WRAP Latest in political crisis, pro-Zelaya rally in San Salvador

(27 Sep 2009)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
1. Wide of police in street in front of Brazilian Embassy
2. Man on roof of Brazilian Embassy
3. Various of police and military around the embassy
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
4. Wide of Francisco Catunda, business attache at the Brazilian Embassy walking out of it escorted by masked policemen
5. Cut away of photographer
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Francisco Catunda, Brazilian Embassy business attache:
"President (Manuel) Zelaya is our host and President Lula said he could stay at the embassy as long as he wants."
7. Cutaway of Catunda being interviewed
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Francisco Catunda, Brazilian Embassy business attache:
"This is an atypical situation. I would say that this is the only embassy of the world that has ever been under siege."
9. Francisco Catunda walking towards car
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
10. Brazilian flag, inside the embassy grounds
11. People inside embassy looking at troops and police outside
12. Various of armed police on building nearby
13. Zelaya supporters on embassy rooftop and checking military movements in nearby houses
14. Security forces walking into nearby building
15. Pro-Zelaya demonstration marching, with heavy security escort
16. Soldiers marching alongside demonstrators
17. Man blowing cow horn
18. Various of demonstrators
San Salvador, El Salvador
19. Various of demonstration of FMLN (Front Farabundo Marti for National Liberation ) in support of Zelaya
20. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Salvador Sanchez Ceren, vice president of El Salvador:
"We want to show our solidarity with a country that's suffering, that it is fighting but still has hope."
21. Various of podium with FMLN leaders
STORYLINE:
A tight security ring remained around Brazil's embassy in the Honduras capital Tegucigalpa on Saturday as a stand-off continued between the Honduras interim government and its ousted president Manuel Zelaya.
Reports suggest no progress has been made in resolving the country's political crisis in the six days since Zelaya secretly returned, demanding to be reinstated.
Zelaya, along with relatives, some of his ministers and supporters and journalists have been holed up inside the Brazilian embassy since Monday.
Zelaya has said he made a 15-hour, cross-country overland journey using various vehicles to slip into the country undetected Monday. But the Spanish newspaper La Nacion reported Friday that the scion of a local media and banking family, attorney Yani Rosenthal, had lent him a helicopter to whisk him to Honduras.
Brazilian Embassy business attache, Francisco Catunda, told reporters outside the embassy on Saturday that this was an "atypical situation" and that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had said that Zelaya "could stay at the embassy as long as he wants."
The interim president Roberto Micheletti said on Friday that Zelaya might be allowed to leave the foreign embassy without being arrested if he is granted political asylum outside the country but that he would not negotiate face-to-face with Zelaya for the time being.
But Zelaya has said he has no intention of leaving Honduras or abandoning the office to which he was elected.
On Saturday, supporters could be seen on the embassy rooftop following the movements of government police and soldiers in nearby houses.
On Friday, Zelaya accused the interim authorities of leaking gas inside the embassy causing dizziness, bleeding and headaches.
Zelaya also denounced the constant military presence around the compound as part of the government's scare tactics.
Hopes for a solution had been stoked by the possibility that international mediators would step in to help resolve the crisis.
have offered to help resolve the crisis.


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