The EU and Brazil condemn the violation of constitutional order in Honduras

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Stockholm, Oct 6 (EFE) .- The EU and Brazil today condemned the "violation of the constitutional order" in Honduras, called for the inviolability of the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, where it hides the deposed Manuel Zelaya, and called for respect for their physical integrity, family and members of his Government.

This is stated in the joint statement of the EU-Brazil Summit being held today in Stockholm, which called on all parties "in particular the de facto government" to work to find a negotiated solution.

Brazilian President Inacio Lula da Silva Luz, called a news conference output power of the executors of the coup in Honduras, and said that this would be the "easy" to the country's problems.

The coup-mongering talk of dialogue, but increased repression.

A god praying ... and the big stick 
More gore

by Giorgio Trucchi - Rel-IUF

According to the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) be 17 people died as a result of the violence unleashed by the repressive forces after 28 June. 

Hundreds of wounded and almost a hundred citizens who suffer the accusation of sedition for having defended the constitutional order disrupted by the coup.

While the de facto government keeps talking about dialogue and maintains a decree that annulled the individual and collective freedoms, the Honduran soil is soaked again in the blood of its martyrs.

After the death last September 26, Wendy Elizabeth Avila, 24, hit by tear gas fired by police during an eviction in front of the Embassy of Brazil, last Friday, 2 Professor Mario Fidel Contreras Moncada, 50 years, active member of the Resistance and affiliated with the College of Teachers of Secondary Education in Honduras (COPEMH),was murdered a few yards from his house with two bullets in his face by two persons on a motorcycle without plate.

"We are five teachers who were killed since the coup gave, and this gives us a lot of frustration," said the delegate of COPEMH Sirel Oscar Recarte.

We can not bury a teacher every week because the teacher has been a fundamental part in this struggle against the coup. We have curtailed constitutional guarantees, it is killing us and we wonder how long we can endure all that.

The peoples of the world should take into account what is happening and we will not longer accept seeing our comrades be killed, "heRecarte.

Almost simultaneously, in the village of Canculuncos, Santa Barbara, Lenca peasant leader and member of the Resistance, Anthony Lewis, was kidnapped and then cruelly murdered by strangers.

On Saturday 3 Osiris Uclés Olga also died, aged 35, mother of four, active member of the Resistance and employee of the Ministry of Health, who on 30 September was affected by tear gas fired by police to disperse the demonstration Pacific off the closed Radio Globo.

Persecution, repression and criminalization of resistance

According to research conducted by the 96 Series COFADEH persons charged to court for the alleged crime of sedition against the state security as a new measure to terrorize members of the resistance against the coup.

Detainees who have been declared political prisoners are currently 45.

These include cases of Agustina Flores Lopez, sister of the Civic Council Directive Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras(COPINH) and the National Front Against the Coup d'Etat, Bertha Caceres, and of the 38 peasants who staged the takeover of National Agrarian Institute (INA) and that since October 1 declared a hunger strike.

"The 38 members of the three peasant confederations are currently detained in the Diagnostic Center of the National Penitentiary, hoping that starting next Tuesday, 6 preliminary hearing where the judge will decide whether to give relief or whether they will remain in jail, "said Bertha Oliva, president of COFADEH -.

We are concerned about their intention to continue the hunger strike because they had detected several diseases, and therefore every day a volunteer medical team is monitoring their health status.

Faced with this brutal crackdown on COFADEH released a position paper in which requires the Supreme Court and the Attorney General leave "to give back to justice and answer for more than 15 appeals to the Constitutional Chamber for the number of human rights violations committed by the current regime. "

It also condemns "the implementation of Executive Decree PCM-M-016-2009 with suspending for 45 days at the expense of constitutional guarantees of the integrity of the Honduran people," the closure of Radio Globo and Channel 36 in violation of the right to be informed and killings perpetrated by the repressive bodies of the de facto government.

Finally, the COFADEH states that "none of these deaths happen to oblivion, and its authors were sheltered for a long time under the cloak of impunity".

Murder of two members of the Honduran resistance condemned

TEGUCIGALPA, October 4.—The Honduran resistance and human rights organizations have condemned the murder of teacher Mario Contreras, vice principal of the Abelardo Fortín Institute, and Lenca leader Antonio Leiva, two members of the resistance allegedly killed by hired assassins.
According to a preliminary report from the Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees in Honduras (COFADEH), Contreras was shot twice in the face 100m from his home by two unknown men on a motorcycle. He was taken to hospital but died shortly after arriving, Telesur reports.
The Center for the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture and their Families (CPTRT) affirmed that "according to witness statements provided by relatives, it is presumed that the attacks were perpetrated by hired killers, given that none of the victim’s belongings were missing, ruling out the possibility of robbery."
Another member of the resistance front, Lenca leader Antonio Leiva, was also found dead in Santa Bárbara, in the west of the country. According to sources close to the victim, he was kidnapped in the morning and his body was discovered in the afternoon in a village in the area.
COFADEH President Berta Oliva informed the international media that several opposition leaders have received anonymous death threats and her organization fears for their safety.
Among those threatened, she mentioned presidential candidate Carlos Reyes, agricultural leader Rafael Alegría, labor leader Juan Barahona, left-wing Deputy Silvia Ayala and human rights activist Andrés Pavón.
Translated by Granma International

Gain time, the strategy to weaken Zelaya by Micheletti

Tuesday, 06 Octubre of 2009 05:28

Arturo Cano, Envoy, La Jornada, October 6, 2009

T egucigalpa, October 5. Without saying so, the de facto president, Roberto Micheletti, leaves his resounding no to the return of Manuel Zelaya as President of Honduras. The international news agencies to catch early morning flight Goriletti a statement (the "Goriletti are the ones who do not allow to put the boots of Venezuela in this country," he tells Hugo Chávez ") and nod the coup government admits the possibility Zelaya restore to power.

Demonstrators called to the police during a protest in Tegucigalpa. The de factogovernment yesterday revoked a decree that suppressed civil liberties, leaving dozens of arrests and the closure of two media Ap Photo

The constitutional president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, is preparing for a press conference from the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa Photo Reuters

Micheletti says What? Exactly that: The refund is an aspiration of Mr. Zelaya would have to listen to and better approaches, with legal approaches, because you can not restore a person's legal problems. And in any case should be the Supreme Court of Justice to make this decision, and not for the government.

Where's the catch? Where provided, the strategy of buying time that has guided the actions since Micheletti, 100 days ago, took over power to the poor.According to the Honduran Constitution, later this month, on 29 October, armed forces remain available to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).

In other words, the more you enlarge the dialogue would have fewer powers Zelaya to sit back in his chair.

This day is, without doubt, Micheletti: gives details of the ongoing dialogue, repeals, with his ministers, the decree suspending individual rights; is launched against Chavez but had promised not to talk about that crazy, and phrasing of ten magical output ways the insurgents have for the crisis in this small country: the general elections of 29 November.

From his refuge in the Brazilian embassy, Manuel Zelaya offers telephone interviews and insists on the immediate signing by both parties, the agreement of St. Joseph in the national and international legal context.

I for my house to somewhere Zelaya

Roberto Micheletti appears before the cameras of Face to face, the TV Channel 5 where, in 100 days, has not been a single guest Zelaya (only a few phone calls for clarification have been admitted). Sign of forced dialogue or part of the strategy, the driver, Renato Alvarez, invites at least three occasions Tuesday Zelaya to appear in the same space.

Presumably, Rafael Ferrari (the Emilio Azcarraga Honduras), has already negotiated with the entry of its military equipment to the Brazilian embassy, because until now the army has not allowed the entry of any community (several journalists remain there because were from the day that the armed forces of Zelaya cleaned nearby).

Micheletti is a long time to provide comments on the dialogue and even to discuss poverty, education, and to confess that he is in love with the presidency, especially the way in which I am living.

De facto President reveals: We already have a group of men who is talking with another group that belongs to the resistance, insisting I call him, because the resistance is us.

Dialogue leads week and a half, he says, and I think we are on track.

On Sunday, in remarks to AFP, Zelaya said that 90 percent are solved, but if the remaining ten percent was the obstacle to dialogue, we should have confidence in the mechanisms of the international community to continue pushing.

With the driver, Micheletti shuffles the other options. The third party is the first, nor Zelaya and Micheletti, but a third, but with the obligation (of both parties), to support the electoral process.

The condition that makes the de facto president to withdraw from power is that Zelaya would not result in direct or disturbances of any kind. So, we pulled out, I for my house, him not know where, because he has legal problems.

Although just suggested that the possible return of Zelaya Micheletti insists time and again that the actual output are the polls. If we choose a new president, hence forth we can talk about any scenario, and with a President-elect, and that's very difficult to change, but also very hard before even thinking about it (the return).

Is it resolved the conflict this week, asks the driver.

I think so, because we are open, God willing, yes, answered Micheletti, and ends with the exit poll perhaps divine connection: 90 per cent of the population does not want the return of Zelaya.

The body and useless mess of pottage

In July, this small dyed blonde woman pushed an amendment to cut $ 15 million contribution to his country, the United States, the Organization of American States (OAS), as this agency does nothing for democracy in the Western Hemisphere. It was defeated.

It's the same Cuban-American Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is now received with honors by the de facto government. Enters the room accompanied by Micheletti and other officials, escorted by cadets in full uniform and with a little book in his hand. Before speaking, Micheletti asks for help to highlight a paragraph of the Constitution of Honduras.

Diligent office staff have distributed a leaflet to journalists biography of congressman. The second fact, after reporting what Florida district represents is that she was forced to flee with his family from the oppressive communist regime of Fidel Castro.

Great pride, great honor, says lawmaker feel Micheletti toward that brought us the information, hope.

The congressman, who travels accompanied by brothers Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, also of Congress, it pleased: What I'll do when he returns to Washington is to ask my colleagues in Congress and Senate to come to Honduras and they see only reports from CNN and other channels, to meet with the people.

Ros-Lehtinen criticizes his government to cancel the visas of officials and businessmen, throws blows to Chavez and Zelaya and Micheletti hugs to "some people say the de facto government, and I'm sitting here with the president, a great honor .

Do some people? Yes, all world governments and Barack Obama, for example.

Micheletti addition, at the table with the Congressman are Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez Contreras, Vice Minister and the official Martha Alvarado Leonardo Villeda, son of the president ousted in a coup in 1963. Villeda is one of the officials without a visa. When it is removed, said the United States are allies of Chavez who are out of love for a mess of pottage, ie, 30 per cent of their oil comes from Venezuela.

Now everyone happy smile and laughter will also Wednesday for members of the body that does nothing for democracy.

That day arriving here, said in a statement useless body, the secretary general of the OAS foreign ministers of Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico and Panama, the Ministers of State for Foreign Affairs of Canada and Jamaica, the deputy of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala and Dominican Republic, and the OAS Permanent Representatives of Argentina and Brazil.

Is it enough that heavy battery? In the resistance is no doubt: The dialogue may abort. The coup leaders have spent playing cat and mouse and burst is not impossible that the visit of foreign ministers, said the deputy Marvin Ponce, the Democratic Unification Party.

That, more or less, shows the guest of honor Micheletti, when he says that after talking with friends Hondurans it becomes clear that a return of Zelaya to power would threaten U.S. security and risk the future of freedom and democracy in Honduras and the region.

The error of expatriate Zelaya

In its day, Micheletti announces a reckoning. Last week, in an interview with the Brazilian magazine Veja, said to be expatriate Zelaya was a mistake. Today returns to the issue at a news conference: definitely a decision taken by some sectors and will be punished in accordance with law.

The military must be shaking.

From the first days after the coup, the military acknowledged having committed an error, as said Micheletti, but a crime.

In an interview with the digital newspaper El Salvador El Faro, Colonel Bayard Herberth Inestroza, legal adviser to the joint command of armed forces, took quite all that the Honduran military committed a crime by deport President Zelaya, because the arrest warrant against the forced submission to the judicial authorities.

If we had left here, right now we were burying a lot of people, justified.

In the same interview, Bayardo said the decision was taken by the military command, comprising: Romeo Vasquez, head of the Joint Chiefs, Miguel Angel Garcia Padgett, commander of the army (who, according to a government source Zelaya attended the University Army of Mexico), Rear Admiral John Paul Rodriguez of the Navy, and Luis Javier Suazo Prince of the Air Force.

Perhaps things have changed, but after the coup Bayard explained that he had no fear of law in the military: What happens is that the crime at the time they are aware of the circumstances under which he is going to be a eximiente justification and we will protect.

Such eximiente, however, there would be Zelaya returned to power. He said in early July that Col. Bayard that happen I ask and go down the country, because we are going to seek like to politicians who have been involved in this.

A danger to Honduras

Repealed decree canceling the freedoms of expression and assembly, and left virtually no rights to detainees, the resistance force hopes to return to the streets.

Not be easy. They achieved their objective: leave us without the media and scare people, says feminist Gilda Rivera, who for days, with several other women, makes fence around the military, dressed in black, with a flag and some posters. Today evicted before noon, just with the threat: We give them 15 minutes.

On Tuesday, the resistance has scheduled another rally outside the U.S. embassy, and a candlelight evening stroll through one of the main avenues.

Since no state of siege, the de facto government looks for other ways to beat the resistance. It is the duty of teachers, one of the pillars of the battle against the coup.

For more than two months, the government tightened with a harsh media campaign against teachers' unions who joined the resistance (which previously has been mobilized by union demands).

The tone was summarized in the analyst Jorge Illescas official television:What do many teachers is an outrage, a crime against humanity.

The continuous strikes have threatened teachers' the school and discusses ways to recover lost time.

What is the government's solution? After school month premature and automatically promote all students to the next grade.

Classes should end usually between late November and early December.

The Ministry of Education reports that November and December will be on vacation and that the school will end on October 17.

The teacher Lissette Miranda takes the call from this newspaper in its night school classroom: We have just been informed. Yes, it is to demobilize, and to get us out of schools. You see, they say we're a threat to Honduras and for children.