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.
REUTERS/Edgard GarridoThe International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the murder of Honduran TV news host Francisco Medina, the sixteenth journalist killed in the country since the beginning of 2009.Gunmen on a motorcycle shot Medina, 35, early Tuesday morning outside of his home in Morazon north of the capital of Tegucigalpa. Reports said the attackers followed Medina as he left work and shot him three times in the back and once in his arm.
We are a delegation of the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH that has come to Honduras to learn about the current situation of human rights in the country. SOAW previously came to Honduras immediately following the June 2009 coup orquestrated by SOA graduates GeneralRomeo Vásquez and General Luis Prince Suazo. We return to get first hand information about the human rights situation in the country under the regime of Porfirio Lobo.
Dana Frank TheNation.com May 5, 2011 In Honduras, it’s come to this: when 90 percent of the city’s 68,000 public schoolteachers went out on strike in March to protest the privatization of the entire public school system, the government teargassed their demonstrations for almost three solid weeks, then suspended 305 teachers for two to six months as punishment for
