Since the sham election on 29 November 2009 designed to whitewash the military coup of 28 June against President Manuel Zelaya, the "mediacracy" has it right: with the blessing of the United States and Europe, Honduras would have found democracy.
But now that the masks of the alleged "government of national reconciliation" fall. As in the 1980s, the regime launched a campaign of selective liquidation of militants and leaders of the National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP), through death squads that operate with complete impunity. March 23, Professor Manuel Flores was shot in his hotel San Jose de Pedregal, before his students and colleagues. Union leader of the College of Teachers in secondary education, he was also a member of the Socialist Party Central. March 26, reporters from Channel 4 Juticalpa Ballardo Mairena and Manuel Juarez, were riddled with bullets by gunmen who had ambushed them. These two deaths are in addition to the five journalists murdered in a few months by the regime of President Porfirio Lobo.
March 25, eleven trade union leaders of Higher Education National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) were arrested, handcuffed and shackled like criminals. In the department of Atlantida, five farmers were killed since the beginning of the year, including Jose Antonio and Jose Carias Cardoza, the Unified Movement of Peasants Aguán (Muca). Defender of the forest, Francisco Castillo, was also liquidated.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations (UN), Naty Ms. Pillay called on March 15 that opens an investigation into "the violations the right to life, torture, arbitrary arrests and rapes "in Honduras.
The coup preventive June 28, 2009 was indeed a warning to all peoples of Latin America, an attempt to halt, intimidation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the peoples of our America (ALBA), and sought to remake American Constable of Honduras in Central America.
Reinforced, diverse, inventive, non-violent opposition Honduran collected within the FNPR, do not disarm. It will begin from April to June, a major consultation National to collect the signatures of 30% of voters to demand a Constituent Assembly leading to the rebuilding of the country through the development of a constitution has now vouched for the people and not the army and the oligarchy.
The European Union is silent, as she resumed her relationship with Tegucigalpa that trade negotiations with all of Central America - which includes Honduras - next May to sign a free trade .
John Ortiz
Professor at the University Pau
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