Political Situation

Most of you have probably heard about the current political situation in Honduras. If not, go to any news website and you can read lots about it. We are fine here in Catacamas. Basically, the military surrounded the president's house early yesterday morning and forcefully took him to Costa Rica where he was let go. There was no power in most of Honduras until noon yesterday and most radio and television communications were cut off. This happened right before his constitutional referendum vote was supposed to take place. The ballots were then collected by the army and the president of congress was sworn in as the new president of Honduras. This of course did not make many people happy, especially the president of Venezuela. Right now pretty much all political leaders outside of Honduras (and many people here) are refusing to recognize anyone but the old president as president of Honduras. We have no idea what will happen. A national curfew was imposed for last night and tonight and nobody is supposed to be outside from 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM. It was actually kind of nice last night because everything was closed up and quiet for the first time ever. It was kind of bizarre. It did anger Shannon because it meant that she could not go running since she goes at 5:30. There is a march supporting Mel (the ousted president) in Catacamas today which we will be staying away from. He is from Catacamas and has a house here so it is likely that he has a lot of supporters here. Peace Corps has kept us fairly well informed and be assured that if anything violent happens we will most likely be evacuated. Hopefully things will calm down soon and we can go back to normal life. Right now we are still not allowed to travel or leave our sites. Good thing we have everything we need here! We will keep you posted about the situation here.