With some police and military have been talking yesterday (Monday) to find a solution to the crisis, Zelaya told AFP, while Honduras was under a high stress environment, exacerbated by the curfew imposed by the de facto regime and uncertainty about what will happen.
The international community called on the government's de facto Roberto Micheletti to negotiate a solution and called for guaranteed security Zelaya, while food shortages and water at the Brazilian embassy. Inside is about 300 people accompanied the ousted leader.
The de facto government denied Tuesday that seeks to pave the embassy to capture Zelaya.
It has been thought, nor will any raid on the U.S. embassy to rescue Mr. Manuel Zelaya, said Micheletti Vice Chancellor, Martha Lorena Alvarado, in a radio and television.
The de facto government extended the curfew until Wednesday the local 06H00 (12H00 GMT).
Zelaya said Micheletti imposed a curfew and closed airports for further isolate Honduras in order to prevent the arrival of international missions in search of an exit.
Military and police surrounded at dawn Tuesday the Brazilian embassy, where Zelaya, deposed in coup June 28-took refuge after returning to the country on Monday and forced to withdraw thousands of demonstrators who had spent the night at its outskirts.
The soldiers, many with their faces covered with ski masks, tear gas and beat some 4,000 protesters to force them to leave the area of the embassy. Eighteen injured were treated at the Teaching Hospital, hospital officials said.
hooded policemen arrived, we fired tear gas and clubbed they caught us, said the peasant Francisco Zelaya (53), as a nurse stitched three wounds in the head, told AFP.
The OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, said he hoped to travel to Tegucigalpa guarantees to mediate a return to democracy, while the voices grew by an early solution to the conflict in Honduras, at the start of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Return of Zelaya in Honduras certainly increases the tension but also creates a great opportunity, Insulza said in New York.
Military loudspeakers placed in front of the Brazilian embassy and the raucous way they played the national anthem, following the example of U.S. troops in to harass the former Panama dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega, after he took refuge at the Vatican embassy after the 1989 invasion.
The European Union, meanwhile, urged all parties concerned to refrain from any actions that could increase tension and violence.
Spain also called for calm in Honduras, while Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana demanded to cease the repression of demonstrators .
Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, called on the government de facto accept a solution negotiated and democratically to enable the return of Zelaya to power.
The coup-makers should give rise to who is entitled to be in that place, which is the democratically elected president by the people, Lula said in New York.
The Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa had electricity, water and telephone cut off and called for support to U.S. delegation, said Foreign Ministry in Brasilia. The fact was confirmed in Washington by State Department spokesman, Ian Kelly.
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