Golpe de estado – day 12

The news is sparse – Costa Rican president Cosar Arias met with both Mel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, separately. Both left teams in Costa Rica to continue to negotiate.

Today I received numerous copies of statements from religious orders in Honduras. None are supportive of the coup, though some are more guarded than others. But the call for “dialogue leading to negotiating,” protests against the denial of civil rights, and concern for the poorest seem to be ever present. The concern is real from these groups of men and women religious who work with the poor and know their struggles.

I have translated two in prior posts. I have also placed copies or links to many of them in Spanish, as well as many pertinent documents in Spanish on my Spanish blog <http://www.juancitohonduras.blogspot.com>.

Today the word is clearly “negotiation,” but my concern is that the dialogue must somehow include the poor. Otherwise it’s just the same arrangement of chairs for economic and political elites. The poor must have their say.