Zelaya Doesn't Blink: Two Airplanes Heading South Today

just WOW!!!

Gives new meaning to the phrase "May you live in interesting times."

I'll be here and anxious for updates. Thanks for being ON this story so well!!!

As me and my steelworker family from Ohio watch this minute-by-minute on Telesur via the internet, it is amazing to think how far things have come since Jan 1, 1994 when NAFTA was signed into law. Our steel mills closed down at an even faster rate but the Americas started coming together in a new way.

Thanks to NarcoNews and Telesur for their non-stop coverage of this disgusting attempt to return to an Americas where big business kidnapped or kiled any leader they didn't like.

Seeing the Honduran people march on the airport, the airplanes are in the sky and flying south, the world is on edge waiting to see what will happen. We NEED to see Mel reinstated! If not, we will have sacrificed one victory too many in the Americas, where we still have a long way to go even after the elections of Morales, Chavez, Correa, Lula da Silva, Kirchner, Zelaya and all the others committed to changing the social order in our hemisphere, which belongs to the people, not the parasitic oligarchs!

Thank you again!!! SOLIDARITY!

The hopes of everyone who believes in democracy and social justice are riding in those planes.

The people will triumph, the coup plotters must fail. The poor must get justice.

According to several Telesur reports from their live video feed, Zelaya's plane only recently left Washington D.C.

That would put his arrival at around 6:00pm Eastern time.

Al, I just came from reading #Honduras twitters and was able to identify that 'news' about the ES landing as disinfo thanks to your having included the info in the original post about flight time. 

As you make updates this afternoon, could you include the time you post each one?  That might also be helpful in continuing to be able to spot and combat disinformation.  Thanks!

Time will tell.

The word "citizen" used as a diminuitive epithet!  Speaks volumes.

Did Telesur report what kind of plane he is on? Do you think he is traveling on a UN plane?

from where I am in the US. Must be all the traffic. I can't even load a page.

Do they really think anybody will buy that crap?  Nicaragua and Venezuela are coming to get you? Definitely playing to their wacky, desperate base.

http://bit.ly/7bq3u

Some one put it on Twitter.  I was having the same problems connecting, but this one started right up.

A report [today/tomorrow there] in the Taiwan News, which might shed light on the Nicaraguan troops along the Honduran border, assuming that report is true.

Excerpted: 

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega apologized to Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Saturday for missing a Friday evening state banquet because of the festering crisis in neighboring Honduras and declared that all sides must "absolutely avoid any bloody conflict" in Honduras.

... Moreover, Ortega related that a conference of bishops in Honduras had warned that there would be a "bloodbath" if Zelaya returned given intensifying domestic antagonism and the stiffening attitude of the military-backed government, which has already clamped down on critical media.

"We also received some information that the archbishop of Honduras had warned that there would be a bloodbath in Honduras if he returned," said the Nicaraguan president, evidently referring to a statement by Catholic Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez who warned Zelaya in a broadcast statement that "your return to the country could unleash a bloodbath."

"We need to unite to ensure that this does not happen and to absolutely avoid any bloody confrontation," declared Ortega. Ortega told Ma and the audience that there "had been many statements or new unfavorable to Nicaragua" and added that there had already been some small-scale conflicts between Nicaraguan and Honduran troops on the long border between the two nations.

Can't confirm but I don't think they're in a United Nations marked airplane.

I've been busy all day until now. Sorry about that. Also having trouble getting Telesur site to open.

Thank you. It worked like a charm, and now I'm watching live TV coverage.

July 5, about 2 pm local time, Honduras:
A nationally broadcast press conference of the government with the "presidente electo' (sic) Micheletti and others announced that there were troops in Nicaragua moving toward the border. Later it was called a "psychological invasion." When asked for details, it was stated that there were small groups of Nicaraguan troops, perhaps under the leadership of their small group. No other detail of place or number of troops was made known.

Excellent coverage keep it up!

If it weren't for independent journalism, who knows what would happen.

We are full supporting the Honduran people's democracy struggle against coup. Coup and the Honduran oligarchy will be defeat. (Party of Socialist Democracy - Turkey)

I'm gonna do it anyway. Things are calm at home now.

I just checked into the website of a center-left newspaper in Austria and you wouldn't believe it how many German-speaking Peruans are posting there. Their German is not entirely grammatically correct and a little bit "outdated", which makes them easily recognizable.

But still. Frack me! What's the benefit of that?

but am I hearing/reading correctly that the military has retreated and allowed people @ the airport?

I don't know if any of you still have problems getting TeleSur, but they've just reported (with live video) that the military has moved their bloackades and are now allowing the peaceful march to proceed, which they did, to the fence of the airport.

Are they obeying Zelaya's order to allow him to "embrace" his people? Seems so...

on edit: alternate link to TeleSur: http://bit.ly/7bq3u

I wonder if this coup isn't the result of planning from the Cheney days? Was this supposed to precipitate the crisis that would have led to war with Venezuela?

If McCain was in charge, he would be backing the coup's leaders, and I'm sure the leftists in the hemisphere would be on the other side. These are School of the Americas grads in the coup structure; the Pentagon's foreign policy experts.

Al wrote about how Venezuela was being set up as the next baddie - the tripwire that would lead to American military involvement.

I wonder if this plot was the round in the chamber, and while Obama wasn't going to go along, it kind of got fired by mistake? This is the kind of stuff I always imagine Cheney cooking up with the military teams in those 'undisclosed locations' he was always at.