QC Delegation Report from Tocoa, Nov. 27, 2009
We arrived in Tocoa after a 10-hour bus trip from Tegucigalpa. Tocoa is the end of the bus line.
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We arrived in Tocoa after a 10-hour bus trip from Tegucigalpa. Tocoa is the end of the bus line.
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I´m here with the Quixote Center delegation that has gathered 19 fabulous folks from around the US and Canada. Yesterday we met with many key leaders of the resistance movement – their leader Carlos H Reyes, lawyers, teachers, feminists and journalists. It was a crash course in what life and resistance for 5 months under a repressive regime looks like. We squeezed in back-to-back meetings from morning to night, before the leaders set off for their places of hiding for the upcoming ¨"event" on Sunday, refusing to use the word "elections".
This is an interview with Carlos H. Reyes, Independent party candidate for president and long time union leader who renounced his bid for presidency. In the course of his candidacy, he recieved numerous death threats and his arm was broken by the Honduran Army. In this interview, he gives a brief history of Honduras, the election and mandate of Zelaya, and thoughts about the future of Honduras and the illegitimacy of the elections.
School of the Americas Watch’s posted an excellent comic history of the coup in Honduras, written by Dan Archer and Nikil Saval.