The Honduran interim government said late Wednesday that a curfew would be reinstated from midnight to 5 a.m.
The curfew would be reimposed due to “continued, open threats by groups who seek to provoke disturbances and disorder,” the interim presidency said in a statement.
Thousands of demonstrators marched through the Honduran capital on Wednesday, calling for ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement, before internationally brokered talks resume on Saturday in Costa Rica.
Zelaya’s supporters threatened strikes and workers at state-owned companies are planning walkouts later this week, increasing pressure on interim leader Roberto Micheletti’s de facto government.
Earlier Wednesday, Micheletti said he was ready to resign on the condition that Zelaya does not return to power.
Micheletti told reporters he is “willing to leave office if at some point that decision is needed to bring peace and tranquility to the country, but without any return, and I stress that, of former President Zelaya.”
Micheletti was appointed interim president by the congress hours after Zelaya was seized from his bed and forcefully flown to Costa Rica on June 28.
Zelaya, with wide international support, has been actively pressing for his reinstatement. On Tuesday, he called on the Honduran people to stage an “insurrection” against the de facto government to help bring him back to power.