HONDURAS: Anti-Coup Resistance Movement

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Written by Juan Ramón Durán

TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 2 (IPS) - The National Resistance Front Against the Coup d'Etat (FRN) in Honduras is carrying out a nationwide consultation among its members to establish its position with respect to the expected talks between ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the de facto government, the movement's leaders said. Although face to face talks between Zelaya and de facto President Roberto Micheletti have been ruled out for now, a dialogue to come up with a solution to the political crisis will begin next week, John Biehl, an adviser to Organisation of American States (OAS) secretary general José Miguel Insulza, said Friday.

Marvín Ponce, a lawmaker of the left-wing Democratic Unification (UD) party, said the FNR is ”firmly united,” despite the diversity of social, labour and political sectors represented by the movement that began to take shape and hold protests immediately after Zelaya was removed from his house at gunpoint by the military and put on a plane to Costa Rica on Jun. 28.

”We are carrying out a consultation process to decide how and with what position we will participate, with regard to the different proposals to solve the conflict,” Ponce told IPS Thursday, under the close watch of a squad of policemen who just a few minutes earlier had violently broken up a protest by some 300 members of the FNR outside the U.S. embassy.

Demonstrations have also been held outside the Brazilian embassy since Zelaya slipped back into the country and took refuge there on Sept. 21 ...

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