Honduran women and men were called upon by President Manuel Zelaya Rosales to participate in a popular referendum on 28 June 2009 in order to convene a National Constituent Assembly.
In the morning of the day of the referendum, the president was abducted and removed from the country by a coup d’état.
Diverse Hondurans headed for the Presidential Palace to demand that Zelaya be returned to the office which the people entrusted to him.
Angel Palacios is a Venezuelan documentary filmmaker. He directed “Llaguno Bridge, Keys to a Massacre.” Uploaded to YouTube on 1 July 2009. Read Angel Palacios’s reports from Honduras in a series titled “Honduras Resiste” at <www.vtv.gov.ve/actualidad/honduras-resiste>.