President Leonel Fernandez, aides and a group of journalists, were trapped on Tuesday, 27 January inside the elevator of the Hotel Honduras Maya, where the Dominican statesman and six other chiefs of state who attended the inaugural of the new Honduran President were stayed in Tegucigalpa from 26 January to 27 January. It took technicians of the hotel some 15 minutes to get the elevator running again. The trapped Dominicans were able to force an opening in the elevator for ventilation. Once the elevator worked again, the group abandoned the elevator on the seventh floor and stook the stairs to the 10th floor to the presidential suite where the President was scheduled for a press conference. The journalists joked that everything said inside the elevator was "off record."
