tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89558103577881177022024-03-17T22:02:43.655-05:00Honduras Resists :: Honduras RESISTEmgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.comBlogger507125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-63303705744157311482021-11-29T15:39:00.002-06:002021-11-29T15:40:28.536-06:00Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, Candidate of the Resistance, Wins Historic Election in Honduras<p>HondurasResists is happy to share our translation of Xiomara Castro de Zelaya’s victory speech last night, 11/28/2021. As of this writing, she leads the results 54% to 34% with well over half of the ballots counted and the trajectory being described nearly universally as irreversible and the results definitive. This would make her the first woman President of Honduras. She joined the resistance in the streets day after day in 2009 when her husband, then-President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by US-trained General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez in a coup that sent Honduras spiraling into dictatorship and social disintegration, accompanied by brutal and bloody repression. Now, leading a broad coalition of Honduran society, she appears poised to assume the presidency on a promise to give power to the people and put the demands of the social movements and the memory of the resistance’s martyrs at the center of her administration. Below are her full words. To watch the speech in Spanish go here: <a href="https://youtu.be/K92u6fbaqQc">https://youtu.be/K92u6fbaqQc</a></p><p>Good evening,</p><p>We won! We won. Twelve years of the people in resistance and those twelve years were not in vain, because today, the people showed up and gave meaning to the slogan, “only the people will save the people.”</p><p>Thank you to the resistance. Thank you to the alliance that we have built with Salvador Nasralla and the Salvador de Honduras party, with Doris Gutierrez, the PINU party, with Honduras Humana, with Milton, with the Liberals in Opposition. Thank you for the unity that we have built, together with the Honduran people, who showed up today, as we held a civic celebration in our country. I also want to send, from the depths of my heart, an enduring salute to our martyrs, who offered their lives, so that today our people can have freedom, democracy and justice.</p><p>God may take a while, but does not forget, and today the people have created justice. We stopped authoritarianism and stopped them from staying in power. </p><p>Throughout the campaign that we developed, we never made a video, or released an attack message or any message that could generate hate or division amongst our people. We dealt with a lot, but the author of history, the people, awarded us with their support. </p><p>We will form a government of reconciliation in our country. A government of peace and a government of justice. We are going to initiate a process throughout all of Honduras to guarantee a participatory democracy, a direct democracy, because we are going to be consulting the people. That will be a norm of governance at the level of local governments, mayors, congress and the executive branch. Never again, Hondurans, will there be abuse of power in this country. From this moment on, the people will prevail eternally. Onward towards a direct democracy! Onward towards a participatory democracy!</p><p>I am extending a hand to my opposition, because I don’t have enemies. I will call for a dialogue, starting tomorrow, with all sectors of the Honduran nation so that we can find points we coincide on that allow us to build the minimal foundation for the next government.</p><p>I want to say to the Honduran people, the people who listened to us as we went throughout the country, that all of the promises that we made, you should know and trust that we will keep them. We will not rest one moment. We will give our soul, life and heart to be able to guarantee a different homeland, a just homeland, an equitable homeland, a free, independent Honduras, able to respond to the many needs of the people. We will have a permanent dialogue with the Honduran people and starting tomorrow we are going to sit down to meet not just with the social movement organizations, the business people and sectors of our country, but also with the international organizations to seek the answers that our homeland needs. We are going to build a new era. We are going to build a new history for the Honduran people together. </p><p>Today I want to say from the depths of my heart, so that the Honduran people feel it: No more war! No more hate! No more death squads! No more corruption! No more drug trafficking and organized crime! No more ZEDES [“Special Economic Development Zones”]! No more poverty and misery in Honduras! Until the final victory, united, the people, together we are going to transform our country! </p><p>Thank you very much.</p>mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-59049172787742083382020-06-05T13:40:00.001-05:002020-06-05T13:40:47.089-05:00Llamado a la solidaridad con Las Vidas Negras Importan - Call for Solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".SFUI-Regular",serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-US;">Justicia para toda la gente afectada por la brutalidad de la policía: ¡ALTO
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<span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9pt;">A nuestrxs compañerxs de los movimientos sociales de América Latina y el
resto del mundo: La Voz de los de Abajo, un colectivo de solidaridad con sede
en Chicago y 20 años de experiencia en acompañamiento a los movimientos
populares de Honduras y otros lugares, ahora hacemos un llamado a que juntxs
mostremos nuestra solidaridad con nuestrxs compañerxs del movimiento “las Vidas
Negras Importan” quienes se han alzado en cada rincón de los Estados Unidos.</span></div>
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<a href="https://p57-mailws.icloud.com/wm/messagepart/IMG_7954.JPG?guid=messagepart%3AINBOX%2F243-4&type=image%2Fjpeg&name=IMG_7954.JPG&size=53598&dsid=1185549469&clientId=c18a2069-aef5-4bb8-b754-76782c24c6af" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="_auto-scale" data-inline-image="true" height="150" src="https://p57-mailws.icloud.com/wm/messagepart/IMG_7954.JPG?guid=messagepart%3AINBOX%2F243-4&type=image%2Fjpeg&name=IMG_7954.JPG&size=53598&dsid=1185549469&clientId=c18a2069-aef5-4bb8-b754-76782c24c6af" width="200" /></a><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Después del asesinato brutal a manos de la policía de George Floyd en
Minneapolis cuando un oficial de la policía mantuvo su rodilla sobre su cuello
durante 7 minutos y el asesinato brutal a manos de la policía de Breonna Taylor
en Louisville, disparada por la policía cuando erróneamente entró su hogar
buscando a otra persona, levantamientos populares han sacudido más de 100 ciudades
de este país. Estos levantamientos se dan debido no solamente a estos
asesinatos a manos de la policía de gente negra desarmada, sino a la brutalidad
e impunidad persistente de la policía en todo este país, quien hace el trabajo
sucio de defender la desigualdad y los sistemas que la crean – la supremacía
blanca y el capitalismo. Cada ciudad tiene su propia historia sin embargo todas
las historias son parte de una misma. Aquí en Chicago, hay un sinfín de
personas asesinadas por la policía, personas como Laquan McDonald, Rekia Boyd y
muchxs más. </span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9pt;">En reacción a las manifestaciones masivas y constantes en todo el país, las autoridades han desplegad</span><span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9pt;">o la policía con armamento y equipo militar para reprimir y brutalizar a quienes manifiestan. El presidente ha llamado al uso de las fuerzas armadas contra la ciudadanía propia de este país para aplacar los levantamientos. Muchos de los medios y la mayor parte de lxs políticxs se han preocupado más por la propiedad dañada que por las vidas perdidas. </span></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://p57-mailws.icloud.com/wm/messagepart/IMG_7960.JPG?guid=messagepart%3AINBOX%2F243-2&type=image%2Fjpeg&name=IMG_7960.JPG&size=80540&dsid=1185549469&clientId=c18a2069-aef5-4bb8-b754-76782c24c6af" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="_auto-scale" data-inline-image="true" height="150" src="https://p57-mailws.icloud.com/wm/messagepart/IMG_7960.JPG?guid=messagepart%3AINBOX%2F243-2&type=image%2Fjpeg&name=IMG_7960.JPG&size=80540&dsid=1185549469&clientId=c18a2069-aef5-4bb8-b754-76782c24c6af" width="200" /></a><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Como una joven de Chicago explicó en una entrevista recién, mientras la
policía tiene sus rodillas en el cuello de la comunidad negra en los EE.UU, mucha
gente acá también reconoce que los EE.UU como país tiene su rodilla en los
cuellos de mucho del resto del mundo. Nosotrxs vemos profundas conexiones entre
la lucha contra la brutalidad de la policía acá y la lucha contra el
imperialismo estadounidense en toda América Latina y el mundo. Frente el
financiamiento de los EE.UU a las fuerzas represivas de la dictadura brutal en
Honduras, el apoyo de los EE.UU al golpe de estado en Bolivia y tantos otros
casos, nos sumamos siempre al llamado de nuestrxs compañerxs de todo el mundo a
parar el financiamiento a las fuerzas policiacas y militares que reprimen sus
movimientos y acabar con la intervención de los EE.UU en sus países. Ahora
también les pedimos que se sumen con nosotrxs a los llamados que se alzan entre
nubes de gases lacrimógenas en todas partes de los EE.UU en estos días a que dejemos
de financiar a la policía de acá. Pueden enviar sus declaraciones de
solidaridad (escritas o grabadas) a: </span><span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><a href="mailto:lavozchicago@gmail.com">lavozchicago@gmail.com</a></span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"> en español y las traduciremos al inglés para compartir con nuestrxs
compañerxs de Las Vidas Negras Importan Chicago (BLM-Chicago) y la Alianza
Popular por la Justicia Global (GGJ) y con tanta gente en las primeras líneas
de estos levantamientos inspiradores como podemos. Las demandas varían por región,
pero por lo general en todas partes los movimientos están exigiendo: </span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•Alto a la brutalidad de la policía</span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•Justicia y reparaciones a las víctimas </span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•Alto a la represión de los levantamientos</span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•Libertad para toda la gente encarcelada</span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•Cortar el financiamiento a la policía </span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Juntxs, mostremos que el mundo entero grita con una sola voz </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">¡</span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">LAS VIDAS NEGRAS IMPORTAN! </span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">En solidaridad,</span><span lang="ES-US" style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Justice for all those
impacted by Police Brutality– De-fund the police and stop the repression! </span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://p57-mailws.icloud.com/wm/messagepart/IMG_7932.JPG?guid=messagepart%3AINBOX%2F243-8&type=image%2Fjpeg&name=IMG_7932.JPG&size=43898&dsid=1185549469&clientId=c18a2069-aef5-4bb8-b754-76782c24c6af" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="_auto-scale" data-inline-image="true" src="https://p57-mailws.icloud.com/wm/messagepart/IMG_7932.JPG?guid=messagepart%3AINBOX%2F243-8&type=image%2Fjpeg&name=IMG_7932.JPG&size=43898&dsid=1185549469&clientId=c18a2069-aef5-4bb8-b754-76782c24c6af" /></a><span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">To our sisters and
brothers in social movements in Latin America and around the world: La Voz de
los de Abajo, a solidarity collective based in Chicago with 20 years of
experience accompanying the people’s movements of Honduras an beyond, wants to
call on you to now join us in showing solidarity with our sisters and brothers
of the Black Lives Matter movement who are rising up around the United States.</span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">In the wake of the
brutal police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis after a police officer held
his knee on his neck for over 7 minutes and the brutal police murder of Breonna
Taylor in Louisville, who was shot by police who entered her home mistakenly
while looking for someone else, uprisings have rocked over 100 cities around
the country. These uprisings are in response not just to these two police
murders of unarmed black people, but to the constant brutality and impunity
exhibited by police around the country as they carry out their jobs of
defending inequality and the systems that create it - white supremacy and
capitalism. Every city has its own story and yet all of the stories are the
same. Here in Chicago, the names of those killed by police are too many to
list, from Laquan McDonald to Rekia Boyd and so many more. </span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">In response to the
massive and constant protests throughout the country, mayors and governors
everywhere have deployed police armed with military gear to repress and
brutalize protesters. The President has called for the use of the army on our
own citizens to quell the uprisings. Much of the media and most politicians
have expressed more concern over property damage than the lives being
lost. </span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in Chicago pointed out, while the police have their knees on the necks of the
black community in the U.S., many recognize that the U.S. as a whole has its
knee on the necks of much of the rest of the world. We see the struggle against
police brutality here as deeply linked to the struggle against U.S. imperialism
throughout Latin America and the world. Whether it is U.S. funding of the
repressive forces of the brutal dictatorship in Honduras, or U.S. support for
the coup in Bolivia, we continue to join our sisters and brothers of the world
in calling to de-fund the police and military that repress your movements and
stop U.S. intervention in your countries. We now also ask you to join us in echoing
the calls rising through the clouds of tear gas around the United States to
de-fund the police here. You can send solidarity statements – written or as
short video clips - to mailto: <a href="mailto:lavozchicago@gmail.com">lavozchicago@gmail.com</a>
in Spanish and we will translate them to English and share them through our
comrades in Black Lives Matter Chicago and the Grassroots Global Justice
Alliance with as many of the people on the front lines of these inspiring
uprisings as we can. The demands vary in each city, but in general, everywhere
the movements are calling for: </span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•An end to police
brutality’</span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•Justice and
reparations for the victims </span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•An end to repression
of the uprisings</span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•Freedom for all of
those who are in jail</span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfui-regular" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">•De-funding of the
police. </span><span style="font-family: ".sf ui" , serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-23197019555149957982019-09-29T10:42:00.002-05:002019-09-29T11:38:13.740-05:00 Political Prisoners and More Criminalization <i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A member of La Voz de los de Abajo was in Honduras in August 2019 - This article is the second report from that visit with some more recent updates as of September 27, 2019</i><br />
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<b>Political Prisoners and More Criminalization in Honduras</b><br />
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On the morning of August 21, I was at a meeting of the National Committee to Free the Political Prisoners (Comite Nacional para la Libertad de los Presos Politicos) in the offices of the Honduran human rights organization COFADEH. The members celebrated the arrival to the meeting of political prisoners Raul Alvarez and Edwin Espinal. Edwin and Raul had been released from pre-trial imprisonment from the notorious maximum security, military controlled prison La Tolva on August 11 and August 16 respectively. Their release came after many months of pressure both in court and in the street. The first week of August, Edwin, Raul and Rommel Herrera another political prisoner, launched a hunger strike that was echoed by a rolling hunger strike of leaders and activists from the social movements and political opposition in Honduras; international solidarity and human rights organizations supported the strike demanding freedom for the political prisoners with a major social media campaign.<br />
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The celebration was real but dampened by news that another political prisoner being held in prison in the city of Progreso. Gustavo Caceres, had been denied release from pre-trial detention at a hearing that morning. There had been optimism that after Edwin and Raul were released, Gustavo would also get bail. Gustavo's case is especially disturbing because he has a significant cognitive disability and cannot speak in whole sentences only words and fragments. He supported his family selling water and was selling water near a protest in Progreso when the police arrested him as they swept through the neighborhood. The police took him to a police station and then they pulled out police equipment and marijuana and claimed that he had "stolen" police equipment and marijuana in his possession when they arrested him.<br />
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The Committee was fired up, talking about how to step up organizing to free, once and for all, all the political prisoners being held, and to pressure for permanent freedom for the approximately 171 people still facing charges and trials from the protests after the election fraud of November 2017. They also talked about the newer arrests and ongoing criminalization of protest. The mother of a new political prisoner, Rommel Herrera, was at the Committee meeting; Rommel is the young (23) teacher being held pre-trial in La Tolva related to the burning of some tires in the doorway of the U.S. Embassy during on of the massive protests in defense of public education and health in Tegucigalpa on May 31, 2019. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/freeEDWINESPINALlibertad/">The Committee planned a press conference, a statement and other activities</a>; but things were about to get even more difficult.<br />
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<b>JOH Strikes Back - More Imprisonment and Prosecutions</b><br />
Only a week after the August 21st Committee meeting, Edwin and Raul got the news that the government prosecutor was appealing their release from pre-trial detention. If the government wins the appeal, Edwin and Raul will end up back in prison awaiting their trials which are currently scheduled for late Spring 2020.<br />
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The first week of September protests broke out over a planned luxury housing development given permission to build in the temperate rainforest nature reserve near Tegucigalpa, La Tigra. The development would destroy acres of the reserve, and have consequences for the water supply (already in short supply) for Tegucgialpa and nearby communities -- police responded to the protests with live ammunition.<br />
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In another case, also in September, 18 students had charges reinstated by the government for protests after the 2017 election fraud during 2018 - the charges had been inactivated earlier. The student movement continues to be the subject of an especially harsh repression, criminalization, and a campaign of slander and derision by the dictatorship.<br />
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Meanwhile the web of corruption and narco-government crime is more tangled than ever. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/world/americas/honduras-drug-trafficking-trial.html">Tony Hernandez, the brother of Juan Orlando Hernandez,</a> goes to court beginning October 1st in New York. He has been indicted and extradited, accused of running a drug cartel and even stamping the packages of cocaine with his initials. In the investigation so far, the prosecutors have included Juan Orlando as a co-conspirator (CC4). Nevertheless, the US government continues to praise Hernandez. High level meetings were held between US and Honduran officials in September in Washington DC and on<a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/09/21/joint-statement-between-us-government-and-government-honduras"> September 21 in Tegucigalpa</a>. The US persists in providing all types of support for the repressive apparatus of the corrupt and violent narco-dictatorship in Honduras in the face of ever growing rejection and resistance to the regime by the Honduran people.<br />
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Report from Honduras<br />
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As the bus entered the small town of San Juan Pueblo (SJP) on August 15th we passed a police station where an unusual crowd (more than 20) of police were hanging around. Later, walking with a friend who lives in SJP near the highway that runs from Progreso to La Ceiba, we saw a military style truck full of police headed in the direction of the police station. Only a couple of days earlier on August 13th, police had opened fire on protesters blocking the highway with burning tires - the emblematic sign of protest in Honduras. Four men were injured, one very seriously with a chest wound- a few days later it was being reported among the population that one man had died. This was the second very recent violent attack against protesters in SJP, one of the centers of resistance and protest in the province of Atlantida in northern Honduras.<br />
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One of the wounded men is part of the families of the campesino group "10 de Junio" a women's land recuperation affiliated to the campesino organization the "National Center for Rural Workers (CNTC). I was there because La Voz de los de Abajo was invited to participate in a celebration of the women winning legal title to their land after 18 YEARS of fighting for their rights to the land. La Voz has accompanied the women for more than 16 years. Many of the women had been single mothers when they recuperated the land that was originally owned by the National University of Honduras but had been left abandoned and fallow for years before the recuperation. Over the years the women had been violently evicted, insulted publicly, their crops destroyed, and their lives threatened now they had finally won legal ownership of the land and were determined to celebrate.<br />
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On the same day, August 16th there was more to celebrate as a second political prisoner, Raul Alvarez was released from pre-trial detention in the maximum security military run prison, La Tolva. Raul and Edwin Espinal were imprisoned after participating in a militant protest in January 2018 against the installation of the fraudulent and violent dictatorship of Juan Orlando Hernandez. After 18 months of imprisonment they were released and will be preparing for their trials outside prison.<br />
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The night of August 15th my friend from the CNTC June 10th Movement and I walked around her neighborhood where there have been many protest road blocks and where the police have blanketed the area with tear gas and beaten and shot at protesters. It was a pretty quiet night and people were outside relaxing, but the stress of the weeks of repression and protest were showing. At around 9 pm we heard and saw fireworks being shot into the sky a ways from the neighborhood by the time we got home we could hear the sound of tear gas bombs being launched. A neighbor asked my friend if she had any vinegar in case the police tear gassed the neighborhood again and began to tear up and become frantic. She had witnessed the police beating a man right outside her house the night of the shootings and I realized she was showing signs of traumatic stress. That night the sounds of possible conflicts died out early and the town seemed quiet, but after the campesinas' celebration, the night of the 16th, there were more protests and repression, but I was already on the road to Tegucigalpa.<br />
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Edwin and Raul still face trial (scheduled to begin in about a month). There are still 2 more political prisoners in pre-trial detention, Gustavo Caceres and Rommel Herrera. and there are more than a hundred people facing trials for protest activity. There are also more activists at risk from from the nearly daily protests and repressions. and from the anti-mining and defense of the territories struggles around the country such as Reitoca, Guapinol, Rio Blanco, and Vallecito, with the government and National Party supporters threatening organizations such as MADJ, COPINH and OFRANEH. On August 17th a delegation of the Assembly of Women in Struggle was threatened in Rio Blanco and the road blocked by pro-government hired thugs. On August 18th MADJ was the subject of a threatening tweet calling on the government to arrest their leaders and activists (a list of their names was included) because of the many protests in San Juan Pueblo.<br />
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Honduran resistance organizations and leaders are calling for unity against the dictatorship and for a plan to unite the social movements into a force that can make deeper change in the country once JOH is gone.<br />
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<br />La Voz de los de Abajohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05505040994894401102noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-74438636826058857162019-07-03T09:54:00.001-05:002019-08-17T20:20:53.165-05:00"The coup d'état transformed into a dictatorship that cruelly and clearly creates the migrant exodus." -Gathering of Black and Indigenous Women of Honduras<br />
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><em><a href="http://encuentrodemujeres.red/manifiesto-rebelde-de-mujeres-hondurenas/">[Original en español]</a></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the rebel Garífuna territory of Vallecito,
Iriona, Colón, Honduras, surrounded by elements of nature that nourish life and
hope, 1,200 women and approximately 350 children gathered and embraced each
other with life and words, arriving from Choluteca, El Paraíso, Copan, Olancho,
Valle, Francisco Morazán, Gracias a Dios, Colón, Yoro, Cortes, Atlántida,
Intibucá, Lempira, La Paz, Comayagua, and Santa Bárbara. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We felt ancestors Margarita Murillo, María
Enriqueta Matute, Berta Cáceres, Magdalena Morales and aunt Macucu with us in
all of our actions as spirit, as thought and as strength. We felt the energies
of our peoples, of the Tolupán, Lenca, Misquito, Garífuna, Pech, Maya Chortí
and all other peoples in struggle, coming together after ten years of the coup d’état
and the resistance of the Honduran people, of the women of Honduras.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The gathering salutes
the strength and rebelliousness of women, those present, those who could not come,
and those who are no longer physically with us. Despite the wounds and pains
from violence and oppression visited upon our bodies, territories and
organizing processes, we have enormous conviction and dedication to continue
thinking, creating and acting together. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The strength of the worldview of indigenous
peoples was present and manifested through spirituality, wisdom, experiences of
resistance and forms of relating to nature and life. Through debate and
conversations during meals, breaks, and work, we assembled these words, which
we now share.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The coup d'état
transformed into a dictatorship and continues to deepen the extractive model that threatens
the livelihood of women and indigenous peoples. This is a regime that plunders
the common good, identities, bodies, wisdom, spirituality; that is sustained by
corruption, impunity, drug trafficking, militarization, persecution,
criminalization of our sisters who struggle throughout the territories of
Honduras. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are living through
an humanitarian crisis produced by that plunder, which cruelly and clearly creates
the migrant exodus by our sisters and brothers, an exodus which
empties our territories, with disastrous results for our people and the
community social fabric, benefiting the extractive projects that have less and
less opposition to confront.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We call upon all of us to respond to the
urgent necessity of reclaiming and multiplying autonomous practices and envisioning
sovereign alternatives that are anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, inclusive and
diverse, due to the evident failure of masculine exercise of power based on the
colonial electoral democratic model, which threatens women and indigenous
peoples. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The increasing normalization
violence against the bodies of women worries us. Our bodies become a territory for
the expression of machista and hetero-patriarchal culture and frustration,
often perpetrated by men from the social movements and exacerbated by the
increase in militarization and religious fundamentalism. The role of women in
the struggle has been at once set back and strengthened, with better political
clarity, wisdom, ability to mobilize and inspire in diverse struggles where we
have been putting forth our thought, voice, bodies and action. No violence will
hold us back.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">From this gathering,
we commit ourselves to continue coming together in collective rebellion, to
embody each other’s struggles and to envision a Honduras without dictatorship,
with autonomy and sovereignty for the people, for women. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "segoe ui" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">After 10 years of the
coup, we continue to struggle together. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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dictatorship.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Colón, Honduras, June 29<sup>th</sup>, 2019</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-33612829801225391052019-06-03T11:04:00.004-05:002019-08-17T20:21:51.483-05:00Guadalupe Carnay Community Faces Siege by Honduran Security Forces for Participation in Protests Defending Healthcare and Educaiton against the U.S.-backed Dictatorship<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong>Condemnation and Solidarity in the face of Human Rights Violations </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Municipal Committee in Defense of the Common Public Good in Tocoa, given what has happened in the community of
Guadalupe Carney, declares: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">That today, June 1st, the community of Guadalupe Carney has suffered the gravest of abuses and violations of the rights granted by the constitution of the republic and international law, solely due to the struggle for the human right to healthcare and public education. It is under a siege that even includes helicopters flying over the community. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As a social movement we united with the public denunciation by many solidarity organizations in <span style="font-family: "calibri";">holding the security forces of the police and military responsible for having entered the community launching teargas on girls, boys, youth, women and elderly people. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wT0lLRU3haQ/XPVEY8zAFNI/AAAAAAAAM_s/q36hQWIN4DkUEZv1ieZYwSn-CNUuejcewCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_5790.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wT0lLRU3haQ/XPVEY8zAFNI/AAAAAAAAM_s/q36hQWIN4DkUEZv1ieZYwSn-CNUuejcewCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_5790.JPG" width="180" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We demand justice for 24 year old <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jairo Leonel
Hernández Ramirez, 19 year old Nerlin Ignacio Hernández Hernández, 58 year old Ezequiel Urrea and minors 15 year old Jorge Soto
Portillo and 8 year old William Aron Ruiz Sánchez, all of whom are victims of the regime of Juan Orlando and the police and military forces assigned to the Aguan region. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We denounce the direct persecution by these repressive bodies of the State against peasant leader <span style="font-family: "calibri";">Adolfo Cruz who, along with his family and neighbors was victimized by teargas launched directly into his house as a clear message of intimidation and aggression, with his family placed at risk by the Honduran state. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We also denounce the attack on human rights defender <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Obed Ulloa, who had all of the equipment he need to carry out his work as a human rights defender taken by the police. According to the human rights defender about 9 people have been wounded by the police during the community's protests in defense of healthcare and education<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We remind the Honduran state that the community of <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
Guadalupe Carney has been a beneficiary of collective protective measures since the year <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">2003 and that the public protest it has been engaged in along with the teachers and medical associations in the area is a constitutional right that all communities and people have when fundamental rights like the right to healthcare and education are under attack. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We alert the human rights defense organizations nationally and internationally to stay tuned to what is happening in this region of the country and especially to what is happening in the community of
Guadalupe Carney. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Tocoa, Colón, June 1st, 2019</span></div>
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Tocoa Municipal Committee in Defense of the Public Common Good </div>
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mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-84458297446568453862019-05-22T22:02:00.000-05:002019-05-24T11:32:56.989-05:00Report from Emergency HR Delegation on Criminalization and Political Prisoners<h4>
<b>March 26 - April 2, 2019</b><b>La Voz de los de Abajo with Alliance for Global Justice and CODEPINK, all members of the Honduras Solidarity Network sent an emergency human right delegation to Honduras focused on following up on criminalization and violence since the November 2017 electoral fraud crisis began. </b></h4>
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We visited political prisoners, Edwin Espinal and Raúl Álvarez, indigenous and campesino communities criminalized and attacked for their struggle, human rights organizations, families and supporters of murdered and criminalized journalists. </h4>
<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1alBO_-Z6sIrbUUuT89FX3K5CMKVMLvL1">LINK TO REPORT IN ENGLISH</a>- El informe en español estará publicado pronto.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Support for political prisoners and against criminalization of <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nacaome REDEHSUR human rights defenders with delegation after a vigil <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two of the three political prisoners being held pre-trial in prisons<br />
Edwin and Raúl </td></tr>
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<br />La Voz de los de Abajohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05505040994894401102noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-16744142053938231682019-04-19T12:18:00.001-05:002019-04-19T12:25:25.979-05:00Miriam Miranda and other OFRANEH leaders detained this morning in Saba, Colon<br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yvrn1xOwk3Q/XLoDIOvDNfI/AAAAAAAAM6Q/ef0p-nFky44jThRwUFs3M6zDwvx9umIYACLcBGAs/s1600/57390086_2185880908169408_5971309120576290816_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="884" height="301" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Yvrn1xOwk3Q/XLoDIOvDNfI/AAAAAAAAM6Q/ef0p-nFky44jThRwUFs3M6zDwvx9umIYACLcBGAs/s320/57390086_2185880908169408_5971309120576290816_n.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Miriam Miranda is one of the most well-known human rights
defenders and organizers in Honduras. She is the leader of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Organización Fraterna Negra de Honduras</i>
(OFRANEH – the Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras) and was a close friend
and collaborator of assassinated indigenous leader Berta Cáceres. She has faced
repeated death threats, criminalization, persecution, harassment and
intimidation for her continued and fearless work in defense of the human rights
of the Garífuna people. The Garífuna are descendants of marooned Africans and
indigenous peoples and have resisted and resided on the Caribbean coast of
Central America for close to 500 years. Their territory, culture and survival are
under continued threat from national and transnational tourist corporations and
developers who for years have been working to take over the entirety of the North
coast of Honduras, the ancestral home of the Garífuna people. Under the present
day illegitimate U.S.-backed regime of dictator Juan Orlando Hernández, whose
brother is in a Miami prison facing charges as a top drug trafficker and whose
2017 election was denounced internationally as fraudulent and illegal, the
threats and harassment against Miriam and other human rights defenders have
intensified. We have translated the below statement from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red Nacional de Defensoras de Derechos
Humanos en Honduras</i> (National Network of Women Defending Human Rights in
Honduras) denouncing the arbitrary and illegal detention this morning, April 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>,
2019 that was just the latest development in the ongoing persecution faced by
Miriam and OFRANEH. We call on all people of conscience of the world to
denounce this situation and continue to accompany Miriam, Aurelia, OFRANEH and the
Honduran people in their struggle.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">ALERT: HUMAN
RIGHTS DEFENDERS MIRIAM MIRANDA AND AURELIA ARZÚ ARE DETAINED ONCE AGAIN IN SABÁ,
COLÓN, HONDURAS</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reddedefensoras/posts/2602312363173513">[Denuncia original]</a></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Today, April 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>, at the Elixir community in Sabá,
Colón, Honduras, the National Police and Military Police detained the vehicle
in which human rights defenders Míriam Miranda and Aurelia Arzú were travelling
as they were en route to attend to an emergency situation facing the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Organización Fraterna Negra de Honduras</i>
(OFRANEH – the Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras).</span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The police and military forces stopped their vehicle at
9am and held onto the personal documents of these human rights defenders and
the OFRANEH team that was travelling with them.</span></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Miriam and Aurelia state that they are still stopped
after 45 minutes, waiting for contact with a prosecutor on call and they point
out that no other vehicle travelling through the area has been stopped. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red Nacional
de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos en Honduras</i> (National Network of Women
Defending Human Rights in Honduras) we are worried about Miriam Miranda being
repeatedly stopped despite having been granted protective measures from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mecanismo Nacional de Protección </i>(National
Protection Mechanism).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We call on the National Protection Mechanism to implement
the protective measures that were granted to these human rights defenders. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">UPDATE: Miriam Miranda
and Aurelia Arzú were finally released after being held up over an hour. They
call on the national and international community to denounce the continued harassment,
threats and persecution that they have faced as defenders of the Garífuna
people and human rights in Honduras. </span></i></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong>What can I do?</strong></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"> One of the most effective ways that people in the United States can show solidarity and hold the Honduran regime accountable for these ongoing human rights abuses is to pressure for an end to U.S. economic support of the Honduran security forces who continue to kill, harass and detain Honduran human rights defenders with impunity. <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-congressperson-to-stop-us-security-aid-to-honduras/">Please call and write your representative to ask that they sign on to the Berta Caceres bill for Human Rights in Honduras.</a></span></div>
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mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-2805460579422143512018-12-14T13:06:00.001-06:002018-12-14T13:06:31.194-06:00Roots of the Exodus: from the Honduran political crisis to the Refufee c...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/58Nidx1dDPA" width="480"></iframe>La Voz de los de Abajohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05505040994894401102noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-56622743721109504882018-11-29T23:46:00.002-06:002018-11-29T23:47:52.795-06:00"The struggle for justice for Berta Cáceres and the Lenca people isn't over" - Statement on today's conviction by COPINH, Berta's family, Gustavo Castro and the legal team<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Statement by Berta's Family, COPINH, Gustavo Castro and the legal teams regarding the conviction of Sergio Rodríguez, Mariano Díaz, Douglas Bustillo, Elvin Heriberto Rápalo, Edilson Duarte, Oscar Haroldo Torres and Emerson Duarte</b><br />
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November 29, 2018<br />
<i><a href="https://copinh.org/2018/11/comunicado-ante-el-fallo/"><br /></a></i>
<i><a href="https://copinh.org/2018/11/comunicado-ante-el-fallo/">[Original en español]</a></i><br />
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The verdict that was just released DOES NOT satisfy our demands for justice as victims in the assassination of Berta Cáceres and the attempted assassination of Gustavo Castro.<br />
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The decision that has been made in the 1st District Sentencing Court condemning the group of hitmen and their intermediate structure related directly to the DESA corporation does not mean that justice has been obtained.<br />
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The structures and people who gave the money for these criminals to assassinate Berta Cáceres are still free and able to continue carrying out crimes like this one with impunity.<br />
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Since the beginning of this process - almost three years ago now - it has been clear that the assassination of Berta Cáceres was planned by the leadership of the DESA corporation and then carried out by hitmen linked to the Honduran Armed Forces. Nonetheless, the full truth surrounding this crime and all of those responsible for it has been limited to those who were just condemned through intentional obfuscation by the Honduran state via its Attorney General and courts. They seek to deny access to the truth, which is part of true justice.<br />
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What has become even more clear during these legal proceedings, from which we have been expelled due to our refusal to be silent in the face of the daily abuses in the court room, is that the <b>Atala Zablah family</b>, who have an ownership stake in the DESA corporation, are behind the entire plot of persecution, intimidation, attacks and threats that led to the assassination of Berta Cáceres.<br />
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Our participation as victims is a fundamental part of the judicial process and the State, by systematically excluding us, perpetuates the impunity that inundates this country and causes so much harm.<br />
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During the trial we, along with international observers, diplomats and the press, bore witness to the telephone communications that show this participation. This also made it clear that the criminal acts committed by the DESA corporation under the leadership of this family go beyond the assassination and comprise a series of crimes carried out against Berta Cáceres, COPINH, the Lenca people and the public administration and state of Honduras.<br />
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We ask the state and its institutions, what interests are at stake that motivate you to behave in a way that protects the masterminds whose names are no secret? Why, despite clear evidence of their participation, have they still not been charged almost three years after this hideous crime? What are you waiting for to carry out your responsibility??<br />
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We demand that all of those responsible for the assassination of Berta Cáceres be brought to justice and not just those who were paid by DESA to carry our the crime.<br />
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The struggle for justice for Berta Cáceres and the Lenca people does not end with the chapter that closes today, the convictions of the lowest layer of the criminal structure, with which the Honduran state seeks to silence the demand for justice. On the contrary, we are deepening our efforts.<br />
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These convictions are the first step in the search for justice and the family, Gustavo Castro, COPINH and the legal teams have been accompanied by those who believe in Berta Cáceres, in her words and actions and we know that they will continue to make a principled stand on the side of truth and justice in the battles to come, which we will wage with complete determination.<br />
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The impunity that the masterminds of this crime continue to enjoy is part of the plot of corruption and violence that sustains the model of extraction that plunders our peoples. As victims, and other people, communities and organizations we commit to continue confronting it, like Berta Cáceres did, until dignity, truth and justice prevail in this case and in all of the struggles that are being waged right now throughout Honduras and the world.<br />
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We and the entire Honduran people are still owed a debt of justice!<br />
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Written in the city of Tegucigalpa on the 29th day of the month of November in the year 2018.mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-89411010290980683572018-11-28T15:03:00.001-06:002018-11-28T15:08:22.872-06:00Call to Solidarity - One Year Later - Un Año Despues<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Statement by the Honduras Solidarity Network November 28, 2018</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><b><span style="font-size: small;">El régimen hondureño usa la violencia contra su gente; Estados Unidos usa la violencia contra los refugiados que huyen de Honduras.</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">El 26 de noviembre de 2017, Honduras acudió a las urnas en una elección en la que se enfrentaron la derecha con el Partido Nacional y el presidente JOH a la cabeza (quien se postuló para la reelección de manera inconstitucional), y Alianza, una coalición entre el anti-golpista/resistente Partido LIBRE y miembros del Partido Anticorrupción. Estas elecciones, en vez de permitir a Honduras tomar un nuevo camino para restaurar la democracia y hacer que el país sea habitable para el pueblo, un flagrante fraude electoral, una nueva ola de represión, y la continua impunidad y corrupción sumieron al país en una crisis aún más profunda.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">La crisis que comenzó con el golpe de estado de 2009 respaldado por los Estados Unidos, seguida de las elecciones de 2017 -también respaldadas por los Estados Unidos-, es más profunda y más amplia que nunca. Es esta crisis la que está expulsando a miles de hondureños de su país.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">Mientras el pueblo hondureño continúa organizándose, nosotros respondemos con un llamado a la solidaridad para apoyar al pueblo que lucha por el cambio en Honduras y al pueblo que lucha por sobrevivir en el éxodo de refugiados.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">Exigimos que los Estados Unidos y Canadá detengan todo apoyo al régimen hondureño. Apoyamos las demandas de libertad para todos los presos políticos y de justicia para todas las víctimas del régimen hechas por el pueblo Hondureño. Exigimos que los Estados Unidos detengan la represión contra los refugiados, que abra las fronteras a quienes están siendo expulsados de sus países, y que ponga fin a la militarización de la frontera y a la violencia contra todos los migrantes y refugiados.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">28 de Noviembre 2018</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">Honduras Solidarity Network of North America</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">One year later - A Call to Solidarity </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">Honduran regime uses violence against its people - US uses violence against refugees fleeing Honduras.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">On Monday, November 26, 2018, Honduran authorities fired massive amounts of tear gas and opened fire with live bullets on a large protest march in Tegucigalpa to mark the one year anniversary of the November 2017 election fraud. At least 3 people were wounded, one of them, Geovanni Sierra, was working as a reporter for UNE-TV when he was shot. This happened one day after the US Border Patrol shot rubber bullets and quantities of tear gas across the border into Mexico at the refugees, most fleeing from Honduras, who are being held back from entering the US. Only 2 days before that incident the brother of the defacto president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez was arrested at the Miami Airport for being part of the narcotics trafficking organized crime in Honduras. These three incidents in 4 days, are just the tip of the iceberg of the crisis of US policy, and a dictatorial regime and its violence and corruption. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">On November 26, 2017, Honduras went to the polls in an election that was a face off between the right wing National Party sitting president JOH (who ran for reelection unconstitutionally) and the Alianza, an alliance between the anti-coup/resistance Party LIBRE and members of the Anti-Corruption Party. But, instead of the election allowing Honduras to take a new path to restore democracy and make the country livable for the people, blatant election fraud, a new wave of repression and continuing impunity and corruption plunged the country even deeper into crisis.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">That crisis began with the US backed 2009 coup, and after the 2017 election (also supported by the US), it is deeper and broader than ever before. It is this crisis that is pushing thousands of Hondurans out of their country. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">As the Honduran people continue organizing, we respond with a call for solidarity to support the people fighting for change in Honduras and to support the people fighting for survival in the refugee exodus. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s2"><span style="font-size: small;">We demand that the US and Canada stop all support for the Honduran regime. We support the Honduran people’s demand for freedom for all the political prisoners and for justice for all the victims of the regime. We demand that the US stop the repression against the refugees, open the borders to those being pushed out of their countries and end the militarization of the border and violence against all migrants and refugees. </span></span></div>
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<br />La Voz de los de Abajohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05505040994894401102noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-40393634123812727582018-11-27T13:04:00.000-06:002018-11-29T11:20:08.472-06:00"They will kills us if we return" - Second Statement from Central American Exodus, from Tijuana<i>[Espa<span style="text-align: justify;">ñol abajo]</span></i><br />
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to RETURN to Violence<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<u><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">PRESS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">November 27<sup>th</sup> /
Tijuana, Republic of Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">WHAT: </span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Press Conference by Central American Exodus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">WHEN: </span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Tuesday, November 27<sup>th</sup> - 2pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">WHERE: </span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Unidad Deportiva Benito Juárez, Tijuana<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Those of us who are here speaking before you were
elected from amongst the group of migrants temporarily living here in the
shelter at the Unidad Deportiva Benito Juárez in the city of Tijuana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Above all, we want to thank the people of the
world and especially the citizens of Tijuana who have supported us and have
shown solidarity with us during such difficult moments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It has not been easy to leave our countries, to
leave part of our family behind, to expose our children and to walk through
unknown places in order to have a chance to live in the United States or other
countries that can give us an opportunity to work an honest job and offer a
better future to our children. We want them to have access to education,
healthcare and a life without threats. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Today marks the 46<sup>th</sup> day of our
EXODUS and we are very worried because we are fleeing a very serious situation.
We are fleeing from violence and impunity in our countries and now there are so
many of us that this has become a crisis. This is an emergency and we need
information to make the best decisions to protect our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last Sunday we were the victims of repression
by the U.S. border patrol, who launched teargas at us several times, affecting
the children. We were only walking so that we could be visible, so that they
would recognize that we are a large group of people who just want to be heard
so that international law can protect us as we migrate and seek to improve our
lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There are international organizations here that
accept as fact that we will not be able to enter the United States and that we
should be returned, but many of those of us who are travelling have to continue
trying because they will kill us if we return to our countries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are very worried about our compatriots who
disappeared in Veracruz and other places we have passed through. We are also
worried about the detentions. Every day people disappear from the shelter, and
we have noted the presence of people with ill intentions who come to offer us
other ways to get across that would endanger our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The report from the Tijuana police says that
they have detained 164 Hondurans, 13 Salvadorans, 1 Nicaraguan and 16
Guatemalans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Because of the above,
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an end to the arbitrary, manipulative and involuntary deportations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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an acceleration of the process of applying for asylum in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the formation of a commission by the incoming Mexican government to negotiate a
permanent solution for those who wish to stay here. We suggest Mrs. Nashieli
Ramírez, Director of Mexico City’s Human Rights Commission and Mr. Arturo
Peimbert, Ombudsman for the city of Oaxaca.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the names of those deported to be released publically to civil society.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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there to be Human Rights accompaniment at all times and during any detention to
prevent the violation of migrant human rights. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the Unidad Deportiva Benito
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CENTRAL AMERICAN EXODUS FOR LIFE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On the march… ¡with dignity!</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">No queremos RETORNAR a la
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<u><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">COMUNICADO DE PRENSA<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">27 de noviembre / Tijuana, República de México<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Las personas que estamos hablando frente a ustedes hemos sido
elegidas por el grupo de migrantes que estamos viviendo temporalmente aquí en
el albergue de la Unidad Deportiva Benito Juárez en la ciudad de Tijuana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Antes que todo queremos agradecer a la gente de todo el mundo y
especialmente a los ciudadanos de Tijuana que nos están apoyando y que han sido
solidarios con nosotros en estos momentos tan dificultosos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">No ha sido fácil salir de nuestros países, dejar parte de nuestra
familia, exponer a nuestros hijos y caminar por lugares desconocidos para tener
la opción de vivir en Estados Unidos o en otros países que puedan darnos la
oportunidad de trabajar honestamente y ofrecer un mejor futuro a nuestros
hijos. Queremos que ellos tengan acceso a la educación, a la salud y a una vida
sin amenazas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Hoy se cumplen 46 días de nuestro ÉXODO y estamos muy preocupadas
porque venimos huyendo de una situación muy grave, estamos huyendo de la
violencia y la impunidad en nuestros países, y ahora somos tantos que esto se
ha convertido en una crisis. Es una emergencia y necesitamos información para
tomar las mejores decisiones para proteger nuestras vidas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">El domingo pasado fuimos víctimas de la represión de la policía
fronteriza de Estados Unidos, nos tiraron bombas lacrimógenas varias veces, los
niños padecieron mucho y nosotros solo estábamos caminando para que nos vieran,
para que reconocieran que somos un grupo grande de personas que solo queremos
ser escuchados para que las leyes internacionales nos protejan para migrar y
buscar mejorar nuestras vidas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Aquí hay organizaciones internacionales que dan por hecho que no
vamos a poder entrar a Estados Unidos y debemos ser retornados, pero muchas
personas que viajamos tenemos que seguir intentando porque nos van a matar si
regresamos a nuestros países.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Nos preocupan nuestros compatriotas desaparecidos en Veracruz y en
otros lugares por donde hemos pasado, también nos preocupan las detenciones,
cada día desaparecen personas del albergue, y hemos visto la presencia de
personas con malas intensiones que vienen a ofrecer otras formas para llegar al
otro lado que pueden poner en riesgo nuestra vida.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">El reporte de la policía de Tijuana dice que se han detenido 164
Hondureños, 13 de El Salvador, 1 de Nicaragua y 16 de Guatemala.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Por todo lo anterior queremos solicitar:</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br />
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deportaciones arbitrarias, manipuladas e involuntarias.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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procesos de solicitud de asilo en Estados Unidos.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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comisión de parte del nuevo gobierno de México que venga a negociar una
solución permanente para los que se quieran quedar aquí. Sugerimos a la Sra.
Nashieli Ramírez, Directora de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de
México y al Sr. Arturo Peimbert, Ombudsman de la ciudad de Oaxaca.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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sociedad civil los nombres de los deportados.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Derechos Humanos en todo momento y en cada detención para que no se violen los
Derechos Humanos de los migrantes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">de la Unidad Deportiva Benito Juárez en Tijuana<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD">ÉXODO MIGRATORIO CENTROAMERICANO POR LA VIDA <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="ES-TRAD">En camino… ¡con
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<i><span style="text-align: justify;"></span></i>mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-71607027065689975142018-11-13T13:50:00.000-06:002018-11-13T14:31:15.958-06:00Central American Exodus: First Press Release from Caravan calls for Recognition of Humanitarian Crisis<b><u>Central American migrant exodus must be recognized as a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS</u></b><br />
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<a href="https://criterio.hn/2018/11/12/exodo-migratorio-centroamericano-debe-ser-reconocido-como-crisis-humanitaria/"><i>[Versión original espa<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ñ</span>ol]</i></a><br />
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<b>First Press Release</b><br />
<i>November 12th, 2018 / Guadalajara, Mexico</i><br />
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Today marks 31 days of the historic exodus of Central Aamerican migrants, known as the “Migrant Caravan,” which departed from Honduran territory on October 13, 2018.<br />
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Our exodus is a consequence of forced displacement caused by the widespread systematic violence suffered by men, women, children and entire families who flee from poverty and impunity in our countries of origin.<br />
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The whole world is watching with great concern as more than 13 thousand people in Mexican territory advance towards the U.S. border. This monumental collective rejection of violence has reached the dimension of a humanitarian crisis.<br />
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In an exercise of autonomy as a displaced group, we named a delegation to dialogue with United Nations authorities in Mexico on behalf of the more than five thousand migrants housed at the shelter in Mexico City, Mexico. They are requesting the immediate application of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which commits States, among other things, to “improve cooperation in saving migrants' lives during their travels." In practical terms, this committment would best be fulfilled by guaranteeing buses so that we arrive safely to our final destination, thereby protecting women and children, who have to endure lower and lower temperatures, amongst other threats to their lives.<br />
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On November 8th, our delegation left on foot from the shelter in Mexico City, Mexico, accompanied by a mobilization of more than a thousand migrants that culminated at the office of the United Nations, where a meeting was held. In attendance were authorities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration, and our commission comprised of 21 delegates from the migrant exodus: representatives from 17 of the 18 Honduran Departments, 1 delegate from the “19th Department” (Hondurans residing in the US), 3 representatives per Central American country (Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala), an observer from the organization Pueblos Sin Fronteras, a Human Rights observer, Mr. Arturo Peimberg, Ombudsman from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, and a Honduran spokesperson, sociologist and journalist Milton Benitez.<br />
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<b>WHEREAS:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b><br />
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<li>The UN did not follow through in assuring a safe method of transportation to the final destination in order to “save the lives of migrants.”</li>
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<li>The Commission on Human Rights in Mexico City has confirmed the disappearance of at least 100 people in Mexican territory.</li>
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<li>There have been at least 3 Honduran deaths during the trip.</li>
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<li>There are 24 pregnant women, 184 people with disabilities, 31 unaccompanied minors, 87 people from the LGBTQI community, and more than two thousand children travelling in the caravan.</li>
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<li>There are now two victims of legal persecution and threats: Honduran journalists and a human rights defenders Bartolo Fuentes and Milton Benitez.</li>
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<li>That this HUMANITARIAN CRISIS stems from factors outside of the control of citizens, namely the inability of the expelling States to protect the lives of their citizens, given that Honduras is one of the most violent and corrupt countries in the world and the poorest in Latin America.</li>
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<li>That the United Nations and in particular United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have not lived up to their responsabilities and mandates by raising our exodus to the status of HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, as has taken place in relation to other countries such as Venezuela and Iraq. </li>
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<b>WE ASK THE UNITED NATIONS AND STATES AROUND THE WORLD:</b><br />
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<li>That our exodus be recognized for exactly what it is - a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, so that a means of humanitarian intervention can be immediately established in order to guarantee the integrity, health and lives of those of us moving through Mexican territory. </li>
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<li>That, consequently, the UN, the UNHCR and the IOM, imediately apply the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration approved on March 13th, 2018, so that governments assume responsibility for the situation of people in need of international protection and humanitarian assistance. </li>
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<li>That, as has happened in other cases, the UNHCR encourage States to guarantee that we have free access to the territories and processes wherin our status as refugees can be determined, and ask the governments to adopt practical responses to protect us, such as offering legal status via temporary visas or residency permits as well as programs for normalizing status that guarantee access to the basic rights to healthcare, education, keeping families together, freedom of movement, shelter and the right to a job. </li>
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<li>That the UN encourage the signatory countries to make costs and requirements flexible as needed in order to guarantee access to the aforementioned rights. </li>
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<li>That, in light of the situation in the Central American and Latin American expelling states, the people not be deported or forced to return.</li>
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Let us remember that the first Global Compact for Migration, adopted in the United Nations, “the shared understanding by Governments that cross-border migration is, by its very nature, an international phenomenon and that effective management of this global reality requires international cooperation to enhance its positive impact for all,” as UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres has stated.<br />
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We inform the national and international community that, in the case that the UN, the UNHCR and the IOM continue to reduce the magnitude of the Central American diaspora by not treating it as a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, we would find ourselves unable to recognize and forced to reject any accompaniment coming from these institutions, due to their doube standard.<br />
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We thank Mrs. Nashieli Ramírez Hernández, President of the Human Rights Commission in Mexico City and the team of civil society organiations led by Father Alejandro Solalinde; for the timely reception they organized for us to be able to heal and rest in that city, along with Mr. Arturo Peimberg, Ombudsman of the State of Oaxaca and our fellow compatriot Milton Benítez who we have embraced as our Human Rights defenders in Mexican territory and in the world.<br />
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To conclude, we want to thank the local authorities who acted with solidarity and without discrimination, and especially thank the community members, our Guatemalan and Mexican sisters and brothers who have offered us food, water, shelter and dignified treatment, supplanting the work that should be carried out by institutions and governments.<br />
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<i>Written in the city of Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Republic of Mexico, on the 12th day of the month of November in the year of 2018.</i><br />
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<i>On the path… with dignity!</i></div>
<br />mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-79337314856615981712018-06-05T13:31:00.002-05:002018-06-05T13:34:42.457-05:00Report from Honduras April 2018 Delegation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In April 2018, La Voz de los de Abajo and Alliance for Global Justice, both members of the Honduras Solidarity Network, led a delegation to Honduras concerned about the political prisoners and ongoing human rights crisis.<br />
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Tbo4o6nOzgwPksnwp0yQOSqVYgFy57t3q6wP89_OGu4/edit?usp=sharing">Here is the link to the final report from the delegation.</a><br />
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<br />La Voz de los de Abajohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05505040994894401102noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-22401834034747695512018-03-02T13:56:00.003-06:002018-06-05T13:35:49.358-05:00BREAKING: President of DESA arrested for involvement in Assassination of Berta Cáceres<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong>BREAKING NEWS: David Castillo Mejia, the President of DESA, the corporation building the dam Berta was organizing against when she was assassinated, has just been arrested while attempting to flee Honduras</strong></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">COPINH reports to the national and international community that moments ago David Castillo, the President of the DESA corporation and the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, was arrested thanks to all of the work and pressure created by the solidarity and work of organizations nationally and internationally. No thanks is due to the Attorney General's office, who have tried everything possible to cover up the truth in this case<span style="font-family: "calibri";">.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Honduran state made this arrest to try to obscure the protests today for the 2nd anniversary of the assassination of our sister <span style="font-family: "calibri";">Berta Caceres. Nonetheless, from the start COPINH has denounced him as the general manager alongside the entire board of directors of the DESA corporation, which belongs to the Atala Zablah family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">COPINH will continue to denounce the entire murderous, criminal structure behind the assassination of our sister Berta Caceres, of which David Castillo is just one piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com53tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-64253894749606396642018-02-24T01:03:00.001-06:002018-02-24T01:06:07.874-06:00Delegation Report from November Election Crisis in Honduras<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Report from La Voz de los de Abajo, CODEPINK and Marin Task Force on the Americas Human Rights Observation Delegation during Honduran Elections 2017</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photos by Chris Jeske</span></div>
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j_tm6CtvzueBfW7mwxmeYZPDph4Toy03/view?usp=sharingDelegation%20Report:%20Honduran%20Elections%202017" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Delegation Report: Honduran Elections 2017</a>La Voz de los de Abajohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05505040994894401102noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-75644707110088591242018-02-02T09:19:00.002-06:002018-06-05T13:36:35.191-05:0023 Months of Impunity in Assassination of Berta Caceres, but the Struggle Continues<strong>Almost two years after the assassination of the woman who dreamed of re-founding Honduras</strong><br />
COPINH's statement 23 months later<br />
<em><a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-casi-2-anos-del-asesinato-de-la-mujer.html">[Original en espa<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ñol]<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></em><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2JGWk1hEoiY/Vt_LAWOKm5I/AAAAAAAALOw/OE2B5N1v4oEpdo-MkxKmDuRPAyEQyj7fwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/12792158_519922908190443_2882377132478534241_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1015" data-original-width="749" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2JGWk1hEoiY/Vt_LAWOKm5I/AAAAAAAALOw/OE2B5N1v4oEpdo-MkxKmDuRPAyEQyj7fwCPcBGAYYCw/s320/12792158_519922908190443_2882377132478534241_o.jpg" width="236" /></a> Today marks 23 months since the assassination of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres and we are about to reach the second anniversary of her transition. We remember this sister on these days, with many people eager to know how far the case has progressed over these two years and what has changed in Honduras with the revelation of manifold human rights violations by extractive corporations who profit off of energy production.<br />
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As of now, COPINH continues to struggle for true justice and to push, as a first step, to break the media silence around her case and confront the irregularities that permeate the process.<br />
May of this year will bring the expiration of the preventative detention* for the eight people detained in 2016, including the direct perpetrators of the crime as well as intermediaries such as DESA employee Sergio Rodríguez and armed forces major Mariano Díaz who coordinated the assassination and served as an instructor for the military police.<br />
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At this point the Honduran Attorney General and judicial authorities are flailing around desperately to try to move through and put a close to the case by sentencing only those who they have detained. The final arguments are expected in the case halfway through this year. Notwithstanding, the organization, the Honduran people and the international community remain unsatisfied in the face of a lack of action to capture the masterminds who are linked to the powerful and untouchable Honduran oligarchy.<br />
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It is worth mentioning that today is the swearing-in hearing for the specialists proposed by the Attorney General to analyze the telephone recordings and financial information in the national sentencing tribunal, which will decide the case.<br />
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Regarding the second point about what has changed in Honduras since her death, very little can be said. The concession remains for the hydroelectric damn ferociously defended not only by private enterprise but also by the renewable energy producers who continue to sew hate against the organizations that challenge the installation of numerous deadly projects, ruining their lucrative business.<br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HO8OpSH5POo/VybE5uhrpvI/AAAAAAAALXU/OoBA8llr9YEIFllyFKSjqOzSeuGzxGfQwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/bertamicro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HO8OpSH5POo/VybE5uhrpvI/AAAAAAAALXU/OoBA8llr9YEIFllyFKSjqOzSeuGzxGfQwCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/bertamicro.jpg" /></a> The government wants to secure the investments of national and international corporations in this business by approving a deceitful law supposedly about “prior, free and informed consent for indigenous peoples” but has been unable to take the final step after strong questioning at a national and international level.<br />
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The power structures that protect the deadly project against which Berta Cáceres fought have strengthened themselves with electoral fraud, carried out to ensure continuation of the status quo and protection of private economic interests.<br />
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What Berta Cáceres contributed to today’s Honduras is the national uprising that continues without giving up on the same vision that would be on at the front of Berta Cáceres’s mind: the re-foundation of Honduras that no president will be able to carry out, that can only be carried out by the people, the same people who didn’t give up in the streets even as they confronted the violence of the military and their killer weapons, which is the only path to profound change for Honduras.<br />
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In the meantime COPINH is convening the “25 years of Life and Justice Gathering” for this 22nd-24th of March to deepen work around the case of comrades Berta and Gustavo and talk about the struggle to this point and what the future holds for Berta’s vision in a country that needs it now more than ever.<br />
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*The preventative detention can be extended just once for six more moths, which would expire in November of this year.mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-83045293102515801762018-01-21T14:31:00.002-06:002018-01-22T10:40:38.254-06:00Senior citizen murdered by U.S.-financed Honduran military<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<i>On January 20th, 2018, the U.S.-financed Honduran military of dictator Juan Orlando Hernández shot and killed a senior citizen, a campesino, Don Telmo, in Colón, for participating in a non-violent protest against electoral fraud, repression and the consolidation of the corrupt dictatorship. What follows is a disturbing video of the last steps Don Telmo took after being shot before bleeding to death and dying, followed by a painting and poem in his honor:</i></div>
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by Joaquín Cardoza<br />
<i>Translation by Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle</i><br />
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Don Telmo,<br />
Grandfather in resistance<br />
The official mouthpieces,<br />
bought and paid for,<br />
will pronounce<br />
That you were a terrorist,<br />
A vandal<br />
Maybe even a gang-banger<br />
to try to justify their crime,<br />
to save their backs<br />
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ASSASSINS!!!!<br />
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Don Telmo,<br />
This is the new Honduras<br />
Of the festering<br />
satraps:<br />
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Death,<br />
Narco state,<br />
Buy, sell,<br />
Indignity,<br />
Disgrace....<br />
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Your killing is a new milestone<br />
For the blond, the rich<br />
And the ignorant poor<br />
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For your children, grandchildren and the rest,<br />
just as for our own,<br />
As the last drop of your blood falls<br />
On the land of this nation,<br />
The struggle digs deep<br />
for redemption<br />
As the people roar<br />
mightily in the streets:<br />
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THE BLOOD OF MARTYRS,<br />
IS THE SEED OF FREEDOM!<br />
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J.Cardoza.<br />
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<i>Original Poem in Spanish:</i><br />
<b>SANGRE DE HONDURAS</b><br />
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Don Telmo,<br />
Resistente abuelo,<br />
Pregonarán<br />
Los órganos de resonancia,<br />
tarifados,<br />
Qué si usted era terrorista,<br />
Vándalo<br />
O bien marero;<br />
intentando justificar su crimen,<br />
A mansalva<br />
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¡¡¡ ASESINOS!!!<br />
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Don Telmo,<br />
Esta es la nueva Honduras<br />
Del sátrapa<br />
Enquistado:<br />
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Muerte,<br />
Narco estado,<br />
Compraventa,<br />
Indigidad,<br />
Desvergüenza....<br />
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Su asesinato es un nuevo hitz<br />
Para rubiios, ricos<br />
Y pobres ignorantes<br />
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Para sus hijos, nietos y demás,<br />
Como para los nuestros,<br />
Al caer la última gota de su sangre<br />
Sobre el territorio nacional,<br />
Se recrudece la lucha<br />
Para la redención,<br />
Pues como grita<br />
con energía, el pueblo en las calles:<br />
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¡SANGRE DE MÁRTIRES,<br />
SEMILLA DE LIBERTAD!<br />
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J.Cardoza.mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-48041504693883620812018-01-20T00:58:00.000-06:002018-06-05T13:37:50.239-05:00ALERT! Edwin Espinal arrested for participation in protests against the dictatorship<b>COPINH denounces arrest of prominent Honduran activist Edwin Espinal, captured for his participation in protests against the dictatorship</b><br />
<i><a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2018/01/alerta-capturan-al-companero-edwin.html"><br /></a></i>
<i><a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2018/01/alerta-capturan-al-companero-edwin.html">[Original en español]</a></i><br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sN03Td1LJP0/WmLoMBR7qiI/AAAAAAAAMmg/gA7N5A1nsBEkulzBZu0_rtUa3f8fnPb2ACLcBGAs/s1600/26904534_10156021424718908_8679672944540949120_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sN03Td1LJP0/WmLoMBR7qiI/AAAAAAAAMmg/gA7N5A1nsBEkulzBZu0_rtUa3f8fnPb2ACLcBGAs/s400/26904534_10156021424718908_8679672944540949120_n.jpg" width="225" /></a>Tonight, while driving home, <i>compañero </i>Edwin Espinal was captured by members of the police along the Fuerzas Aramadas Boulevard in Tegucigalpa for his participation in the protests days before against the imposition of fraud and dictatorship by Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH).<br />
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Edwin Espinal is a well-known figure in the struggle against the dictatorial regime imposed since the 2009 coup d'etat in Honduras. His capture stems from orders by JOH the dictator to repress, demonize and criminalize the dignified protest of people who oppose the imposition of violence and betrayal.<br />
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Edwin's capture comes days after having been victim of a demonization campaign in social media, just like what has happened to our brothers Martín Fernández and Víctor Fernández from the Broad Movement for Justice and Dignity (MADJ), as well as Father Melo from Radio Progreso among a long list of sisters and brothers in struggle against the regime.<br />
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The actions by the JOH government seek to sew fear and consternation amongst the mobilized people, as has been demonstrated by the brutal displays of force by the military police and the illegal statements by FUSINA, trying to interfere with the basic right to protest.<br />
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Nonetheless, the strength of our cry as a Honduran people against the illegality and illegitimacy of JOH is clear and we are sure that nobody will rest until he falls.<br />
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While JOH's spurious electoral tribunal certifies his illegal victory, they capture and criminalize compatriots who struggle for truth and dignity.<br />
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They use an iron fist against the people, but for foreign interests they kneel down as low as they can.<br />
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COPINH demands Edwin Espinal be released immediately and holds the Honduran state accountable.<br />
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We call on the national and international community to denounce these actions of criminalization along with the series of assassinations, aggressions, campaigns of stigmatization and brutal repression by the state against a mobilized people.<br />
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COPINH calls for a deepening of national mobilization against fraud and dictatorship.<br />
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The more they repress, the more we struggle and organize.<br />
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January 19th, 2018.<br />
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With the ancestral strength of Berta, Lempira, Mota and Etempica our voices rise, full of life, justice, dignity, freedom and peace!mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-70417681080218438952017-12-23T22:50:00.000-06:002017-12-23T22:51:18.271-06:00No to US support for electoral fraud and repression by Honduran dictator!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-7735395592319730802017-12-22T13:36:00.000-06:002017-12-22T13:36:03.168-06:00Open Letter to the People of the U.S. from Opposition Alliance Coordinator and Ex-President Manuel Zelaya Rosales<div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;">
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<span><strong>Open Letter to the People of the United States</strong></span></div>
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<span><span>People of the United States: </span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span>For the past century, the owners of the fruit companies called our country "Banana Republic" and characterized our politicians as "cheaper than a mule" (as in the infamous Rolston letter).</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>Honduras, a dignified nation, has had the misfortune of having a ruling class lacking in ethical principles that kowtows to U.S. transnational corporations, condemning our country to backwardness and extreme poverty.</span></span></div>
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<span><span><span><span>We have been subject to horrible dictatorships that have enjoyed U.S. support, under the premise that an outlaw is good for us if he serves transnational interests well. We have reached the point that today we are treated as less than a colony to which the U.S. government does not even deign to appoint an ambassador. Your government has installed a dictatorship in the person of Mr. Hernández, who acts as a provincial governor--spineless and obedient toward transnational companies, but a tyrant who uses terror tactics to oppress his own people. Certain sectors of Honduran private industry have also suffered greatly from punitive taxes and persecution.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>You, the people of the United States, have been sold the idea that your government defends democracy, transparency, freedom and human rights in Honduras. But the State Department and Heide Fulton, the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires who is serving as de facto Ambassador to Honduras, are supporting blatant electoral fraud favoring Mr. Hernández, who has repeatedly violated the Honduran Constitution and (as noted by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) basic human rights. He is responsible for the scandalous looting of USD $350 million from the Honduran Social Security Institute and while he lies to you shamelessly that he is fighting drug cartels, he has destroyed the rule of law by stacking the Supreme Court with justices loyal to him.</span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>The people of the United States have the right to know that in Honduras your taxes are used to finance, train and run institutions that oppress the people, such as the armed forces and the police, both of which are well known to run death squads (like those that grew out of Plan Colombia) and which are also deeply integrated with drug cartels.</span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>People of the United States: the immoral support of your government has been so two-faced that for eight consecutive years the U.S. Millenium Challenge Corporation has determined that the Hernandez regime does not qualify for aid because of the government’s corruption, failing in all measures of transparency. With this record, the Honduran people ask: Why is the U.S. Government willing to recognize as president a man who the Honduran people voted against, and who they wish to see leave office immediately?</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://criterio.hn/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mel-embajada.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-40801" height="178" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://criterio.hn/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mel-embajada.jpg" srcset="https://criterio.hn/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mel-embajada.jpg 800w, https://criterio.hn/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mel-embajada-300x167.jpg 300w, https://criterio.hn/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mel-embajada-768x427.jpg 768w" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" width="320" /></a><span><br /><span>People of the United States: We ask you to spread the word, to stand up to your government’s lies about supporting democracy, freedom, human rights and justice, and to demand that your elected representatives immediately end U.S. support for the scandalous electoral fraud against the people of Honduras, who have taken to the streets to demand recognition of the victory of the Alliance Against the Dictatorship and of President-Elect Salvador Alejandro César Nasralla Salúm.</span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>We can tolerate difference and conflict, seeking peaceful solutions as a sovereign people, but your government’s intervention in favor of the dictatorship only exacerbates our differences.</span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>The electoral fraud supported by the U.S. State Department in favor of the dictatorship has forced our people to protest massively throughout the country, despite savage government repression that has taken the lives of more than 34 young people since the election, and in which hundreds of protestors have been criminalized and imprisoned.</span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>We stand in solidarity with the North American people; we share much more with you than the fact that the one percent has bought off the political leaders of both our nations. </span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>As descendants of the Independence hero Morazán, we want to live in peace, with justice and in democracy. </span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>The Honduran people want to have good relations with the United States, but with respect and reciprocity.</span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>Tegucigalpa, December 21, 2017</span></span></div>
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<span><br /><span>José Manuel Zelaya Rosales</span></span></div>
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<span>Constitutionally Legitimate President of Honduras 2005-2010</span></div>
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<div class="m_-2096163221737914673_1mj m_-2096163221737914673_1mf">
<span>Chief Coordinator, Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship</span></div>
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<img height="53" src="https://criterio.hn/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mel-embajada.jpg" style="left: 502.3px; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 860px;" width="96" />mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-69476003473506404542017-12-20T23:52:00.004-06:002018-11-26T17:09:02.417-06:00"This is an insurrection" - Honduran journalist Sandra Maribel Sánchez<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is an
insurrection </span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Interview
with Sandra Maribel Sánchez</span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="line-height: 115%;">Introduction and interview: Melissa Cardoza</span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="line-height: 115%;">Translation: Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.eljojoto.net/2017/12/20/entrevista-a-sandra-maribel-sanchez-sobre-situacion-en-honduras-es-una-insurreccion/">[Original en español]</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Photo: Chris Jeske during La Voz de los de Abajo human rights delegation</i></td></tr>
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<i><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For
those who don’t know her, Sandra is a journalist who has w</span><span style="text-align: center;">orked political beats
for decades and for very challenging outlets for someone of her profession. Her
columns and opinions question and influence. They share characteristics that
are scarce in Honduran media: responsibility, ethics, veracity and tenacity.</span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is going on today, December
19th, 2017 in Honduras?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
is happening is that the formal institutional framework is a hollow shell,
which recognizes Juan Orlando Hernández as President of Honduras at the same
time there is a majority expression by the people in the streets resisting that
statement and the possibility of this man staying in power. This is because
people feel violated, abused, robbed by the Honduran authorities and also by
those organizations that send observation missions. The people know who they
voted for and that’s what they talk about in their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">barrios</i>, their communities, in the public spaces. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With
all of the evidence that has come to light about the process it is evident that
Nasralla won the elections, and even people who didn’t believe in him, in this
moment they are defending the will of the people who voted for him and their struggle
against the fraud. Here they have stolen everything from us, education,
healthcare, highways, but the people feel that this is their limit, this has
them mobilized and it has the businessmen afraid. Those who supported Juan
Orlando threw gas on the fire and now they ask for everything to be resovled
with dialogue. They are the ones who created the conditions for this to happen.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
have hope that out of this the possiblity of dialogue will arise, but not the one
they call for, but rather a National Constitutional Assembly where all actors can
be on a level playing field and where we reach a true social pact. Because the 1982
constitution was a pact between political and military elites, the people had
no voice in it. Now the people like never before have the level of
consciousness needed to pursue that end and they are willing to do anything. I
cannot help but be a little afraid, but insurrection is a right that the
constitution guarantees, and that is where there is an opening for people not
to have to live under governments imposed through force, and that is what is
happening in the country. The electoral tribunal can prounounce him President,
but he is being imposed through force, he is imposing himself through force,
through the military police and the army. They build that police force to act
as a political police exactly as it is behaving, and they gave the military a
lot of rewards in exchange for their loyalty. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
tribunal declaring him winner is irrelevant to everybody. What the people are
afraid of is the participation of the military, because they aren’t just going
after those they think commit crimes when they protest, they are going to
people’s homes, launching tear gas, attacking little boys and girls, the
elderly, without any regard, that is what they were trained for. We are at that
moment. The people who had taken no position to this point are now raising
their heads and joining the expressions of the majority that are taking place
in the country. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>What is the most striking thing that
you see in the streets, in these times?</b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AcjJ4F4XY20/WjtKbuwRbzI/AAAAAAAAMeA/G5rWnLJ0-vAFmSKdBFaB95Vx-oE5u9HtgCEwYBhgL/s1600/HON17_164_preview.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AcjJ4F4XY20/WjtKbuwRbzI/AAAAAAAAMeA/G5rWnLJ0-vAFmSKdBFaB95Vx-oE5u9HtgCEwYBhgL/s320/HON17_164_preview.jpeg" width="320" /></i></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Photo/ foto: Chris Jeske</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
people say that if they haven’t killed you through hunger, they will still kill
you after the dictator is installed, that they have no doubt that if he
consolidates his power he will have them killed. Terrible- one young man said it
just like that, that what might change is the moment he dies, but that this
government </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">will </i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">kill him, because its
military targets are the poorest barrios. That is where they are most
vicious,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">because that is where the
people from whom this government has stolen everything live. That’s the
dimension of people’s determination.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And women?</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b><br />
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On
the front line. Everywhere I have gone they have been there. The cameras go to
places to take pictures where there are fires or striking images, but women’s
attitude is incredible. They have tremendous strength confronting tear gas, and
they go right up to where the police are, even though they have their helmets
and sheilds, their gas masks, they don’t care. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The women go with their children
because they have to watch out for them, and they go out with them. It isn’t
because they are irresponsible like some say. They are in ther barrios, their
homes. The women go out with them to save them. In my whole professional life,
in my personal life, I have never seen people so willing to be in the street,
any government with the least amount of sense would have to see what is
happening and act based on that criteria.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is sustaining the dictator for
this to be able to happen? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
true rulers of this country. Although they are wavering because they are losing
a lot. We’ve been told that in Trujillo the ships that get to the port to pick
up bananas go back empty because on the roads between Colón and Atlántida there
around 320 banana shipments that have not been able to get through. This is
happening in many places. Look, yesm there are people that commit crimes, that
are looting and breaking windows, but that is part of the fury in people. The
media try to conflate the gang members with the people who are in the streets,
but even the gang members are the product of the system. They are the product
of the deprivation that the system subjects them to. They are Hondurans, and
they live here. You and I have may have been able to go to school, pay for a
house, go out to get food and take care of things, but there are people here who
have none of that. It is impossible to wrap your mind around how a family of
six could survive on a salary of $340 / month [Honduras’s minimum wage].</span><br />
<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And the embassy?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s
another major actor, not just the U.S. one that always holds us down, but all
of them because the European Union is playing a role, which at the beginning
seemed separate from that of the U.S.. But it was an illusion, the chief of the
mission who supposedly is a progressive woman said some strong things at one
moment that generated certain confidence and expectations, but then since that they
have not questioned the status quo. There is a level of collusion between those
embassies, they see the country on fire and people killed and don’t even really
care.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With
regard to the latest from the OAS secretary, who we have no reason to trust, at
least they offer a proposal for a way out. But these guys are dead set on
staying in power. There is known scientific evidence that there was fraud, but
in the face of scientific evidence they close their eyes and deny the political
reality. I think that Almagro in the short term wants to justify intervention
in Venezuela and he needs to clean up his image, and the gringos themselves may
have given him the go-ahead, but we have seen statements from the State
Department that say that the Opposition Alliance has five days to submit
objections to a tribunal that lacks legitimacy. In this country neither the
healthcare system nor the educational system are functioning, the police exist
to attack the population not protect it, here a minority makes the political
and economic decisions and they want us to believe in that set of institutions,
to rely on them to take our objections to these processes. That can’t be.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
have faith that the people who took to the streets in 2009, who spent over 150
days in the streets resisting the coup and due to bad decisions by some
politicians did not end up with a constitutional assembly, may now be able to
get one. I think of that as just a tool to build a social pact, it isn’t the
final objective, but I hope that the pressure on this man achieves at least
that. Despite the millions that have been spent on tear gas they have not been
able to defeat the population, yesterday in Villanueva they ran out of tear
gas, of the barrels full of tear gas bombs they were carrying. The smoke was
rising from in between houses, the white gas of their bombs. What kind of
government is that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
is an insurrection, and which way it goes I am convinced is influenced by the
Alliance leadership, because some saw in them a path towards some light, but it
goes beyond that; it is in the communities where orgaznied people amongst
themselves are discussing what they are going to do and testing leadership,
observing it and monitoring it.</span><br />
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That
is wonderful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-9981413889257085802017-12-19T03:21:00.001-06:002017-12-19T03:21:02.328-06:00Social Movement Platform of Honduras: "The people’s victory is close and depends solely on the decisive, courageous and heroic struggle of the people in resistance"<b>COMMUNIQUE IN RESPONSE TO DECLARATION OF JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ’S AS WINNER </b><br /><div>
The Platform of the Social and Popular Movement of Honduras communicates to the Honduran people, in this moment of grave national crisis, where again they seek to impose a coup d’état, this time in the form of a fraudulent presidential re-election, the following:<br /> <br /><ol><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qwfCCPboD6s/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qwfCCPboD6s?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<li>We repudiate the resolution of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal that declared Juan Orlando Hernandez the president-elect and, therefore, we reject the widespread fraud orchestrated by the National Party, the national oligarchy and the government of the United States through their chargé d'affaires in Honduras.</li>
<li>We demand the immediate resignation of Juan Orlando Hernández and all the members of his cabinet, who make up a spurious, illegal regime and are the face of an oligarchic dictatorship that seeks to impose itself through brute force against the interests of our people.</li>
<li>We reject the ambiguous and complicit attitude of international organizations that have tried to protect and prolong a criminal dictatorship responsible for the murder of hundreds of our sisters and brothers, and the repression and torture of thousands of people throughout the whole country.</li>
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<br />Through this means, we call on local organizations and the people of Honduras to:<br /> <br /><ol>
<li>To take the streets, roads and public plazas. In the strategic areas, establish checkpoints that are set up with sufficient distances to wear down the military or police repression, until the fall of this spurious regime.</li>
<li>Maintain control over our territories, guaranteeing respect and safety for our brothers and sisters in cities and communities throughout the country. Fight smartly, with determination and without unnecessary risks to the lives of all those in the popular struggle.</li>
<li>To guarantee the sustainability of the struggle, by planning the distribution of food and all the necessary resources that will permit us to maintain what will likely be a prolonged resistance.</li>
<li>To create teames in each community in resistance to document, make videos and denounce all the human rights violations committed by the dictatorship.</li>
<li>To break the media siege by all possible means, using social media and especially our community radios throughout the national territory. We ask that when publishing notes or reports about th estruggles that we avoid giving names and filming the faces of comrades in the shots.</li>
<li>To hold with dignity and bravery every takeover site or popular checkpoint. The people’s victory is close and depends solely on the decisive, courageous and heroic struggle of the people in resistance</li>
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<br />Only the people can save the people! <br />Down with the dictatorship!<br /><br /><br />December 17th, 2017 <br /><br />COORDINACIÓN NACIONAL<br /> Plataforma del Movimiento Social y Popular de Honduras<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <style>
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mgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-12758218231053071252017-12-18T22:04:00.004-06:002017-12-18T22:04:49.965-06:00COPINH: For the blood spilled by Berta Cáceres and all of our ancestors, we demand the downfall of the murderous regime!<b>COPINH DOES NOT recognize the decision of the electoral tribunal, calls for grassroots mobilization</b><br />
<i><a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2017/12/el-copinh-no-reconoce-resolucion-del.html?spref=tw"><br /></a></i>
<i><a href="http://copinhonduras.blogspot.com/2017/12/el-copinh-no-reconoce-resolucion-del.html?spref=tw">[Original en español]</a></i><br />
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The Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) DOES NOT recognize the statement made yesterday by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) which claims Juan Orlando Hernández as the winner. This decision represents the final consummation of the electoral fraud through which they seek to make a mockery of the Honduran people’s will expressed on November 26th, which is to expel the dictatorship and its corrupt cabal from the presidency. The fraud carried out throughout the process is clear and evident, starting with the illegality of Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)’s candidacy itself and especially in the hours following the closure of the polls when the opposition’s victory became apparent. With their timid statements the OAS and EU have corroborated what the people have already declared in the streets - all of the irregularities of the corrupt electoral process and Honduran state make clear that this is the imposition of a dictatorship. The statement by the TSE is yet another affront to the Honduran people and we denounce that all of its members who were involved should be prosecuted.<br />
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*COPINH calls for the permanent mobilization and organization in the streets of the Lenca and Honduran people as a whole to make the legitimate demand that JOH immediately step down, or, short of that, for there to be a new electoral process with guarantees and transparency, supervised by the international community, beyond the OAS and also including representation of the Honduran grassroots social movements.<br />
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*COPINH demands that the armed forces and Honduran police immediately cease their repression against the Honduran people who are exercising their constitutional right to protest a government based on imposition!<br />
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*COPINH calls on the international community to denounce the violent and murderous actions by agents of the state’s repressive forces, which have already taken 22 Honduran lives, and to push for the governments of the world to refuse recognition of the criminal declaration by Honduras’s TSE.<br />
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*COPINH and the Lenca people are rising up, not in defense of a party or a candidate, but rather in defense of dignity itself.<br />
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For the blood spilled by Berta Cáceres and all of our ancestors, we demand justice! We demand the downfall of the murderous regime!<br />
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With the ancestral strength of Berta, Iselaca, Etempica and Mota we raise our voices full of life, justice, dignity and peace.<br />
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December 18th, 2017<br />
La Esperanza, Intibucá, Hondurasmgjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10185264099054286960noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955810357788117702.post-28210758889937319982017-12-18T21:40:00.002-06:002017-12-21T15:17:34.192-06:00Open Letter to US government: NO to the recognition of electoral fraud, NO to more support for state terror<h2 style="background-color: whitesmoke; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #392f25; font-family: source-serif-pro-n4, source-serif-pro, serif; font-size: 1.625em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
An Open Letter to the US Congress and US State Department</h2>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--crDYpweQUU/WjiLNDImWVI/AAAAAAAAMcc/G5Mhg7Lwjm8T3bTKmUXNUrgWJclzKYOHwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/cropped-honduras_banner-HSN-1000x523.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--crDYpweQUU/WjiLNDImWVI/AAAAAAAAMcc/G5Mhg7Lwjm8T3bTKmUXNUrgWJclzKYOHwCK4BGAYYCw/s320/cropped-honduras_banner-HSN-1000x523.jpg" width="320" /></a>As US-based human rights, grassroots organizing, solidarity, and other civil society organizations, we are outraged that presidential candidate Juan Orlando Hernández was declared the winner in the Honduran presidential elections, amid serious and pervasive reports of election fraud and human rights violations.</div>
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We urge you, in the strongest possible terms, NOT to recognize the results announced by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.</div>
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After the initial release of official results in the Honduran presidential election showed the opposition candidate leading by approximately 5 percentage points based on more than half the returns, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (or TSE, by its Spanish initials, which is controlled by the current administration) did not resume releasing presidential election results for more than a day. For comparison, in the 2013 presidential election, the winner was declared with a similar proportion of the returns in. Once the updates resumed, the incumbent, President Hernández, gained ground at a surprising rate and, quickly passed the opposition candidate, according to the TSE’s numbers. The long delay, and the dramatic shift in the tendency of the vote count reported before and after that delay, raise serious doubts about the integrity of this election.</div>
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In addition, international delegations from La Voz de los de Abajo, Code Pink, and Witness for Peace witnessed and heard testimony of violent beatings of civilians, the ongoing intimidation through use of security forces, including US-funded security forces, as well as numerous incidents of fraud and violence at polling places. On December 1, a presidential decree suspended Constitutional rights, imposed a curfew, and there have been multiple reports of security forces using live ammunition and violence toward civilians during anti-fraud protests around the country, resulting in at least 22 deaths of protesters at this point.</div>
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The US government has been an ongoing supporter and financial backer of the Honduran government, including supporting the 2009 coup which led to the right-wing National Party taking power, with Hernández as President of the National Congress from 2010-2013. Furthermore, the US has pushed forward the disastrous, failed Plan Colombia model for Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador in the form of the “Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle” aid package. This 750 million-dollar project dressed up as an anti-drug initiative, has been used to create “favorable” conditions for outside investors, at the cost of militarization, violence and corruption that have actively contributed to the kind of deterioration of democracy we are witnessing in Honduras today. Just two days after the Honduran elections the US State Department certified that the Honduran government is meeting human rights and anti-corruption conditions, clearing the way for Honduras to receive millions of dollars in US aid. The circumstances around the election and beyond demonstrate clearly that the Honduran government is not at all meeting those conditions.</div>
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If the US has a genuine commitment to democracy, it must:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not recognize the announced election outcome due to widespread reports of state involvement in electoral fraud and violence;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Revoke the State Department’s certification that the Honduran government is meeting human rights and anti-corruption conditions.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">End US security aid to Honduras, including police and military aid, and support for Honduran security forces though the so-called “Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle” program; Pass HR 1299, the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act and its companion bill in the Senate.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Condemn the Honduran government’s violent crackdown of protesters and suspension of Constitutional rights, and demand the the Honduran government immediately cease using live ammunition against civilians and remove the military from the streets;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Extend Temporary Protected Status for the more than 57,000 Hondurans currently in the United States; and</li>
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At this defining moment for the people of Honduras, we urge you to be on the right side of democracy and history, by urgently addressing the fundamental demands outlined in this letter. Thank you for your attention at this critical time.</div>
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Signed,</div>
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Grassroots International<br />
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance<br />
Honduras Solidarity Network<br />
Witness for Peace<br />
La Voz de los de Abajo</div>
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Additional signers can be <a class="external" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRPmri44n5a-Vo8RuvAQnpegRNSbJ9mXPTvDrfOr3qvSA74g/viewform" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #889b04; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; hyphens: manual; line-height: 1.76471em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, color; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">found here</a>.</div>
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A press release can be <a href="https://grassrootsonline.org/press-releases/honduras-us-rights-groups-condemn-election-result-as-not-credible/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #889b04; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; hyphens: manual; line-height: 1.76471em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, color; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">found here</a>.</div>
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