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Zelaya's wife calls for continued protest

2009-08-21 13:01 BJT

TEGUCIGALPA, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Wife of ousted Honduran President Zelaya, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, Thursday called on followers to continue marching in support of her husband.

"We will manage to defeat them, let's keep marching," she told local broadcaster Radio Globe. "We are very clear that history is allowing us to change our nation. We are fighting for real change that comes from the base of the people."

She accused those coupists of breaking the peace and social tranquility Hondurans once enjoyed and added that Zelaya would be back within days.

Zelaya's family fled to the eastern mountainous department of Olacho immediately after the coup. Xiomara Castro soon began organizing and leading rallies against the post-coup government in Honduras' capital city of Tegucigalpa and the eastern Honduran department of El Paraiso.

Editor: Zhang Pengfei | Source: Xinhua