Over the last few days the threat of transformation of the Ciriboya Community Hospital into a single health center has been effective, disqualifying the tremendous work and support done by doctors graduated from ELAM Garifuna and the Cuban brigades.
The reasons for the de facto regime to decide to destroy the work done by Ciriboya Community Hospital, is rooted in the racism of the state officials who have joined the nightmare orchestrated by Micheletti, and disregard for social vision of doctors trained in Cuba, versus the capitalist mentality of most medical graduates from local schools.
The work carried out by both the Cuban brigades as Garifuna doctors, has served the paradigm as well as its own resources to build a hospital model, only in Honduras and model for other indigenous peoples.
Dr. Luther Castillo has been strong in the fight against the coup, a situation that has led to persecution and identified by the henchmen of the day. In the persistent and heroic repudiation marches against the Coup d'ètat in Honduras, Dr. Castillo in the company of members of OFRANEH Garifuna have been at the forefront of protests, opening the way to ancient ceremonies to neutralize the bad intentions of the coup leaders.
The Garifuna participation in the rejection of the coup has exacerbated the latent racism in some Honduran security forces remain the most likely to commit abuses against our brothers and sisters, particularly against those who live or are in Tegucigalpa, they become immediately associated with the resistance against the coup.
The closure of the hospital disguised as a health transformation involves the loss of Garifuna doctors covering the area in addition to an appropriation by the Ministry of Health of the Garifuna initiative to hold a hospital, where the culture of our people is respected resulting in the gradual destruction and abandonment of the center, as with most health posts of the country.
There exists a total rejection of communitive initiatives by the politicians and businessmen, which are linked with an anti-capitalist vision, and thus seek to destroy. The evidence is shown by the stubborn attitude of the last government to dilute the community property titles, which are viewed with a great deal of animosity and become private property.
The project Luágu Hátuadi Wadúheñu (For the health of our people) goes back to 2005, and in this short time have it offered not only a health alternative to the Garifuna people but at the same time managed the construction of the hospital model . The enormous effort appears to have irritated the entrepeneur of scrap buses (Micheletti) and his retinues of servants.
OFRANEH calls for the restoration of constitutional order demand as well as saving the project Luágu Hátuadi Wadúheñu, which represents for the Garifuna people, especially to the inhabitants of the area Iriona, a promise of life and a better future our posterity.
La Ceiba, Atlántida August 31, 2009.
Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña, OFRANEH Honduran Black Fraternal Organization, OFRANEH
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cierre del Hospital Comunitario garífuna de Ciriboya.
En los útlimos días se viene haciendo efectiva la amenaza de la conversión del Hospital Comunitario de Ciriboya en un simple centro de salud, descalificando la enorme labor de apoyo efectuada por los médicos garífunas graduado en la ELAM y las brigadas cubanas.
Las razones que motivan al régimen de facto a tomar la determinación de destruir el trabajo efectuado por el Hospital Comunitario de Ciriboya, radica en el racismo de los funcionarios estatales que se han incorporado a la pesadilla orquestada por Micheletti, y al desprecio por la visión social de los médicos educados en Cuba, versus a la mentalidad capitalista de la mayoría de los médicos egresados de las escuelas locales.
La labor efectuada tanto por las brigadas cubanas como por los médicos garífunas, ha servido de paradigma al igual que la construcción con recursos propios de un hospital modelo, único en Honduras y ejemplo para los demás pueblos indígenas.
El Dr. Luther Castillo ha sido uno de los abanderados en la lucha en contra del golpe de estado, situación que lo ha conllevado a ser perseguido y señalado por los esbirros de turno. En las persistentes y heroicas marchas de repudio del pueblo hondureño al golpe, el Doctor Castillo en compañía de Garífunas miembros de la OFRANEH han estado en la cabeza de las movilizaciones, abriendo paso con ceremonias ancestrales para neutralizar la mala fe de los golpistas.
La participación garífuna en el repudio al golpe ha exacerbado el racismo latente en algunos hondureños, siendo las fuerzas de seguridad las más propensas a cometer abusos en contra de nuestros herman@s, en particular en contra de aquellos que viven o se encuentran en Tegucigalpa, pues de inmediato los asocian con la resistencia al golpe.
El cierre del hospital disfrazado de una transformación a puesto de salud, implica la perdida de plazas de doctores garifunas que viene cubriendo la zona, además de una apropiación por parte del Ministerio de Salud de la iniciativa garífuna de poseer un hospital donde se respeta la visión cultural de nuestro pueblo; teniendo como resultado la paulatina destrucción y abandono del centro, tal como sucede con la mayoría de los puestos de salud del país.
Existe por parte de los políticos-empresarios un total rechazo a las iniciativas comunitarias, las que vinculan con una visión anti capitalista, y por ende tratan de destruir. Como muestra se encuentra la empecinada actitud por parte de las últimas administraciones para diluir los títulos de propiedad comunitaria, que son vistos con una enorme animosidad y tratan de convertir en propiedad privada.
El proyecto Luágu Hátuadi Wadúheñu, (Por la salud de nuestros pueblos) se remonta al año 2005, y en este corto lapso de tiempo han ofrecido no solamente una alternativa de salud para el pueblo garífuna sino que al mismo tiempo lograron la construcción del hospital modelo. El enorme esfuerzo parece ser que ha irritado al empresario de buses chatarra (Micheletti) y sus séquitos de servidores.
La OFRANEH hace un llamado a la restitución del orden constitucional al mismo tiempo que exigimos salvar el proyecto Luágu Hátuadi Wadúheñu, el que representa para el pueblo garífuna, en especial para los habitantes de la zona de Iriona, una promesa de vida y un futuro mejor para nuestros descendientes.
La Ceiba, Atlántida 31 de Agosto del 2009.
Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña, OFRANEH
Golpistas quieren cerrar hospital comunitario de costa caribeña - ABN
Por: Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias (ABN)
Fecha de publicación: 29/08/09
Fecha de publicación: 29/08/09
Tegucigalpa, 29 Ago. ABN.- Médicos hondureños denunciaron este sábado la intención del gobierno de facto de cerrar un hospital de las comunidades de la costa caribeña, construido con el esfuerzo voluntario de la población.
El doctor Luther Castillo informó a Prensa Latina que desde el pasado día 1 de agosto las autoridades surgidas con el golpe militar del 28 de junio les cortaron la asignación presupuestaria entregada por el gobierno derrocado.
Explicó que cambiaron los parámetros del anterior convenio, mediante el cual recibían los salarios para cuatro médicos, fondos que eran repartidos solidariamente entre todo el personal de la instalación.
En el centro se aplica una nueva concepción de atención de salud, más allá de la puramente asistencial, totalmente gratuita, que resaltó las deficiencias del modelo sanitario de la nación, añadió.
Dijo: 'En nuestro hospital rige una filosofía de valores humanos, con un alto nivel científico, que excluye por completo la visión de la medicina como un negocio', reseña Prensa Latina.
El hospital fue construido por iniciativa de Castillo, graduado en la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina, de Cuba, mediante el esfuerzo y donaciones de la población y fue inaugurado en diciembre de 2007 en su primera etapa.
El centro médico se ubica en la aislada comunidad de Ciriboya, municipio Iriona, en el caribeño departamento de Colón, donde la mayoría de la población es de la etnia garifuna, población negra entre las más excluidas del país.
En la zona no existen servicios de electricidad y para poder funcionar las 24 horas, dependen de paneles solares, indicó Castillo.
Señaló que desde su creación ha brindado 236 mil consultas gratuitas y 152 mil en brigadas que recorren zonas de difícil acceso, es el único hospital en la zona.
Hemos rechazado el nuevo convenio propuesto por los golpistas, que intenta reducir el hospital a un centro de salud, con salario sólo para dos médicos, e iniciado una campaña nacional e internacional para recuperarlo, afirmó.
El psicólogo Alfonso Lacayo, de origen garífuna y uno de los coordinadores de la brigada médica del Frente Nacional contra el golpe de Estado, apuntó que está en marcha un movimiento para rescatar el hospital.
Precisó que las organizaciones del Frente emprendieron un esfuerzo para recolectar donaciones de medicamentos, otros recursos y fondos para mantener en funcionamiento el hospital.
These are the coup leaders: 1) Carlos Flores Facussé; 2) Rafael Leonardo Callejas; 3) Cardenal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez; 4) Adolfo Facussé; 5) Armida de López Contreras; 6) Schucry Kafie; 7) Elvin Santos; 8) Emilio Larach; 9) Enrique Ortez Colindres; 10) Pastor Evelio Reyes; 11) Felícito Ávila; 12) José Alfredo Saavedra; 13) Jorge Canahuati; 14) Jorge Yllescas; 15) Juan Ferrera; 16) Juan Ramón Martínez; 17) Carlos López Contreras; 18) Billy Joya; 19) Ana Abarca; 20) Rafael Ferrari; 21) Juan José Pineda; 22) Vilma Morales; 23) Marcia Villeda; 24) Renato Álvarez; 25) Ramón Custodio; 26) Rafael Pineda Ponce; 27) Olban Valladares; 28) Pastor Oswaldo Canales; 29) Ricardo Maduro; 30) Romeo Vásquez Velásquez; 31) Porfirio Lobo Sosa; 32) Ricardo Álvarez; 33) Antonio Rivera; 34) Guillermo Pérez Cadalso; 35) Mauricio Villeda; 36) María Martha Díaz; 37) Antonio Tavel Otero; 38) Luis Rubí; 39) Toribio Aguilera; 40) Ramón Velásquez Nassar; 41) Elán Reyes Pineda; 42) Luz Ernestina Mejía; 43) Martha Lorena Casco; 44) Rodolfo Irías Navas; 45) Rigoberto Chang Castillo; 46) Mirna Castro; 47) Gabriela Núñez; 48) Hugo Llorens.
1. All of these people used their positions to plot, cause, or finance the breakdown of constitutional order with the kidnapping and extradition of President Zelaya, which culminated in the coup.
2. They are directly responsible for the deaths, injuries, imprisonment, and the unease imposed upon Honduran society; they have destroyed democracy and ruined Honduras' image nationally and internationally.
3. The coup leaders reactivated the anti-terrorist and anti-communist organization called the Alliance for Honduras' Progress (APROH), which operated in the 1980s. Their greed and lack of culture prevented them from understanding that the people are free to choose the political and ideological system that will offer them security and well-being.
Tegucigapla. This time their names and faces will go down in history, and Hondurans and citizens of the world will remember them. They will be judged by society and by national and international courts.
The coup plotters utilized variations on the mechanisms that the Alliance for Honduras' Progress (APROH) used in the 1980s. Under the guise of a business organization, it hid clear political doctrine of "low-intensity war against those who opposed the repression of the Sandinista government and against social discontent in Honduras. United States intelligence financed the organization through the Moon sect."
"Industrious Businessmen"
Nothing particularly "suspicious" is written in the APROH's statutes. A group of businessmen got together to study their problems, with a project to assist other sectors. The economic model that the associates defended was clear: they advocated laissez faire policies with few mechanisms of control and with many mechanisms to maximize profits.
The associates were required to "guard the confidentiality of the documents and information that they acquired through their participation in APROH activities and that divulging this information could cause harm to its members. [sic]
In the beginning of 1983, soon after its founding, APROH didn't draw attention to itself. It was seen as a new attempt to bring together Honduras' most conservative sectors. In November of that year, the newspaper "Tiempo" published one of those confidential "documents:" APROH was recommending to the Kissinger Commission, through a personal friend and aid to Kissinger, a military solution for Central America.
Yesterday and Today's Truth
Military fascism found its place in APROH--then in Gen. Alvarez, the president of that organization, and now [Gen.] Romeo Vasquez. As now, it was comprised of the country's far-right business class, although in reality more than being ideological they are corrupt businessmen who have gotten rich because they determine what happens or not in the country. They are the eternal scroungers who live off financial subsidies, they are the ones who obtain concessions and million-dollar debt forgiveness from the state. They are the ones who finance and control the political parties and use their influence to have power in the National Congress and in the courts. In short, they are the ones who have the country trapped and don't allow the advancement of other businessmen and marginalize the people because for them it's business as usual that they remain ignorant and hungry. It's easy for them to manipulate them with the corporate media, as they are doing with this coup.
At the end of 1983, [there was] a rumor that the United States embassy was concerned about what it saw as the consolidation of a pressure group within the country that was very conservative and very vulnerable to criticism, as is the case now. The coup leaders are once again a problem for the United States. Then, the APROH was dormant for many years, but it awoke on the morning of June 28, 2009, to carry out its work: overthrow the President, manipulate through the corporate media, extra-judicial executions that no one will know about, repression, and psychological war in order to confuse people.
Who Were the Members?
Gen. Gustavo Alvares was the boss, the man in charge of APROH. Rafael Leonardo Callejas admitted that when he was the APROH's Secretary of Student and Worker Affairs--which hoists the flag of anti-communism--he worked so that Osawlado Ramos Soto would be the rector of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH).
The Moon Sect, a well-known religious organization, collaborated with this organization.
The APROH was created by Álvarez Martínez during the Roberto Suazo Córdova administration as the precursor to the Security Doctrine and responsible for dozens of political assassinations and disappearances in the country. José Rafael Ferrari, Miguel Facussé, Fernando Casanova, Rigoberto Espinal Irías, Benjamín Villanueva and ex-union leaders Andrés Víctor Artiles and Mariano González were also members.
Osmond Maduro, brother of the ex-president and coup leader Ricardo Maduro Joest, was also a member, [as well as] national and international bankers; textile and chemical industry, agribusiness, and television barons; and the technocrats. All of them were represented in the APROH.
Now look on this page at the coup leaders; they are members of the new APROH. There is no difference between them and those of the past. Some of them are even the same: Miguel Facussé, Rafael Leonardo Callejas y José Rafael Ferrari.
Jorge Rivera Avilés
FUERA!!
Ousted Honduras leader Jose Manuel Zelaya may be allowed to return to his country under certain conditions.
The new proposal calls for the person next in line, as required by the constitution, to succeed de facto President Roberto Micheletti. Under terms of the proposal, Zelaya could return as a private citizen, but not be allowed to resume his post.
Presidential elections held after both resigned would be monitored by international observers such as the Organization of American States and the European Union, according to the proposal.
Zelaya did not immediately issue a response to the offer.
Until now, Micheletti has made clear that Zelaya would be arrested if he returned.
The offer comes two months after Zelaya was seized by the military in his pajamas and forced to leave the country.
Micheletti has insisted that Zelaya was not overthrown and was replaced through constitutional means.
The political crisis stemmed from Zelaya's plan to hold a referendum that could have changed the constitution and allowed longer term limits. The country's congress had outlawed the vote and the supreme court had ruled it illegal.
The Organization of American States sent a delegation to Honduras on Tuesday to promote the so-called San Jose Accord, which seeks an end to the political turmoil and the return of Zelaya to office. Micheletti's government declined to sign the agreement.
On Thursday, the United States said it was considering cutting off all aid to Honduras. Washington froze its assistance to Honduras after Zelaya was removed from office and stopped issuing visas in the Central American country earlier this week. Further steps could choke off as much $200 million in additional aid dispensed by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, funded by the U.S. government.
The United Nations and the European Union also have said that they do not recognize Micheletti's provisional government.
