Tegucigalpa is militarized
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Tegucigalpa (AFP) Military and armed police guarded the streets of Tegucigalpa and the hotel where Wednesday is expected to open a dialogue between delegates of the deposed President Manuel Zelaya and de facto Roberto Micheletti, AFP noted.
Dozens of armed forces and special operations commands Cobra police flanqueron input OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, and a dozen foreign ministers and deputy ministers from the region, verifiers of negotiation.
Army trucks patrol different areas of the city as part of an enhanced safety device for opening the dialogue, scheduled for 10:30 local, but delayed by a meeting between Insulza and his delegation of foreign ministers.
After several failures, this dialogue is a new attempt to resolve the complex political crisis since Zelaya Honduras was deposed on June 28 by a coup.
While installing the table, Zelaya remains in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa - where he took refuge after a surprise return to Honduras on September 21 - surrounded by military and riot groups.
Zelaya will be represented at the table by the union leader and coordinator of the 'face of resistance against the coup ", John Baker and his ministers of Interior and Labor, and Mayra Mejia Victor Meza.
Meanwhile, Micheletti will be represented by businessman Arturo Corrales, the former president of the Supreme Court jurist Vilma Morales and Armando Aguilar.
Zelaya Wednesday demanded be returned before Oct. 15 so they can hold the election on 29 November. Micheletti hitherto been opposed to a refund up to the elections.
FOTOS: Diálogo y represión (G. Trucchi)
Police repress Zelaya's supporters near the Embassy of Brazil
TEGUCIGALPA (APF) .- Honduran military and police on Wednesday cracked down on supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya against the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa at a time when starting a dialogue in search of solution to the political crisis, AFP journalists found .
"Mel (Zelaya), hold on, the people rise up!", "Mel, friend, the people are with you!" Chanted some 150 manifentantes Front of Resistance Against Coup d'Etat of June 28 that gathered near Embassy, which remains Zelaya refugee for 15 days.
Stitches protected police with shields and batons swinging, while some threw tear gas grenades, dispersed the demonstrators, who ran along the streets.
The demonstrators "were violating the decree" restricts the constitutional guarantees and "were violating the rights of others' freedom of movement, told local radio Commissioner Daniel Molina, by the police firing.
Tegucigalpa yesterday was virtually militarized the dialogue between representatives of Zelaya and the de facto president Roberto Micheletti, overseen by the OAS.
While developing the dialogue in a hotel in the capital, Zelaya remained at the embassy in Brazil - where he took refuge after returning surreptitiously to Honduras on September 21 - surrounded by military and police.
On the Boulevard Suyapa, head of the National Autonomous University, east of the capital, dozens of students blocked the streets and troops were also threatened by riot police.
| Tegucigalpa is militarized |
Dozens of armed forces and special operations commands Cobra police flanqueron input OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, and a dozen foreign ministers and deputy ministers from the region, verifiers of negotiation. Army trucks patrol different areas of the city as part of an enhanced safety device for opening the dialogue, scheduled for 10:30 local, but delayed by a meeting between Insulza and his delegation of foreign ministers. After several failures, this dialogue is a new attempt to resolve the complex political crisis since Zelaya Honduras was deposed on June 28 by a coup. While installing the table, Zelaya remains in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa - where he took refuge after a surprise return to Honduras on September 21 - surrounded by military and riot groups. Zelaya will be represented at the table by the union leader and coordinator of the 'face of resistance against the coup ", John Baker and his ministers of Interior and Labor, and Mayra Mejia Victor Meza. Meanwhile, Micheletti will be represented by businessman Arturo Corrales, the former president of the Supreme Court jurist Vilma Morales and Armando Aguilar. Zelaya Wednesday demanded be returned before Oct. 15 so they can hold the election on 29 November. Micheletti hitherto been opposed to a refund up to the elections. |
FOTOS: Diálogo y represión (G. Trucchi)
TEGUCIGALPA (APF) .- Honduran military and police on Wednesday cracked down on supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya against the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa at a time when starting a dialogue in search of solution to the political crisis, AFP journalists found .
"Mel (Zelaya), hold on, the people rise up!", "Mel, friend, the people are with you!" Chanted some 150 manifentantes Front of Resistance Against Coup d'Etat of June 28 that gathered near Embassy, which remains Zelaya refugee for 15 days.
Stitches protected police with shields and batons swinging, while some threw tear gas grenades, dispersed the demonstrators, who ran along the streets.
The demonstrators "were violating the decree" restricts the constitutional guarantees and "were violating the rights of others' freedom of movement, told local radio Commissioner Daniel Molina, by the police firing.
Tegucigalpa yesterday was virtually militarized the dialogue between representatives of Zelaya and the de facto president Roberto Micheletti, overseen by the OAS.
While developing the dialogue in a hotel in the capital, Zelaya remained at the embassy in Brazil - where he took refuge after returning surreptitiously to Honduras on September 21 - surrounded by military and police.
On the Boulevard Suyapa, head of the National Autonomous University, east of the capital, dozens of students blocked the streets and troops were also threatened by riot police.
What happens in Honduras under the auspices of the OAS is not a dialogue.
Norelys Morales Aguilera.
Dialogue is a conversation between two or more persons by which information is exchanged and communicate thoughts, feelings and desires. A good conversation would be one in which actors are respected.
However, what is happening in Honduras under the auspices of the OAS, following talks in secret Micheletti and Insulza is not a dialogue! It is not respecting the will of many people showing their discontent peacefully for three months while they are repressed.
This is the legitimization of the coup. Jose Manuel Insulza, OAS Secretary General in his opening remarks said that the government not headed Micheletti has not lifted the siege decree because the repeal is not published in the Gazette , among other violations.
Negotiated without transparency and making fun of the struggle of Hondurans, but Insulza has said that the proposal of the Arias Plan, is five points clear in the first, the return of the president elected by the people.
The other topics are Insulza highlighted by forming a national unity government, ensuring Zelaya not to promote the convening of a constituent assembly, a political amnesty and the establishment of mechanisms for verification of the agreements.
While the roundtable arming the military suppressed outside the embassy of the United States and the constitutional president of the riot victim is imprisoned coup against his will and under the protection of Brazil in its embassy.
What dialog are you talking about?
Tegucigalpa militarized
The dialogue is starting on a bad note, said the constitutional president, Manuel Zelaya, in a press conference at the Brazilian embassy, where he is since last Sept. 21.
Minister of Interior and Justice of the Zelaya administration, Victor Meza in his speech at the ceremony, condemned the police attack to people who were demonstrating peacefully, which he described as brutal.
Noting the difficulties imposed on the representatives of Zelaya, reported that only today at 08:30 local time may have had contact with the state and demanded an end to the military blockade that is submitted in the embassy.
Meza said that dialogue is important not to leave the content and spirit of the Agreement of San Jose in search of an immediate exit to the crisis by peaceful and civilized.
He also noted that the development of dialogue is necessary to satisfy essential requirements such as restitution of constitutional guarantees, the reopening of the media and decent conditions for the best President Zelaya.
Meanwhile the National Front against the coup in Honduras on Friday ratified his commitment to dialogue to resolve the crisis, but minimum conditions required for their development as the cessation of repression.
No dialogue can be done if one party has gagged him with a pistol on his head, says the alliance of popular forces in a statement on the opening of the talks.
Honduras Zelaya shock resistance
Norelys Morales Aguilera.
Dialogue is a conversation between two or more persons by which information is exchanged and communicate thoughts, feelings and desires. A good conversation would be one in which actors are respected.
However, what is happening in Honduras under the auspices of the OAS, following talks in secret Micheletti and Insulza is not a dialogue! It is not respecting the will of many people showing their discontent peacefully for three months while they are repressed.
This is the legitimization of the coup. Jose Manuel Insulza, OAS Secretary General in his opening remarks said that the government not headed Micheletti has not lifted the siege decree because the repeal is not published in the Gazette , among other violations.
Negotiated without transparency and making fun of the struggle of Hondurans, but Insulza has said that the proposal of the Arias Plan, is five points clear in the first, the return of the president elected by the people.
The other topics are Insulza highlighted by forming a national unity government, ensuring Zelaya not to promote the convening of a constituent assembly, a political amnesty and the establishment of mechanisms for verification of the agreements.
While the roundtable arming the military suppressed outside the embassy of the United States and the constitutional president of the riot victim is imprisoned coup against his will and under the protection of Brazil in its embassy.
What dialog are you talking about?
Tegucigalpa militarized
The dialogue is starting on a bad note, said the constitutional president, Manuel Zelaya, in a press conference at the Brazilian embassy, where he is since last Sept. 21.
Minister of Interior and Justice of the Zelaya administration, Victor Meza in his speech at the ceremony, condemned the police attack to people who were demonstrating peacefully, which he described as brutal.
Noting the difficulties imposed on the representatives of Zelaya, reported that only today at 08:30 local time may have had contact with the state and demanded an end to the military blockade that is submitted in the embassy.
Meza said that dialogue is important not to leave the content and spirit of the Agreement of San Jose in search of an immediate exit to the crisis by peaceful and civilized.
He also noted that the development of dialogue is necessary to satisfy essential requirements such as restitution of constitutional guarantees, the reopening of the media and decent conditions for the best President Zelaya.
Meanwhile the National Front against the coup in Honduras on Friday ratified his commitment to dialogue to resolve the crisis, but minimum conditions required for their development as the cessation of repression.
No dialogue can be done if one party has gagged him with a pistol on his head, says the alliance of popular forces in a statement on the opening of the talks.
Honduras Zelaya shock resistance
The dialogue is starting on a bad note, said the constitutional president, Manuel Zelaya, in a press conference at the Brazilian embassy, where he is since last Sept. 21.
Minister of Interior and Justice of the Zelaya administration, Victor Meza in his speech at the ceremony, condemned the police attack to people who were demonstrating peacefully, which he described as brutal.
Noting the difficulties imposed on the representatives of Zelaya, reported that only today at 08:30 local time may have had contact with the state and demanded an end to the military blockade that is submitted in the embassy.
Meza said that dialogue is important not to leave the content and spirit of the Agreement of San Jose in search of an immediate exit to the crisis by peaceful and civilized.
He also noted that the development of dialogue is necessary to satisfy essential requirements such as restitution of constitutional guarantees, the reopening of the media and decent conditions for the best President Zelaya.
Meanwhile the National Front against the coup in Honduras on Friday ratified his commitment to dialogue to resolve the crisis, but minimum conditions required for their development as the cessation of repression.
No dialogue can be done if one party has gagged him with a pistol on his head, says the alliance of popular forces in a statement on the opening of the talks.
Honduras Zelaya shock resistance
The OAS plays in the Honduras
The OAS mission will attempt to Zelaya's presidency again, albeit with reduced powers.
The arrival of an official mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday is considered by representatives of the Brazilian government as a litmus test "for resolving the political crisis that has lasted for over one hundred days.
This is the first official meeting between the OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza and the interim president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, since the two met secretly for several days at a military base on Honduran territory, where they discussed Zelaya restitution.
"All the cards are played in Wednesday's game," said a Brazilian diplomat.
"There are signs that we are closer to an agreement and the OAS mission is indeed a litmus test," says the source.
Insulza arrived in Tegucigalpa, accompanied by ambassadors of the OAS, among which is the Brazilian representative at the institution, Ruy Casaes.
The delegation also has diplomatic representatives of ten countries, including five foreign ministers.
The Foreign Minister of Brazil, Celso Amorim, will not accompany the mission in Tegucigalpa.
The Brazilian Embassy Zelaya houses since his return on 21 September.
According to sources from the government palace, the participation of Brazilian foreign minister "might seem inappropriate" because Brazil is "directly involved" since Zelaya came to the Brazilian embassy.
"We prefer to leave the mission to other countries considered neutral from the standpoint of the interim government, as Costa Rica or El Salvador," said a member of Brazil's diplomatic corps.
Nonnegotiable
The expectation of the Brazilian government and the OAS is that the Arias Plan, the main proposal for a negotiated solution on the table can be modified to facilitate agreement.
There are points of the plan, however, that are considered "non-negotiable."
In a BBC interview, the ambassador said that the OAS Casaes rule yield the point of restitution of Zelaya to power before the elections.
Another essential point, he says, is the political amnesty.
The Brazilian government estimate is that a "new Arias Plan" depends largely on two factors: a greater willingness to break the impasse Micheletti-it is losing domestic support, and also of "statesmanship" Insulza.
Brazilian diplomats stress the bargaining power of the secretary general of the OAS, Josñe Miguel Insulza.
"We're at a point of negotiations in which the OAS has a crucial role. Insulza know is the task of weaving an agreement that is palatable to both sides," said another government source told BBC Brazil, which considers the general secretary of the OAS politician "extremely skilled".
That said, it is also strong within the Brazilian government felt that the interim government begins to abate, and so is perceived, for example, that Micheletti has admitted the "mistake" to expel the country and has Zelaya terminated a state of siege.
But one of Brazil's concerns is the proximity of the presidential elections in Honduras, scheduled for November 29.
Affront
About ten days ago, was refused entry to Honduras to a previous OAS mission, despite having received the endorsement of the interim government.
The episode was considered an "affront" to the organization, as the Brazilian government.
According to the same source, Insulza's trip to Tegucigalpa was conditional on an improvement in the political arena, ie, to an environment more conducive to agreement.
"The main objective is the agreement in Honduras. But we're also talking about the prestige of the OAS," said the diplomat asked by the BBC.
Casaes Ambassador Roy said that the role of the organization is also "in play" with this mission. Last week, Casaes had said that the OAS was "aimed increasingly towards an absolute state of irrelevance" in the case of Honduras.
Ousted Honduran Minister Says Coup to Cause Economy to Contract
By Emma Ross-Thomas
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Honduran economy may shrink more than 4 percent this year as the result of the overthrow of the government, risking worsening poverty in Central America’s second-poorest country, ousted Finance Minister Rebeca Patricia Santos Rivera said.
The ousted government of President Manuel Zelaya had projected growth of 1 percent to 2 percent, before the coup in June that has brought curfews and cuts in foreign-aid, she said.
“Now people are talking about a contraction of 3 to 4 percent for 2009; it could even contract more,” she said in an interview in Madrid today.
She is in Spain representing Honduras at a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank because the government of acting President Roberto Micheletti is not recognized. Honduras has to grow 4 percent a year to reduce poverty, she said.
“Foreign currency revenue from a sector as fundamental to job creation as tourism has contracted 40 percent in these three months since the coup,” she said.
The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Central American Bank of Economic Integration have suspended operations in Honduras since Zelaya’s June 28 ouster. Honduras also faces aid cuts by the European Union and U.S. Central Bank President Sandra Midence forecast in a Sept. 25 interview that the $14.1 billion economy will shrink as much as 2 percent this year on the global slump and political crisis.
Media campaign for elections to legitimize unconstitutional in Honduras
The main private media on the continent have deployed a media network which aims to hide human rights violations in Honduras and freedoms, conceal the discontent of the people with the de facto government and create a false climate of political and social stability so legitimize the unconstitutional presidential elections that are to be held in November.
The Pope explained the Venezuelan Group Vice President of Latin American Parliament (Parlatino), Deputy Carolus Wimmer, referring to the vision media this week highlighting the supposed restoration of freedoms by the de facto dictatorship.
"Micheletti only suspended the decree of a state of siege to satisfy political pressure from the U.S. State Department and the Organization of American States (OAS) and its Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, who visited the country Wednesday to begin a process dialogue, "he said.
In that sense, defined the behavior of the media as a "terrible media worldview," since the reality is different and the dictatorial system in Honduras does not stop.
"The suspension of the decree is merely a smokescreen to hide the truth: they closed Radio Globo and Channel 36, continuing repression against the National Resistance Front and the Honduran people, and continues its military siege around the embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa, where he is a refugee the constitutional president, Manuel Zelaya, "said Wimmer.
Similarly, the deputy brought up a complaint by Feminist International Radio in which it is reported that Honduran women were constantly threatened, besieged, captured, tortured and raped in their human rights.
He therefore urged the international community to firmly reject the political propaganda of the mainstream media in the world who want to see the Government as a de facto democratic administration that respects freedoms.
"The goal of this media campaign is to make the world believe that in Honduras there is full democracy and that elections scheduled for November will be held in the framework of a democratic system so that they are recognized by the international community," he said.
Therefore insisted that the international community must keep alive the denunciation of the coup and human rights violations to which subject the Honduran people.
"Let us in solidarity with the people, the face of resistance and alternative Hondurans under difficult and dangerous conditions, remain on the street to defend their freedoms and rights, democracy and its President Zelaya," said Congressman
The Pope explained the Venezuelan Group Vice President of Latin American Parliament (Parlatino), Deputy Carolus Wimmer, referring to the vision media this week highlighting the supposed restoration of freedoms by the de facto dictatorship.
"Micheletti only suspended the decree of a state of siege to satisfy political pressure from the U.S. State Department and the Organization of American States (OAS) and its Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, who visited the country Wednesday to begin a process dialogue, "he said.
In that sense, defined the behavior of the media as a "terrible media worldview," since the reality is different and the dictatorial system in Honduras does not stop.
"The suspension of the decree is merely a smokescreen to hide the truth: they closed Radio Globo and Channel 36, continuing repression against the National Resistance Front and the Honduran people, and continues its military siege around the embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa, where he is a refugee the constitutional president, Manuel Zelaya, "said Wimmer.
Similarly, the deputy brought up a complaint by Feminist International Radio in which it is reported that Honduran women were constantly threatened, besieged, captured, tortured and raped in their human rights.
He therefore urged the international community to firmly reject the political propaganda of the mainstream media in the world who want to see the Government as a de facto democratic administration that respects freedoms.
"The goal of this media campaign is to make the world believe that in Honduras there is full democracy and that elections scheduled for November will be held in the framework of a democratic system so that they are recognized by the international community," he said.
Therefore insisted that the international community must keep alive the denunciation of the coup and human rights violations to which subject the Honduran people.
"Let us in solidarity with the people, the face of resistance and alternative Hondurans under difficult and dangerous conditions, remain on the street to defend their freedoms and rights, democracy and its President Zelaya," said Congressman
Ousted Honduran Minister Says Coup to Cause Economy to Contract
By Emma Ross-Thomas
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Honduran economy may shrink more than 4 percent this year as the result of the overthrow of the government, risking worsening poverty in Central America’s second-poorest country, ousted Finance Minister Rebeca Patricia Santos Rivera said.
The ousted government of President Manuel Zelaya had projected growth of 1 percent to 2 percent, before the coup in June that has brought curfews and cuts in foreign-aid, she said.
“Now people are talking about a contraction of 3 to 4 percent for 2009; it could even contract more,” she said in an interview in Madrid today.
She is in Spain representing Honduras at a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank because the government of acting President Roberto Micheletti is not recognized. Honduras has to grow 4 percent a year to reduce poverty, she said.
“Foreign currency revenue from a sector as fundamental to job creation as tourism has contracted 40 percent in these three months since the coup,” she said.
The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Central American Bank of Economic Integration have suspended operations in Honduras since Zelaya’s June 28 ouster. Honduras also faces aid cuts by the European Union and U.S. Central Bank President Sandra Midence forecast in a Sept. 25 interview that the $14.1 billion economy will shrink as much as 2 percent this year on the global slump and political crisis.
29 September 2009 - Worse feared after de facto regime closes radio and TV stations, cracks down on journalists
28 September 2009 - Last freedoms suspended leaving media at mercy of total shutdown
25 September 2009 - New wave of censorship in response to deposed president’s return
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By Emma Ross-Thomas
Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Honduran economy may shrink more than 4 percent this year as the result of the overthrow of the government, risking worsening poverty in Central America’s second-poorest country, ousted Finance Minister Rebeca Patricia Santos Rivera said.
The ousted government of President Manuel Zelaya had projected growth of 1 percent to 2 percent, before the coup in June that has brought curfews and cuts in foreign-aid, she said.
“Now people are talking about a contraction of 3 to 4 percent for 2009; it could even contract more,” she said in an interview in Madrid today.
She is in Spain representing Honduras at a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank because the government of acting President Roberto Micheletti is not recognized. Honduras has to grow 4 percent a year to reduce poverty, she said.
“Foreign currency revenue from a sector as fundamental to job creation as tourism has contracted 40 percent in these three months since the coup,” she said.
The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Central American Bank of Economic Integration have suspended operations in Honduras since Zelaya’s June 28 ouster. Honduras also faces aid cuts by the European Union and U.S. Central Bank President Sandra Midence forecast in a Sept. 25 interview that the $14.1 billion economy will shrink as much as 2 percent this year on the global slump and political crisis.
Lifting of state siege does not guarantee restoration of media diversity
Published on 7 October 2009
In the same country
28 September 2009 - Last freedoms suspended leaving media at mercy of total shutdown
25 September 2009 - New wave of censorship in response to deposed president’s return
De facto President Roberto Micheletti’s decision yesterday to lift the state of siege after one week does not unfortunately mean that real press freedom has been restored. By suspending basic freedoms on 28 September, the government that took over after ousting President Manuel Zelaya in June has succeeded in silencing the two main opposition broadcast media, Radio Globo and the Canal 36 TV station.
Despite the censorship, Radio Globo is managing to operate as web radio from a clandestine studio in a Tegucigalpa neighbourhood. But it has no prospect of being able to resume normal broadcasting until it has recovered the frequency that was taken away by the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) – probably a lengthy procedure.
Radio Globo will also have to recover the equipment that was confiscated by the security forces on 28 September. As for Canal 36, its broadcast equipment was completely destroyed when soldiers raided its studios on 28 September.
“In practice, the restoration of public freedoms changes nothing as the repression continues and the opposition mouthpieces have been reduced to silence,” Bertha Oliva, the coordinator of the Committee of Families of Detained and Disappeared Persons in Honduras (Cofadeh), told Reporters Without Borders.
Radio Progreso, a provincial radio station that has been nominated for the 2009 Reporters Without Borders press freedom prize in the “Media” category, has resisted all attempts to censor it. “The community has rallied around whenever soldiers or police have tried to invade its studios,” Reporters Without Borders has been told.
“The return of Radio Globo and Canal 36 to the airwaves, one of the conditions set by Manuel Zelaya for a resumption of dialogue, is an indispensible step for restoring the rule of law in Honduras and we far from seeing this happen,” Reporters Without Borders said.
“At the same time, how can the elections that the de facto government wants to hold at all cost on 29 November be regarded as democratic in the absence of media diversity,” the press freedom organisation asked. “The Organisation of American States mission must get the de facto government to return or replace the equipment and frequencies.”
Reporters Without Borders added: “From the outset, we have condemned the de facto government’s treatment of the foreign media and opposition press but there is absolutely no question of tolerating any expression of hatred, whatever its origin. We therefore unreservedly condemn the horrendous anti-Semitic comments made by Radio Globo manager David Romero.”
According to the Latin American Herald Tribune, President Zelaya has claimed on several occasions that the military is getting “support from Israeli mercenaries.” Alluding to this claim, Romero said on the air he regretted that “Hitler was not able to carry his project through to the end.” Romero subsequently apologised in an interview for the Associated Press, saying his grandfather was of Jewish origin.
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