Today was very eventful.

• I got to see and photograph volcanos Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl from my plane window.
• But, I arrived in San Pedro Sula today only to find that my luggage had been lost. My dress clothes for tommorow were in my luggage, and also, I had brought my keyboard, so I could play a song for my parents and sing to them. The luggage just might arrive tommorow.
• Once in La Ceiba I saw a crowd of people watching Mel Zelaya on CNN, together with another huge peace march in San Pedro, that apparently involved 40 thousand people. Finally these marches were not ignored by the mainstream media. Zelaya made another failed attempt to return to the country today.
• Finally, when I tried to get to La Ceiba from the airport I found a small group from the Popular Front blocking the road. Very few people attended, as you can see in the pictures below. My greatest surprise was finding my nephew Oscar, my brother, my sister in law Ada, and my nephew Joshua by the side of the road waiting for the protesters to let them through! I had to walk across the manifestations to get to my dad’s car on the other side. but not before I snapped some pictures, as you can see below:

I’m at my parent’s computer now, and our connection is SLOWWWWW. I hope to be able to update more tomorrow.

As Mel Zelaya and a delegation of US Congress members prepare to travel to Honduras, so do I

I doubt, however, that Zelaya will enter the country yet. I hope he listens to his friends and alleged foes, Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the US, and the US Department of State, who counsel him not to return to Honduras, but instead, return to the negotiating table in Costa Rica. Only Hugo Chávez has anything to gain by violence, and of course, he backs Zelaya’s irresponsible return attempt.

Regardless of what Zelaya has said to the media, and what they have so sweetly reported, his delegation, led by former ENEE CEO Rixi Moncada, did not go to Costa Rica on Wednesday to have a dialogue, but to announce that they had declared the dialogue a failure, since last Saturday.

Those dialogues are our best hope. But hypocrites Chávez and Zelaya have said mutually exclusive declarations simultaneously. They claimed to support the dialogue, but lashed out at Oscar Arias for recieving Micheletti, calling him a “criminal”. Chávez called the dialogues a dilatory measure by the US, while at the same time, through his news channel Telesur, praised Zelaya for going to the dialogue table. The international media have bent over backward to present only Zelaya as the hero on a white stallion holding a banner of peace, when it is his supporters who are breaking peace with burning tires, rocks and insults.