Another supporter of Zelaya killed in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Xinhua

Another supporter of Zelaya killed in Honduras
2009-08-03 09:30:48

TEGUCIGALPA, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- A 45-year-old teacher, who was a supporter of Honduras's ousted President Manuel Zelaya, was killed in mysterious circumstances, his fellow Zelaya supporters told media on Sunday.

Martin Florencia Rivera was stabbed to death near his home on Saturday, after returning from the funeral of a 38-year-old high school teacher who died two days after being shot in the head while protesting the coup that ousted Zelaya.

A 16-year-old man was arrested at a bus station near Rivera's home after the killing. But according to Juan Barahona, a leader of the Anti-Coup Resistance Front, the death of Rivera was a result of a repression bid of the authorities.

Barahona said Rivera's murder was strikingly similar to that of Pedro Magdiel, another Zelaya supporter, who was stabbed on July 25, close to the border with Nicaragua, where Zelaya had been camping out preparing for his return to the nation.

Read more: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/03/content_11816367.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. Obama and the Cunning Micheletti

Obama and the Cunning Micheletti
Monday, 3 August 2009, 3:08 pm
Opinion: Carlos Fazio
La Jornada, July 27, 2009, p.19.

The oligarchical-military coup in Honduras represents an Obama-Clinton Administration strategy which is designed to push back the advances of democratically elected governments so that its imperial power can be maintained and consolidated in some “hot zones” of the planet. Such a strategy operates from a several prong political base, combining direct military intervention (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Irak) with clandestine and destabilizing operations (Venezuela, Iran, Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador) and a two way diplomacy, that seeks to utilize the instruments and initiatives inherited by Barack Obama from the Bush Administration

The classist attack on the weakest Latin American link was undertaken to turn back the democratic government of Manuel Zelaya so that a new de facto client regime could be imposed in the empire´s back yard. The coup hopes to reinforce the conservative militarized pole of the Plan Puebla Panama/Merida Initiative, led by Mexico and Colombia. The progressive advances in Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador complicated Washington´s geopolitical plans, that sought to bring an interventionist platform in South America into line focusing upon hydrocarbons in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador and the immense Amazon and the Guarani water resources. In that sense, it was also a blow against ALBA, the Bolivian Alternative for the Americas (la Alternativa Boliviana para las Americas).

To carry out the conspiracy, the State Department and Pentagon used the Honduran military high command that has been structurally penetrated by US security and intelligence organisms. The coup´s general, Romero Vázquez, its cunning adviser Roberto Micheletti and the founder of the 1980´s squadrons of death Billy Joya Améndola, were “exemplary students” in the US School of the Americas (la Escuela de las Américas). The military coup participants acted like an occupying army in their own country. But Honduras is also occupied by the United States which controls the Soto Cano (or Palmerola) military base where the force of the Tarea Conjunta Bravo can be found, consisting of half a thousand military personnel with advanced espionage and interventionist equipment including air combat equipment such as the HU-60, the Black Hawk and the CH-47 Chinook.

That base is part of a network of Advanced Operating Posts (FOL) of the Pentagon, integrated by Comalapa in El Salvador, Guantánamo in Cuba, Arruba, Curazo and Manta, in the Ecuadorian Pacific. Similar to Ecuador´s president´s decision about the Manta base, Zelaya had told the White House of his intention to convert Soto Cano into an international commercial airport which would be financed by Alba and Petro-Caribe. In substitution for Manta, the Pentagon succeeded in convincing Álvaro Uribe to put (Colombian) military bases at its disposal in Palanquera (Cundinamarca) Apiay (Meta) and Malambo (Atlántico) which will convert Colombia into the Israel of Latin America.

The hawks in the Department of State and the Pentagon also fell back upon their old connections with the primitive Honduran oligarchy which controls Congress and the Supreme Court and they (also) counted upon the legitimization of Cardenal Oscar Rodríguez Madariaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa. What we witnessed, then, was a civic-military coup of US design, with the consensus of the fascist powers.

More:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00009.htm

[dipsydoodle]

2. I so hate that expression :

back yard.x(

[cal04]

3. Interview: Media crackdown in Honduras worsens - activist

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L3722931.htm

Dozens of Honduran journalists and human rights activists have been attacked or threatened with violence by both the military and supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a press watchdog said on Monday.

Honduras closed several pro-Zelaya radio and television stations after the army coup that toppled Zelaya in late June and ushered in an interim government led by Roberto Micheletti.

"Freedom of expression is increasingly limited and the overall conditions for journalistic work and media reporting are deteriorating and it could get worse quickly. Everyone's so tense," said Agnes Callamard, head of ARTICLE 19, a London-based media rights group, in an interview with Reuters.

"Journalists are receiving threats and being intimidated through emails and phone calls. Allegations have been made about extra-judicial killings by state security forces," she added.

Callamard, who has just returned from a fact-finding mission to the Central American country, said human rights activists were unable to investigate reported abuses in rural areas because of military road blocks and curfews since the coup.

[Judi Lynn]

4. It may very easily get far worse, since Micheletti has engaged the death squad leader, Billy Joya

as his own personal security advisor. Joya headed the infamous Batalion 316 during their bloody murderous past.

Thanks for posting this report. It doesn't sound good at all.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Serious Human and Trade Union Rights Violations following the Coup in Honduras

Serious Human and Trade Union Rights Violations following the Coup in Honduras

http://www.ituc-csi.org.nyud.net:8090/IMG/arton4136.jpg

Brussels, 31 July 2008: The ITUC has once again strongly condemned the military coup carried out in Honduras on 28 June with the abduction, overthrow and expulsion from the country of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, as it had along with its regional organisation the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA) on 8 July 2009.

The coup has been massively condemned at political and trade union level as well as by the international community, through the UN General Assembly and the Organisation of American States (OAS), which have expressed their condemnation and rejection of the military coup and have unanimously called for a return to constitutional order and respect for the rule of law through the restitution of Manuel Zelaya, the country’s legitimate president.

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Serious human rights violations have been registered since the coup. At least eight people have been killed, hundreds have been detained and injured, many others have received threats, and severe restrictions have been placed on freedom of expression, information and movement. Especially hard hit by this political persecution are trade union, social and political leaders, human rights activists, journalists and foreign nationals. The national resistance movement, including campesinos, workers, students, housewives, teachers and street vendors, has been brutally repressed by the army and national police. Some 250 people were detained by the military police in Olancho when demonstrators blocked a road to mark their opposition to the coup government and demand a return to democracy.

With no signs of a prompt return to constitutional rule, the ITUC is calling on the UN, the OAS, the European Union, governments and the international community to take every step necessary to:

Uphold their condemnation of the coup and insist more forcefully on the urgent restitution of Manuel Zelaya, the constitutional president and, hence, a return to democracy in Honduras;

Uphold the suspension of diplomatic relations with the de facto regime as well as all economic and financial aid;

Renounce all the measures, decrees and provisions implemented by the de facto government;

Ensure respect for human and trade union rights;

Support the decision of the European Union to suspend negotiations on the Association Agreement with Central America until constitutional order is restored in Honduras;

Support, in every way possible, the forthcoming international solidarity mission of the ITUC and TUCA with its three affiliated organisations in Honduras, the CUTH, CTC and CGT.

http://www.ituc-csi.org/spip.php?article4136

[L. Coyote]

6. VIDEO: Honduras: Where does Washington stand?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=348474&mesg_id=348474

[SuperTrouper]

7. Micheletti's Presidential Minister Pineda Ponce has just said that "Obama will talk to Zelaya

and force him to accept the San Jose Accord with the exception that he (Zelaya) will not return to power" Suddenly Zelaya has left the Nicaragua mountains, traveled to Mexico and now agrees to go back to the talks in Costa Rica with Arias.

[L. Coyote]

8. You mean dictator Micheletti's man Pineda Ponce

Micheletti is not a president, and Obama doesn't take orders from the leaders of banana republic death squads.