Deposed Honduran President Zelaya Calls for ‘Popular Insurrection’ Against Coup

Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is calling on his supporters to engage in a popular insurrection against the June coup in which he was overthrown by graduates of the U.S. Army School of the Americas. From AFP via Commondreams:

“The Honduran people have the right to insurrection,” said Zelaya, speaking Tuesday in the neighboring Central American country of Guatemala.

Insurrection is a legitimate democratic right “when faced with a usurping government and a coup-supporting military,” he added, urging his supporters in Honduras to strike, march and engage in civil disobedience because that is “a necessary process when the democratic order of a country is disrupted.

“I want to tell you to not leave the streets, that is the only space that they have not taken from us,” he told a news conference alongside Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom.

Zelaya has issued an ultimatum to the interim government led by Roberto Micheletti that it must relinquish power within the week and demanding his own immediate restitution.