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While the corporate media repeat over and over the lies of 61% turnout in recent military-run elections - by now thoroughly contradicted even by the Honduran dictatorship's own numbers (which show well over half the electorate stayed home) - in Honduras resistance continues and repression is on the rise. The latest incident is eerily reminiscent of the acts of the famous 3-16 Batallion death squad that operated in Honduras in the 1980's, many of whose members are key leaders and advisers in the de facto government.
The Death Squads are Back El Libertador
Death squads have come back to do what they do. Sunday night a vehicle without plates took the lives of 5 people, all identified as members of the popular resistance against the dictatorship that was installed in the country 5 months ago.
The event occurred in sector 6 of the Villanueva neighbourhood of Tegucigalpa, where unknown men in a white vehicle without license plates opened fire without saying a word on the five now dead men who were near a traffic circle by the belt-line road.
According to one of the residents of the area, who for obvious reasons of security declined to give his name, "the boys (the victims) were active members of the Resistance. They had organized the committees in the Honduras and Víctor F Ardón neighbourhoods so that the neighbours could get involved in the Resistance Front."
The names of the deceased are: Isaac Coello, (24); Roger Reyes (22), Kenneth Rosa (23), Gabriel Parrales and Marco Vinicio Matute (39), while one woman, Wendy Reyes, was wounded and is receiving treatment at the medical school hospital.
Area residents said that in the hours prior to the bloody event, there was an agent of the National Criminal Investigation Directorate (DNIC) watching the area where the crime took place and who mysteriously left shortly before the killings.
José Luna, a sub-inspector of the Preventative Policía responded to questions about the killings by saying “Whenever there are murders, there are people who say the victims were good people." He added that the police are tracking those responsible for the massacre. So far, however, they have not been able to locate the vehicle described in the incident.
During the last few weeks, double cabin pick-ups with no plates have taken on the task of intimidating members of the Popular Resistance Against the Coup d'etat. Reporters of this publication have also complained of being followed and observed by vehicles with similar characteristics, and human rights organizations are also been aware of such anomalies.
Escuadrones de la muerte asesinan a miembros de la
Resistencia en Tegucigalpa
07/12/2009 - El Libertador
En horas de la noche de ayer domingo, cinco personas fueron asesinadas en la colonia Villanueva, al oriente de la capital, por personas desconocidas, que se transportaban en un vehículo blanco sin placas, mientras una persona fue trasladada a un centro asistencial herida de bala.
Escuadrones de la muerte han vuelto a hacer de las suyas. Ayer domingo en horas de la noche, un vehículo sin placas cobró la vida de cinco personas, identificadas como miembros de la resistencia popular contra la dictadura instaurada hace cinco meses en el país.
El hecho ocurrió en el sector seis de la colonia Villanueva de Tegucigalpa, en donde un vehículo sin placas de color blanco, que sin mediar palabra, dispararon en contra de los ahora occisos, quienes se encontraban en las afueras de una glorieta, ubicada a las orillas del anillo periférico, en donde quedaron sin vida.
El relato de uno de los vecinos del lugar, que por seguridad obvió su nombre aseguró que “los muchachos (las victimas) eran miembros activos de la Resistencia, ellos habían organizado los comités en la colonia Honduras, Víctor F Ardón para que los vecinos se integraran al frente de resistencia”.
Los fallecidos respondían a los nombres de: Isaac Coello, de 24 años; Roger Reyes (22), Kenneth Rosa (23), Gabriel Parrales y Marco Vinicio Matute (39), mientras que la herida, Wendy Reyes, recibe atención en el Hospital Escuela, en donde hasta el momento se desconoce cual es su estado de salud.
Vecinos del lugar informaron que en horas previas al sangriento suceso manifestaron que un elemento de la Dirección Nacional de Investigación Criminal (DNIC), estuvo montando guardia en las cercanías de la escena del crimen, y que de forma misteriosa desapareció del lugar, sin dar detalles de su estadía en la zona.
Por su parte, el subinspector José Luna de la Policía Preventiva, de forma altanera respondió: “siempre que hay asesinatos, hay gente que dice que eran buenas personas”, además agrega que la policía está tras la pista de los responsables de la masacre. Sin embargo, hasta esta hora no se ha dado con el paradero del vehículo arriba descrito.
Durante las últimas semanas, automotores doble cabina sin placas se han dado a la tarea de intimidar a los miembros de la Resistencia Popular contra el golpe de Estado. Personal de prensa de este rotativo han denunciado que carros con similares características los ha estado observando durante varios minutos y sin que nadie se baje de dichos automotores, y que organismos de defensa de los derechos humanos tienen conocimiento sobre tales anomalías.
Communication Number 42 of the National Front of Resistance against the Coup d'Etat
"The Front is on our feet in struggle and has the backing of the majority of the Honduran people. We are currently raising our organizational efforts to defeat the oligarchy and install an inclusive and popular National Constitutional Assembly El Frente está en pie de lucha y cuenta con el respaldo mayoritario del pueblo hondureño. Actualmente estamos aumentando los esfuerzos organizativos para derrotar la oligarquía e instalar la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente incluyente y popular."
The National Front of Resistance Against the Coup d'Etat communicates:
1. We maintain our position of complete non-recognition of the regime that will be installed on the 27th of January, which will be the continuation of the dictatorship that the oligarchy imposed with the coup d'etat on the 28th of June.
2. We reject the media campaign that speaks of a "unity government" made up of sectors that were accomplices in the breaking of the constitutional order and that will serve to pass power from the Micheletti dictatorship to the Lobo dictatorship.
3. We denounce the plans of the oligarchy to transfer the costs of the coup d'etat to the poor people, through a packet of economic measures that include raising the sales tax, devaluing the Lempira [Honduran currency], and raising electricity rates among others. They are trying to apply this packet before the new dictator takes posession to disassociate the worsening of the social and economic crisis in which he, his party and his class are participants.
4. We reiterate that the Honduran people will not be responsible for the debts assumed by the de facto authorities, whether with national or international banks.
5. We call to the peoples of the world to stay in solidarity with the struggle that the Honduran Resistance is continuing. we ask that you carry out acts of repudiation towards the representatives of the dictatorship who are trying to gain international backing.
6. We celebrate and thank the decision of the governments who make up MERCOSUR to not recognize the elections and the regime that will be installed on January 27th. We call to all of the governments of the world to follow this example.
7. The National Front of Resistance Against the Coup d'Etat is on its feet in struggle and has the backing of the majority of the Honduran people. We are currently raising our organizational efforts to defeat the oligarchy and install an inclusive and popular National Constitutional Assembly.
We resist and we will win!
Tegucigalpa, Honduras December 9th, 2009
Comunicado No. 42: del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Contra el Golpe
"El Frente está en pie de lucha y cuenta con el respaldo mayoritario del pueblo hondureño. Actualmente estamos aumentando los esfuerzos organizativos para derrotar la oligarquía e instalar la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente incluyente y popular." El Frente Nacional de Resistencia contra el Golpe de Estado comunica:
1. Mantenemos nuestra posición de desconocimiento total del régimen que se instalará el 27 de enero, y que será la continuación de la dictadura que la oligarquía impuso con el golpe de estado del 28 de Junio.
2. Rechazamos la campaña mediática en la que se habla de un “gobierno de unidad” que integrarían sectores cómplices del rompimiento del orden constitucional y que serviría para traspasar el poder del dictador Micheletti al dictador Lobo.
3. Denunciamos los planes de la oligarquía de trasladar los costos del golpe de estado al pueblo pobre, a través de un paquete de medidas económicas que incluyen el aumento del impuesto sobre venta, la devaluación del lempira, el aumento a las tarifas de la energía eléctrica, entre otras. Tal paquete pretende aplicarse antes de la toma de posesión del nuevo dictador para desvincularlo de del agravamiento de la crisis económica y social, de la que él, su partido y su clase son partícipes.
4. Reiteramos que el pueblo hondureño no se hará responsable de los endeudamientos asumidos por las autoridades de facto, ya sea con la banca nacional o internacional.
5. Llamamos a los pueblos del mundo a que mantengan la solidaridad con la lucha que sostiene la Resistencia hondureña. Les pedimos que reciban con actos de repudio a los representantes de la dictadura que están intentando ganar respaldo internacional.
6. Celebramos y agradecemos la decisión de los gobiernos que integran el MERCOSUR de desconocer las elecciones y el régimen que se instale el 27 de enero. Llamamos a todos los gobiernos del mundo a seguir ese ejemplo.
7. El Frente Nacional de Resistencia contra el Golpe de Estado está en pie de lucha y cuenta con el respaldo mayoritario del pueblo hondureño. Actualmente estamos aumentando los esfuerzos organizativos para derrotar la oligarquía e instalar la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente incluyente y popular.
¡Resistimos y Venceremos!
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Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. 9 de diciembre de 2009
PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF HONDURAS
FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT
Tegucigalpa, 7th of December, 2009
THE RESISTANCE IS THE NEW BELIGERENT FORCE IN HONDURAS
It should constitute itself as a platform for political coordination.
It should be the axis for coordinating and bringing together the progressive political forces, who without losing their own identities, can achieve the objective of the transformations and changes for the Honduran people.
The Resistance is the hope for having a new Constitution and installing a National Constitutional Assembly.
Brothers and sisters of the National Resistance Against the Coup d'Etat
With great appreciation I address you to thank you for your labor in the resistance, hoping that my ideas are useful in your reflections in this difficult moment being lived through by our people, the people who have accompanied and backed me up in my struggle of over 30 years for democracy and social justice for Honduras.
We are at 163 days of Resistance against the military coup d'etat where I was kidnapped and exiled to Costa Rica, enduring along with you pain and suffering for the people, with 78 days of attacks against us in this military enclosure in the diplomatic headquarters of Brazil, enduring with my family and friends who accompany me in political persecution, you in the streets, suffering the cruelest repression, massacres, killings, torture, political persecution, arbitrary detention, for raising your voices of protest against the dictatorship by peacefully but firmly demanding the restitution of the President elected by the people, the return to democracy and sanctions against those who usurped power.
Brothers and sisters, let's not be deceived by the farce and trap that they carried out last November 29th in Honduras. There is no democracy, the coup d'etat was institutionalized, there is no separation of powers and the impunity of the institutions who co-authored the coup d'etat continues: the Supreme Court, the State Prosecutor, the Commissioner of Human rights, the leadership of the Political Parties in Congress and the upper echelons of the military.
The elections guided by the dictatorship are not valid, they were marred at birth, without qualified observers, under repression, without guarantees of equality nor liberty for those who oppose the de facto regime, amidst the censoring and closing of the media, and with mroe than 60% abstention.
Porfirio Lobo with 40% of the people came out of the electoral fraud, he is illegitimate, he is illegal and his Presidency is extremely weak, as he demonstrated in 48 hours with a quick alliance with the military and dictatorship to oppose in Congress the return to the democratic order and to the President that the people elected. In that way he lost all legitimacy in his election.
Now the Lobo-Micheletti coup alliance is imposing [economic] packets, they will be devaluing our currency, and unleashing the heavy fist of repression on the people.
The resistance has a great mission to complete, to convert itself into a belligerent force and a platform of political coordination, to be an axis to coordinate and bring together the progressive political forces, who without losing their own identity, make the dominant elite recognize that as Hondurans we don't have masters, that we want Freedom, that we all have the right to life and to live in better conditions, to recognize that we are all Hondurans and that our country needs reforms that are unstoppable.
Towards this end the resistance should organize its platform of political coordination and programs with defined actions in every neighborhood, every municipality, in all the departments that make up the national territory, demand a new social pact, a new constitution where the people determine the rules that allow a solution to the problems and transformations of Honduras.
I arrived at the Presidency through the Liberal Party, I am a Liberal and continue to be one, I practice its true doctrine, opposed to dictatorships and totalitarian military regimes. Those who hatched this coup d'etat ceased to be liberals and the people punished them at the polls. The National Party would never have rose from the defeat that we gave it, to do it they had to associate with and conspire with the powerful elite, with their international branches and the two powers of the State to have a military coup and take me off of the political stage.
The Resistance is the guide, it is the hope for returning to the democratic order and installing the next National Constitutional Assembly.
Our arms are our ideas. Our struggle has peaceful strategies.
No cooperation, no violence, and civil disobedience against unjust laws. Nobody owes obedience to those who assume power by arms.
For the love of the people
For the love of the poor
For the defense of our democracyWe will not rest until we defeat the dictatorship
José Manuel Zelaya Rosales
Constitutional President of the Republic of Honduras
12/9/2009
