Some Freedom Today

They finally took away the curfew today (temporarily). We were allowed to go out for 6 hours, 10 am - 4 pm. I tried to go to the supermarket to get food, which I normally do every Tuesday. The traffic and lines in front of 4 differnt stores I went to were horrendous to say the least. I was at a complete stop in traffic for a half hour, a block away from the store I usually go to. When an opening finally allowed me to pull through and get out of the area, I could see about 1000 people in front of the store waiting for it to open. I went to the other stores and all had the same thing. I have no patiences for huge lines and we still have food in the house, so I headed for home. All the gas stations had long lines as well spilling out into the streets which caused the traffic to back up all over town. I figured I would try again after a couple of days on Friday. Gigo also went to the supermarket with the girls and they had more patiences than I did. They waited in line from 10 am and finally got back to the casa at 3 pm. Each time a person left freeing up a cart, the next person could go in with it.

When I checked the news this afternoon, the headline from the AP was exactly what I saw here: "Curfew-trapped Hondurans seek food amid crisis" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup
One line from that article really sums up how I see most of the people feel here: "Many Hondurans feel caught in the middle of a fight between two leaders — neither of whom they support." That says it all. I don't think there are that many people who actually like Mel Zeyala and probably even fewer who like Micheletti.

The casa in San Pedro Sula is 4 hours north of the capital, Tegucigalpa, where most of the political problems are. There are rallys and protests here, but nothing like what is going on down there. Today was somewhat normal for 6 hours, just jammed with everyone going out at the exact same time to do the same things, get food and gas. Life inside the casa is just like any other Saturday or Sunday. No school and if you don't listen to the TV or radio you would never know there are any problems going on in this country. I think thats a good thing.