[HNA] Impending Crisis in Honduras - military offensive w/ US air support.....

[Brian O'Connell]

Friends,  As you may or may not know, the social situation in Honduras is getting worse by the week, continuing a downward spiral started by the US sponsored Coup last June. There are regular death squad-style murders of social leaders and unionists, almost weekly now.  And now the Honduran military, apparently with US air support, is occupying a large area of the country to suppress democracy. Two cooperatives - Guadalupe Carney and El Remolino are particularly at risk.   -brian  Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:12:52 
From: Tom Loudon <toml at quixote.org>
Subject: [HNA] Please Call the State Department about emergency in Aguan,Honduras
Dear Friend,
We are writing to ask you to call the U.S. State Department 
regarding alarming developments in the Aguan region of Honduras where over 3,500 peasant families are currently at risk. The peasant families are part of the Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguan who have suffered intense repression in the last months due to land disputes with wealthy  businessmen.  
In the last 24 hours, as many as 5000 troops, police and commando units have moved into the region. The military has taken total control of roads leading into the region and a curfew was announced by the Honduran Government. Honduran Human Rights Organizations 
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquixote.org%2Furgent-communication-cofadeh-emergency-agu%25C3%25A1n> 

have issued alerts to the international community fearing a potential 
massacre. Two cooperatives - Guadalupe Carney and El Remolino areparticularly at risk. 
We have also received disturbing reports of U.S. air support for this military operation in the Aguan. Otto Reich is currently in Honduras reported to be meeting with representatives of the extreme right wing of the Honduran power elite.
Please call Ambassador Craig Kelly at the U.S. State Department  (202-647-6754) today and express your alarm about a potential for violent repression of peasant farmers in the Aguan and the participation of U.S. air support in this operation.  Check the Quixote Center 
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquixote.org%2F> 
web site for updates.
Jenny Atlee,
Quixote Center


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