TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- De facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti is succeeding in quelling popular support for ousted president Manuel Zelaya, analysts say.
Despite calls for an uprising and general strike to support Zelaya, three months after his ouster his backers been unable to mobilize in the kinds of numbers required to force a change, The Miami Herald reported Sunday.
Called "The Resistance," the movement boasts frequent rallies. But Micheletti is still in power and has indicated he won't leave office until after the Nov. 29 presidential elections, the Herald said.
"We did not find people disappeared like you'd have seen 20 years ago," University of Notre Dame law Professor Paolo Carozza told the newspaper. "They'll detain 100, 150, 200 people at a march and put them in a detention facility. They will only beat up a dozen of them. In the meantime, it's enough to break up the demonstration and make people a little more careful about going out next time."
Resistance organizer Juan Barahona said appearances are deceiving.
"There are two reasons that from the outside it looks like there is no movement here: One, it's peaceful; and two, the media here doesn't report anything," he said.
