URGENT ALERT in Solidarity with Garifunas in Vallecito, Honduras! Paramilitary groups armed to the teeth threaten Garifuna communities and could perpetuate a massacre.

In the region of Vallecito (Limon in the province of Colon) 6 Garifuna farming cooperatives have launched a land recuperation this week. See the statement below from OFRANEH with urgent actions to be taken right away.

 There is also an ongoing support petition for Garifuna land rights on line. To sign the petition electronically click on this link: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/defend-the-sovereignty-of-honduras-and-the-culture-and.html

From Triunfo de la Cruz to Vallecito and beyond, the Garifuna communities face threats and violence as the developers for mega-tourism projects in Tela Bay and Trujillo and the agri-business oligarchs like Miguel Facusse try to drive them off of their ancestral lands. La Voz de los de Abajo has visited these communities in permanent resistance (see blog entries from our delegations  and supports the self-determination of the Garifuna people.  This is the link to a previous Honduras Resists post on Vallecito  http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8955810357788117702#editor/target=post;postID=8294882332289463531 Articulo en español sigue despues del ingles

URGENT ALERT in Solidarity with Garifunas in Vallecito, Honduras!

Paramilitary groups armed to the teeth threaten Garifuna communities and could perpetuate a massacre.

CALL FOR URGENT ACTION!

Six Garifuna cooperatives that have recovered lands, such that they possess titles of full dominion in the community of ICOTEA, Vallecito, Colon department, (Honduras) lands that have been invaded by latinos in collusion with Miguel Facusse,(the largest landholder in Honduras) with the complicity of Cesar Ham, minister of the National Agrarian Institute (INA), are experiencing at this moment the threat of paramilitaries mobilized on motorcycles and 4 x 4 vehicles with heavy weapons of war who could massacre the peaceful Garifuna inhabitants who are resisting the displacement from their ancestral territories of which they have legal ownership title.
We urge the national and international community and in particular organizations that defend human rights to send messages to the Honduran government, to stop what could be a new blood bath.  We ask the national and international media to collaborate in disseminating this urgent news.
We hold the current regime of landlords and military led by Porfirio Lobo Sosa for whatever happens to the Garifuna people organized with OFRANEH.
Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña), OFRANEH
Civic Council of Popular Organizations of Honduras (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares de Honduras) COPINH
Agricultural Missions, Inc (AMI)
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Send messages of denunciation of this imminent threat to the following (in English or Spanish):
-Presidente de Honduras, Sr. Porfirio Lobo Sosa:   pepe@pepelobopresidente.com
-Minister of Ethnicities (Ministro de las Etnias), Sr. Luis Green: luisgreen65@yahoo.es
-Attorney General of the Republic (Fiscalía General de la Republica), Sr. Luis Alberto Rubí: lrubi@mp.hn,  gsuazog@mp.hn
-Minister of the National Agrarian Institute (Ministro del Instituto Nacional Agrario), Sr. Cesar Ham: cham@ina.hn,  hrodriguez@ina.hn
-Minister of Justice and Human Rights (Ministra de Justicia y Derechos Humanos),  Sra. Ana Pineda:  info@sjdh.gob.hn,  i.quintanilla@sjth.gob.hn
-President of the Supreme Court (Presidente de la Corte Suprema), Sr. Jorge Rivera Avilés: presidencia@poderjudicial.gob.hn
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The Garifuna People Reoccupy Lands That Have Been Usurped in Vallecito (Limon)

The Garifuna people have suffered heavy territorial pressure. These pressures are caused by corporations, politicians, and the military who make up the real political power of Honduras and who have been seizing power for decades.
Through 6 Associative Collectives the Garifunas have accomplished the titling of 1600 manzanas (4.3 square miles) of land in Vallecito, Limon, Colon, since the year 1997. Since then the invaders have begun to try to take over that territory. Miguel Facusse planted 100 hectares (0.4 square miles) of African palm in the Ruguma Collective, one of the six associative collectives. By the end of 1999, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in favor of the Garifuna, invalidating the claims of the “palm of death.” Facusse in 1993 took over Punta Farallones, adjacent to and belonging to the community of Limon.
Beginning in 2005, people associated with organized crime have imposed a reign of terror in the corridor of Limon - Punta Piedras, forcing the Garifuna that are located in Vallecito to minimize their presence and activities on the land belonging to the collectives. Subsequently, foreigners appeared who were allotted 900 hectares (3.5 square miles) of the 1600 (6.2 square miles) INA (National Agrarian Institute) recognized as belonging to the Garifuna people.
In July 2010, the OFRANEH signed a written agreement with INA officials to achieve the remediation of the associative collectives. However the invaders refused entry to members of INA and the Public Ministry.
The proposed installation of the Model City in the strip between the Bay of Trujillo and the Sico River, has sparked a resurgence of territorial pressure on the Garifuna communities; The Lobo administration has not consulted the Garifuna people about its pretensions to deliver our territory to investors and foreign companies in order to create an independent state.
Vallecito is for our people a territiorial reserve to build food security, hence the importance of recuperating the land of the associative collectives, where we have dreamed of also building the future Garifuna University.

Today hundreds of Garifuna from different communities called together by Iseri Lidawamari and OFRANEH are creating a presence in Vallecito, Limon, to reoccupy the territory that belonged to us historically, and is legally titled by the INA to the Garifuna people through the 6 Associative Collectives: Ruguma, Saway, Saway Sufritiñu, Walumugu, Satuye, Sinduru Free.
We urge solidarity, both nationally and internationally!
We do not seek violence; we do not want repression
We struggle for life, food sovereignty, cultural identity and national sovereignty.
Baruada, Satuye, Bandiemu, Walumugu, Lombardo Lacayo are present in this struggle.
Vallecito, Limon, Colon, August 26, 2012

OFRANEH
Honduran Black Fraternal Organization
Calle 19, # 130.
Alvarado Neighborhood
La Ceiba, Atlantida,
Honduras
telefax: 504-24432492
email: garifuna@ofraneh.org / ofraneh@yahoo.com
http://www.ofraneh.org
http://www.ofraneh.wordpress.com

Alerta: garífunas  en vallecito amenazados

Alrededor de 200 garífunas reunidos en Vallecito, Limón,  con el
propósito de recuperar tierras ancestrales, que han sido usurpadas en
los últimos  años por foráneos;  se han visto el día de hoy acosados por bandas de hombres portando armas de alto calibre, algunos de ellos provenientes de la comunidad de Icoteas.

Las especulaciones inmobilarias alrededor de la supuesta "ciudad modelo"
sumado a la ingobernabilidad existente en la costa norte de Honduras,han producido un ambiente de violencia, situación que nos hace temer por a vida de los y las garífunas en Vallecito

Exigimos al Estado de Honduras el reconocimiento  del  territorio
titulado a las empresas asociativas garífunas y la integridad física de
las personas que se encuentran en Vallecito.
 Favor enviar notas de solidaridad a:

> Sr. Cesar Ham
> Ministro del INA
> karolrodriguez15@hotmail.com ,
>
> Abogado Luis Rubi
> lrubi@mp.hn , suazog@mp.hn
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> Fiscal General
>
> Sr. Luis Green
> Ministro de las Etnias
> luisgreen65@yahoo.es
>
> Sra. Ana Pineda
> Minister of Justice
> i.quintanilla@sjth.gob.hn
> , i.quintanilla@hotmail.com
>

 OFRANEH
Organizacion Fraternal Negra Hondureña
Calle 19, #130.
Barrio Alvarado
La Ceiba, Atlantida,
Honduras
telefax: 504-24432492
email:garifuna@ofraneh.org/ ofraneh@yahoo.com
http://www.ofraneh.org
 http://www.ofraneh.wordpress.com

José Isabel "Chavelo" Morales Sentenced to Twenty Years

Chavelo Morales, political prisoner and campesino activist, member of the Guadalupe Carney community in the Aguan Valley was sentenced to 20 years in prison on July 24 without he or his lawyers being notified that the sentencing was scheduled. Chavelo has been in  prison since 2008, he was convicted despite a lack of any evidence against him, of homicide related to a confrontation that occurred after private armed guards attacked the Guadalupe Carney community in August, 2008. He was held for nearly 3 years without sentencing which also kept him in legal limbo since no appeal of the conviction could be filed until sentencing. More than 30 campesinos from the community have open arrest warrants related to the 2008 events based on no evidence other than their residence in the community. One of the campesinos, Genaro Reyes, was arrested last month by police in Tocoa and is awaiting court procedures under house arrest. The harshness of Chavelo's sentence and the continued pressure on community members reflects the fact that Chavelo and the community of Guadalupe Carney are   symbols of the organized campesinos in Aguan. The big landowners and agro-oligarchs have used all their influence to keep Chavelo imprisoned to limit his access to legal remedies and to intimidate community members. 

MUCA COMMUNICADO - We Dennounce the Wave of Persecution and Assassination Against the Campesinos of Aguan!

Below is the English translation of a communique from MUCA on July 7th and of a short news article both of which were posted on the Honduras Tierra Libre website - the original Spanish follows the English. Translation by La Voz de los de Abajo.

The Unified Campesino Movement of Aguan (MUCA) declares to the Honduran people and to the national and international community the following:

1. We condemn the assassination of Jacobo Erazo Lopez, member of  MUCA-Right Bank (MUCA-MD) and a partner in the campesino cooperative La Tranvio in the settlement of La Confianza, assassinated in the community of Quebrada de Arena at 5am. 

2. We are in a state of permanent alert given the savagery on the part of the guards working for the big landowner Miguel Facusse, and the constant threats to the community that is next to the Paso Aguan Plantation ;  on the 2 of July the campesino Gregorio Chavez, 69 years old, was kidnapped by security guards and on Friday, July 6th he was found, murdered, on the Paso Aguan plantation that is in the possession of Mr. Facusse.

3. We are putting on alert  the national and international Human Rights organizations ffor any repression that may be committed against the cooperatives of San Isidro, La Despertar, and La Trinidad which were turned over to the campesinos on June 29 through a judicial decision in the Tribunals of Justice, however, there is no doubt that the big landowners are using influence trafficking on their behalf because 24 hours after the decision they introduced a written motion in the tribunals demanding that the decision be annulled and of course looking to evict the campesinos from the plantations that have been shown to belong to the campesino cooperatives mentioned above. 

 4. We dennounce the fact that the neighboring settlements such as La Confianza, La Aurora, La Concepcion and La Lempira that belong to the MUCA - Right Bank are the victims of constant persecution and harassment by the security guards working for the big landowners although they have shown their willingness to respect the agreements even in the face of the non-compliance by the big landowners.  

Issued in the Colonia 20 de Julio in the community of La Confianza, Tocoa, Colon on July 7, 2012

We are not fish living on water; we are not birds living on air, we are campesinos and campesinas who need to live on the land. No More Blood Baths in the Lower Aguan!

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 The death of two campesinos revives the agrarian polemic in Honduras
EFE - Tegucigalpa 
Two campesinos were assassinated in recent days in the province of Colon in the Caribbean coast of Honduras despite an agreement signed last June oriented towards ending the land conflict between the small farmers and big landowners. Spokesman for the Unified Campesino Movement of Aguan (MUCA) Vitelino Alvarez told reporters that Jacobo Erazo, 30 years old, whose whereabouts was unknown since last Monday, "was found dead in the area of Quebrada de Arena in the Lower Aguan", he added that the death of Erazo "creates again unease to the zone (of Lower Aguan)", where in the last fours years an agrarian conflict between campesinos and big landowners has cost the lives of more than 50 people, the majority small farmers. Last Friday the cadaver of a campesino, Gregorio Chavez, 69 years old, was found on a plantation in the Lower Aguan stated Alvarez without giving more details. Last June 5th, the president of Honduras Porfirio Lobo signed the 4th agreement with campesinos aimed at the 17 million dollar purchase of 2,429 hectares of land, some under cultivation already, from agribusiness landowners in this region that are dedicated to the production of African palm.
In October of 2011, Lobo sent military and police to the Lower Aguan due to armed conflict between campesinos and private security guards but the violence did not stop.
Human rights organizations that have dennounced the violent deaths of campesinos at the international level believe that the problem in the Lower Aguan will not be resolved with the presence of police and military but by the authorization of lands for the campesinos. 

http://www.abc.com.py/internacionales/muerte-de-dos-campesinos-revive-polemica-agraria-en-honduras-423553.html

COMUNICADO

 Denunciamos la ola de persecución y los asesinatos hacia los campesinos del Bajo Aguan

El Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguan (MUCA), comunica al pueblo Hondureño y a la comunidad nacional e internacional lo siguiente:

1-   Condenamos  el asesinato del compañero Jacobo Erazo López, miembro del Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguan (MUCA), del la margen derecha, y socio de la Empresa La Tranvio del asentamiento La Confianza  que fue asesinado en la comunidad de Quebrada de Arena a las 5:00 de la mañana.

2-   Que estamos en alerta permanente ante la embestida por parte de los guardias del señor terrateniente Miguel Facusse, asimismo a  las constantes amenazas a la comunidad vecina de la Finca paso Aguan, ya que el pasado 2 de julio  fue  secuestrado Gregorio Chávez de 69 años por guardias de seguridad y que el viernes  6 de julio fue encontrado asesinado en la finca paso Aguan que está en posesión del señor Facusse. 

3-   Ponemos en alerta a los organismos Derechos Humanos nacionales e internacionales de de cualquier represión que pueda desatarse en las cooperativas San Isidro, La Despertar y La Trinidad, ya que fueron entregadas a los campesinos el pasado 29 de junio, a través de un fallo judicial en los Tribunales de Justicia, pero no cabe duda que los terrateniente están haciendo uso del tráfico de influencias, porque 24 horas después introdujeron un escrito a los tribunales, exigiendo nulalidad  del fallo y por supuesto en busca de desalojarlos, de las  fincas de las cuales ha quedado demostrado que le pertenecen  a la cooperativas antes mencionadas.

4-   Denunciamos que los  asentamientos  vecinos como: La Confianza, La Aurora, La Concepción y La Lempira que pertenecen MUCA del sector de la margen derecha,  están siendo víctima de la constante persecución y el  hostigamiento por los guardias de seguridad de los terratenientes, aun cuando se ha  presentado voluntad de respetar los acuerdos ante el incumplimiento de los mismos.

Dado en la Colonia 20 de julio, de la Comunidad  La Confianza, Tocoa ,Colon  a los  7 días del mes de julio del 2012.

NO SOMOS PECES PARA VIVIR DEL AGUA, NO SOMOS PAJAROS PARA VIVIR DEL AIRE, SOMOS CAMPESINOS Y CAMPESINAS QUE NECESITAMOS VIVIR DE LAS TIERRA.

YA BASTA  EL DERRAMAMIENTO DE SANGRE EN EL BAJO AGUAN

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Muerte de dos campesinos revive polémica agraria en Honduras

Por EFE

TEGUCIGALPA. Dos campesinos fueron asesinados en los últimos días en el departamento de Colón, en el Caribe de Honduras, pese a un acuerdo firmado en junio pasado orientado a ponerle fin a un conflicto de tierras entre labradores y terratenientes.

El portavoz del Movimiento Campesino Unificado del Aguán (Muca) Vitelino Álvarez, dijo a periodistas que Jacobo Erazo, de 30 años, cuyo paradero se desconocía desde el lunes pasado, “ fue hallado muerto en el sector de Quebrada de Arena, en el Bajo Aguán ” .
Agregó que la muerte de Erazo “ trae la intranquilidad nuevamente a la zona (del Bajo Aguán) ” , donde en los últimos cuatro años un conflicto agrario entre campesinos y terratenientes se ha cobrado la vida de más de 50 personas, en su mayoría labriegos.
El viernes pasado se halló el cadáver de un campesino, Gregorio Chávez, de 69 años, en una finca del Bajo Aguán, indico Álvarez, sin precisar más detalles.
El pasado 5 de junio, el presidente hondureño, Porfirio Lobo, suscribió un cuarto acuerdo con campesinos orientado a comprar 2.429 hectáreas de tierras, algunas ya cultivadas, a empresarios de ese sector que se dedican a la producción de palma africana, por unos 17 millones de dólares.


En octubre de 2011, Lobo envío militares y policías al Bajo Aguán a raíz de los enfrentamientos armados entre campesinos y guardias de seguridad privada, pero la violencia no cesa.
Organismos de derechos humanos, que han denunciado la muerte violenta de campesinos a nivel internacional, consideran que el problema en el Bajo Aguán no se resuelve con la presencia de policías y militares, sino otorgándoles tierras a los campesinos.

http://www.abc.com.py/internacionales/muerte-de-dos-campesinos-revive-polemica-agraria-en-honduras-423553.html

Urge the U.S. to Stop Funding Honduran Police and Military!

After the June 28, 2009 coup in Honduras that overthrew democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya a strong and courageous citizens’ movement united to struggle for democracy and justice in Honduras.

This movement continued after the illegitimate 2010 election of de facto President Pepe Lobo and the movement continues to this day. We in the United States bear a special responsibility to take action given the shameful support of our government for the illegal coup and the economic, diplomatic and political support for the violent coup regime in Honduras as well as increased U.S. militarization of the region. While trade unions, students, campesinos, teachers continue to struggle for economic and social justice, human rights violations and violence against the people are increasing.

TAKE ACTION  ! Click HERE for more and to take action

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Honduras Solidarity Network: Actions in 9 cities in the US June 28, 2009 - June 28, 2012. 

Three years of Resistance to the Coup in Honduras.

More than 30 organizations in the United States belonging to the Honduran Solidarity Network (HSN) are organizing national actions the week of June 28th in commemoration of the June 28, 2009 Honduran coup - its martyrs, and the ongoing peoples’ movements in resistance. The HSN is demanding that the U.S. end its military-security intervention (financial and direct “boots on the ground”) in support of the Honduran government.

It has been three years since the June 28, 2009 coup that illegally overthrew democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya and more than two years since sham elections installed Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo in office. The political and human rights violence has increased during that time. However the people’s resistance and commitment to refounding Honduran democracy continues with protests, strikes, land occupations and the creation of a new political party, LIBRE. 

The military coup and its continuation unleashed and deepened the impunity, corruption and violence that has contributed to Honduras being designated the most violent country in the world by the United Nations.  Since the coup there have been hundreds of murders thought to be politically motivated. This includes 70 members of the GBLT community; at least 50 campesinos; many well known trade unionists; teachers; indigenous activists; and LIBRE members. In addition more than 20 journalists have been assassinated.   Just this year at least 14 people from these groups have been murdered. The Honduran government has not carried out serious investigations of the crimes.  Despite all this and in spite of 3 Congressional letters calling for an end to US military/security aid to Honduras because of the human rights emergency; in May, the U.S. authorized an additional 50 million dollars of security aid for 2012. 

After the 2009 coup the U.S. government quickly accommodated to the coup government  and, besides providing diplomatic support, is deeply involved in training, advising and  equipping Honduran military and police. Furthermore the US role has escalated. On May 11, 2012 U.S. DEA agents were part of a violent helicopter assault against a dugout canoe carrying 11 indigenous community members down a river in the Mosquitia area that left 4 people dead (including two pregnant women)  and others very seriously injured. The U.S. provided the helicopter and  U.S. agents were with Honduran and Guatemalan military on the operation.   Community members who witnessed the attack also state that there were English speaking soldiers with the Honduran military who terrorized the community for hours after the attack.  This made it impossible for wounded community members to get out of the water and get timely medical assistance.  

Berta Oliva, head of the most important human rights organization in Honduras, the Committee of the Families of the Disappeared Detainees (COFADEH) stated in a press conference after visiting the site of the murders in the Mosquitia that the DEA, the U.S. Military with its major military base in Palmarola, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (AFT) have a presence in Honduras, furthermore there are joint operations of U.S., Honduran, Colombian and Guatemalan security forces in the country. 

“These activities are done in the name of combatting narcotics traffic in order to justify intervention in the county; and with this (intervention) it is logical that we will never have a future that approaches having a State strengthened by respect for the citizens’ civil and political rights.”, stated Oliva.

There will be actions organized by members of the HSN in Boston, New York City, Washington DC, Kansas City, Chicago, Phoenix, Tucson, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Click here for information on the actions. 

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Red de Solidaridad con Honduras (HSN):  Acciones en 9 ciudades en los EE.UU.

  28 junio 2009 a 28 junio 2012 - Tres años de resistencia al golpe en Honduras 

Más de 30 organizaciones en los Estados Unidos pertenecientes a la Red de Solidaridad con Honduras (HSN), están organizando acciones por todo el pais durante la semana del 28 de junio en conmemoración al golpe de Estado en Honduras el 28 de junio 2009 - sus mártires, y los movimientos de los pueblos en resistencia.  La HSN está exigiendo que los EE.UU. ponga fin a su intervención militar y de seguridad (tanto financiera como directa) en apoyo al gobierno de Honduras.

Han pasado tres años desde el golpe de estado del 28 de junio 2009, golpe de estado que derrocó ilegalmente al Presidente, democráticamente electo, Manuel Zelaya, y más de dos años desde la farsa electoral que instaló a Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo. La violencia política y las violaciones de los derechos humanos han incrementado durante ese tiempo. Sin embargo la resistencia del pueblo y el compromiso con la democracia y refundación hondureña continúa con las protestas, huelgas, ocupaciones de tierras y la creación de un nuevo partido político, LIBRE.

El golpe militar y su continuación desató y profundizo la impunidad, la corrupción y la violencia que ha contribuido a que Honduras sea designado el país más violento del mundo por las Naciones Unidas. Desde el golpe han ocurrido cientos de asesinatos que parecen tener motivos políticos. Esto incluye a 70 miembros de la comunidad Gay (GBLT);  por lo menos 50 campesinos y otros  sindicalistas, maestros, activistas indígenas y miembros del Partido LIBRE. Además más de 20 periodistas han sido asesinados. Tan sólo este año al menos 14 personas pertenecientes a estos grupos han sido asesinadas. El gobierno hondureño no ha llevado a cabo investigaciones serias de los crímenes. A pesar de todo esto y a pesar de 3 cartas del Congreso dirigidas al Departamento de Estado reclamando poner fin a la ayuda de seguridad y militar a Honduras debido a la crisis de derechos humanos, en mayo de este año en los EE.UU. se autorizaron 50 millones de dólares más de ayuda de seguridad para el año 2012.

Después del golpe de 2009, el gobierno de los EE.UU. rápidamente se acomodó con los golpistas y además de proporcionar apoyo diplomático, está profundamente involucrado en la formación, asesoramiento y equipamiento de militares y policía hondureños. Además, el papel que juega EE.UU. se ha intensificado. El 11 de mayo de 2012 agentes de la DEA de Estados Unidos formaban parte de un de asalto violento desde un helicóptero contra una canoa que llevaba a 11 miembros de comunidades indígenas por un río en el área de Mosquitia. El asalto dejó 4 muertos (entre ellos dos mujeres embarazadas) y otros gravemente heridos. Los EE.UU. proveyeron el helicóptero y agentes estadounidenses estaban con unos militares de Honduras y Guatemala en la operación. Miembros de la comunidad que presenciaron el ataque dijeron también que había soldados que hablan inglés y que venían con los militares hondureños que aterrorizaron a la comunidad aún durante varias horas después del ataque. Esto hizo imposible que los miembros de la comunidad que resultaron heridos pudieran salir del agua y obtener atención médica oportuna.

Berta Oliva, la coordinadora de la organización derechos humanos más importante en Honduras, el Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (COFADEH) declaró en una conferencia de prensa tras visitar el lugar de los asesinatos en el Moskitio. que la DEA, el Ejército de los EE.UU. con una importante base militar en Palmarola, el FBI, la Oficina de Alcohol, Tabaco, Armas de Fuego y Explosivos (AFT) tienen una marcada presencia en Honduras, por otra parte hay operaciones conjuntas de EE.UU., Honduras, Colombia y Guatemala con las fuerzas de seguridad en el país.

"Estas actividades se llevan a cabo en nombre de la lucha contra el narcotráfico  con el fin de justificar la intervención, y con esto (la intervención) es lógico que nunca tendremos un futuro que se acercara a tener un Estado fortalecido por el respeto a los derecho civiles y políticos de los ciudadanos.”, dijo Oliva.

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Honduras Solidarity Network:  National Day of Action. 

June 28, 2012. Three years of Resistance to the Coup in Honduras.

After the June 28, 2009 coup in Honduras that overthrew democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya a courageous citizens’ movement united to struggle for democracy and justice in Honduras. This movement has continued after sham elections in 2010 to “select” de facto President Pepe Lobo.  We in the United States bear a special responsibility to take action given the shameful support of our government for the illegal coup and its involvement in the outrageous militarization, violence and impunity that not only continue but has escalated. While trade unions, students, campesinos, teachers continue to struggle for  justice and the new resistance political party LIBRE (Liberty and Refoundation Party) is organizing to run against the coup makers and oligarchy in the next elections, human rights violations and violence against the people is increasing.

The Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN) is made up of more than 30 organizations. We are calling for human rights organizations, solidarity organizations, and social justice activists to take action around June 28, 2012. Organize a meeting; a protest at a local Honduran consulate or US government office; write letters protesting US support for the Honduran government to the State Department.

See the attached info sheet for facts and addresses. Visit our website for more resources. Let us know what you are planning and send photos and reports.

email:             honsolnetwork@gmail.com

 to see a list of local actions click on "June 28 Actions" in the sidebar

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28 de junio 2012. Tres años de resistencia contra el golpe de Estado en Honduras.

Después del golpe de Estado del  28 de junio de  2009 en Honduras, que derrocó al presidente electo democráticamente, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, un valiente pueblo  se levantó  y se unió para luchar por la democracia y la justicia. Este movimiento ha continuado después de un simulacro de elecciones en 2010 para “elegir”  al presidente de facto Pepe Porfirio Lobo Sosa. Nosotros/as en los Estados Unidos tenemos la  responsabilidad de tomar las medidas necesarias para apoyar al pueblo hondureño ante  el vergonzoso apoyo de nuestro gobierno al golpe de Estado ilegal y por su participación en la militarización, la  escandalosa violencia y la impunidad que no sólo ha continuado, pero que se ha intensificado. Si bien los sindicatos, estudiantes, campesinos, maestros siguen luchando al igual que la resistencia a través del nuevo partido político libre (Libertad y  Refundación) que se está organizando para competir contra los golpistas y la oligarquía en las próximas elecciones, las violaciones de derechos humanos y la violencia contra el pueblo siguen en aumento.

•        La Red de Solidaridad con Honduras (HSN) se compone de más de 30 organizaciones. Hacemos un llamado a las organizaciones de derechos humanos, organizaciones solidarias, y activistas de justicia social para tomar acción en torno al 28 de junio 2012.

•        Sugerimos organizar una reunión, una protesta frente a un consulado de Honduras o en la oficina del gobierno de EE.UU., escribir cartas de protesta al gobierno de EE.UU. y al Departamento de Estado por el apoyo que estos le dan al régimen de Honduras. 

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