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

[Phoebe Knopf]

   folks -
   here's another state dept. number you can try - 202-647-3482.  - they
stopped answering the first number,(below) at least for a while, after they
got the first few calls.
     phoebe k.




On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Brian O'Connell <vinniechops at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Friends,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -brian
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> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:12:52
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> From: Tom Loudon <toml at quixote.org>
> Subject: [HNA] Please Call the State Department about emergency in Aguan,Honduras
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> Dear Friend,
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> 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.
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> 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
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> <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>
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> have issued alerts to the international community fearing a potential
> massacre. Two cooperatives - Guadalupe Carney and El Remolino are
> particularly at risk.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquixote.org%2F>
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> web site for updates.
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> Quixote Center
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