Angry protesters at the doorsteps of Honduras' presidential palace won president Manuel

Celaya back.

The army took over the palace and sealed the entrances, their weapons at the ready.

Building sticks and steel batons, Celaya supporters tried to push themselves through

the gate, now guarded by troops in riot gear.

Columns of smoke from tires, set a light, blocked the street outside the palace.

It all began at dawn on Sunday when some 200 soldiers surrounded the president's private

home.

They took him at gunpoint and flew him out of the country to neighboring Costa Rica.

A local journalist here could not hide her frustration.

For the first time we had a president, a great president who was defending the pole, and

simply because he was defending our cause, he was kidnapped this morning, and I weep these

tears of indignation.

After arriving in Costa Rica, Celaya told his supporters they should protest in peace,

while insisting he remained the rightful president of Honduras.

I asked them to keep calm, but at the same time to defend the rights of society.

If we ourselves cannot defend the rights of society, I call for a peaceful resistance without

violence.

I asked them to seek civil disobedience in a non-violent way so that they demand the

usurpers respect Honduras' democracy.

Lady in the day the Honduran Supreme Court issued a statement saying it ordered the army

to oust Celaya for trying to hold what it said was an unlawful referendum to change the

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