Ousted Zelaya 'returns to Honduras'

[mosfeld]

Ousted Zelaya 'returns to Honduras'

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Zelaya had tried unsuccessfully on two previous occasions to return after being deposed [AFP]
The ousted president of Honduras says he has returned to his home country, nearly three months after he was forced from power and into exile by a military-backed coup.

"I am here in Tegucigalpa [the Honduran capital]. I am here for the restoration of democracy, to call for dialogue," Manuel Zelaya told Honduras' Canal 36 television network on Monday.

Monica Villamizar, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Washington DC, said she had been told that Zelaya was in Honduras.

"I spoke to the Honduran ambassador here at the OAS [Organistaion of American States] here [in the US] and he [said] that it is true - they had not told the press," she said.

"Zelaya apparently went into the country by land, and they wanted this to be completely in secret, in the middle of the night.

"There is a crowd gathering outside of the United Nations building in Tegucigalpa and they're waiting to see him. But we haven't had confirmation that anyone has actually seen him there."

Scores of Zelaya supporters celebrated outside the UN office in the Honduran capital after hearing of the deposed leader's apparent return.

Arrest warning

Ian Kelly, a spokesman for the US state department, said that Zelaya was in Honduras, although he said that US officials did not know his precise location.

A spokeswoman for the Honduran embassy in Nicaragua, where Zelaya had been exiled, said that Zelaya was in Tegucigalpa.
"He is in Honduras and calling the resistance to gather in front of the United Nations and protect the constitutional president of Honduras," Elizabeth Sierra said.

But Ana Elsy Mendoza, a spokeswoman at the United Nations' offices in Tegucigalpa, told The Associated Press that Zelaya was not inside the building.

"I have no idea where that story came from," she said.

Roberto Micheletti, the president of the military-backed interim government, also said that Zelaya is not in the Honduran capital.

Zelaya's apparent return to Honduras comes despite warnings by the country's military-backed interim government that he would be arrested if he came home.

"If it is true that Zelaya is in the United Nations building, arresting him there would be a lot harder [as] he would be getting the protection of the United Nations," Villamizar said.

Zelaya was forced from power by the military on June 28, the same day that he planned to hold a non-binding referendum on changes to the constitution.

Coup condemned


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The country's supreme court and congress opposed the public vote, saying that Zelaya was trying to win support to allow presidents to serve more than a single term.

People celebrated in Tegucigalpa after hearing of Zelaya's apparent return home [AFP]
Zelaya has denied the claims, saying that the constitutional changes he sought were aimed at improving the lives of the poor.

The coup was condemned by the US government, the European Union and governments across Latin America.

The deposed president had tried on two separate occasions to return to his home country.

On his first attempt on July 5, his aircraft was prevented from landing at Tegucigalpa, while a second effort to re-enter the country by land on July 25 was prevented by Honduran security forces.

The article can be found here (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/09/200992117615148343.html).

[L.J.Solidarity]

Perhaps the coup regime is going to fall now. Or else there's likely going to be more bloodshed as it turns into an unabashed military dicatorship. Kind of a "Socialism or barbarism" situation, but with a bourgeois democracy under a populist president and likely social reforms in the near future in place of socialism.

[ckaihatsu]

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield


Live Blog: President Zelaya Has Returned to Honduras


Posted by Al Giordano - September 21, 2009 at 11:58 am

By Al Giordano

The first to break the news in English was the Honduran Campesino blog:

Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is in Tegucigalpa…

The United Nations is protecting Mel…

TeleSur confirms the report, as does Reuters:

"I am here in Tegucigalpa. I am here for the restoration of democracy, to call for dialogue." he told Honduras' Canal 36 television network.

As occurred during the first hours of the June 28 coup d'etat, the Internet signals of Channel 36 and Radio Globo are blocked, as is cell phone service in the capital (I've yet to confirm that there is any Internet or cell phone access in Tegucigalpa at all right now - it all appears to be jammed - but we do have reporter Belén Fernández reporting right this moment from that city and the information blockade will be broken soon enough.) We can take that extreme of censorship as additional confirmation that the President has indeed returned and the illegitimate coup regime is panicking.

Developing... We'll update here as we're able to report and confirm more...

Update: 12:08 p.m. Tegucigalpa (2:08 p.m. ET): TeleSur confirms that the President is in Tegucigalpa but adds that it cannot confirm reports that he is in the United Nations building there. It anticipates a press conference from Zelaya this afternoon...

12:24 p.m. Tegucigalpa (2:24 p.m. ET): One of our correspondents just got an email message from Tegucigalpa which reports that not all cell phone service is blocked.

12:28 p.m.: Via TeleSur: The Spaniard news agency EFE reports that the President is in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.

12:29 p.m.: The US State Department confirms that Zelaya is in Honduras (via AP).

12:39 p.m.: The web page of the coup regime's "president" leads with a loud denial: "Micheletti denies the presence of 'Mel' in the country." Meanwhile AFP reports that the Brazilian government has confirmed Zelaya's presence in its Embassy in Tegucigalpa, according to TeleSur.

12:47 p.m.: TeleSur is showing images of uniformed National Police members, with billy clubs, shields, helmets and guns, surrounding the zone near the Brazilian Embassy, apparently to close access to the area, blocking anti-coup demonstrators from entering or leaving. The network is also broadcasting live images, from Channel 36, of two helicopters circling over the Embassy.

12:51 p.m.: TeleSur reporter Adriana Sívori is now inside the Brazilian Embassy and confirms President Zelaya's physical presence there.

1:57 p.m.: We now have phone contact with Narco News correspondent Belén Fernández, who in Tegucigalpa this morning walked into the Radio Globo headquarters just as the news broke that Zelaya had returned. She's going to have one hell of a story for us later today.

2:04 p.m.: Connecting the dots... The return of Zelaya has all the markings of a very well coordinated operation by the Honduran civil resistance and the member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS). The choice of Brazil's embassy - the Latin American country with the largest Air Force - pretty much guarantees that the coup regime can't possibly think it can violate the sovereignty of that space. That the US State Department confirmed, this morning, that Zelaya is in Honduras while the coup regime denied it strongly suggests it had advance knowledge that this would happen today (if not active participation).

This is a textbook example of what we've referred to before as "dilemma actions." It puts the coup regime on the horns of a dilemma, in which it has no good options. It can leave Zelaya to put together his government again from the Brazilian embassy with the active support of so many sectors of Honduran civil society, or it can try to arrest the President, provoking a nonviolent insurrection from the people of the kind that has toppled many a regime throughout history. Minute by minute, hour by hour, and, soon, day by day, the coup regime is losing its grip. At some point it will have to choose either to unleash a terrible violent wave of state terrorism upon the country's own people - which will provoke all out insurrection in response (guaranteed by Article 3 of the Honduran Constitution) - or Micheletti and his Simian Council can start packing their bags and seeking asylum someplace like Panama. Meanwhile, the people are coming down from the hills to meet their elected president. This, kind readers, is immediate history.

2:24 p.m.: Some other consequences of today's breaking development: President Zelaya today erases any of the talk or speculation that he did not have the courage to put himself at risk in this struggle, which will also have an emboldening effect on every single individual among the hundreds of thousands in the civil resistance. The effect is causing all to think: If he's willing to risk all, then so am I.

This move also makes a laughing stock out of Micheletti and his security forces. Remember our reports about how airfields throughout the country were blocked by buses and other vehicles, so paranoid was the regime about Zelaya's potential return? That Zelaya slipped through the security net demonstrates that the coup regime does not have the control it claims to have. Micheletti - the usurper dictator - has also helped elevate his status as a national buffoon with his early claims today that Zelaya hadn't really returned. He accused the media that reported his return of lying and of "media terrorism." Well, now the same pro-coup newspapers that reported his tantrum have this photo, taken today, of President Zelaya and his cabinet members inside the Brazilian Embassy:

There you have it. Countdown to complete mental breakdown by Micheletti and his dwindling core of supporters (and, yes, that includes a grouplet of US expats that have been blogging constant disinformation from Honduras - their self-delusion and dishonesty to all is now crashing on the rocks of reality, too).

2:56 p.m.: Ivan Marovic - who as a young man played a major role in strategizing the civil resistance that toppled the Serbian dictator Milosevic, and who spent a few days in Honduras this summer at the invitation of the civil resistance - and I just had a chat online about our observations of what is happening and how it changes everything in Honduras.

With his permission, I'll share with you an excerpt:

[L.J.Solidarity]

The coup regime has ordered an all-day curfew for today. As Al Giordano put it, "It's as if there's a general strike without it even being called for". The junta apparently has two choices now: Either they negotiate themselves out of power, chances are that Zelaya is enough of an idiot and/or traitor to accept being re-installed as president in return for giving up the constitutional referendum plan; or they use violence to enforce the curfew and effectively start a civil war.

[Comrade B]

The coup government will not be able maintain power unless they become brutally violent, which could easily happen, they are military run.
I do not see them giving up power too easily though.

[ckaihatsu]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/22-7

Published on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 by Reuters


Honduras Police Break Up Pro-Zelaya Protest


by Gustavo Palencia

TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran troops and police clashed on Tuesday with hundreds of supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya outside Brazil's embassy where he took refuge after slipping back into the country in a bid to return to power.

[Supporters of ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya run amidst tear gas fired by police, near the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 22, 2009. Honduran police dispersed hundreds of supporters on Tuesday outside the Brazilian embassy where ousted President Manuel Zelaya took refuge after sneaking back into the country in a bid to return to power. (REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas)]Supporters of ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya run amidst tear gas fired by police, near the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa September 22, 2009. Honduran police dispersed hundreds of supporters on Tuesday outside the Brazilian embassy where ousted President Manuel Zelaya took refuge after sneaking back into the country in a bid to return to power. (REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas)
Police fired tear gas at the demonstrators, who threw rocks back at security forces. A Reuters photographer said at least two gas canisters landed inside the embassy compound.

Soldiers patrolled streets around the embassy and enforced an all-day curfew called by Honduras' de facto government to dampen the protests in support of the leftist Zelaya, who was toppled in a June 28 coup.

Zelaya ended almost three months of exile by sneaking back into Honduras on Monday. He sought refuge at the Brazilian embassy to avoid being arrested, and accused security forces on Tuesday of preparing an attack.

"The embassy is surrounded by police and the military ... I foresee bigger acts of aggression and violence, that they could be capable of even invading the Brazilian embassy," Zelaya said in an interview with Venezuelan broadcaster Telesur.

The military and police kept a strong presence outside the embassy and a police spokesman said all the protesters had been dispersed. Tegucigalpa's main hospital treated 20 people injured in the scuffle, some with broken legs and arms and head wounds but none in serious condition.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his government would guarantee Zelaya's right to seek refuge in the embassy, ignoring off the de facto government's demands that Brazil either give Zelaya asylum and take him out of the country or hand him over for arrest.

Honduras' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti took power after Zelaya was toppled and forced into exile on June 28. Despite economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. government and the European Union, Micheletti has repeatedly refused to back down and insisted Zelaya would be arrested if he returned to Honduras.

Micheletti's government appeared to be winning the battle of wills and was betting that the international pressure would ease after a new president is elected in November and takes power in January.

But Zelaya's surprise return has put new pressure on his rivals with the threat of street protests.

"I'm calling on all the population to come to Tegucigalpa because we are in the final offensive for the restitution of the presidency," Zelaya told a local radio station late on Monday.

CALLS FOR NEGOTIATIONS

The United States, the European Union and the Organization of American States have called for negotiations and a return to democratic rule in the Central American country.

With Zelaya mobilizing his supporters and the de facto government imposing a curfew, the EU also told all sides on Tuesday to "refrain from any action that might increase tension and violence".

"I insist that the courts are waiting so he can present himself there and pay for the crimes he committed," Micheletti said on Monday night.

Jose Miguel Insulza, head of the Organization of American States, canceled a planned visit to Honduras because airports were shut, and urged both sides to negotiate a settlement.

Soldiers toppled Zelaya at gunpoint and sent him into exile in his pajamas after the Supreme Court ordered his arrest, saying he had broken the law by pushing for constitutional reforms that critics say were an attempt to change presidential term limits and extend his rule.

He denied the allegations and says he had no intention of staying in power beyond the end of his term. Zelaya had upset Honduras' business groups, opposition leaders and a large chunk of his own party by developing a close alliance with Venezuela's socialist president, Hugo Chavez.

(Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed in New York; Writing by Alistair Bell; Editing by Kieran Murray and Jackie Frank)
© 2009 Reuters

[ckaihatsu]

[labor_action] Chochi Sosa Stadium, now a detention center in HONDURAS

Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:36 PM


Urgent News from Honduras
September 22, 11:30 a.m. local time, Honduras

"The Chochi Sosa Stadium has been turned into a massive detention center"

By Sandra Fuentes, correspondent in Honduras
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

There are charges from many parts of the country that people are being moved to the Chochi Sosa Stadium, calls from the coast and the towns of the interior, that people manage to make before being moved, mentioning their names and that they have been beaten badly.

The press speaks of dozens of deaths in the streets of Tegucigalpa, since hooded men are "hunting" people in the avenues and the vicinity of the Embassy with firearms. They also charge that the injured are being removed from the hospitals. The Chochi Sosa Stadium has been converted into a massive detention center, where, it is now believed, there are at least 100 people.

Dozens of calls repudiating the repression are being made to the pro-coup newscasts. The listeners hold Micheletti responsible for any act that could leave victims and wounded among the demonstrators. The Congress adjourned because the curfew does not permit them to arrive at the Congress at 10 a.m., as they had planned. Micheletti keeps the same statement as yesterday, the alleged obligation that Zelaya has to present himself to the tribunals and the call to the people to remain in their houses.

The Embassy is surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, and every so often they continue shooting smoke bombs and teargas canisters through the windows. Internet and radio broadcasts have been cut off in Tegucigalpa, and now the pro-coup media are the ones everyone is listening to, but the most recent broadcast was saying that from one house the entrance walls of the Embassy of Brazil have been broken down, but they have not entered. Zelaya is confined in a room together with his family and other diplomats in the rear of the Embassy.

The curfew, they insist, will last until 6 p.m.

[L.J.Solidarity]

Apparently a demonstrator was killed (http://voselsoberano.com/v1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=686:asesinan-a-manifestante-en-colonia-victor-f-ardon-de-tegucigalpa&catid=1:noticias-generales) by the army in the capital today. The junta had their supreme court write up an order to illegally invade the Brazilian embassy, but they don't dare to actually do it because there's an important UN summit tomorrow and Brazil declared it would consider an attack on it's embassy an act of war, also calling for an emergency session of the UN security council.
On a brighter note, it seems that inhabitants of two Tegucigalpa barrios are defying the curfew en masse, they have erected barricades and don't let the police or army in.

[KurtFF8]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8269620.stm

[L.J.Solidarity]

The de facto government, through its violence and denial of constitutional and human rights, has managed what Zelaya alone had not fully succeeded in doing: uniting the entire country in the struggle for freedom. Today, they resistance underwent an important shift: it went local. The following Tegucigalpa neighborhoods are defying the curfew and protesting against the coup d'etat:
Arturo Quesada
Barrio Morazán
Centroamérica Oeste
Cerro Grande
Ciudad Lempira
Colonia 21 de Febrero
Colonia 21 de Octubre
El Bosque
El Chile
Flor del Campo
Hato de Enmedio
Kennedy
La Fraternidad
Pantanal
Pedregal
Picachito
Reparto
Residencial Girasoles
Residencial Honduras
San José de la Vega
Sinaí
Víctor F. Ardón
Villa Olímpica
Villanueva
In some places people have repelled the police, while in others the terrain is in dispute. The police are using live ammunition. Barricades are everywhere. This list was current at 7pm local time in Tegucigalpa.

Sounds almost like a revolutionary situation to me, in case it's true. Unfortunately you hardly get any information about what's really going on in Honduras outside the Brazilian embassy.

[cyu]

"The Chochi Sosa Stadium has been turned into a massive detention center"

By Sandra Fuentes, correspondent in Honduras
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Thanks. Is this available on the internet anywhere else or is it a revleft exclusive?

[fredbergen]

Mobilize the Workers To Crush the Coup Plotters!
Urgent: Protest Bloody Repression in Honduras!
On September 21, President Manuel Zelaya Rosales returned to Honduras, 86 days after he was ousted in a civilian-military coup. Hundreds of opponents of the coup rushed to the Brazilian embassy where Zelaya is staying. Beginning at 4 a.m. this morning, the notorious Cobra riot police brutally attacked the unarmed demonstrators with tear gas, injuring many and reportedly killing two. Opponents of the coup have issued an “urgent international appeal for solidarity and to DEMAND that the repression cease immediately.” The League for the Fourth International urges immediate mobilization in solidarity with the Honduran working people resisting the coup and to denounce U.S. support for the dictatorship. For a general strike and workers self-defense against the repression! Urgent: Protest Bloody Repression in Honduras! (http://www.internationalist.org/protestrepressionhonduras0909.html) (22 September 2009)

Sweep Away the Coup Plotters, Generals and Capitalists!
Fight for a Workers and Peasants Government!
Honduras: The First Coup of the Obama Administration
The ouster of President Manuel Zelaya by Honduran generals at the end of June sent shudders through Latin America. We warned the day after the military takeover that those fighting against it should beware of U.S. intervention (rather than appeal for it). Whether Republicans or Democrats are in power, U.S. imperialism is still the power behind the most reactionary forces in the hemisphere. The U.S. government as a whole, not just one putative faction, was preparing the ouster of Zelaya. For the past month, Honduran trade unions, peasant and indigenous groups have been insistently mobilizing in the streets against the civilian-military dictatorship. A real general strike that shut down the maquiladoras, banana and mining sectors, cutting off Honduran exports would have a considerable impact. But that represents a whole different political orientation, organizing on a program of internationalist class struggle rather than on the bourgeois-democratic and nationalist basis that has dominated so far. The important participation of the unions in the resistance should be used not to restore conditions to what they were on June 27, but to fight against all the capitalist politicians and their system that has condemned three-quarters of the Honduran population to a life of misery. Honduras: The First Coup of the Obama Administration (http://www.internationalist.org/hondurasobamacoup.html) (6 August 2009)

Mobilize the Workers To Defeat the Putsch!
Honduras: Coup d’État in the Maquiladora Republic
Yankee Imperialism, Hands Off!
For a Federation of Workers Republics of Central America!
In the early morning of Sunday, June 28, some 200 soldiers of the Honduran army kidnapped the president of the republic, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, at gunpoint and expelled him from the country. This first coup of the presidency of Barack Obama awakened fears of a return to the “years of blood,” when Honduras served as a launching pad for Nicaraguan contras and Salvadoran death squads which sowed terror throughout Central America. The overthrow was opposed by virtually every international governmental organization, the U.S. secretary of stated claimed she condemned it, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez vowed to overthrow the usurpers, but the military mutineers are still in power. Revolutionary Marxists stress that to defeat the coup we can only count on mobilizing the working people, in Honduras as well as throughout Central America, in Mexico and the rest of the continent. Honduras: Coup d’État in the Maquiladora Republic (http://www.internationalist.org/hondurascoup0906.html) (29 June 2009)

[cyu]

Excerpts from http://www.marxist.com/honduras-regime-repression-insurrection.htm

Taking advantage of the fact that many of the protestors had already gone home, just before 6am hundreds of heavily armed agents of the anti-riot police and the army, with armoured cars, tear gas and live ammunition, attacked the 5,000 people who still remained outside the [Brazilian] embassy.

More than 200 people were arrested and taken to the Chochi Sosa stadium, in scenes reminiscent of those of the National Stadium in Chile after Pinochet's coup. There are reports of 80 people taken to hospital and two dead, though these have not been confirmed and in the midst of the repression, the media blockade and the curfew it is difficult to get any reliable information.

there were mass demonstrations and barricades in all of the working class neighbourhoods of the capital and similar protests were repeated in the main cities throughout the country. There are also reports of demonstrations and protests in the smaller rural communities. The list of places where people resisted repression, defied the curfew and in some cases chased away the police and the army is long.

The National Resistance Front reported demonstrations in the following working class areas of the capital: Colonia La Canada, 21 de febrero, Nueva Era, Victor F. Ardon, El Reparto, Centro America Oeste, Villa Olimpica, Colonia El Pedregal, El Hatillo, Cerro Grande, Barrio Guadalupe, Barrio El Bosque, Colonia Bella Vista, Barrio El Chile, El Picachito, La Cantera, Colonia Japon, El Mirador, La Finca, Alto del Bosque and Barrio Buenos Aires. In many of these areas barricades have been set up to prevent the army and police from entering. According to a report by Radio Globo, in San Francisco the people looted and occupied the police station.

The situation is repeated throughout the country, with reports of demonstrations and clashes with the police and the army in Guadalupe carney, Tocoa, Colon, Trujillo, Tela, Triunfo de la Cruz, San Juan Tela, Cortez, San Pedro Sula, Progreso, Choloma, Santa Bárbara, Copan, Lempira, Intibuca, La Esperanza, La Paz, Marcala, Comayagua, Siguatepeque, El Zamorano, Paraiso, Comayaguela, Choluteca, Zacate Grande amongst others.

This widespread resistance is taking place despite the almost complete media blockade which exists in the country with all of the media ignoring the protest demonstrations with the exception of Radio Globo and Canal 36.

the unity of the regime will depend on how frightened they are by the movement of the masses. Important sections of the ruling class are already considering the possibility of attempting a deal with Zelaya in order to prevent the complete overthrow of the coup regime.

The revolutionary crisis has already caused multi-million losses to their businesses and some might start to wonder how much longer they can resist. Above all, they are afraid that if Micheletti maintains a stubborn position, an uprising of the people will sweep all of them to one side.

The structures of the Resistance Front in the neighbourhoods and localities have proven their ability to maintain the mobilisation and in some cases to repel the forces of repression from their neighbourhoods.

The army has taken over the National Energy Enterprise (ENEE) and has cut off electricity and water supply to many areas. The trade union workers of this company together with the Resistance committees in the neighbourhoods must ensure the reestablishment of supply.

An appeal should be made to the ranks of the army on the lines of the one that Zelaya has made in the last couple of days: "do not fire on the people, turn your weapons against your officers". The ordinary soldiers in the Honduran army are also sons of working class and poor people. Their relatives and friends must conduct a systematic propaganda campaign and convince the ordinary soldiers that their fate lies with the people, not with the oligarchy. However, at the end of the day, what will break the army and bring down the regime will be the realisation that the workers, the peasants and the poor are the real masters of the situation

Pictures and video at http://www.marxist.com/honduras-regime-repression-insurrection.htm

[L.J.Solidarity]

Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YartPc2UBjI&feature=player_embedded#t=152) a video from a barrio defying the curfew that was attacked by the police.

[ckaihatsu]

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The imperialists and their stooges are absolutely capable of anything
- -- right here, as well as anywhere else on the Planet. So Mel Zel has
every right to consider this very possible contingency... However, it
would be a supremely stoopid political move too: assassinating people
only "works" when there's little media fallout over it, and/or the
targeted people can't fight back in kind. But this is manifestly NOT
the case here.

However if the brasilian embassy IS stormed -- Lula had BETTER have a
VERY tough response to it... Unfortunately, Lula is not really to be
trusted too far. He's no socialist, but a calculating bourgeois
(i.e. social-democrat) politico.


- -- grok.



ZELAYA DENOUNCED PLANS TO ASSASSINATE HIM TONIGHT:
<http://www.radioguantanamo.cu/englishwebsite/Noticias/Articulos/the%20world/zelaya_denounced_plans0103234.html>








- --
The Financiers & Banksters have looted untold trillions of our future earnings.
Their bureaucratic police & military goons are here to make us all pay for it.
Forever.
Well FORGET THAT. Let's get it *ALL* back from them -- and more.

**Socialist revolution NOW!!**

Build the North America-wide General Strike.
TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas.
TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes.
ALL power to the councils and communes.

And beware the 'bait & switch' fraud: "Social Justice" is NOT *Socialism*...
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http://www.radioguantanamo.cu/englishwebsite/Noticias/Articulos/the%20world/zelaya_denounced_plans0103234.html

Zelaya *denounced plans to assassinate him tonight 

Guantánamo, Sep 23, (CMKS) .- The constitutional president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya denounced the de facto government’s plans to storm this evening the Brazilian embassy, *kill him and later says that he committed suicide.

The statesman, who unexpectedly returned to the country nearly three months after being deposed by a military coup, assured that he had strong indications of preparations for committing the assassination.

He said that the area of the Brazilian embassy is wholly militarized and to complete the siege, the police raided the homes adjoining the building.

He said also that in the embassy there’s a forensic judge, who would have the mission of certifying the version of Zelaya’s suicide.

“If I die tonight, it will be a vile murder. I declare that José Manuel Zelaya Rosales is not a suicidal, I’m not intended to die that way,” he said.

I prefer to resist rather than live in exile, he added, commenting on his return to Tegucigalpa, from where he was taken by soldiers to Costa Rica, after being kidnapped in the early morning on June 28.

Zelaya said that he is in the Brazilian embassy with his family, his cabinet members and others who decided to accompany him.

The de facto government said that it has no intention of raiding the embassy of the South American nation to detain Zelaya. 

Source: PL

Translation: Liubis Balart Martínez

[ckaihatsu]

[labor_action] Urgent news from HONDURAS: No more repression! No negotiations!


[From http://www.ft-ci.org]

Urgent news from HONDURAS: No more repression! No negotiations!

(September 22, 2009, 20:00 hours Honduras time; 22:30 hours, Caracas time)
By Sandra Fuentes, correspondent

The US State Department is appealing to the parties to halt all confrontations, in order to emphasize the call for a dialogue, urging both parties to sign the San José agreement, and respect for the Brazilian Embassy and for the Vienna Convention is being requested.

However, people here are saying that during the night the attack will be strengthened with gas, to force everyone to leave from there, just as they have done all day.

Several times, five UN vehicles have entered the Embassy of Brazil, carrying provisions and taking out part of the 400 people that were there.

The local branch of the Comité de Familiares de Detenidos y Desaparecidos de Honduras has sheltered dozens of demonstrators, and the military police have shot gas, in order to force people to leave from there.

Shots can be heard intermittently around where I am taking refuge, since there are intense confrontations in the neighborhoods nearby, and it is said in the media that there is an enormous shortage of food in many cities of the country. There is a warning about looting of the supermarkets, and they are calling on the government to lift the curfew.

The main pro-coup district attorneys are meeting right now in the Supreme Court of Justice, discussing an emerging plan, in view of the situation.

If the extension of the curfew is announced tomorrow at 6 a.m., it would mark 48 hours of large-scale repression and confrontations.


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[labor_action] Hundreds of wounded because of repression in HONDURAS


Urgent news from HONDURAS 21:30 hours [Tuesday, September 22]

By Sandra Fuentes / Tegucigalpa

The statements from Hospital Escuela, that they announced on television, describe a thousand people coming in, with bullet wounds and many of them with burns from cigarettes, because of the torture they were subjected to while being detained. Doctors also charge that most of the victims are young people.

Right now, Zelaya is denouncing the possibility that the soldiers might indeed enter the embassy during the night, then he says that they did not stop the attacks and the smoke bombs against the installations for the whole day, in spite of the declarations made by the coup plotters' government that it would respect the headquarters. In view of the call to a dialogue, he [Zelaya] suggests that it is the solution to the current crisis and calls on Micheletti to sit down to negotiate.

Meanwhile, barricades are still up in many neighborhoods of Tegucigalpa, and there are some settlements of the country where not even the army was able to enter. The vanguard has faced confrontation for more than 24 hours , and severe repression is expected tonight, which is why there are urgent calls to curb the attacks, in anticipation of what could happen tonight in Honduras. In some settlements, they are calling on the people to arm themselves against the army and set up barricades against the armored cars.

The alternative media are calling for curbing the attacks and lifting the curfew, if they do not want to face a civil war.

Nineteen deaths have so far been confirmed, and Zelaya is holding Micheletti responsible for that.

[cyu]

Looks like there's a lot of news at http://www.tvpts.tv/enhondurasnopasaran/?m=200909 but it's not English...

[cyu]

Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YartPc2UBjI&feature=player_embedded#t=152) a video from a barrio defying the curfew that was attacked by the police.


Here's a translation from http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/9nr61/can_someone_translate_the_video_hondurans_defying/

This is the text on the screen:

The neighborhoods of Tegucigalpa defy the curfew and protest peacefully after the arrival of President Zelaya.

Then the militarized police forces of the Micheletti dictatorship arrive the repress them, without regard to the presence of children and elderly in the houses.

The main street of the Hato de Enmendio neighborhood in Tegucigalpa after the violent ousting in front of the Brazilian embassy.

Besides Hato de Enmedio, El Pedregal and the Kennedy neighborhood, many other neighborhoods are rebelling against the Micheletti dictatorship.
I'll do the audio next...

Here is an attempt to translate the audio. Keep in mind that slang is hard to translate, so bear with it. Also, the chants sound better in Spanish :P.

People chanting in opening shot:

The people united will never be defeated!

The people with teeth are present here!

Are we afraid? No!

Then? Forward! Forward! That the struggle is constant.

Right, left, [I]golpistas go to shit! Down, up, golpistas go to hell!
Conversation between man and pig:

Man: Are you willing to thrown tear gas bombs near the houses? Those houses are very small and there are children there.

Pig: Indeed. That's why we are trying to control this situation in a peaceful way, but they...ummm....

Man: But you'd be willing to throw tear gas bombs in...

Pig: When it is necessary, yes.

Man: But you haven't thrown bombs yet, or have you?

Pig: Yes, we threw some.
Next conversation between same man and what appear to be inhabitants of this neighborhood:

Man: Did they throw bombs?

Inhabitant 1: Yes, from here to Chinatown [Not sure about this one...very difficult to make out]

Inhabitant 2: Yes, more cops came and started to toss bombs.

Man: What do all you think of all this?

Inhabitant 2: Those of us in the neighborhood are not getting involved in other things. We are protesting in favor of Zelaya. We are here in our neighborhood, we are not harming anybody.

Man: Were there any children affected?

Inhabitant 2: Oh yeah, there were many...

Inhabitant 3 (woman with coke bottle): Yes, they threw them [the bombs, I guess] at the children in the houses. They were throwing them at the children. And there [pointing at child] they didn't allow me to take one child to the doctor. I am a member of a rescue corps.
More chanting:

Long live the popular resistance! [I]Viva!
Man holding tear gas bomb:

These are the types of bombs that the police uses to suppress us. The US sends them to the Peruvian police, and the Peruvian police send them to Honduras. How is that? What explanation can they give us?
Man with red and black cap and a mustache:

Micheletti should leave power and free the people. Look, we don't have any place to buy anything. We don't have any money to buy things. There is nothing to eat! Then, why is Micheletti...
Interrupted by another man (with black cap on backwards):

The people cannot be suppressed; not with bombs nor with anything. And we are going to defend our country, no matter what the cost is. With our own lives and in any way we will defend our country because all this is ours. And nobody, not [even] these cops that have suppressed us for so long, are going to come and offend us. [At this point, people yell "Long live the popular (and another word I can't make out) resistance!"]
It ends with:

Right, left, golpistas go to shit! Down, up, golpistas go to hell!

[ckaihatsu]

[labor_action] HONDURAS--Despite repression, the resistance fights on (Pt.1 of 2)

[From http://www.ft-ci.org] La Verdad Obrera Nº 344 / International
Thursday, September 24, 2009
REPORT FROM TEGUCIGALPA: DESPITE THE BRUTAL REPRESSION AND THE CURFEW, THE HONDURAN RESISTANCE, READY TO FIGHT

By Sandra Fuentes, correspondent in Honduras

In view of the arrival of deposed President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, the coup plotters' government is toughening up its repressive policy throughout the country, the curfew has been in force since September 21, there are two illegal detention centers installed, with hundreds of detainees, there are permanent cuts in lights and telephones, the alternative media have been sabotaged, anti-coup channels and radio stations, like Cholusat y Radio Globo, are off the air, and Radio Progreso is maintained via internet, broadcasting in a clandestine manner.

On September 21, after Zelaya's presence in the UN headquarters was announced, hundreds of thousands of people in the whole country began to arrive at the place to confirm the news. In a few hours, the demonstration, surrounded with joy, had tens of thousands of demonstrators, who were chanting singing songs and chanting slogans against the coup plotters and in repudiation of the army, which was guarding the protest.

When it was announced that Zelaya was in the Embassy of Brazil, the multitude moved to there, some streets from the local headquarters of the UN, with the willingness to support him, and at the same time they began to organize security cordons independently, with hundreds of people, who made the army retreat and took control of the Embassy and three streets around it; meanwhile, big caravans from the interior of the country began their route towards the capital.

During the first day, a few confrontations took place at the Embassy, and it seemed that the coup plotters' regime was discussing what to do, until the curfew from 4 P.M. was suddenly announced, at the beginning of which the massive repression began. In a few hours, police cordons were installed to inspect documents, and the population was given time to get home, in the middle of a traffic jam that did not end until midnight. Military patrols were set up on the highways and entrances to the capital, and buses and caravans of the Resistance, that were trying to get to the Embassy of Brazil were stopped.

The Resistance, of thousands of people, kept control of the Embassy, even with the curfew, during the entire day and night of September 21; tents were put up and bonfires were set, people sang and chanted slogans, until the forced removal began at 5 A.M. the following day.

During the entire first day, the leadership of the Frente Nacional de Resistencia had as its only policy that of calling the people to the Embassy to defend Zelaya's arrival, and, with that, exerting pressure on the coup plotters to reinstate the presidency. Likewise, organizations like the Unión Democrática, that keeps its independent candidacies from within the Frente, saw Zelaya's arrival as the open possibility of arriving at elections without a coup d'état, since, during the entire conflict, they were unwilling to propose boycotting the elections, expecting that at the last minute Zelaya would return and elections could be held. This policy put an enormous brake on the self-defense actions of the Resistance against the curfew in the zone, to try to keep control of the Embassy, as well as in the whole country. Then, in view of the open possibility that the coup plotters' regime could fall, with the mobilization and organized action of the movement of the masses, the policy "of negotiation and non-violence" is being kept as a solution, a policy that "disarms" the Resistance that is heroically confronting the army with its hands and stones. Let us recall that the appeals for negotiation and dialogue, like the Arias Plan and the negotiations backed by the United States, have only allowed the coup plotters to gain time to strengthen their regime.

Scarcely 5 minutes after the brutal repression at the Embassy, that left tens of people unconscious in the street in the early morning, Manuel Zelaya was calling on Roberto Micheletti to sit down to negotiate.

The heroic defense of the population and the Resistance against repression and the curfew

A 4 a.m. on September 22 a brutal eviction of the demonstration that had spent the night at the Embassy of Brazil took place there. The enormous contingent of more than 30,000 people resisted for almost two hours, while police and soldiers were attacking them with gas canisters that made the people faint, with lead and rubber bullets and armored cars with paint, with the aim of taking control of the diplomatic headquarters. Dozens of people remained unconscious on the floor, and the soldiers were walking on them.

From that moment, an appalling number of gas bombs were shot through the windows of the Embassy to force Zelaya to leave it, houses nearby having been seized and control of the zone kept by specialized police and soldiers. Zelaya had to interrupt an interview to take refuge in the back part and breathe through a window. From the headquarters are heard cries to the population for help to repel the army, but at the same time, a half-hour after the violent repression, Zelaya continued calling for dialogue with the coup plotters. At press time for this article, a hundred people, who resisted until the end at the entrance of the Embassy, are inside, using their bodies to protect the officials and Zelaya.

The wave of charges by Internet and Radio Progreso, that is broadcasting in a clandestine manner, where they report the people injured and arrested, and those who have disappeared, does not end. It has been charged that at least ten people are dead, one of them the leader of the Sindicato de Trabajadores del Instituto Nacional Agrario.

In spite of the continuation of the curfew, thousands of people from all parts of the country have gone out into the streets, in an open rebellion against that measure, and in view of the call by the Resistance to continue being ready to struggle. Intense confrontations have taken place during the nights, with the construction of barricades in many neighborhoods. Two secret detention centers have been opened, where there are hundreds of detainees, many of them taken from their houses and from the hospitals; the detention centers are at the Chochi Sosa baseball stadium and the soccer stadium. Neither lawyers nor food contributions are permitted inside these centers. Among those arrested are children and pregnant women. Hooded men with firearms are "hunting" people in the avenues and in the area surrounding the Embassy. At least 1,000 people with bullet wounds have shown up at the Hospital Escuela, many of them with cigarette burns.

Homes in many neighborhoods have been raided, in the center and on the outskirts, mainly teachers' neighborhoods, the most popular neighborhoods, and in those where the people of the Resistance are being sheltered, those who left fleeing the Embassy of Brazil. The soldiers enter directly to get the people or fill the houses with smoke to force them to come out. The local branch of the Comité de Familiares de Desaparecidos de Honduras, COFADEH, was also entered, since this place kept its doors open, offering shelter to the people. When the soldiers entered, the radio was destroyed and dozens of people were arrested, among them, the "Grandmother of the Resistance," a woman more than eighty years old, who is a symbolic figure of the Honduran Resistance for having been at the front of all the marches for 88 days, who was released today.

[To be continued]

[ckaihatsu]

[labor_action] HONDURAS--Despite repression, the Resistance fights on (Pt. 2 of 2)

[From http://www.ft-ci.org] La Verdad Obrera Nº 344 / International
Thursday, September 24, 2009
REPORT FROM TEGUCIGALPA: DESPITE THE BRUTAL REPRESSION AND THE CURFEW, THE HONDURAN RESISTANCE, READY TO FIGHT
By Sandra Fuentes, correspondent in Honduras
[Part 2 of 2]

The self-organization of the Resistance shows us the way to stamp out the coup plotters

While the escalation of repression has been striking, so was the response of the movement of the masses. Barricades are being maintained at different points in the city, and yesterday the repudiation of the curfew in the pro-coup media themselves was impressive; they were inundated with thousands of messages rejecting the curfew. Groups of the population, after staying home without food, looted commercial centers by night and confronted the army with sticks and stones.

The willingness of the movement of the masses to defend themselves, the radicalization of the vanguard, the barricades, the challenges to the curfew, the continuation of the teachers' strike for almost 3 months, and the national spread of the Resistance, in spite of the repression, are the elements that raise the possibility that the Honduran workers and people are thinking about the fall of the coup plotters by developing their own methods of struggle, through an insurrectionary general strike to end the regime. And the fact is that the way of negotiation sought by Arias and the OAS, as well as the calls to put up with an electoral solution, have only allowed the coup plotters to establish themselves and to become stronger with sectors of the national bourgeoisie. In spite of this policy, the movement of the masses, after days of mobilization and resistance, has decided to stay in the streets.

On September 23, Micheletti's government had to lift the curfew from 10 A.M. until 5 P.M., to avoid a continuation of the looting and to make the situation slightly less tense. At the same time, the Resistance called a demonstration that started from the Universidad de Pedagogía with some 10,000 people at 10 A.M., and it was fiercely repressed. The route of the march passed through several neighborhoods that are bastions of the Resistance and near the Embassy of Brazil, to build morale and call for not giving up; many people welcomed the demonstrators with yells and slogans, until they were repressed, while passing through the center of Tegucigalpa and some streets from the Embassy of Brazil. The bulk of the demonstrators ran to move away from the army, while hundreds of youths endured with sticks and stones, trying to repel the smoke bombs and gunshots. Many demonstrators regrouped in the Parque Central and truckloads of special police arrived, who arrested them, Neither the fate nor the number of people arrested is known at this moment.

The armed forces issued a communique stating that the army will use weapons and extreme force if necessary. In view of that, it is necessary that the Resistance centralize the actions that it is now carrying out. The defensive actions should be coordinated, planned and extended throughout the country to curb the repression, with the least possible number of fatalities. Repression by the coup plotters demands the urgent formation of self-defense committees, with the perspective of organizing workers', campesinos' and popular militias, strengthening the committees that have been formed in almost all the neighborhoods. Some neighborhoods have already given the example of how, with organization, the repressive forces can be confronted and the army can be prevented from entering the popular districts. The de facto government headed by Micheletti is very weakened and worn down, in spite of the fact that it continues to rest on the armed forces and is backed by the bulk of the local bourgeoisie and the imperialist multinationals. For its part, the OAS, headed by Insulza, following US policy, together with the UN Security Council, will try to mediate in the crisis, to prevent the revolutionary fall of the coup plotters' regime. Zelaya himself, who said he was open to dialogue and the "peaceful" solution, is already inclined to this. For the Resistance, the urgent task of the moment is organizing self-defense against the repression and an insurrectionary general strike, to divide the army and destroy the pillars of the coup plotters' regime. The Honduran workers, campesinos, young people and popular groups are the only ones who can defeat the coup plotters and impose a provisional government of the workers' and popular organizations that have been struggling against the coup, to convoke a Revolutionary Constituent Assembly, where the big problems of the Honduran working and popular masses would be discussed, like imperialist domination and the land problem and that it would be a step forward to fight for a workers', campesinos' and popular government, based on the masses' organizations of self-determination.

In these decisive hours, the broadest mobilization throughout Latin America, in solidarity with the Honduran people and for the defeat of the coup plotters, is needed more than ever!

[ckaihatsu]

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3460/honduran-coup-regime-mocks-un-security-council-embassy-attacks


Honduran Coup Regime Mocks UN Security Council with Embassy Attacks


Posted by Al Giordano - September 25, 2009 at 3:23 pm

By Al Giordano

After today’s emergency session of the United Nations Security Council in New York, US Ambassador Susan Rice emerged to read a warning to the Honduras coup regime:

"We condemn acts of intimidation against the Brazilian embassy and call upon the de facto government of Honduras to cease harassing the Brazilian embassy.”

The wording is unequivocal. After investigating the claims (and the de facto regime’s denials) of constant technological and chemical attacks on the diplomatic seat in Tegucigalpa, and illegal impediment of ingress and egress to and from the embassy, where legitimate President Manuel Zelaya and at least 85 aides, supporters and some members of the news media are sheltered, the UN Security Council has concluded that said harassment i s real and it is ongoing.

If the coup regime believed that its use of chemical and sonic devices would render its attacks less visible, it has already lost that gamble.

Article 31 of The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 is titled “Inviolability of the consular premises,” and states:

“Consular premises shall be inviolable to the extent provided in this article… The authorities of the receiving State shall not enter that part of the consular premises which is used exclusively for the purpose of the work of the consular post except with the consent of the head of the consular post or of his designee or of the head of the diplomatic mission of the sending State… the receiving State is under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the consular premises against any intrusion or damage and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the consular post or impairment of its dignity… The consular premises, their furnishings, the property of the consular post and its means of transport shall be immune from any form of requisition for purposes of national defence or public utility.”

Article 33 states: “The consular archives and documents shall be inviolable at all times and wherever they may be.”

Article 34, titled “Freedom of movement,” states: “the receiving State shall ensure freedom of movement and travel in its territory to all members of the consular post."

Article 35, titled “Freedom of communication,” states:

“The receiving State shall permit and protect freedom of communication on the part of the consular post for all official purposes. In communicating with the Government, the diplomatic missions and other consular posts, wherever situated, of the sending State, the consular post may employ all appropriate means, including diplomatic or consular couriers, diplomatic or consular bags and messages in code or cipher… The official correspondence of the consular post shall be inviolable. Official correspondence means all correspondence relating to the consular post and its functions… The consular bag shall be neither opened nor detained.”

In light of those international laws, the device you see in the photograph up top, deployed by Honduran coup regime security forces at the gates of the Brazilian Embassy, offers a smoking gun of proof that the regime is violating the Vienna Convention.

Narco News and its team of technical engineers and counter-surveillance consultants has identified the apparatus as the LRAD-X Remote Long Range Acoustic Device, manufactured by the American Technologies Corporation.

The instrument is an offensive weapon, used on US Navy warships and by other nations, which can emit sounds that, “Through the use of powerful voice commands and deterrent tones, large safety zones can be created while determining the intent and influencing the behavior of an intruder.”

The LRAD-X machine can shoot sounds of up to 151 decibels. According to the US National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders sounds less loud than those it produces can cause Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL): “Sources of noise that can cause NIHL include motorcycles, firecrackers, and small firearms, all emitting sounds from 120 to 150 decibels. Long or repeated exposure to sounds at or above 85 decibels can cause hearing loss. The louder the sound, the shorter the time period before NIHL can occur.”

The front of the device looks like this:

And this is the back of the device:

In other words, the LRAD-X is the source of the high-pitched and pain-inducing sounds that have been fired both at those inside the Brazilian Embassy and turned around when anti-coup demonstrators have tried to come close to it. As such, it interferes with the Vienna protected inviolability of the Embassy and its free communications.

Under international law, this violation already serves as sufficient justification for intervention by UN Peacekeeping Forces of the multinational kind that the country of Brazil has led in Haiti.

But that’s not all: Narco News has received the following photos of a C-guard LP Cellular telephone jamming device designed for low power indoor use. The black out range can be set to cover an area of 5 to 80 meters. The device was found inside the premises of the Brazilian embassy yesterday. Here it is, front:

And back:

(On Monday a large multitude of people, including journalists, including some from pro-coup news agencies, were able to enter the Brazilian Embassy to welcome or interview President Zelaya. It is possible that the cell phone jamming device was placed inside the premises then.)

Sold by Netline under the product category of "Counter Terror Electronic Warfare," the device, the company boasts, "C-Guard LP cellphone jammers block all required cellular network standards simultaneously: GSM, CDMA, TDMA, UMTS (3G), Nextel, 2.4 GHz and more."

The deployment of a cell phone jamming device is in direct violation of the Vienna Convention articles above protecting the inviolability of embassy and consular communications. What’s more, sources inside the embassy that are in constant direct contact with Narco News testify that prior to locating and removing the device, cell phones of the President, his aides and others in the building were impeded by much interference.

Additionally, around noon today, President Zelaya called a press conference inside the embassy, during which a medical doctor testified that two of the people staying inside the embassy displayed symptoms of bleeding from the nose or the stomach, and that a larger number of them displayed symptoms of nausea, throat and sinus irritation and related problems that can be caused by neuro-toxic gases used in chemical warfare that are also prohibited by international treaties.

Zelaya said, calmly and deliberatively, that upon awaking at 7:30 a.m., he had felt an unfamiliar irritation, “first in the mouth, next in the throat, and later a small pain in the stomach. I drank water and milk. And I came out to find others feeling sick. Since then we’ve been trying to figure out where it is coming from.”

Understanding the dramatic nature of this kind of warfare and its capacity to generate panic, fear and anger, Zelaya urged members of the anti-coup civil resistance, “Please, do not attack the police. Maintain yourselves at a respectable distance. Don’t come near enough to be beaten. Protest your grievances peacefully.”

Displaying the cell phone jamming device, President Zelaya said, “This apparatus is installed to interfere and practically act against all telephones inside the Embassy. We practically have a sonic intervention that could also be affecting the health and nerves of people inside."

“They have also aimed frequencies of high intensity against the Embassy. This is also to affect our psychological state. Other machines are installed in the neighboring houses, where the owners have been kicked out and the military has occupied them.”

Hortensia “Pichu” Zelaya, also inside the embassy, sent out this photograph, below, taken earlier today of a device, partly covered by a green plastic bag, that security forces erected from one of the neighboring properties in clear view and air stream of the Brazilian embassy. “As soon as we discovered it,” she wrote, “they immediately took it down.”

Father Andrés Tamayo, also inside the embassy, told reporters at the press conference that he witnessed that device first hand. It is not yet known what exactly it is, or why it was accompanied by a plastic bag, or whether some kind of substance or chemical agent or gas was inside the bag and aimed at the Brazilian embassy.

These evidences and the eye-witness testimonies, including that of the doctor and the priest, demonstrate convincingly that while the Honduran coup regime issues emphatic denials of such attacks on the sovereign embassy of Brazil, it is clearly engaging in them nonetheless. The UN Security Council should not need any high tech apparatus of its own to be able to see and hear what is really going on at ground level, and respond accordingly to the coup regime's mockery of it.

Update 5:08 p.m. Tegucigalpa (7:08 p.m. ET): The coup regime held a "cadena nacional" (mandatory broadcast on all radio, TV and cable channels) this afternoon to deny having engaged in any chemical warfare and to say it would allow the international Red Cross and Dr. Andres Pavon, a human rights leader, into the embassy to check the health of those inside. A group of doctors, including Pavon, just emerged from the examinations and reported the following:

That the symptoms were definitely caused by some kind of "contaminant." Upon review of the photos of the unidentified device in the final photograph above, Pavon concludes that it is a humidifier and that the plastic bag contained some kind of liquid to put where water usually goes, and that it was the likely cause of the contamination of the embassy. It was not concluded whether the contaminant weapon was chemical or biological.

The doctors also confirmed, for Radio Globo, that UN officials had entered the Embassy with them to participate in the investigation.

The coup regime has just called a military curfew for most of the country's population from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. tonight.

5:32 p.m.: We've just confirmed independently from a source inside the building that UN officials have entered the Brazilian embassy.

[ckaihatsu]

[21stcenturysocialism] HONDURAS COUP GOONS NORIEGA ZELAYA


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A main reason why liberals, pacifists and the liberal-Left are unfit
to lead any socialist movement is because they appear congenitally
incapable of grasping the basic truth: that the fascistic Right WILL
do whatever thay can to win. Anything and everything -- tempered only
by the possible fallout and blowback. And the democratically-minded
intransigence of the masses. You would think that the 'intelligent'
people of the liberal-Left would understand that this easily-grasped
fact thus more-or-less completely obviates the possibility of
fundamental change thru reformist parliamentary evolution of bourgeois
institutions.

So, there comes a point where you simply have to DEAL with these
fascistic scum. Whatever the outcome.

I do not and do not ever intend to 'write my representative'[sic].
That is a job for liberals -- as part of a multi-pronged revolutionary
approach, in which liberals are very much the unreliable junior
partners. Rather, we should be helping Latin America instead *by
monkey-wrenching the machinery of Empire right here where we live*.

But remember: behind the democratic facade of a system in which we are
in fact being 'gamed' like endless suckers -- these people really are
a gang of fascist killers. Let us 'do' them first, shall we..?


- -- grok.





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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:17:48 -0500
Subject: [21stcenturysocialism] HONDURAS COUP GOONS NORIEGA ZELAYA
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Tom Baker here and the goon coup
is gassing the Brazilian embassy.


From: ANA DAGLIO <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:39:08 -0300
Subject: [Lasolidarity] Reenviar: Day 90,
CoupResistance - Toxic Gases Being Sprayed At Brazilian Embassy in
Honduras
To: [email protected]
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English and Spanish versions

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De: Rights Action
Fecha: 25/09/2009 15:18:19
Para: [email protected]
Asunto: Day 90, CoupResistance - Toxic Gases Being Sprayed At Brazilian
Embassy in Honduras

REPORTED USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO TRY AND FORCE PRESIDENT ZELAYA AND 85
SUPPORTERS OUT OF THE BRAZILIAN EMBASSY
(September 25, 2009, Day 90 of coup resistance, Alert#73)
As reported at 10:30am today (September 25, 2009) on Honduran radio “Radio
Globo†, by the Honduran First Lady, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, wife of
President Zelaya, it is strongly suspected that the illegal
military-oligarchic regime, headed by Roberto Micheletti and General Ramon
Vasquez Velasquez, is intentionally spraying chemical compounds and toxic
gases at and around the Brazilian embassy, resulting in serious illness to
87 people inside the embassy.
This appears to be an illegal use of illegal weapons against unarmed
civilians,
Constituting a direct armed attack against the territory of Brazil.
Below, a translation of report sent by Luz Ernestina Garcia, that summarizes
what Honduran First Lady, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya reported on Radio Globo.
* * *
CHEMICAL TERRORISM, DENOUNCES THE FIRST LADY
Courageously, First Lady Xiomara de Zelaya went on the roof of the Brazilian
embassy to look at machines soldiers were using at 10:30am, from neighboring
houses, to spray toxic gases at the embassy.
Masked agents of the DGIC (Department of Criminal Investigations) were
holding the apparatuses that were spraying toxic gases at the Brazilian
embassy, as well as holding regular weapons.
Confronted with shouts by the First Lady – “assassins, assassins†-, the
DGIC agents disconnected the apparatuses.
EVERYONE IN THE EMBASSY BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS:
Dizziness
Nausea
Headaches
Bleeding noses
Dry, irritated throats
Tachycardia (excessively fast heart-beat)
Skin irritations all over body
People spitting and defacating blood
85 people are accompanying the President and First Lady. All say they will
not leave the embassy, they will not leave the President and First Lady
alone.
The First Lady attempted 3 times to call Radio Globo – her calls were cut
off each time.
People believe it is some sort of acid that is being sprayed, to pressure
everyone to leave the embassy.
Today, no food has entered the embassy. Yesterday, the daughter and mother
of President Zelaya arrived with food at 3:00pm; they did not let the food
enter until 10:00pm.
There is desperation inside the embassy. There are rumours that trucks full
of earth have been seen leaving the area; people suspect the regime might be
trying to tunnel in.
* * * ESPANOL * * *
TERRORISMO QUIMICO: DENUNCIA LA PRIMERA DAMA
La Primera Dama Xiomara de Zelaya con valentia subio al muro de la embajada
de Brazil para ver las maquinas que tienen los militares desde las casas
vecinas lanzando gases toxicos, en este momento (10:30a.m) lanzan humo hacia
la embajada, agentes de la DGIC enmascarados, con aparatos y armas apuntando
Ante los gritos de la Primera Dama diciendoles asesinos, asesinos proceden
a desconectarlo.
TODOS EN LA EMBAJADA PRESENTAN LOS SIGUIENTES SINTOMAS:
mareos
nauseas
dolor de cabeza
sangrado de nariz
resequedad en la garganta
taquicardia
dolores de estomago
sangrado de nariz
picazon en el cuerpo
Personas escupiendo y defecando sangre.
85 personas acompanan al Presidente y La Primera Dama, dicen que no van a
salir de alli, que no dejaran solo al Presidente.
3 intentos de llamadas a Radio Globo con esta denuncia de la Primera Dama y
cortan la llamada.
Con este quimico presionan para que salgan todos de la Embajada, dicen que
es un acido para
A esta hora aun no han dejado ingresar la comida. Ayer la hija y la Mama del
Prsidente llegaron a ls 3:00p.m con la comida y la dejaron entrar hasta las
10;30 de la noche.
Hay desesperacion dentro de la Embajada, tambien denuncian que salen carros
cargados de tierra de la zona por lo que se sospecha, estan abriendo un
tunel.
Luz Ernestina Garcia
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FOR INTERVIEWS (English & Espanol) FROM INSIDE THE EMBASSY:
Andres Tomas Conteris, 011 [504] 9777-8514
FOR INTERVIEWS (English & Espanol) AND MORE INFORMATION:
Grahame Russell, Rights Action, 1-860-352-2448, [email protected], www
rightsaction.org
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AMERICANS & CANADIANS
should contact our members of congress, senators & members of parliament
every day, day after day, send copies of this information, and demand:
unconditional and public support for the return of the entire constitutional
government of President Zelaya
unequivocal denunciation of the military coup and no recognition of the
illegal oligarchic-military regime of Roberto Micheletti and General Romeo
Vasquez
unequivocal demand and pressures from international community for regime to
relinquish power
no recognition of the November 2009 elections, that candidates from the
traditional Nationalist and Liberal parties are campaigning for, even as the
country is militarized and repression is widespread
immediate suspension of all international funds and loans to the regime, and
targeted economic, military and diplomatic sanctions against the coup
plotters and perpetrators
application of international and national justice against the coup plotters
and perpetrators
reparations to the victims of harms and damages (including loss of life,
torture, rape) committed by regime
MAKE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS
to directly support Honduran organizations and people working with the
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provide a full proposal of which organizations and people we are channeling
funds to and supporting.
SPEAKING TOURS: “RESISTANCE TO MILITARY COUPS & GOLD MINING DEVASTATION IN
HONDURAS & GUATEMALAâ€Â
In October, activists with Rights Action will be on speaking tours in
Ontario, Quebec and eastern Canada, and north-east USA, showing slides and
short documentaries and speaking about the on-going pro-democracy, anti coup
movement in Honduras and about indigenous and community resistance to
Goldcorp Inc.’s open-pit, cyanide leach mines in Guatemala and Honduras.
Karen Spring ([email protected]) in Ontario
Francois Guindon ([email protected]) in Quebec and eastern Canada
Grahame Russell ([email protected]) in north-east USA
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From: ANA DAGLIO <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:16:31 -0300
Subject: Fw: HONDURAS - Pronunciamiento de la Red de Redes en Defensa de la Humanidad.-The Network of Networks in Defense of Humanity
To: NSC WORKERS COOP <[email protected]>
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English version below

Favor firmar - Please endorse.

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From: "En Defensa de la Humanidad" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 6:26 AM
Subject: Pronunciamiento de la Red de Redes en Defensa de la Humanidad.
Statement issued by The Network of Networks in Defense of
Humanity


La Red de Redes en Defensa de la Humanidad ante el agravamiento de la
situacion en Honduras convoca a apoyar el siguiente pronunciamiento
publicado en el sitio http://www.todosconhonduras.org/


EN SOLIDARIDAD CON EL PUEBLO HONDURENO Y SU LEGITIMO
PRESIDENTE.


La Red de Redes en Defensa de la Humanidad, llama al Mundo a
pronunciarse contra los actos de violencia y represion que esta viviendo
el pueblo hondureno por defender al presidente constitucional de ese
hermano pais.

Cada minuto que pasa se agrava el conflicto frente a la Embajada de Brasil
en Tegucigalpa y han desalojado con gases lacrimogenos a todos los
manifestantes. La represion al pueblo hondureno y la persecucion de sus
dirigentes esta cobrando victimas cada momento. Se teme que tropas del
ejercito invadan la sede diplomatica. Llamamos la atencion sobre las
implicaciones politicas que tienen estos hechos para toda la region.
Ninguna democracia puede funcionar bajo estado de sitio.

Ante una agresion de tal magnitud, la reaccion de los pueblos
latinoamericanos y de la comunidad internacional, debe ser inmediata y
energica.

Una vez mas convocamos a la opinion publica internacional a exigir que sean
respetados los legitimos derechos del pueblo hondureno de apoyar y
continuar junto a su legitimo Presidente Manuel Zelaya el proceso
constitucional emprendido.

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The Network of Networks in Defense of Humanity at the worsening of the
situation in Honduras calls to endorse the following statement
published on the website http://www.todosconhonduras.org/



In solidarity with the Honduran people and their legitimate
PRESIDENT.


The Network in Defense of Humanity, calls the World to
speak out against the violence and repression that our brother
Honduran people is suffering for defending their constitutional president.

Every minute the conflict outside the Embassy of Brazil
in Tegucigalpa is aggravating and tear gas have dislodged all
demonstrators. The Honduran people repression and persecution of their
leaders is taking a toll each time. There are fears that troops
invade the Brazilian embassy. We call attention to the
political implications that these facts have for the whole region.
No democracy can function under state of siege.

Faced with an assault of such magnitude, the reaction of the Latin American
peoples and of the international community should be immediate and energetic


Again we call on the international public opinion to demand respect
of the legitimate rights of the people of Honduras to support and
continue with his legitimate President Manuel Zelaya the constitutional
process undertaken.








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The Financiers & Banksters have looted untold trillions of our future earnings.
Their bureaucratic police & military goons are here to make us all pay for it.
Forever.
Well FORGET THAT. Let's get it *ALL* back from them -- and more.

**Socialist revolution NOW!!**

Build the North America-wide General Strike.
TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas.
TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes.
ALL power to the councils and communes.

And beware the 'bait & switch' fraud: "Social Justice" is NOT *Socialism*...
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http://wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/pers-s26.shtml


Revolt and “dialogue” in Honduras


26 September 2009

With this week’s return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras, pressure is mounting on the coup regime headed by fellow Liberal Party leader Roberto Micheletti to bring an end to the country’s three-month-old crisis.

The Organization of American States and the European Union have announced that their ambassadors are returning to Tegucigalpa along with some foreign ministers to promote a settlement, former US President Jimmy Carter called the coup leader to urge him to negotiate, the International Monetary Fund announced that it has “paused” its relations with the country, and Standard & Poor’s has downgraded its credit rating.

The aim of this pressure campaign was spelled out most bluntly in a Washington Post editorial Thursday entitled “Honduras Gets Messier.”

The editorial denounced Zelaya for seeking “to foment … populist revolution” from the confines of the Brazilian Embassy, where he has been given refuge.

“Such behavior ought to deter any responsible member of the Organization of American States—starting with Brazil—from supporting anything more than a token return by Mr. Zelaya to office,” the Post’s editors insisted. “The Obama administration has backed such a restoration (as have we) so as to void Mr. Zelaya’s illegal removal from the country by the army in June and thus uphold the larger principle of respect for democratic order in the region.”

The editorial continued: “Now the United States ought to make clear that any further attempt by Mr. Zelaya or his supporters to cause public disorder or violence will mean the reversal of the US position—leaving him as a permanent ward of those in the Brazilian government who cooperated with his caper.”

This is the authentic voice of Yankee imperialism, dripping with contempt for the lands to its south and seething with anger at any sign of popular revolt against the conditions of oppression and poverty to which hundreds of millions are condemned. Restoring order is the sole concern of the Post and the US ruling establishment for which it speaks. It fears a continuation of the crisis will make Honduras ungovernable and raise the specter of a genuine revolution.

The charge that Zelaya is fomenting revolution is a false one. The upheavals that have erupted in Honduras following his clandestine return on Monday have been provoked by the coup regime and its security forces in their attempt to enforce a series of curfews that effectively condemned a population of 7 million to house arrest.

Workers and youth in the poorer suburbs of Tegucigalpa as well as in other parts of the country defied the curfews, spontaneously erecting street barricades and battling soldiers and police. In a country where people are compelled by poverty to buy food on a daily basis, those who have left their homes in search of something to eat have faced the prospect of beatings and worse.

Whatever Zelaya’s populist rhetoric, he has not led a revolt, nor does he share the social and class interests of those who have taken to the streets. He has not sought the popular overthrow of the dictatorship, but rather has relied on pressure from Washington, in the first instance, and that of the OAS, Brazil and others to put him back in office.

Zelaya returned to Honduras appealing for “dialogue” with those who overthrew him and with the ruling oligarchy of which he himself is a product.

He has accepted as the basis of this discussion the so-called San José accord drafted by former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, Washington’s hand-picked mediator. This proposal calls for the formation of a government of “national unity” between Zelaya and the coup leaders, the renunciation of any proposal to amend the country’s reactionary constitution, and a blanket amnesty for the political and military leaders who have unleashed a wave of killings, disappearances, torture, beatings and arbitrary detentions in the 90 days since Zelaya was bundled onto an airplane and forced out of the country.

The Obama administration’s aim in promoting this plan is to solidify the goals of the coup while maintaining the appearance of a commitment to “democracy.” Washington’s halfhearted criticisms of Zelaya’s ouster are belied by the failure to this day of the US State Department to formally declare it a coup. Meanwhile, the US military base at Palmerola, Honduras continues operations as normal, and Washington has taken no steps to impose trade sanctions.

The Arias plan would relegate Zelaya to the status of a figurehead for the little more than three months remaining before a successor takes office. His acceptance of this miserable accord appeared to bear fruit on Thursday, as first a representative of the Catholic Church hierarchy, which enthusiastically supported the coup, and then the four candidates for president in the elections scheduled for November 29 came to the embassy to greet him.

As the Spanish daily El Pais put it, “The images of shootings and beatings were replaced by those of smiles and embraces.” For many of the Honduran workers and youth on the receiving end of the shootings and beatings, the image of the smiling Zelaya embracing the four candidates —all supporters of the coup—in an election that masses of people have vowed to boycott provoked disgust.

Whatever Zelaya’s intentions, or for that matter those of his visitors, a peaceful resolution of the crisis on the terms proposed by Washington, Arias and the OAS is far from assured. On Friday—just hours after the UN Security Council condemned the harassment of the Brazilian embassy by Honduran security forces—it was reported that troops laying siege to the embassy had fired gas grenades into the compound, causing those holed up there together with Zelaya to bleed from the nose and vomit blood.

Zelaya’s life is clearly in danger, and the prospect that the killing and repression of the past 90 days will be massively expanded is a real one. This is, after all, a regime that rests upon a military trained by Washington in the use of death squads and brutality to defend the interests of the US multinationals and the local oligarchy.

The events of the past three months have exposed the bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalist politics. The attacks on the basic democratic rights and social conditions of the masses of Honduran working people will continue, even if Zelaya is briefly restored to the presidential palace.

The strivings of workers, peasants and youth expressed in their sustained resistance to the June 28 coup can be fulfilled only through a revolutionary struggle, independent of all sections of the ruling elite, aimed at taking power and establishing a socialist Honduras as part of the struggle of working people throughout Central America, the entire hemisphere and internationally.

Bill Van Auken

[ckaihatsu]

[labor_action] From HONDURAS: Story about the September 23 March in Tegucigalpa

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[From http://ww.ft-ci.org]


By Sandra Fuentes, correspondent in Honduras** 


Thursday, September 24, 2009



Tegucigalpa: Yesterday, an enormous demonstration took place, called by the Resistance in Honduras; it was huge and expressed a great deal of militancy. Many of those present had been in the confrontation with the police and the army for the entire night, in their neighborhoods, since the nights are especially difficult, because of the curfew and the army's military intervention in the popular neighborhoods. There were some people with bruises on the face and arms. The population resorted to burning tires and putting up barricades during the night to prevent the army from entering, although these measures hardly succeed in stopping it.

Military actions in the neighborhoods, gas attacks on houses with the families inside, have greatly outraged the population, and many people who were not an active part of the Resistance before, have joined the defense of the neighborhoods. Thus, some people have even been seen with sticks and tubes, because it is not known at what moment the repression will start, even without the curfew.

At the same time the march was taking place, many people went out to the streets to show solidarity and buy provisions, without knowing how long they would be allowed to move about freely, since, at any moment, the curfew gets imposed again. The enormous contingent of some 10,000 participants traveled the main avenues encouraging the people and yelling for the struggle to continue. When they reached the center of Tegucigalpa, the repression began, targeting groups on the edges [of the crowd] and, despite security measures by the contingents, it was impossible to prevent the army from beginning to disperse the people.

The bulk of the contingent fled, while groups of youths slowed the advance of the armored cars and soldiers, that were already shooting bullets at people's bodies, without restraint. Many people who got out by running, began to gather in the Parque Central, and the police arrived there, to arrest everyone who was there, with the police even beating those passing by to buy provisions.

The Frente de Resistencia declared the demonstration ended, in order to organize the withdrawal safely for the people, and at that moment the repression intensified and turned into "a hunt for people," mainly youths. The exact balance is unknown; many people were arrested; also, it is already common for people to yell their names at the moment they are arrested, as in the age of dictatorships in Latin America, so that their families will know that they have been taken away. The police steal all their belongings, and they arrive at the detention centers brutally beaten and with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. During the transfer, they tell people they will be disappeared, that they are going to torture and kill them.

All night long, it is now common to hear dozens of shots and helicopters passing overhead, patrolling, looking for people to arrest. Yesterday, I managed to talk with three youths, who, fortunately, were released, after having been put in a van; they were beaten with billy-clubs and shields by groups of seven police and kicked. They threw them on top of the van and threatened to kill them; they stole their cell phones, money, papers. When they released them, they were moved to the Hospital Escuela, where there were many people wounded by firearms, who were also coming from the demonstration. They all have severe wounds and bruises, and they should be under medical observation, and one of them has four fractures in one hand and one fracture in the other, and they let him go with both hands in casts, because the hospital was packed, but he has to return for a surgery that he needs, so the police left a medical student from UNAH disabled, because he defended himself and continued to fight. Just like they are doing with all the detainees.

But it could have been worse, because just yesterday the cops entered the hospital, looking for injured young people, and they arrested them and took them away. [The three youths] are happy to get away alive, and one of them says, " … I did not want to cry out when they were beating me; I am not going to give them the satisfaction … I am continuing in the struggle because if we do not stop them now, they are going to stay in power for fifty years...." These are the youths of the Honduran Resistance.

[RedSonRising]

Forgive the Mainstream Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_honduras_coup

Honduras expels OAS workers, ultimatum for Brazil


By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer


TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduras' interim government on Sunday expelled personnel from the Organization of American States looking to set up a mediation effort and gave Brazil a 10-day ultimatum to decide what to do with ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who is holed up in the Brazilian Embassy.


OAS Special Adviser John Biehl told reporters in the capital, Tegucigalpa, that he and four other members of an advance team — including two Americans, a Canadian and a Colombian — were stopped by authorities after landing at Tegucigalpa's airport Sunday. Biehl, who is Chilean, said he was later told he could stay, but the others were put aboard flights out of the country.


"A high-ranking official told us we were expelled, that we had not notified (the interim government) that we were coming," he said.


"For reasons I completely do not know, as we were getting in a line for the flight (out), a colonel in civilian dress called my name ... and said I could decide then and there if I wanted to stay."


Biehl said he was in Honduras to set up a visit by OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel
Insulza, who he said would arrive "at the appropriate time."


Interim government Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez said the four were turned back because they had been "clearly warned" that they had to give advance notice of their visit, and didn't. He said Biehl had been allowed to stay because he had played a role in the San Jose talks mediated by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.


Interim President Roberto Micheletti has previously said the OAS was welcome to come, but suggested that representatives begin arriving Monday. Lopez said the team's arrival didn't come "at the right time ... because we are in the middle of internal conversations."


Talks between Zelaya and Micheletti's representatives have produced no results. Zelaya, who surprised the world by sneaking back into Honduras last week, called on his followers nationwide to mark Monday's three-month anniversary of the coup with a mass march in the capital to demand his reinstatement, what he called "the final offensive" against the interim government.


A spokesman for Micheletti also warned Brazilian authorities to "immediately take measures to ensure that Mr. Zelaya stops using the protection offered by the diplomatic mission to instigate violence in Honduras."


Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva immediately rejected the missive, saying his government "doesn't accept ultimatums from coup-plotters."


Micheletti didn't specify what he would do after 10 days. He has said previously that he plans to arrest Zelaya, who was deposed in a June 28 coup. Zelaya faces treason and abuse of authority charges for ignoring court orders to drop plans for a referendum on rewriting the constitution.


Lopez said Brazil has 10 days to "turn Zelaya over to the judicial authorities of Honduras" or decide some other arrangement for him. The government has said it has no plans to raid the Embassy and that Zelaya could leave if Brazil offers him political asylum. Flores also said that, because Brazil has broken off diplomatic relations with the interim government, it would have to remove the Brazilian flag and shield from the Embassy "and it (the building) becomes a private office."


Brazil — like the rest of the international community — recognizes Zelaya as Honduras' legitimate president, and says it wants to protect him.


But the Brazilian government said previously that Zelaya's arrival took Embassy officials by surprise, and Silva asked Zelaya "to take care to give no pretext to the coup leaders to engage in violence."


On Tuesday, the day after Zelaya's return, baton-wielding soldiers used tear gas and water cannons to chase away thousands of his supporters outside the Embassy.
Since then, the diplomatic mission has been surrounded by police and soldiers. Zelaya and about 65 supporters inside accused authorities of temporarily cutting off water and electricity early in the week, and later said the government released an unidentified gas that caused headaches, nosebleeds and nausea.


Brazilian Charge d'Affaires Francisco Catunda confirmed that Saturday: "Yes, it was released," he said in a rare interview outside the building. "One of our officials felt it, felt symptoms." Catunda added that some people had throat problems, but he did not give details.


A Honduran rights group, the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, said Saturday that independent medical personnel entered the Embassy and confirmed that some of the people inside had symptoms. But Zelaya was in good health, they said.
Zelaya accused Micheletti's government Sunday of bombarding the Embassy with "electromagnetic radiation." In a statement broadcast by Channel 36 television, Zelaya did not offer any other details, nor did he specify whether the alleged radiation had hurt anyone.


The U.N. Security Council has issued a statement that "called upon the de facto government of Honduras to cease harassing the Brazilian Embassy."
A leader of Zelaya's National Front Against the Coup said a protester died Saturday from complications due to inhaling tear gas when soldiers and police broke up Tuesday's demonstration. Fellow protesters who gathered Sunday at a memorial service for the woman, a university student, said she suffered from asthma.
Protesters say 10 people have been killed since the coup, while the government puts the toll at three.


New talks to resolve the dispute began after Zelaya reappeared in Honduras last Monday following what he described as a secret, 15-hour journey. Many nations have announced they would send diplomatic representatives back to Honduras to support negotiations.


But the Honduran government said Sunday it would not automatically accept ambassadors back from some nations that withdrew their envoys.
Countries including Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela will have to negotiate re-establishing diplomatic relations with the foreign ministry and reaccredit their diplomatic representatives, the government said.

[gorillafuck]

Weren't the coup plotters trained at the School of the Americas?

[KurtFF8]

Yes

[Red Rebel]

You mean School of Assassins? Yes.

The golpistas really only have one option left: repression. And they can only use it for so long until the people fight back harder and become more militant.

[KurtFF8]

It seems that the people are becoming more militant. But the response to this has been further repression. The Coup regime has imposed a ban on public assembly to block a mass rally to support Zelaya.

[Red Rebel]

Another shocking figure is the amount of general strikes in Honduras against the golpistas. Just glance at LabourStart (http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/show_news.pl?country=Honduras&langcode=en)

[RedSonRising]

Due to pretty much universal international discontent and internal militancy/repression, along with the return of Zelaya, the golpista government can't last more than a month or two. Especially with Lula rejecting Micheletti as president, who holds a lot of weight as to what happens considering the Brazilian embassy is safe-housing Zelaya. We'll see...the longer time goes on, the more neighboring countries and the international community will have to respond, with Venezuela being a most probable prominent actor.

[L.J.Solidarity]

According to Al Giordano, most resistance movement leaders have gone underground after being informed that they would be arrested. There doesn't seem to be a lot of visible resistance in the streets going on anymore, at least not according to available sources in English (my Spanish unfortunately isn't good enough to listen to Radio Globo). However the coup regime seems to be losing support from parts of the Honduran capitalists and political elite, as the conservative PNH's presidential candidate Pepe Lobo (who's going to win the "elections" according to opinion polls) publicly condemned the state of emergency. Apparently Micheletti declared the state of emergency would be ended later this week, Al Giordano thinks they fear the parliament wouldn't approve the state of emergency decree.

[Red Rebel]

Breaking news (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8279816.stm): the golpista government might restore civil liberties. How lovely of them.

Also L.J.Solidarity mentioned, Radio Globo, that was one of the two major dissent media outlets closed in Honduras by the government. You can still lisen to Radio Globo in Spanish online.

[dez]

Most of lulas government was literally on zelayas shoes thirty years ago (in a worse situation, actually), so one would assume they would fight tooth and nail against the same enemies (not virtually the same, but same backgrounds).

[ckaihatsu]

[labor_action] More tough measures from the coup plotters in HONDURAS


Report from HONDURAS, Sunday, September 27, 2009


Coup plotters introduce tougher measures to try to defeat the Resistance


By Sandra Fuentes, correspondent in Honduras

Monday, September 28, 2009


Tegucigalpa.- Beginning September 26, Zelaya asked the ambassadors that left the country to return, and is also making a national appeal for the Resistance to carry out a mobilization on Monday in Tegucigalpa. His intention is to give a demonstration of force to the UN delegation that will arrive in the country and the officials representing Lula's government that have been in the Embassy since yesterday. After this appeal, the coup plotters imposed a new curfew for yesterday from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., and, in a national communiqué they explained that international diplomatic representatives who are thinking of returning to the country, will first have to request the restoration of diplomatic relations with Honduras and wait for a response. Also, those who do not make or do not receive restitution of relations will have to withdraw the flags of their embassies, return the plaques on autos and the documents that guarantee their stay in the country. In addition, it gives a period of ten days to the Government of Brazil, to confirm whether Zelaya is a political refugee and if not, it demands that he be handed over to the authorities. Today the charge was made on Radio Globo that special police are waiting in the airport for the officials of Zelaya's government, that are about to arrive in the country, in order to arrest them. Meanwhile, Micheletti has not shown his face in the media for two days (a very odd thing), because of the scandal of ties with drugs, that appeared yesterday in the media.* And the National Commissioner of Sports presented his resignation, without letting his reasons be known, which forced the de facto government to cancel Central American sports events which they had scheduled to take place in Honduras, during the month of December, and in which millions of lempiras [Honduran currency] had been used for three months, in an attempt to make a nationalist circus that would strengthen the coup plotters.


In view of these signs of weakness and international isolation, the coup plotters' regime is responding with more repression and persecution of the Resistance. Yesterday, the death of a little girl who was hospitalized for an entire week, for having breathed gas thrown by the police, was confirmed. In addition, yesterday the nephew of the owner of Radio Globo was assassinated in broad daylight by armed killers on a motorcycle. Today, the Frente Nacional de Resistencia [FNR] will meet in the STIBIS [the beverage workers' union], where a wake will be held for the little girl, that could not be held last night, because of the curfew. In addition, there will be a consideration of what actions to continue, in view of the coup plotters' new statements.


It is necessary that the FNR approve a national program of struggle to curb the regime, by imposing a general strike until the regime falls. Let us shut down the financial means which allow them to become bolder, and let us show the supremacy of the Resistance, which has now withstood three months of struggle and repression. Let us form a National Committee against Repression to centralize the self-defense that has already begun to be carried out in the neighborhoods and has curbed the raids at night. Don't trust a negotiated solution, that will only make it easier for the coup plotters to leave the country without punishment or be recycled by occupying lesser posts, in order to continue in the regime. Let us struggle, with the perspective of a Revolutionary National Constituent Assembly, based on the victory of the Resistance, through overthrowing the coup plotters' government.

_________


*[From http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=88845]


Micheletti, linked to the Cali Cartel, on a list of drug traffickers from the Honduran Ministry of Defense


By Jean-Guy Allard

Rebelión [July 18, 2009]


The name of the Honduran coup-plotting kingpin, Roberto Micheletti, appears on a long list of drug traffickers drafted, on an unspecified date, by a highly-placed official of the Ministry of Defense and Public Safety of Honduras, that connects him [Micheletti] with the Cali Cartel, the Colombian drug-trafficking network ....

[ckaihatsu]

[labor_action] Micheletti tries to defeat HONDURAN Resistance by repression*

[From http://www.ft-ci.org]


Report from HONDURAS -- Saturday, September 26


Micheletti's repressive policy tries to defeat the Resistance


By Sandra Fuentes, correspondent in Honduras


Monday, September 28, 2009


Tegucigalpa: Today a mobilization of the Resistance took place, departing from the Universidad de Pedagogía, with massive attendance. The government has decided to surround the mobilizations with hundreds of armed soldiers, cops and armored cars, as well as vans and civilian autos, that announce the repression at any moment. This menacing police deployment is what the coup plotters' regime has resorted to, in an attempt to defeat the Resistance during the day by pursuing, arresting and beating activists, while at night it invades the neighborhoods, shoots at young people and gasses houses. In addition, yesterday there were charges from the Embassy of Brazil, about chemical gases that were affecting the health of the officials, the press and Zelaya, inside, although the coup plotters have denied everything. Today a big group of Brazilian journalists arrived and an official from Lula's government, sent especially to verify what the situation is inside the Embassy. On arriving, he was negotiating, together with the press, for more than five hours, so that they would let him enter, and this was not possible until the soldiers removed two streets of patrols, in an attempt to conceal the harassment that they maintain in the area. Meanwhile, the government does not cease calling the Embassy, "the premises loaned to Brazil," in an obvious disparaging remark about the diplomatic relationship and [the Embassy's] autonomy. When the Brazilian delegation got inside, as in all cases, half of the food they were trying to bring in was taken from them, as well as clothing and medicines. On this basis, Zelaya continues to call for negotiation with the coup plotters' regime, something that a big part of the Resistance does not understand; how can there be negotiation, when the militarization, the assassinations, and the illegal arrests do not decrease?


The government has a deep crisis and is looking for a way to get out as best it can, from its speedy collapse. It spares no effort in the repression that, at the last moment, might give it the support that would allow it to restore itself, with the unenthusiastic backing of the OAS, the UN, Obama and the backing it has always had from one sector of imperialism. 


The Resistance has been forceful in its demand that the coup plotters must fall and stop the repression. For that, now that the government is weakened, instead of strengthening a negotiated solution driven by the Arias Plan, which will only allow the survival of the same coup-plotting politicians in power, recycled, without a single trial for all the violations of human rights and assassinations, it is essential that a general strike be imposed, that includes all the workers of the country in the struggle to weaken the coup plotters. In addition, it is essential to strengthen the self-defense that has been organized in the neighborhoods, by forming committees by neighborhood and centralizing the resistance against the repression, and that we plan and continue the best methods, those with which soldiers have been prevented from entering the neighborhoods, and that we make lists of those arrested and those who have disappeared, in order to initiate a national campaign that they be returned, alive, and for release of all the political prisoners.