Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Groups that led the coup intend to privatize education

voselsoberano.com | Monday May 17, 2010 11:46

Red Morazánica de Información

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Tegucigalpa. May 17, 2010.

by Diana Canales 

The president of the Teachers Union  of Middle School Education of   Honduras (COPEMH), Jaime Rodriguez, said a pre-project for a new Education Law is being "submitted to  the National Congress (NC), to intense lobbying," which "is not political" .
 
 It is a "conspiracy of the groups that led the coup to dislodge the teachers and to privatize education," he said.

Rodriguez said the draft law was submitted to the National Congress by a deputy whom he called "fake signature", without specifying the name of the parliamentary. (Marcia Facussé, niece of businessman Miguel Facussé, was the Vice President of Congress at the time the coup took place and she was the one who presented a fake signature of President Manuel Zelaya in a "resignation letter". Of course, no one needs to depose a president if he resigned in the first place, but coup apologists always find convenient to omit the fact that Zelaya never quit his position).

 He assured that the proposed law is a "copy of the Chilean model" of education, that the regime of Porfirio Lobo would  impose this project in Honduras.

"The media  maintain a fierce campaign against the teachers," and some of them  such as "the Education Channel belonging to  Rodrigo Arevalo Wong, sells hatred in their polls," criticized the president of COPEMH.

He added that "teachers do not have money to pay their claims," Rodrigo Wong, owner and director of that Educational Channel.

Marcia Villeda, MP for the Liberal Party has been brought suspected of forging the signature of president Manuel Zelaya in an alleged resignation letter by him, which was read in the National Congress and used as an argument for a "presidential substitution" when  Zelaya was taken out of the country by the military, ousted by a coup.

Mobilizing "urgent"

Rodriguez called on all teachers to move "urgently" from the departments of Francisco Morazan, El Paraiso, Comayagua, La Paz and Olancho to concentrate in front of the National Pedagogical University Francisco Morazan (UPNFM) next Tuesday, May 18 2010, at eight o'clock in the morning. From where they will walk to the National Congress.

 The departments of Choluteca and Valle should focus on the port city of San Lorenzo.
 The western region, Copán, Ocotepeque, Intibucá and Lempira, Santa Rosa, was called upon by  Rodriguez.
 
 In San Pedro Sula, teachers from Santa Barbara, Cortes and Atlantida will meet.

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