Lenca people demand Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH) step down immediately!
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For over a week, the
people have defended in the streets the will that they expressed at the polls.
The flagrant theft that they want to carry out through fraud is undeniable. The
people know it and the international community should understand that the narrow
interests of Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH) and the elite powers that he
represents alone are maintaining the crisis by refusing to accept defeat.
It has been clearly
demonstrated how the leadership of the National Party, which includes the
President of the Supreme Electoral Council David Matamoros, have committed
fraud in the presidential elections in order to illegally keep themselves power.
Therefore, results from this institution are not and will not be reliable nor
in any way credible, and the people have shown as much in the streets.
COPINH is clear that
the hundreds of mobilizations, highway blockades, peaceful protests and
expressions of resistance go beyond this electoral process. They represent a
cry of the people as a whole to move beyond the hatred, violence and submissiveness
that have characterized the years of JOH’s government and his other
coup-supporting predecessors, years inundated with corruption, impunity,
assassinations, approval of spurious laws, handing over of territories, illegal
concessions, and poverty and hunger for the majority.
The struggle in the
territories and in the streets is the key action in these moments and must
continue. The dignity and strength of the people’s struggle in the streets is
what has led the National Police and the COBRA forces to set down the arms they
were using against the people. We salute this dignified action and call on the
armed forces and other repressive state bodies to understand their role as part
of the people and respect the actions of that people.
It is clear that the
call in the streets is not just about recognizing the obvious electoral victory
of Salvador Nasralla, but is above all the cry of the Honduran people to say JOH
MUST GO! It is no longer about him recognizing the victory, it is about him stepping
down from the presidency and thereby ending the crisis to which our Honduras
has been subjected.
COPINH calls on the international
community to take all pertinent measures to ensure that JOH’s desperation to
maintain power does not lead to more spilling of blood by the Honduran people.
As such, the Lenca
people, organized in COPINH demand that:
1. JOH’s government
immediately hand over the presidency to a temporary government of national consensus
until January 27th, 2018, the day in which Salvador Nasralla will be
seated as President.
2. The
resistance in favor of recognition of the people’s will as expressed at the
polls strengthen and consolidate through territorial organization.
3. That the
international community take a side and activate the pertinent mechanisms so
that JOH’s desperation to maintain power does not lead to further spilling of
blood by the Honduran people.
For the blood shed by
Berta Cáceres and all of our ancestors, we demand justice! We demand that end
of this killer regime!
With the ancestral
strength of Berta, Iselaca, Etempica and Mota we raise our voices full of Life,
Justice and Peace.
December 5th,
2017.
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