[HNA] Call-in Solidarity with victims of State Terror in Honduras

[Tom Loudon]

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Quixote Center Announcement

	Dear Friends,

Since the November elections in Honduras which resulted in the 
installation of Porfilio Lobo as President on January 27, 2010, the 
human rights situation in Honduras has continued to 
deteriorate. According to human rights organizations, there is a marked 
increase in selective targeting of people and communities active in the 
resistance movement. Despite a public discourse of reconciliation on the 
part of Lobo, partners in Honduras are experiencing increased levels of 
state terror. 
In the month of January, the Committee of the Families of the Detained 
and Disappeared of Honduras documented the death of seven resistance 
members, as well as 12 other targeted incidents including beatings, 
detentions and disappearance. People continue to flee the country to 
protect their lives.  
The deadly pace continues in February 
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Limm5W4h9Xg5OkDtX518PlEVgIudr4Y0> 
with the murder of Vanessa Zepeda, a 29 year old nurse, active member of 
the Vanessa Zepeda at a Resistance marchresistance movement and 
SITRAIHASS union organizer (in photo). On Feb. 3, Vanessa left her home 
at 2pm; at approximately 6:30 pm, her lifeless body was dumped out of a 
vehicle in Loarque, a neighborhood with strong links to the resistance 
movement.  Vanessa was the mother of three children; the youngest is 4 
months old. 
The United States was a major backer of the highly contested elections 
in Honduras and is pushing for international recognition of the new 
government as a U.S. certified democracy. For many however, the 
deepening human rights crisis attests to the fact that the elections 
have institutionalized the military dictatorship. The targeted murder of 
Vanessa is typical of the current counterinsurgency campaign being waged 
in Honduras.  

On Friday, Feb. 12, the SITRAIHASS union that Vanessa worked for has 
called for a march in Tegucigalpa. We can stand in solidarity with 
Vanessa and the people of Honduras by  calling your  U.S. Senators and 
Representatives 
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xn9QSAHe36fVGv15jAKIWSgPLZhsA6mS> 
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=c7qge1mKRAdkCvl7RUePWkvEY2MGNcrq>to 
let them know that:
       1.   We are alarmed at the growing human rights crisis in 
Honduras under the government of Porfirio Lobo.
       2.   We will not tolerate the funding of state terror in Honduras 
with U.S. tax dollars.
 
Quixote Center staff will be in Honduras next week.  Please visit our 
website 
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8QYhNqrD7977aakTc4aCACgPLZhsA6mS> 
for updates and information. 

Jenny Atlee


	

	
	
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