Adventures of the Second Cousin

John Donaghy, a second cousin once removed of Brandy’s… see, since I’m been doing that genealogy stuff I’ve got that terminology down… is having some adventures in Honduras…

Eye of the Storm
(John Donaghy, Hermano Juancito)

The crowd was ugly, obviously whipped into a fury. At one point they opened the back door of the van and began shouting and hitting the floor. It was a very tense moment but I took a picture. Looking at it later many of the people didn’t appear to be angry, but appeared as if they were just “having fun” by trying to terrify us. This was my first experience of a real mob and it was ugly. The police intervened and closed the door. The police slowly opened up a path for us, even while the mob banged on the windows. But as we slowly progressed, we noticed several people walking beside the van. The people from the blockade were walking beside the van. They had come to protect their bishop. What courage!

As we left the bishop said that he had thought of getting out of the car. Thank God he didn’t; he would probably have been beaten, at the very least.

I was a little shaken up – but more than that I have a sense of gratitude for having had the chance to accompany the bishop, the human rights office, and the people.

He’s been posting a few times a month since he left Iowa for Honduras. It is interesting reading.