On Monday morning, September 28th the Honduran military seized the installations of Radio Globo and Canal 36. News transmission has been suspended after the defacto regime published a decree eliminating constitutional rights to freedom of expression, movement and assembly. Today is the 3 month anniversary of the coup and massive protests are planned.
The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become.
What no terrorist could do to us, our own leaders did.
Out of fear of the possibility of a terrorist attack, authorities militarize our towns, scare our people away, stop daily life and quash our constitutional rights.
It seems that the major news media sources are missing the point about the coup in Honduras. The reason why Brazil and others must force out the coup government is not only for the Honduran people, but because of the historical precedent that it sets. Read more in an article by Narco News.
Everything is indicating that the coup government is moving forward in a serious way with their threats and demands to the international community and against the Honduran people in particular. Today at noon it was announced that yesterday the Official Daily La Gaceta published an executive decree, signed by Micheletti, his pseudo-ministers which suspends all Constitutional guarantees for 45 days. This decree prohibits all meetings and demonstrations without permission of the military, speak against officials or emit information different than official pronouncements.
The legitimate government of Honduras remains under siege in the Brazilian Embassy. Photos from inside, courtesy of the New York Times.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) strongly condemns the operation by agents of the Honduran de facto regime in the area of the Brazil Embassy in Tegucigalpa. According to the information received, security forces of the de facto regime surrounded the Brazilian Embassy and threw unidentified toxic gases, causing intoxications, bleeding, vomiting and dizziness to the persons inside the diplomatic building.
Honduras News Network, Tegucigalpa , Friday, Sept. 25, 2009; 10:20 a.m.
The repressive police of the de facto regime over which presides Roberto Michellti is spraying chemicals into the interior of the Brazilian embassy where the Constitutional President, Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales and hundreds of his sympathizers are staying.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
In brief, here are some of the things we saw and learned throughout the day.
Grassroots International has a good article with Myths and Facts about the coup in Honduras.
The IMF said Thursday it would still recognize Zelaya as head of state of Honduras . . . which would prevent the de facto leaders from access to loans. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090925/wl_afp/honduraspoliticscoup
