Rodolfo Pastor, the new interim Honduran ambassador in DC and son of the renowned historian and Minister of Art and Culture Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle (himself in hiding from the new dictatorship at last report), is calling it a coup. Ambassador Roberto Flores Bermudez, who on the phone told a group of protesters on Monday that he was against the coup, changed his mind. On Monday, he seemed to be hedging his bets; he only made the statement in a clearly shaking voice after making them wait several hours outside the embassy--I was there, I witnessed several citizens being denied entry to the embassy and heard Flores's statement clearly on speakerphone. Flores also came to shake hands with the anti-coup protesters as the OAS on Tuesday, ignoring the small pro-coup group, before somewhat abruptly and dramatically changing his position. Pastor is a principled man, and I am quite confident that he will not change his mind. However, I am not sure about the stability of his position, since he doesn't represent the Coup government or the money.

Honduras' ambassador to the United Nations, Jorge Arturo Reina, on the other hand today told a radio station here that he does not recognize Roberto Micheletti's government.

It can't be stressed enough how history is tragically repeating himself, between Battalion 316 leader Billy Joya, war criminal Otto Reich's involvement, and the SOA graduates including Romeo Vasquez. Again, please see http://soaw.org/ for good, accurate reporting.