Friday, 17 June 2011 – Dina Meza. International networks that participated in the International Investigation Mission to the Bajo Aguán region, February 25 – March 4th, 2011 issued a public statement today speaking out against the violence and impunity in the Valle del Bajo Aguán, where the assassination of peasants and other serious human rights violations continue.
We, the popular and social movements of Latin America and Honduras in particular, within the framework of the Latin America and the Caribbean, a Region of Peace: Foreign Military Bases Out campaign, call for an International Meeting Against Militarization in La Esperanza and Comayagua, Honduras on June 26th and 27th, 2011, closing on June 28th—the day on which two years will have passed since the Coup d’État carried out in Honduras that was perpetrated by the U.S.
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By Dana Frank, May 27, 2011 Return of deposed President Manuel Zelaya to Honduras doesn’t mean democracy, civil liberties and the basic rule of law are returning to that country any time soon. Far from it.
May 27, 2011
COFADEH – Students from the Instituto Luis Bográn (Tegucigalpa) were carrying out a protest because they lack teachers for various classes like mathematics because the regime suspended several teachers from the school [for participating in March protests against the privatization of education].
The Committee of the Families of the Detained-Disappeared of Honduras (COFADEH) celebrates the signing of the Cartegena de Indias Accord which permits the return of ex Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya Rosales to our country.
Legal prosecutions are piling up for the people of the Zacate Grande Peninsula, located in the Gulf of Fonseca, southern region of the country. On Wednesday, May 4th, 8 members of ADEPZA (the Association for the Development of the Peninsula of Zacate Grande) were to present themselves at the local courthouse to face charges ranging from land seizure to disobedience, adding to the 92 charges already existing, according to ADEPZA’s director Pedro Canales Torres1, who is also currently being prosecuted.
Another Campesino assassinated by gunmen in Aguán; several murders in recent days.
Sixto Ramos (45), a member of the campesino cooperative Nueva Suyapa, of the Peasant Movement of Aguán, MCA, was murdered at eight a.m. on Wednesday, 18 May, by shots fired by gunmen in a passing car, as he was making his way to his organization.
