At 6 last night, 11 February, four black-clad men forcibly entered the house of Porfirio Ponce, vice president of the Union of Industry Workers and Allied Beverage (STIBYS), an affiliate of the IUF, and active member of the Resistance. After having searched all the rooms they took a computer containing valuable information on the activities of the union and the National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP).
Contacted by telephone, Vice President STIBYS Sireltold that "They entered my house by breaking the shutters, window and a door, showing no fear of the neighbors who were watching and they informed me immediately.
They searched all the rooms and took only one computer that held a lot of information. By the way they acted, "continued Ponce - I do not doubt that it is a threat action perpetrated by members of the repressive forces of the state.
Although they knew we had neighbors to call the police,they left the door quietly, without haste and taking only the computer. "
STIBYS president, Carlos H. Reyes, contacted Deputy Security Armando Calidonio, to denounce this act of political persecution against activists and leaders of the Resistance.
"We denounce before the nation and the international community the fact of harassment and we will redouble security measures, without thereby abandoning the struggle," said Porfirio Ponce.
More repression
What happened to Vice President STIBYS is just one of many instances of systematic repression and human rights violation that occurred during these first weeks of the Porfirio Lobo Sosa.
On 2 February, Manuel de Jesús Murillo and Ricardo Vazquez Vazquez were kidnapped, two cameramen who worked in the Presidential House during the government ofManuel Zelaya and actively participated in the marches of the Resistance.
Two men in civilian clothes, with guns 9 mm and plates from the Ministry of Security, held people at gunpoint and took them to a house where they were interrogated and brutally tortured.
On February 3 Yaneth Vanessa Alonso Zepeda, 29 was found dead, an active militant of FNRP Workers Union and the Honduran Institute of Social Security (SITRAIHSS).
According to several witnesses, she was released already dead from a vehicle, after having disappeared a day earlier. Zepeda had reported constant threats through written messages and administrative persecution through discharge hearings on Social Security.
http://www.rel-uita.org/internacional/honduras/acto_intimidatorio_contra_stybis.htm
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