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El presidente de facto Roberto Micheletti reveló este viernes que mantuvo una reunión secreta con el Secretario General de la OEA, José Miguel Insulza en la base militar estadounidense en Honduras, ubicada en Palmerola a 70 km al norte de la capital.
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"Consideramos que el golpe de Estado contra el presidente Zelaya fue inconstitucional; que la ausencia de un presidente legítimo, las violaciones de los derechos humanos y la restricción de las libertades civiles son inaceptables", indicaron los legisladores.
"Estas condiciones imposibilitan elecciones justas y libres en noviembre" próximo, sostuvieron los congresistas en una carta abierta al presidente del Congreso Nacional de Honduras, José Angel Saavedra.
Los legisladores James P. McGovern, Bill Delahunt, Janice Schakowsky, Sam Farr, Gregory Meeks y Xavier Becerra mencionaron que el Congreso hondureño ha recibido anteriormente en Tegucigalpa a miembros del minoritario Partido Republicano.
Los republicanos "expresaron un punto de vista muy distinto" al del presidente Barack Obama y el Congreso controlado por los demócratas, enfatizaron.
Los políticos demócratas pidieron al gobierno de facto que encabeza Roberto Micheletti restituir el orden constitucional y respetar la libertad de expresión y los derechos humanos.
"Apelamos al gobierno de facto del señor Micheletti para que permita la restitución de Manuel Zelaya a la Presidencia" bajo el Acuerdo de San José, que impulsa el presidente costarricense Oscar Arias con el apoyo de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), indicaron.
Manifestaron que los demócratas continuarán alentando a la administración del presidente Barack Obama a trabajar con los países aliados en la región.
"Si el gobierno de facto sigue dilatando este proceso, urgiremos a nuestro gobierno a no reconocer sus elecciones próximas", enfatizaron los legisladores.
El tema de las elecciones impidió esta semana que la OEA alcanzara un consenso sobre una resolución que condenaba al gobierno de facto de Honduras por impedir la semana pasada el ingreso de una misión de avanzada, previa a una visita de cancilleres prevista para el 7 de octubre.
Fuente: sdpnoticias.com
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TEGUCIGALPA, (VOANEWS).- El Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU condenó las violaciones de derechos humanos en Honduras ocurridas tras la destitución del presidente Manuel Zelaya el pasado 28 de junio.
Un panel de 47 miembros adoptó una resolución en la que insta a la restauración de la democracia y el imperio de la ley en Honduras.
Zelaya se encuentra refugiado en la embajada brasileña en Tegucigalpa desde el 21 de septiembre, cuando regresó furtivamente a Honduras.
El Consejo de Derechos Humanos expresó preocupación por las decisiones del gobierno de facto de cerrar medios de comunicación y restringir el suministro de alimentos, agua y electricidad a la embajada.
La presión ha aumentado sobre los líderes interinos para que restauren las libertades civiles y negocien un fin a los tres meses de crisis provocada por el derrocamiento del presidente Zelaya en un golpe de estado respaldado por los militares.
El Consejo, con sede en Ginebra, también exhortó al “respeto incondicional” de todos los derechos humanos en Honduras y destacó la necesidad de que todas las partes se abstengan de la violencia.
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El Frente Nacional contra el golpe de Estado de Honduras realizó una nueva convocatoria a manifestar para este viernes, pese al estado de sitio decretado por el gobierno golpista de Roberto Micheletti, y en medio de la visita de una misión de la OEA que busca dialogar con las partes y aliviar la crisis política que vive la nación. El coordinador general del frente popular, Juan Barahona, anunció que el apoyo al presidente legítimo Manuel Zelaya volverá a congregarse frente a la embajada de Estados Unidos, donde este jueves realizaron una concentración antigolpista. Las medidas de excepción decretadas por el régimen instalado en Honduras, el pasado domingo 27 de septiembre, permite la violación de derechos humanos fundamentales, dejando al pueblo hondureño a la merced de los organismos policiales y militares durante 45 días. Fuente: TeleSUR -EFE-PL-sv-PR . |
TEGUCIGALPA - Cada noche, Manuel Zelaya se levanta y recorre sigilosamente la embajada de Brasil en Tegucigalpa para comprobar que todo está en orden, antes de volver a dormir en un colchón colocado en el suelo de la oficina que le sirve de dormitorio.
Después de verificar que todo está tranquilo, el presidente constitucional de Honduras vuelve a acostarse en la oficina-dormitorio, en la que cuelga un retrato del primer mandatario brasileño Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
La vida cotidiana transcurre como en una cárcel dentro de la embajada, debido a la rutina, las privaciones y a que está sitiada por militares luego de que Zelaya se refugiara en ella el 21 de septiembre, tras retornar al país en forma subrepticia en su intento por recuperar el poder.
Todos los alimentos, ropa y útiles de aseo que llegan a la sede diplomática son revisados por los militares desplegados por el gobernante de facto, Roberto Micheletti, y son olfateados por perros adiestrados.
No cualquier persona puede entrar, pues los soldados prohíben el acceso incluso al personal hondureño de la embajada brasileña.
Agendas de los huéspedes
Al amanecer, los huéspedes de la legación --Zelaya, su esposa Xiomara Castro, medio centenar de seguidores y casi una decena de periodistas-- toman un desayuno frugal y luego inician sus respectivos deberes cotidianos.
"Cada uno tiene una agenda diferente, la primera dama tiene su propia agenda y otras actividades propias", dijo a la AFP Doris García, ministra de la Mujer de Zelaya, una de las siete mujeres en la embajada.
Zelaya, de 57 años, pasa gran parte del día en su estrecha oficina-dormitorio, en el primer piso de la residencia de dos plantas, dedicado a sus esfuerzos por volver al poder, tras haber sido derrocado por un golpe de Estado el 28 de junio.
Al principio ocupaba una oficina más grande en la planta superior, pero fue cambiado por razones de seguridad.
El presidente depuesto es asistido por el abogado Rassel Tomé, el político liberal Carlos Eduardo Reina y el sacerdote Andrés Tamayo, quien además confiesa a los zelayistas y les da la comunión.^
Fuente: www.univision.com
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Rosalinda Bueso, embajadora de Honduras en México, dijo ayer que sería una bofetada a la comunidad internacional la eventual entrada de fuerzas armadas a cualquiera de las sedes diplomáticas cuyos gobiernos recibieron un ultimátum de Roberto Micheletti para que reconozcan su régimen.
Consideró positivo que los empresarios de su país pidan la restitución en el poder del presidente constitucional Manuel Zelaya. Recordó que Honduras lleva tres meses sin tener ingresos económicos y no
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La diplomática mencionó que este viernes llega a su país una misión técnica de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), por lo que –dijo– espera que en los próximos días pueda ser portavoz de buenas noticias. En este contexto, señaló que se va por buen camino,
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Bueso participó ayer en la cuarta Reunión de Coordinadores Nacionales del Grupo de Río, donde el titular para América Latina de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), Salvador Beltrán del Río, señaló que este mecanismo se ha fortalecido como foro representativo de la región y como instancia abierta, plural e incluyente, en la que todas las naciones caben.
El funcionario federal recordó que el Grupo de Río aprobó una declaración en favor de la restitución del orden constitucional, el estado de derecho y las autoridades legalmente constituidas en la República de Honduras.
Lo anterior –señaló– es muestra inequívoca de que América Latina y el Caribe no pueden permanecer al margen o renunciar al lugar que les corresponde en la construcción de un nuevo orden internacional.
Más tarde, el funcionario participó en la inauguración de la quinta Reunión de la Comisión Mixta México-Caricom, donde la titular de la SRE, Patricia Espinosa, manifestó que México aspira a una nueva etapa en su relación con los países del Caribe, que sea más dinámica y efectiva.
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A qualitative step forward for the organized struggle in Honduras Delfina Bermúdez - Rebelión
“…Because a people disorganized becomes a mass that can be toyed with, but a people that organizes itself and fights for its values and for justice is a people that demands respect.”
Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Homily, March 2, 1980
After more than 90 days of resistance and struggle, the Honduran people have taken a qualitative step forward. As of last Tuesday, in addition to collective marches down the main streets of the cities, the protest actions have extended to towns, neighborhoods and residential districts. The protest actions and occupations of roads in towns, neighborhoods and residential districts are very important because:
1) they force the police and the military to use additional personnel, ammunitions, fuel and other logistical support and to mobilize in areas with which they are not very familiar, which leads to the forces getting worn out more quickly, having difficulty maintaining their supplies and potentially becoming trapped and isolated.
2) the people in the resistance are familiar with the towns, neighborhoods and residential districts and know the back roads and short cuts.
3) the struggle in these territories gives people a sense of membership and forces them to show up, take a stand and position themselves in opposition to those who until now have remained passive. 
4) the mobilizations in towns and neighborhoods allow many people to join the movement who have been unable to go to the protests because they can not afford to take the bus or eat meals away from home, or because they are housewives and have to take care of their homes, elderly relatives, siblings or children. More than anything, many have to work a full workday and now they can join in on the actions that are taking place in their neighborhoods at night.
5) mobilizations in the neighborhoods, towns and residential districts require that people identify themselves with and organize logistically around the actions. They also force people to sit down and discuss the reasons for being in resistance, the scope of the changes that need to be made, to question corruption, the limitations of the current electoral circus and, especially, to propose a new nation, a new reality that is highly democratic and participatory, that goes beyond political parties and reduces inequities – a country more just and more our own.
6) the movement in towns and neighborhoods includes older people who have past experience in resistance, in farm worker, labor, and urban movements; it also extends a hand and gives a renewed sense of agency to the youth who are playing a decisive role in the street protests.
7) in addition, organizing in the neighborhoods brings the movement and the conflict closer to home. It breaks down the media’s portrayal and official stigma of us as just a few troublemakers engaging in acts of vandalism, allowing each one of us to identify with and recognize ourselves as the RESISTANCE. We are the RESISTANCE.
With the incorporation, organization and action of the towns, neighborhoods and districts there is no turning back. With this step, we are taking back the public spaces that we have lost due to indifference and the exclusionary pattern that proposes and imposes on us governance by the mediocre “Arab” bourgeoisie – the members of the wealthy and middle classes who intend to build walls and fences of police control and force us all take refuge in our homes and turn our backs on our neighbors.
Now it is time to take a new step and make the most of the richness and capacities of local organization, to strike a final blow against this repressive and brutal regime, against the big “Arab” and Honduran business owners who finance and support the coup, who have grown wealthy due to the exclusive and reactionary system under which we live. Against those who do not care about the crisis, the repression and the curfews, about the many people who have lost their jobs, who cannot leave home daily to earn the bread for their children to eat, about the thousands of small
and mid-sized businesses that are on the verge of failing because of the collapse of consumer markets.
So for the reinstatement of Manuel Zelaya, for the recovery of the state, for the recovery of the country, and to set a new course for our own destinies, we should make use of all of the organization and structures developed in towns, neighborhoods and districts to hit them where it hurts most: in their businesses, in their dirty profits.
We have to block land transport and the ports through hundreds and thousands of small but effective takeovers of roads in every corner of the country. In this way, we will incorporate every person in every small town close to the highways, customs offices and ports. Short takeovers of half an hour, in which we stop traffic with 100 people, burn tires, build barricades with sticks and any material we have at hand, put ground glass and other materials to “puncture tires” of the cars that are passing. We stay there for half an hour and DO NOT CONFRONT the police and the military. I REPEAT: WE WILL NOT CONFRONT THE POLICE AND THE MILITARY.
We ask the neighbors of the nearest community to warn us before they arrive. We will leave before they arrive, using the side streets, hills and paths we know so that the police and military will exhaust themselves trying to catch us, putting out tire fires, removing rubble and clearing glass and nails off the highway. And the town should cut them off; no one should sell them food. We will close the local stores and the businesses; we will become the crafty ones. We will immediately coordinate to set up a new roadblock at another point many kilometers down the highway from ours so that they run off to the next point being occupied on the highway; that is how it will go on all day long.
At the same time, we will continue with occupations and disturbances in every neighborhood and district in the city so that they many troops must be kept in Tegucigalpa and other cities. But we have to organize ourselves and create a telephone or radio information network, transmitting in code, to send warnings about how many troops are moving from one point to another. We will drive the police and the military crazy and, more importantly, we will not allow the companies backing the coup to move their products on the highways, to get their products through customs or to export them. No African palm oil, bananas, plantains, coffee, sugar, shrimp, melons or minerals – no product, piece of clothing, cloth, sock or undergarment will be exported from the factories. And this is just the beginning; we can stop trucks, seize them and sabotage the customs offices, ports and airports.
Because if they don’t sell, if they don’t export, their businesses and profits will dry
up. And then what purpose will the coup government serve? And these businessmen and women, who are the ones propping up the de facto government, and the ones paying off the criminal colonels and generals, will have to back up before the power of the people to make way for the reinstatement of the Zelaya administration, for democracy for all and for our National Constitutional Assembly.
So, comrades, let’s take over the highways, the customs offices and the ports, along with the neighborhoods, districts and towns, to bring the country to a halt.
We call on our brothers and sisters in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua to coordinate with our people to take over customs offices and carry out protests in the major cities.
IN RESISTANCE UNTIL POPULAR DEMOCRACY IS RESTORED! IN RESISTANCE UNTIL POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IS DEEPENED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY AND A
NEW CONSTITUTION IS APPROVED, A NEW POLITICAL PACT TO RENEW HONDURAS!
¡SALUD COMPAÑERAS Y COMPAÑEROS!
Delfina Bermúdez is a Honduran teacher in resistance.
Fuente: hondurasresists.blogspot.com
Washington, D.C. - The Honduran de facto regime suspended constitutional guarantees to civil liberties, including freedom of assembly and freedom of the press, for 45 days on the eve of mass protests planned to mark the three-month anniversary since the coup d'etat against President Manuel Zelaya took place. The regime has also shut down Radio Globo, a prominent independent media outlet that has covered anti-coup activities and that reportedly has a journalist inside the Brazilian embassy where Zelaya is staying, and TV station Channel 36.
"After 90 days and not one word from the Obama administration on the abuses in Honduras, it looks an awful lot like a tacit endorsement of the repression by the U.S. government," said Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
"Certainly the de facto regime must have gotten the idea that they have a blank check from the Obama administration for any crimes that they commit. That's one reason they're doing this."
The suspension of civil liberties would last at least until just a few weeks before the scheduled November 29 elections, and is likely to further call into question the elections' legitimacy.
The regime also issued an ultimatum to Brazil over the weekend, warning the Brazilian government that it has 10 days to decide what to do about Zelaya, and a regime spokesperson warned that since Brazil broke off diplomatic relations with the coup government, it could remove the flag and shield from the Brazilian embassy, making it a "private office." Brazilian President Lula da Silva rejected the threats, saying that his government "doesn't accept ultimatums from coup-plotters."
In the three months since President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown, the coup regime has committed numerous human right abuses, including thousands of arrests and detentions, beatings, and the closing down of independent media. This has been documented, reported, and denounced by major human rights organizations throughout the world: Amnesty International, the Center for Justice and International Law, Human Rights Watch, the Inter American Commission on Human Rights and others. Some opponents of the regime have also been killed, tortured, and raped, and Honduran human rights groups have accused the government of responsibility for these crimes.
The Obama administration has not commented on any of these crimes or human rights violations.
Also, on Friday, the UN Security Council passed a resolution that "condemned acts of intimidation against the Brazilian Embassy and called upon the de facto government of Honduras to cease harassing the Brazilian Embassy and to provide all necessary utilities and services including water, electricity, food and continuity of communications. Respect and protection of the inviolability of diplomatic premises is a universally accepted principle of international relations," according to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice.
This was in response to the Honduran regime's violations of international law in its attacks on the Brazilian embassy with tear gas and other chemicals, cutting off food, water, and electricity, and other abuses.
The U.S. government has not criticized the de facto regime for its violations of international law with respect to the Brazilian embassy.
The Center for Economic and Policy Research is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives.
Fuente: nacla.org
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