Locked up & Locked down!

After spending the entire day running from office to office in Puerto Corez the result is they locked up our truck in their holding bay and I will have to return again tomorrow to try to get it released and to get tags for it. The latest estimate is now ranging between 60,000 & 90,000 limperas! Not good, not what we hoped for.

Mel Zelaya, the ousted president, returned to the country today despite the outstanding warrants (16) for his arrest upon returning to Honduran soil. He entered through the Brazilian Embassy and is taking refuge there for the time being. The country is in a state of turmoil and most are afraid of what will happen next. At 3:30 p.m. today they issued a curfew order beginning at 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning...that means no one on the streets at all! I hope we can still get to Puerto Cortez before the country completely shuts down....we need our truck!

Everything is getting worse here...our garbage hasn't been picked up in three weeks now, the road between SPS & Teguic. was shut down completely for two days this week because of the collapse of a storm water culvert that caused an oil tanker to overturn in the chasm, and the police are just getting crazy with their roadblocks and bribe techniques. Our child psychologist took a leave of absence today to deal with her mother's illness, just when we needed her the most...we had decided to withdraw Antonio from his special needs school, which did him a great disservice, and allow her to work with him one on one.

There are many, many prayer needs here...take your pick and press in!