The Venezuelan and Colombian Foreign Ministers are also supposed to return with ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Cort Also read Negev Security, NED, the misuse of culture within the FNRP, & more http://quotha.net/node/1793 ------------------------------------------------ http://quotha.net/node/1795 COPINH declaration & call to action upon return of Zelaya Fri, 05/27/2011 - 16:56 AP (my translation) Welcome General Coordinator of the FNRP Compañero Zelaya Rosales<http://www.albatv.org/Bienvenido-Coordinador-General-del.html> COPINH expresses our happiness to have ex-president and General Coordinator of the FNRP Manuel Zelaya Rosales back on Honduran soil; at the same time we issue the following call to action: To the Honduran people, to mobilize in order to provide a warm welcome to you, who symbolize the struggle of the Honduran people to create a participatory and human democracy. To deepen all our efforts at denouncing the criminal dictatorship led by Porfirio Lobo Sosa, peon of the oligarchy and of North American imperialism. To the entire Honduran population to NOT rest until we have dismantled the structures [and authors] of the coup, that continue to hold power enjoying complete impunity nationally and internationally, against whom we will continue to fight because we are a dignified people who are not disposed to retreat, and who with the strength of our legitimacy energetically condemns the imminent incorporation of the regime into the OAS, to whom we declare: if you think you will wipe the board clean and start over, you are mistaken; you are mistaken in your cold economic calculations, in your political pragmatism, in your urgent desire to serve imperialism in their project of rearranging the continent; you are mistaken in your hypocrisy of recognizing a murderous regime which is the inheritor of a coup d'état and which has not complied with the conditions for return imposed by the OAS itself, for which it was expelled in the first place. COPINH reaffirms its conviction to fight, alongside the nation, against impunity, and to do everything possible to ensure that there will be punishment for the authors and actors of the criminal coup, in addition to continuing with the historic struggle that we have been undertaking in our communities defending our natural resources, our sovereignty, our self-determination and the creation of a new society, refounded from below, capable of achieving decolonization, emancipation, and a dignified life. We will not forget, We will not forgive, and WE WILL NOT reconcile!! *With the ancestral force of Lempira Mota and Etempica we raise our voices full of life, justice, liberty, dignity and peace* Issued in Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras, May 27, 2011 ------------------------------ http://quotha.net/node/1794 Press Release: Ousted President Manuel Zelaya is widely reported to be returning to Honduras Saturday Fri, 05/27/2011 - 11:10 AP Ousted President Manuel Zelaya is widely reported to be returning to Honduras Saturday. DANA FRANK, mobile: (831) 469-0933, [email protected] Frank is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of "Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America," which focuses on Honduras. She said today: "President Zelaya's return offers a brief glimmer of hope, but the ongoing repression by current President Porfirio Lobo's military regime -- now even worse than immediately after the coup -- remains undiminished, as state security forces now routinely use tear gas canisters as lethal weapons, and teachers, trade unionists and campesinos in the opposition are still being assassinated with complete impunity. Lobo and Secretary of State Clinton insist that democracy has been restored to Honduras. But the reality on the ground remains terrifying, which is why over 75 Congress members are calling for a suspension of U.S. military and police aid to Honduras." Frank just wrote a piece titled "Ousted presidents return to Honduras doesnt mean repression is over." http://www.progressive.org/mpfrank052711.html ADRIENNE PINE, [in Honduras] (011-504) 8950-4801, [email protected] Pine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University specializing in Latin America. She is the author of "Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras" and has been writing about Honduras and other issues at: http://quotha.net . JESSE FREESTON, [in Honduras] mobile: (011-504) 8914-4580, [email protected], http://therealnews.com Freeston is a reporter for The Real News who has produced several segments on Honduras since the June 2009 coup. He is currently in Honduras. He said yesterday: On Saturday, the last person ever elected to lead the Honduran people will step back on Honduran soil. In the 23 months since Mel Zelaya was overthrown, the country has witnessed dozens of farmers killed for land, teachers being teargassed, beaten, and imprisoned for demanding their stolen pensions back, LGBT community suffering dozens of hate killings, 11 of the country's most critical journalists assassinated, and the perpetrators of the coup rewarded with key positions in the current regime. And to top off the tragic nature of Zelaya's arrival, he signed an agreement to both recognize the regime and support Honduras' return to the OAS in return for the regime's permission for him to come home. See The Real News' pieces on the Honduran coup and its aftermath: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&I...<http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=408>. 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