Zacate Grande, Honduras -Leaders flee community, pursued by military. Nov. 29, 2009
San Pedro Sula, Honduras – Delegation Report Nov. 29, 2009
After three days of meetings with leaders of the resistance: lawyers, teachers, media, politicians, leaders of the women’s movement, human rights organizations, it has become evident that the de facto regime contends to go forward with its delusions of democracy by putting forward this mock election. Five months since the military escorted Zelaya out of the country in his pajamas they continue with its campaign of terror and repression against the Honduran people.
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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Reflections from QC Delegation – by Lisa Sullivan/SOA
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".
QC Delegation – Emergency Alert for Community of Guadalupe Carney
in Tocoa, in the department of Colon who are reporting mass millitary
and police presence in a community called GUADALUPE CARNEY. This is a
community that experienced repression in August, an organized
campesino, peasant community that have been threatened since the
police arrived to have their homes raided. This is just one of several
raids that have occured today, among the homes of youth and students