On June 28, 2009 (May 6 of the 2009 lunar calendar), a military coup occurred in Honduras and the president was detained. Honduran President Zelaya was detained by the military. June 28, 2009 Honduras planned to hold a nationwide referendum starting at 7:00 local time on the 28th (21:00 Beijing time), but Zelaya was detained by the military at 6:00. Honduras's official television station issued an emergency notice at 6:43, calling on people to vote. Since then, television and radio signals have been interrupted and widespread power outages have occurred across the country. A military coup occurred in Honduras in the early morning of the 28th. President Zelaya was detained by hundreds of heavily armed soldiers and urgently transferred to San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. On the same day, Zelaya described the coup when he held a joint press conference with Costa Rican President Arias in San Jose. "There were about eight to 10 masked men wearing green or olive helmets, and they pointed guns at me. They were real guerrillas and they threatened me and told me that if I didn't hand over my phone to them, they would shoot me. They said,'We're going to kill you, put the phone down.' '"Zelaya was then taken to a helicopter for emergency transfer. But the soldiers who escorted him did not tell him where he was going. The plane stopped at Lima Yagua to refuel and then continued flying until it reached Costa Rica. Zelaya was excited that he had not been killed. Jose Torres, Deputy Minister of Interior and Public Security of Costa Rica, confirmed on the 28th that the Venezuelan government has sent a plane to Costa Rica to prepare to transport Zelaya, stranded in San Jose, to Nicaragua. Comment: The Honduran military's expulsion of President Zelaya is a violation of the Pan-American Democratic Charter. On June 26, 2009, Zelaya called on the people of the country to actively participate in the referendum in Tegucigalpa. On June 28, in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, soldiers surrounded the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Soldiers surrounded the presidential palace.