“The president is elected by the people”, said Zelaya. He added that the Honduran people will never accept a governor that has not been elected in the polls, like the current de facto president, Roberto Micheletti.

Hundreds of people arrived to the place where Zelaya is, although the area is strongly militarized, and the police and military have staged a state of siege. Over a thousand people now face a real humanitarian emergency, since the Army and the Police prevent the demonstrators from receiving food and water, which has forced many of them to drink water from polluted creeks and to eat anything that is available to them, thus endangering their health.

Besides, the de facto government has extended the curfew, in an attempt to demobilize the people. Also, the curfew is an excuse for the coup forces to detain those who take part in the peaceful protests, who are accused of violating the illegitimate measure.

Peasant leader Rafael Alegria was arrested for some hours during the weekend on those charges, although the de facto regime had denied he was under arrest. But several international journalists managed to take photographs of him in a small cell with other 45 demonstrators, to deny the declarations of the de facto authorities. In the cell there were women and children under age. When the journalists tried to approach the cell shouting “freedom” to the prisoners, they were beaten by the police, which even tried to smash the camera of a Venezuelan journalist who had taken a picture of Alegria.

But the violence of the coup regime did not end there. The body of Pedro Magdiel Muñoz, a 23 year- old, was found on Saturday with signs of torture and injuries of a white weapon.

Muñoz was described by Cesar Ham, representative of the left-wing party Unificacion Democratica, as a “heroe of the popular resistance” , and tens of people honored his memory by singing the Honduran anthem at his funeral on Sunday.

“Many will be your dead, Honduras, but they will all have fallen with honor”, chanted the people during the young man’s burial. Two armed police officers, dressed in civilian clothes, attended the funeral. They were immediately discovered by the crowd, who shouted “Murderers!” at them.

Alegria’s intervention prevented the incidents to get serious, since he interfered in response to the police provocation of showing up at Muñoz’s funeral.

“They don’t even let us bury our dead in peace”, said the peasant leader, Mexican newspaper La Jornada, reports. Tired, sweaty and protected by undercover operatives - showing once again that the movement of resistance is totally peaceful – Alegria escorted the officers to the nearest police precinct, where they were handed over.