The Guaymuras Dialogue, Honduras, and the armor-plated elections “The scapegoat syndrome”

The Guaymuras Dialogue, Honduras, and the armor-plated elections

 “The scapegoat syndrome”

 

Juan Almendares

 

To penetrate Honduras in the political abyss, it’s essential to analyze the Guaymuras Dialogue, Tegucigalpa/San Jose Accord for national reconciliation and strengthening of democracy, signed on the 30th of October, 2009 by representatives of the de facto Government and of the legitimate President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

 

The analysis requires establishing a connection between the text, the context, the history, and strategies of local and international political hegemony in the ethical and liberational conception of life.

 

These are [conceptual] keys for philosophical, political, and ethical analysis of the above-mentioned Accord: Dialogue, Lawful State, Constitution, Democracy, and National Reconciliation. 

 

The invitation to dialogue, the [sense of] impunity, and the violation of human rights have been the fundamental traits of the military coup.

 

In the name of the Lawful State, the Constitution, Democracy, and [with] the invocation of God for the religious hierarchies, the military coup absolves its [own] sins and continues exempt from punishment under the rule of law and the proposal of National Reconciliation.

 

The lawful state is characterized by the supremacy of the law over the human being. The ethical, gender, ethnic, and social class values are detached [from the individual in the application of the law]. The dominant forces have fossilized, petrified, and sanctified the Constitution. Their watchwords are “God is Honduran!”, “God bless Honduras!”, “Long Live Honduras!”, and “Long live democracy!” They fail to point out those men or women who have been assassinated, [subjected to] femicide, tortured, and politically persecuted as a result of the military coup. 

 

Three strategies have characterized the coup: [first,] guerrilla warfare, with “free and armor-plated elections” to produce Wasting Syndrome and chronic exhaustion of the adversary until obtaining his complete defeat.   

 

The second strategy is to discredit, infiltrate, divide, and demonize the oppositional forces united in the National Resistance against the Military Coup, accusing them of being vandals, anarchists, supporters of Hugo Chavez, communists, enemies of democracy, [and] subversives to create conditions and gestate more human rights violations and promote a civil war.

 

The third strategy is the Scapegoat Syndrome, which consists of placing the responsibility for all the evils; misfortunes; violations of the law, the Constitution, [and] agreements; and bad government on one individual, namely on President Zelaya. He has been treated in a cruel and degrading manner by a Nero-like media circus; by means of calumnies, lies, accusations of violating the Constitution, [and] stigmatization; and with deprivation of his liberty under psychological torture and exposure to gases, toxic substances, and infernal noises. Not only he, but also his family and companions in the Brazilian Embassy [have been so treated.] 

 

The cruelty and infamy of the spokesmen of the de facto regime reached such a degree that they blamed the collapse of the Guaymuras Accord on Zelaya Rosales. This unequal and immoral agreement, however, is the product of military domination [both] local [and] international, and of multinational financial capital which is reflected in the installation and maintenance of military bases in Honduras, Colombia, and Panama, whose political strategy is to cause new military coups in Latin America and to threaten the peace of the continent.

 

The intention of the de facto Government is to remain in power, [and] to destroy the Resistance through infiltration, division, terror, and torture. In the face of this situation—Are armor-plated elections legitimate, transparent, and legal?—neither President Zelaya nor the Resistance have moral or legal responsibility for what may happen before, during, and after the elections. 

 

The resistance wisely based itself on the principle of non-violence. The elections are a path to a hell of injustice in Honduras in the politico-military abyss. The principal tasks of the resistance are to strengthen the unity of all forces, respecting the differences; to work together for the Constitutional Convention, the transformation of the essence of the Constitution of the Republic of Honduras; and to achieve democratization of the country, peace, and justice.

 

The future heralds greater obstacles if the coup regime consolidates. We need to learn the lessons of history, of the years of war, with thousands of dead and disabled, and millions of Central American refugees. The military- industrial complex and financial capital nevertheless continue promoting the business of war at the expense of the blood our peoples. 

 

It is estimated [that] in Honduras  [there are] 16,000 police, 14,000 members of the armed services, 60,000 private security guards, a hundred or so assassins, and an unknown quantity of informers. In the base at Palmerola, [there are] 1,500 US soldiers, whose number can be increased by thousands in the course of hours. The approximate total is 90,000 armed individuals whose leaders have training from the School of the Americas and where the performance of the US forces is invisible.

 

The mutual and fraternal love between the organizations of the resistance, the confidence in its directors and directresses, [and] the strategy of non- violence are essential to embrace the hope of the new dawn of peace, social and climactic justice, [and] respect to the human rights of our people, of all the people of Latin America, and of all human beings on the planet.