"The Micheletti government refused to allow four diplomats to enter Honduras on Sunday. They were from the Washington-based Organization of American States and had come to Honduras to organize an upcoming OAS mission.

OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza called the decision "incomprehensible" and added in a statement, 'Actions like this one adopted today by Honduran authorities of the de facto regime create serious difficulties for those trying to create social peace in Honduras.'

"The Micheletti government on Sunday gave Brazil 10 days to hand over Zelaya, who's wanted on charges of corruption and abuse of power, or send him to another country.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva swatted aside the demand, saying that his government "doesn't accept ultimatums from coup-plotters."

Meanwhile, Laura Carlson writes at Counterpunch about the sound and chemical warfare attacks by the coup 

regime on the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital where the exiled elected president, Manuel Zelaya, has been staying since his return.  

"The UN Security Council today called upon the de facto government of Honduras to "cease harassing the Brazilian Embassy" and "condemned acts of intimidation."

"These devices are described as a "non-lethal weapon" produced by the U.S.-based American Technology Corporation. They emit painful sound at 151 db. with a range of 300 meters on land, and are used in situations of war and to control demonstrations.

"While acoustics weapons have been used over the past several days, on Friday the Armed Forces sprayed the Embassy with poisonous gases and by some accounts pumped them into the building through the drainage system. The Honduran News Network reports that First Lady Xiomara Castro de Zelaya climbed a ladder to ascertain the source of the attacks and was sprayed with chemicals. She and others in the Embassy are reportedly experiencing bleeding as a result of the effects of the chemicals.

"Father Andres Tamayo described the situation to Radio Progreso, 'Over a thousand soldiers in front (of the Embassy) left and returned with a cistern and helicopters spraying gases. There are also neighbors that lent their houses to spray these things and house the military. They have placed pipes to spread the gases. We feel a tightness in our stomachs and throat, vomiting, dizziness and some people are urinating blood. There are more than a thousand people around here and at this moment all we can do is drink a little milk.' "

Carlson concludes: "With the no-holds-barred repression unleashed by the coup regime and the increasing militancy and organization of the resistance--still adhering to principles of non-violence, to their credit--the political ground has once again shifted in Honduras. The terms of the San Jose Accords, hammered out by President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica and consistently rejected by the coup regime, have become clearly obsolete. The demand for a constitutional assembly has grown in breadth and volume throughout the country. The urgent tasks before the international community are to recognize that the crisis requires structural reforms and not patch-ups, to halt the human rights violations immediately, and to take all diplomatic steps toward the reinstatement of the constitutional government."