Tegucigalpa, Jul 25.- President Manuel Zelaya's return to Honduras has added fuel to popular resistance and has revealed the contradictions in the foundations supporting the coup d''etat, the newspaper Tiempo said in an editorial.
The newspaper noted that the Honduran people have proved their loyalty to the Republic by supporting Zelaya's efforts to return home and recover the presidential mandate that was snatched from him at gunpoint.

"The president's contact with the people who walked on roads flanked by rifles, by suffocating gases, to reach the bordering checkpoint of Las Manos, became a symbolic event of extraordinary personal and political courage," Tiempo noted.

The San Pedro Sula-based newspaper pointed out that the meeting was decisive to comply with the primordial goal: "the restitution of constitutional order, that is, the end of the facto regime."

Tiempo predicted more repression by the coup leaders to contain the defeat, and noted the need to make diplomatic actions more dynamic to enforce the UN and OAS resolutions on the restoration of constitutional order.

Zelaya arrived in Honduras on Friday at the bordering checkpoint of Las Manos, which is strongly guarded. He went to Nicaragua later to assess the possible ways to return home.

The de facto regime, headed by Roberto Micheletti, threatened to arrest Zelaya, and launched a ferocious repression against thousands of demonstrators who welcomed the president on the bordering town of El Paraiso.

Despite repression, Hondurans will continue to arrive at the border on Saturday to support the restitution of constitutionality and the end to the dictatorship, farmer leader Rafael Alegria said.

"We have a general slogan: to resist, to resist and to resist," Alegria stressed.  (Prensa Latina)