Sunday, July 5, 2009

Fourth of July and More Updates

President Zelaya was unable to land today as the army blocked all of the runways at the international airports. His plane circled over the airport in Tegucigalpa but finally went to El Salvador instead. There are now a ton (the Venezuelan news station said 200,00 but we don't know if that is true) of pro-Zelaya supporters in Tegucigalpa at the airport. The news reported that the army opened gunfire on the protesters and that two were killed and various others wounded. We now have a curfew starting at 6:30 P.M. which was not announced until about 6:00 P.M. today. Needless to say, there are still a ton of people outside. Things are still calm here in Catacamas. Schools are supposed to resume tomorrow so hopefully life will return to kind of normal again. We are tired of doing nothing. Yesterday we had a Fourth of July party at our house and it was really fun. A ton of people came and we ate some good food, played some beer pong, and hung out. There were no fireworks but it was good to be with other people as we have been cooped up all week.

2 comments:

notaslavetofashion said...

Guys,
Thank you for your update. It is refreshing to hear news of what's going on down there. I am an RPCV (Honduras 02 - 04, Sabanetas, Marcala, La Paz) and husband to a host country national. I wrote Luis Estrada an email hoping for some insight, but I haven't gotten a response. I hope you get to stay in your sites. Keep posting, and SUERTE!!!

Kevin and Shannon said...

Glad we can be of help! Luis is in the Dominican Republic right now with the new trainees so that is probably why he didn't get back to you. I think he's been pretty busy with all the stuff that's been going on!

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