UN General Assembly
2009

of people, almost martyrs, was able to escape those trying to carry out a coup d’état. The perpetrators of the coup had brought repression to the Plaza Morazán in Tegucigalpa and had taken every single road. They had an entire army; it was as if they had invaded Honduras with their own army — what an indignity. From here I make an appeal — I, who am a revolutionary soldier — to the soldiers of Honduras, to the sons of Morazán to not continue to repress an innocent people. While we are here, Manuel Zelaya, the President of Honduras, is in the Brazilian embassy, which has given him refuge. According to what the President has told me, there are more than 200 soldiers surrounding the embassy in the most brutal fashion. Were they trying to go back to the Stone Age? It will not work. Is that what the perpetrators of the coup d’état had in mind? They will be swept away by the wind of the new age. The coup cannot succeed, these regressive forces