian Embassy.

So, Micheletti and company have given up on the pretense, decided they are in a “state of exception” (i.e., operating outside the constitution) and — as of 5 PM this afternoon — giving themselves the “legal” basis to break into the Brazilian Embassy.

Brazil has asked for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, and it looks as if the Micheletti regime has backed away from making direct assaults on a foreign embassy.  However, the army did attack the estimated several hundred people guarding the embassy (and may have killed some of them).

Soccer stadiums are being used — a la Pinochet — as temporary holding prisons, which is kind of strange, since under the curfew/state of exception, it appears Honduras has achieved the distinction of imprisoning its entire population.

Quotha.net posts a note that Red Cross buses are being used to ferry people to prison.

from Honduras Oye! (11 PM):

-Repression by police and military is increasing markedly.  A 16 year-old kid was shot and killed in the neighborhood of Las Colinas late this afternoon after having yelled at the military “golpistas, traidores.”

This picture was taken on the streets of Tegucigalpa today.  From the Mirada de Halcon website

http://miradadehalconhn.blogspot.com/

-Brazil has asked the US to convene a special meeting of the UN Security Council tomorrow during the annual meeting at UN Headquarters in NY to discuss the current situation in Honduras

-Dr. Juan Almanderes has written an open letter (in Spanish) to the President of the UN General Assembly regarding the situation in Honduras.  You can read the letter at the Habla Honduras website.

-A few members of President Zelaya’s cabinet including Patricia Rodas were supposed to have held a press conference today in New York but I can’t find any confirmation that it took place. Here’s the press announcement that I found on the Honduran embassy (in Washington) blog.

Other reports (unconfirmed) have said that some business executives and military officers — expecting that the Micheletti regime has only a few days at most to run — have already left the country.