The National Front against the Coup in Honduras extended today the road blocks to vast regions in the country to demand the end of the de facto regime and the return to the institutional order.
The blocks include the roads linking the capital with San Pedro Sula, second city in importance and the one leading north where the main industrial zone of the country is located.
Roads and bridges in Progreso, Olancho, at the border with Guatemala and El Salvador and in all the Caribbean coast, where US transnationals ship banana, said Juan Barahona, coordinator of the Popular Bloc.
"The Honduran people maintains street resistance. We have blocked the country," declared Barahona in an interview with Prensa Latina. The popular leader denounced army repression against peaceful demonstrations and the arrest during the last hours of at least five youths in Tegucigalpa and Olancho.
The Central American country entered today in its 13rd day under curfew decreed by the de facto regime which took power after the coup d'Etat against president Manuel Zelaya.
"We are decided to continue the struggle until the coupists are ousted," expressed Barahona and announced the continuation of protests and the celebration of a National Assembly next week to define new strategies.
About talks in Costa Rica with the mediation of president Oscar Arias, Barahona said the coupists are playing to delay their time in power, showing they have the empire's support.