"Punishment" for those who ousted Zelaya
The interim president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, lifted the state of emergency, while announcing those responsible for having oustedPresident Manuel Zelayawho was deposed on June 28, through a coup d'état, will be "punished" , .
"We have withdrawn at the Council of Ministers decree (...) is repealed completely," Micheletti said in reference to the restriction of freedom of expression, movement and assembly, which had a planned duration of 45 days.
In the same press conference he referred to the decision to remove Zelaya of Honduras and bring it to Costa Rica:
"definitely a decision taken by some sectors that they will be punished in accordance with the law."
Although he avoided identifying those responsible for that measure, said he was "totally sure they will be brought to justice, as befits any error was committed."
They expect new air
All this is due to international pressure and any internal pressure has also been to repeal this decree has caused much damage
David Romero, director of Radio Globo
The suspension of constitutional guarantees, which was repealed Monday-enabled rid their Radio Globo and Channel 36, both critics of the coup and close to those demanding the return of the deposed president.
The decision on Monday was "taken with pleasure" by journalist David Romero, director of Radio Globo.
Romero told BBC News that "all this is due to international pressure and any internal pressure has also been to repeal this decree has caused much damage."
By the time the radio can be heard on the internet, while waiting for the lifting of emergency rule is published in the Official Gazette.
"We have additional equipment that will allow us to go outside," said Romero, who recalled that the main transmitter "remains in police custody.
"Our lawyers were and told them that the team was held by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and is being analyzed. We do not know what they can analyze a radio transmitting equipment," said Romero.
GOP Visit
Wednesday is expected to start dialogue between the parties, at the request of the OAS.
Meanwhile in Tegucigalpa is a mission of the U.S. Congress, headed by the representative from Florida, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, who accompanied Micheletti in the press conference where he announced the repeal the questioned decree.
The Republicans also Florida, Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart up the rear. The three are among those who have supported what they define as the legality of the power output of Zelaya.
"I personally heard about the challenges facing the government is Micheletti as result of cutting aid by the misguided U.S. policy that seeks to subject even though Zelaya has violated the Honduran constitution," read a statement from the Ros-Lehtinen office.
It is the second visit of U.S. congressmen received Micheletti in less than a week after on Friday to meet a group of House Republicans in the presidential palace.
The Republicans have questioned the support that has given President Bush Barack Obama to deposed and who has cut several programs of bilateral cooperation.
"It's not official"
Chancellor's Cabinet Zelaya, Patricia Rhodes, said in an interview with BBC Mundo's correspondent in Washington, Carlos Chirinos, that these meetings did not "legitimize" the Honduran authorities, or create divisions in American foreign policy.
"It is not an official mission of the parliament nor the U.S. government (...) Remember that they are as supporters of an idea, as members of a political party that is related to the coup," said Rhodes.
For Wednesday, meanwhile, awaiting the arrival of a mission from the Organization of American States (OAS), composed of foreign ministers and diplomats from a dozen countries.
The delegation will try to reopen the channels of negotiation between the interim government, headed by Micheletti, and the deposed president, who is at the Embassy of Brazil from 21 September when he returned unexpectedly to the country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/america_latina/2009/10/091005_2143_honduras_excepcion_rb.shtml
BUT THOSE WHO OUSTED ZELAYA ARE STILL WORKING FOR THE DEFACTO GOVERNMENT AND FOLLOWING ITS ORDERS AT THE MOMENT, INCLUDING FOR THE ILLEGAL DECREE:
BUT THOSE WHO OUSTED ZELAYA ARE STILL WORKING FOR THE DEFACTO GOVERNMENT AND FOLLOWING ITS ORDERS AT THE MOMENT, INCLUDING FOR THE ILLEGAL DECREE:
The army chief attended the OAS meeting Micheletti, reveals the resistance
U.S. ambassador negotiates a solution to the crisis in Honduras
It is impossible to return to democracy under siege, says editorial in Time
Divided, dictatorial regime supporters, businessmen, by the return to conditions
Zelaya, his mother and supporters sing and dance in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.Foto Reuters
Arturo Cano
Tegucigalpa, Oct. 3. The insurgents are divided, amid a tangle of versions of the ending dialogue, sponsored by the Organization of American States (OAS), will next week. There are lots of proposals and counter after mediation failed Óscar Arias and everything suggests that the solution will result from a combination of international mechanisms and what is called the Honduran dialogue sums up the deputy Marvin Ponce, the Democratic Unification Party . To this must be added the underground negotiation led by U.S. ambassador Hugo Llorens.
A negotiated solution was a key moment late on Tuesday 29 September, Palmerola airbase, 70 kilometers from this city, where they met the de facto president, Roberto Micheletti, and Jose Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General .
According to sources of resistance to the coup, the meeting also participated the joint command of the Honduran armed forces and the appointment was sponsored by the United States, which is no secret, because that country has in place a force of 400 soldiers relieved every three months.
That meeting laid the groundwork for a dialogue to be convened by the de facto government and accepted by President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, officials have said the OAS.
The negotiation has divided the forces that organized and supported the coup because it does not agree on the terms of the agreement, starting, of course, with the return of political power Zelaya in the country.
While powerful businessmen accept the return of the president with limited powers, the coup regime has abandoned Micheletti not final and replaced by the following formula: there can be no agreement outside the Constitution. Business and political leaders who until recently supported the coup have shown their differences the week ends.
"Only a former president and one of the candidates do not want to convince and are forcing the return of Zelaya," says one of the institutional pillars of The Herald. The former president is, according to the resistance, Carlos
Flores, also owner of The Tribune, under the first paper cited. And the candidate Porfirio Lobo, candidate for the presidency by the National Party.
Change coup
The Chamber of Commerce and Industries Department of Cortés calls in whole pages of newspapers, repeal the decree that restricts the basic human rights and the current electoral process.The important finding is that the capital of San Pedro Sula Cortes is the only city in the country where there really is industry.
Employers in the North are in an agreement involving the return of Zelaya, while the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (the agency business leaders) are against it, says Ponce.
Among politicians there who not only want to leave out Zelaya, but also Micheletti. Days ago, the presidential candidate of the Partido Liberal Elvin Santos, sent his representative, Mauricio Villeda, Germany. One day he released that he was in there and the next president of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the liberal, sent a letter to Zelaya and Micheletti.
In the letter, signed by Wolfgang Gerhardt, it is proposed that a third party takes office, that mediation is not American and they both agree not to engage in political activity for five years: A re-election Zelaya Micheletti or should not be negotiable.
A clown is anti-coup manifiestaFoto Reuters proposal is viewed here as the position of Elvin Santos who, without learning the lesson Mexican campaign comes in as the president of employment.
The German proposal is just switching coup, says Ponce. Of course, it also reveals the dominant sector of the liberal fear of a return to active politics Zelaya with a third party that contested the power of the two
traditional.
The swarm of Facussé
A month ago would have none of Zelaya, but today the employer-uncle Miguel Adolfo Facussé Facussé and founder of the clan that bears his name-becomes negotiator: "Within this swarm have to put Zelaya and Micheletti to speak, there's going to be something, I think positive. " Something has changed that Miguel Facussé speak well, after giving the plane, they say here, to lift the country's Foreign Minister Patricia Rhodes.
That has not changed its position is too powerful businessman Jaime Rosenthal, perhaps the only one in the list of the richest in Honduras, who is with Zelaya.
Today he says through the editorial in Time, owned: How can a dialogue to resolve the political crisis if the nation is under total siege, with all the freedoms and guarantees
individual suspended and all branches of government in cahoots with the military to keep blood and fire the dictatorial regime?
According to Time, there can be elections in a scenario in which all powers are participants in the conspiracy against democracy that seeks to perpetuate itself in the public, increasing their privilege and impunity and ensuring the military's absolute control of our country.
The de facto government speaks through the minister of the presidency octogenarian Rafael Pineda Ponce, who is leaving to see the objections of Micheletti and some of the coup: "They talk about harmony and peace, understanding ...
but there is a marked tendency to avoid the path of legality, you walk towards a settlement that set aside the Constitution and that of course we can not admit it. Any settlement must necessarily be framed
as established by the Constitution. "
Pineda Ponce also said that Honduras is a few days of a solution, only then to say that the actual output, constitutional, would be the one can dispute within 57 days remaining before the election.
In an early-morning interview with the television, the minister behaves Pineda generous on the decree that established the state of siege: "The sectors of society have realized that it is better to respect and tolerance that the
confrontation and mayhem ... Decree will be repealed by the council of ministers next Monday.
The decree has resulted in the closure of Radio Globo and Channel 36, in the dissolution of several marches of resistance, arbitrary arrests and the eviction of the premises of the National Agrarian Institute. The 38
peasant prisoners are on hunger strike since Thursday afternoon.
The most watched news anchor on television, Jorge Zelaya, melts in praise to the long political career of the minister, who thanked: Thank you, Jorge, for your expressions so friendly and so fine, assessments and
internalize deep in my heart.
It is impossible to return to democracy under siege, says editorial in Time
Divided, dictatorial regime supporters, businessmen, by the return to conditions
Zelaya, his mother and supporters sing and dance in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.Foto Reuters
Arturo Cano
Tegucigalpa, Oct. 3. The insurgents are divided, amid a tangle of versions of the ending dialogue, sponsored by the Organization of American States (OAS), will next week. There are lots of proposals and counter after mediation failed Óscar Arias and everything suggests that the solution will result from a combination of international mechanisms and what is called the Honduran dialogue sums up the deputy Marvin Ponce, the Democratic Unification Party . To this must be added the underground negotiation led by U.S. ambassador Hugo Llorens.
A negotiated solution was a key moment late on Tuesday 29 September, Palmerola airbase, 70 kilometers from this city, where they met the de facto president, Roberto Micheletti, and Jose Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General .
According to sources of resistance to the coup, the meeting also participated the joint command of the Honduran armed forces and the appointment was sponsored by the United States, which is no secret, because that country has in place a force of 400 soldiers relieved every three months.
That meeting laid the groundwork for a dialogue to be convened by the de facto government and accepted by President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, officials have said the OAS.
The negotiation has divided the forces that organized and supported the coup because it does not agree on the terms of the agreement, starting, of course, with the return of political power Zelaya in the country.
While powerful businessmen accept the return of the president with limited powers, the coup regime has abandoned Micheletti not final and replaced by the following formula: there can be no agreement outside the Constitution. Business and political leaders who until recently supported the coup have shown their differences the week ends.
"Only a former president and one of the candidates do not want to convince and are forcing the return of Zelaya," says one of the institutional pillars of The Herald. The former president is, according to the resistance, Carlos
Flores, also owner of The Tribune, under the first paper cited. And the candidate Porfirio Lobo, candidate for the presidency by the National Party.
Change coup
The Chamber of Commerce and Industries Department of Cortés calls in whole pages of newspapers, repeal the decree that restricts the basic human rights and the current electoral process.The important finding is that the capital of San Pedro Sula Cortes is the only city in the country where there really is industry.
Employers in the North are in an agreement involving the return of Zelaya, while the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (the agency business leaders) are against it, says Ponce.
Among politicians there who not only want to leave out Zelaya, but also Micheletti. Days ago, the presidential candidate of the Partido Liberal Elvin Santos, sent his representative, Mauricio Villeda, Germany. One day he released that he was in there and the next president of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the liberal, sent a letter to Zelaya and Micheletti.
In the letter, signed by Wolfgang Gerhardt, it is proposed that a third party takes office, that mediation is not American and they both agree not to engage in political activity for five years: A re-election Zelaya Micheletti or should not be negotiable.
A clown is anti-coup manifiestaFoto Reuters proposal is viewed here as the position of Elvin Santos who, without learning the lesson Mexican campaign comes in as the president of employment.
The German proposal is just switching coup, says Ponce. Of course, it also reveals the dominant sector of the liberal fear of a return to active politics Zelaya with a third party that contested the power of the two
traditional.
The swarm of Facussé
A month ago would have none of Zelaya, but today the employer-uncle Miguel Adolfo Facussé Facussé and founder of the clan that bears his name-becomes negotiator: "Within this swarm have to put Zelaya and Micheletti to speak, there's going to be something, I think positive. " Something has changed that Miguel Facussé speak well, after giving the plane, they say here, to lift the country's Foreign Minister Patricia Rhodes.
That has not changed its position is too powerful businessman Jaime Rosenthal, perhaps the only one in the list of the richest in Honduras, who is with Zelaya.
Today he says through the editorial in Time, owned: How can a dialogue to resolve the political crisis if the nation is under total siege, with all the freedoms and guarantees
individual suspended and all branches of government in cahoots with the military to keep blood and fire the dictatorial regime?
According to Time, there can be elections in a scenario in which all powers are participants in the conspiracy against democracy that seeks to perpetuate itself in the public, increasing their privilege and impunity and ensuring the military's absolute control of our country.
The de facto government speaks through the minister of the presidency octogenarian Rafael Pineda Ponce, who is leaving to see the objections of Micheletti and some of the coup: "They talk about harmony and peace, understanding ...
but there is a marked tendency to avoid the path of legality, you walk towards a settlement that set aside the Constitution and that of course we can not admit it. Any settlement must necessarily be framed
as established by the Constitution. "
Pineda Ponce also said that Honduras is a few days of a solution, only then to say that the actual output, constitutional, would be the one can dispute within 57 days remaining before the election.
In an early-morning interview with the television, the minister behaves Pineda generous on the decree that established the state of siege: "The sectors of society have realized that it is better to respect and tolerance that the
confrontation and mayhem ... Decree will be repealed by the council of ministers next Monday.
The decree has resulted in the closure of Radio Globo and Channel 36, in the dissolution of several marches of resistance, arbitrary arrests and the eviction of the premises of the National Agrarian Institute. The 38
peasant prisoners are on hunger strike since Thursday afternoon.
The most watched news anchor on television, Jorge Zelaya, melts in praise to the long political career of the minister, who thanked: Thank you, Jorge, for your expressions so friendly and so fine, assessments and
internalize deep in my heart.
The Writings on the Walls: Graffiti from the Coup Resistance
By Kara Newhouse and Laura Taylor
Even as tireless Honduran protesters approach their 100th day of resistance, continuing to avoiding police tear gas and attend funerals of slain resisters, some facets of quotidian Tegucigalpa life continue under the dictatorship: cars cram into traffic-filled streets, those Hondurans with jobs go to work, and wealthy consumers hit the shopping malls. To maintain this facade of control, on September 27th the Micheletti dictatorship issued a decree dissolving fundamental rights such as the right to assembly and free speech, and the following day closed the critical media sources in the country by force. Yet the literal writings on the walls deny the state of calm that the coup leaders claim exists and expose the state of exception that they impose. These photos capture the ongoing conversations in a shrinking space for expression.
“The Walls Talk When the Media Lies”/ El Heraldo 666
Since June 28th, large scale media outlets owned by businessmen benefiting from the coup—such as the newspaper El Heraldo—have consistently misreported and ignored the violent repression of coup resistance in Honduras. On September 28th, Roberto Micheletti's de facto government shut down Radio Globo and Canal 36, eliminating the most widely available outlets critical of the coup. While some members of the resistance look to international media to report the realities of dictatorship in Honduras, many foreign news outlets mirror the ambivalent responses of foreign governments such as that of the United States.
“Blanquito, I'll be back tomorrow don't paint over this.”
Resistance members refer to Micheletti supporters as 'blanquitos' because of the white shirts they sport in an ironic attempt to represent “peace” and “democracy.” The term also links today's struggles with the racial heritage of the oligarchy and the legacy of European oppression in Honduras.
Red and white flags of the Liberal Party (the party of the coup administration) are reclaimed by the resistance movement in support of President 'Mel' Zelaya.
“No to the elections, yes to the constitutional assembly”
Before Zelaya's return to the capital on September 21st, the resistance was planning a national strike to demand constitutional reform through a constituent assembly. For the resistance, Zelaya's presence in the country represents the nearing possibility for constitutional reform. In response, the coup leaders have been scrambling to gain international recognition for the November elections.
“Mel is necessary / Mel is urgent”
The phrase 'Urge Mel' has been revived from a song used in his 2005 election campaign. The country's coup-supporting business elites, led by Adolfo Facussé, recently proposed Zelaya's return to the presidency in hopes of gaining U.S. recognition for the November election. Their plan is a thinly masked maintenance of coup control, as it also calls for limitations on Zelaya's power, his prosecution under charges of stealing money, and the installation of Micheletti as a Congressman for life.
“Mel-gar is a thief”
This layered message reclaims the statement, 'Mel is a thief,' by changing the name to that of General Juan Melgar Castro, who overtook the Honduran presidency through a military coup in 1975. Like Melgar, General Romeo Orlando Vasquez Velasquez, the military leader of Zelaya's overthrow, received training at the U.S. Army School of Americas.
“My country free or death”
Zelaya image, “Billy Joya is an assassin/the people will do you justice,” “Long live Mel”
Billy Fernando Joya Améndola , the ministerial adviser on security for the coup regime, served in Battalion 3-16, an elite army death squad responsible for the disappearances of at least 180 Hondurans in the 1980s.
"Chavez, Honduras needs you [need crossed out and replaced with hate]”
Public justifications of the coup government focus on a poll that Zelaya proposed as a way to initiate discussion of constitutional reform. To provoke panic about a removal of presidential term limits in Honduras, conservative media have called this a “Chavez-style” move, but juridical analysis clearly shows that the poll established no implications for re-election.
“Out with the coup regime,” “Sold out journalists your day will come,” “Micheletti you are not my president! Signed, The People.”
These declarations are scrawled across the Congress building in Tegucigalpa's city center.
“Honduras is Repressed,” “Censorship”
These pieces of masking tape come from activists who place tape over their mouths to draw attention to thecensorship of the Honduran media and people.
“We will not give up”
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