++ The Río Group, the Central American Integration System, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas and the Organization of American States agreed to use trade and international lobby mechanisms to put pressure on coup leaders in Honduras to make them accept the reinstatement of Manuel Zelaya as president of Honduras… The regional groups warned that if Zelaya is not allowed to return to power, Honduras might be expelled from the OAS.
++ In a separate decision, countries that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, that are Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Cuba, agreed to pull their ambassadors from Honduras as reprisal for the coup d’etat.
++ Meanwhile, skirmishes between police and Zelaya sympathizers left scores of wounded…
++ President Felipe Calderón expressed his support for a return to constitutional order in Honduras, and therefore his support for president Manuel Zelaya.
++ U.S. President Barack Obama said the coup d’etat in Honduras is illegal and that Zelaya continues to be the country’s president.
++ A judge in Sonora indicted seven of the state employees who have been charged in connection to the fire at the ABC day care center fire that killed 48 infants. They will remain free during the trials having posted bail.
++ Federal police agents detained Mariano Ortega Sánchez, a member of the PRD who is mayor of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. He is accused of links to the Familia Michoacana drug gang, as is Israel Tentory García, chief advisor to the Michoacán Rural Development Secretariat who was also arrested.
++ Federal Electoral Tribunal judge María del Carmen Alanís Figueroa, said that in Sunday’s midterm elections, 70 percent of voters will stay home.
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