Thursday, December 2, 2010
Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)
COPINH, the Municipal Resistance Front, the Catholic church, and members of various communities of the municipality of Colomoncagua would like to communicate the following:
Around 250,000 cables from the State Department and its branches in the world were leaked recently by the internet operator Wikileaks.Bolivian President Evo Morales lamented this Friday that his proposal as well as that of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, calling on the rich countries to halve their greenhouse gas emissions, has not been welcomed into the Cancún Summit on climate change to be held next week.
Morales indicated at a press conference that the petitions to create a Climate Justice Tribunal and to organize a global referendum on how to solve the environmental crisis, submitted by a great majority of nations, have been ignored.
Nicaragua flatly denies Honduran media reports that Nica soldiers are training and supplying guerrillas in neighboring Honduras. The Nicaraguan Army is categorically denying unsubstantiated reports in Honduras that Nicaraguan soldiers are training and supplying Honduran guerrillas in a plot to destabilize the right-wing government of Honduran President Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo. Nicaraguan Army spokesman Col. Juan
Sarah Laskow, "The Nation". A year ago, it seemed possible-likely, even-that President Barack Obama would sweep
into the international negotiations on climate change at Copenhagen and make serious
progress on the tangle of issues at stake. The reality was quite different . This
year, the expectations for the United Nations Climate Conference in Cancun are less
exuberant.
The conference will be held from Nov 29 to Dec 10 and the same issues from 2009
Social movements from around the world are mobilising for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will take place in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
Thanks to all of you who made phone calls and sent faxes in response to the November 15thmassacre in Aguan. The Platform of Human Rights and the Agrarian Platform of Honduras strongly condemn the brutal attack, the failure to issue arrest warrants for the killings and the militarization of the zone by the Armed Forces.
