Reply #7: Hondurans Protest Government Policies

[Judi Lynn]

Saturday 29 January 2011
Hondurans Protest Government Policies

Tegucigalpa -Popular organizations staged marches and blocked streets in several Honduran departments on Thursday to condemn policies of the government of Porfirio Lobo, on occasion of his first year in power.

A march started at the Francisco Morazan Pegadogical School to demand the end of repression and the return of former constitutional president Manuel Zelaya, toppled by a coup on June 28, 2009.

Thousands of people gathered outside the Supreme Court of Justice and National Congress to demand punishment against those responsible for institutional crisis.

In San Pedro de Sula, the countryâ�Ös second largest city, farmers and other sectors grouped by the National Peopleâ�Ös Resistance Front (FNRP) blocked a bridge linking the city to El Progreso. The road to Tela was also blocked in Atlanta department.

The demonstrators repudiated the killing of farmers in Aguan Valley and the Supreme Court of Justiceâ�Ös ruling declaring unconstitutional a decree approved during the government of Zelaya authorizing peasants to farm land left idle.

More:
http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2011/january/29/centralamerica11012903.htm