Under state of siege, a shot Lenca leader appeared in the village of
Cancalunco Zacapa, Santa Barbara. He was a coordinator of the
Resistance. "3 tall men dressed in black and with their faces covered
shot my husband Mateo Antonio Leiva Alvarez (50). I left running out of
the village" stated his wife, Basilia Alvarez, he had no enemies,
everyone loved him in the villages because he helped with projects,
concluded his wife in tears. "Authorities don't do a thing. 15 bullets were the ones found in his body" said his son Mateo Leiva.
| Freedoms are still restricted in Honduras |
| Thursday, 08 of Octubre of 2009 15:17 |
.jpg) Tegucigalpa (AFP) Civil liberties remain limited in Honduras, despite the de facto government repealed a decree three days ago that restricted denounced Thursday judicial and political activists. "The situation is very serious, has created a nebulous legal because the resolution suspending the decree has not been published in La Gaceta (Official Journal) and the Supreme Court has stopped the knowledge of many Lawsuits for defense" he told AFP human rights prosecutor Sandra Ponce. The prosecution "has already exhausted all that internally can do," said Ponce, who has not ruled out going to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to assess the situation. Under the decree, issued about two weeks ago by the de facto government, has prevented the opposition to public demonstrations and closed the only two means openly oppose the regime, the Globo radio and Channel 36 television. The de facto president, Roberto Micheletti, decided to revoke the proclamation on Monday, at the request of Congress, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the political parties expressed fear that they would be concerned the elections due on 29 November. However, restrictive measures still apply with the argument that the decree has not been published in the gazette, so remains. The presidential minister, Rafael Pineda, explained that the delay in publication of the new decree is that the press of the newspaper broke down, but made no estimate on when the problem will be solved. "Most serious of all, you will remain canceled the two media, to the detriment of the rights of expression of thought and access to information," said the prosecutor. Ponce said the decree that restricted civil liberties clearly violated the Constitution, "which excludes media catalog of rights can be suspended or restricted". The popular leader Rafael Alegria said that lifting the decree was merely "an act of appearance, to believe the Honduran people and the international community that the political situation was normalized. "In practice the rights of mobilization and expression continue to be denied to people," he said. On Thursday, police prevented hundreds of supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya marching towards the downtown hotel where negotiations are conducted in search of a solution to the country's political crisis, with the supervision of a group of foreign ministers and senior officials the Organization of American States (OAS). The protesters dispersed into small groups and soon after met again in front of the hotel, taking unsuspecting policemen guarding the site. The Resistance Front against the coup, which brings together numerous social and political organizations, organized nighttime protests in neighborhoods and settlements in the capital and other cities to escape political repression. The activists raised barricades, bang pots and blowing whistles do to express their discontent and demand the reinstatement of President Zelaya. |
DECLARATION BY MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Considering that on 28th June last, the army of Honduras organized a coup d'état, arresting and expelling the country's President Manuel Zelaya
Considering that the following day Robert Micheletti declared himself president of Honduras.
We strongly condemn the military coup d'état against the President of Honduras, Jose Manuel Zelaya, as well as his detention and forced expulsion from the country, and the establishment of a system de facto.
We add our names to those of the International Community and international organizations such as the Organization of American States in their demands for the immediate reinstatement of J.M. Zelaya as President elect of Honduras and the reestablishment of democratic and constitutional order in the country.
We declare that no recognition or acceptance should be granted to any government that tries to replace the government that was democratically elected in Honduras; we reject any attack on Honduran Rule of Law and require the respect for democratic and constitutional order and the reestablishment of press freedom and freedom to exercise opposition.
We express our solidarity with the democratic forces of Honduras that continue to peacefully resist and fight for the reestablishment of democracy and we fully support the mediation by the President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, in order to find a peaceful solution to the situation.
We approve the suspension of negotiations on the EU-Central America Association Agreement for as long as democracy has not been restored in Honduras, and we call for the suspension from the de facto government of any cooperation as well as all GSP + trade facilities.
Signatures:
1. Willy Meyer
2. Luis Yáñez-Barnuevo García
3. Raül Romeva i Rueda
4. Raimon Obiols
5. Miguel Ángel Martínez
6. Bairbre de Brún
7. Bart Staes
8. Catherine Greze
9. Yannick Jadot
10. Soren Bo Sondergaard
11. Antolín Sánchez Presedo
12. Iratxe García Pérez
13. Hélène Flautre
14. María Muñiz de Urquiza
15. Antonio Masip Hidalgo
16. Andrés Perello Rodríguez
17. Teresa Riera
18. Athanasios Pafilis
19. Georgios Toussas
20. Judith Sargentini
21. Bas Eickhout
22. Marije Cornelissen
23. Maria Badia
24. Takis Hatzigeorgiou
25. Kyriacos Triantaphyllides
26. Ilda Figueiredo
27. João Ferreira
28. Ricardo Cortés Lastra
29. Enrique Guerrero Salom
30. Gabriela Cretu
31. Miguel Portas
32. Marisa Matias
33. Rui Tavares
34. Ulrike Lunacek
35. Oriol Junqueras Vies
36. Satu Hassi
37. Sven Giegold
38. Caroline Lucas
39. Jean-Luc Mélenchon
40. Eva-Britt Svensson
41. Gianni Vattimo
42. Nikolaos Chountis
43. Britta Thomsen
44. Emilio Menéndez del Valle
45. Helmut Scholz
46. Frieda Brepoels
47. Franziska Brantner
48. Kartika Liotard
49. Gabriele Zimmer
50. Inés Ayala Sender
51. Thomas Händel
52. Sabine Wils
53. Sven Giegold
54. Jan Philipp Albrecht
55. Margrete Auken
56. Rebecca Harms
57. Sabine Loesing
58. Dennis de Jong
59. Juan Fernando López Aguilar
60. Edite Estrela
61. Carlos Coelho
62. Pascal Canfin
63. Lothar Bisky
64. Emilie Turunen
65. Izaskun Bilbao Barandica
66. Kader Arif
67. Magdalena Álvarez
68. Josefa Andrés Barea
69. Eider Gardiazabal
70. Leonidas Donskis
71. Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler
72. Ana Maria Gomes
73. Sandrine Bélier
74. Patrick Le Hyaric
75. Elisabeth Schroedter
76. Leonidas Donskis
77. Jürgen Klute
78. Ivo Vajgl
79. Jean-Paul Besset
80. Vincent Peillon
81. Luis Paulo Alves
82. Bill Newton Dunn
83. Vladimir Remek
84. Françoise Castex
85. Jean Lambert
86. José Bové
87. Isabella Lövin
88. Eva-Britt Svensson
89. Marie Christine Vergiat
90. Milan Zver
 | European Parliament must urgently condemn the coup in Honduras Erasto Reyes, trade unionist and representative of the Honduras Resistance Front returned this Wednesday to the European Parliament as part of his European solidarity visit. Reyes requested concrete support from the Parliament. In a press conference he declared that: "Parliament must denounce and vigorously condemn the coup which took place in Honduras. We ask all the members of the European Parliament to help us to restore democratic power and to secure President Zelaya's unconditional return as the only legitimate President of Honduras. This is why we ask that the European Union refrain from sending observers to the elections envisaged in November and that, like the UN and the OAS, it declares the current electoral process illegitimate ". In his speech, GUE/NGL Spanish MEP and Vice President of the EUROLAT assembly, Willy Meyer expressed his support for the demands made by Erasto Reyes and expressed the absolute solidarity of his parliamentary group. Meyer (who went to Honduras representing the GUE/NGL just four days after the coup) stressed the fact that "no solution is acceptable if it does not guarantee the restoration of constitutional order in Honduras and therefore the return of President Zelaya. If this does not happen before the November elections, they can not be considered legitimate: they are the work of a putschist government that has suspended the fundamental rights of Hondurans. " Willy Meyer denounced the fact that a delegation of members of the European Parliament from the EPP group went recently to Honduras to meet the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti, "implying that they recognise an illegitimate government" he said. Portuguese GUE/NGL MEP João Ferreira, who went to Honduras in August and met President Zelaya, emphasised the large popular resistance against the coup and in favour of the restoration of democracy and the return of Zelaya. "This is not a coup against the Honduran people; it is a putsch against all the countries of Latin America where social progress is in motion". French GUE/NGL MEP Jean-Luc Mélenchon underlined the efforts and initiatives of his parliamentary group which demonstrated that all the members of the European Parliament are not on the putchists side, contrary to what the shameful silence of Parliament on this subject could lead one to believe. "It is inadmissible that the European Union is the major absentee in the fight against the trivialization of this coup d'Etat" he said, before denouncing "the completely unacceptable calls for restraint" by the Swedish Presidency who had scandalously dismissed both putschists and resistance supporters last July. "We have to be aware that Honduras is a kind of "rough work notebook" for the method of overthrowing governments which resist the Empire. We are seriously concerned by the return of such methods in Latin America, because we know that when they start they don't stop" he maintained, before concluding by calling on all to take part in a protest of support for Honduras to take place afterwards. | ||
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