[HNA] Declaration of the HSA on Honduras

[Tom Loudon]

*Declaration of the Hemispheric Social Alliance*

*Honduras: without democracy and without a President.  The Resistance 
continues.*

*Today a group of Presidents (Panama, Dominican Republic, Colombia and 
Taiwan) as well as official delegations from 15 other countries 
including Australia, United States, Canada, India, Israel, Japan, 
Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Vatican, Peru, Switzerland and Turkey will 
assist a parody of the transition of presidential power with leading 
roles played by Mr. Jose Lobo and other actors and authors of the coup 
de tat that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009.*

*Although the judicial system has “absolved” the military leaders who 
kidnapped and violently expelled President Zelaya, history will condemn 
them all: material and intellectual authors and others complicit 
including judges, members of Congress and Ambassadors. *

*Although the coup leaders have the backing of the United States, the 
power of arms, the means of communication and the support of the Roman 
Catholic Church – despite all of this – they do not have the support of 
the people.  On the contrary, the resistance has strengthened in reach 
and in the development of a political agenda. *

*Therefore, the Hemispheric Social Alliance declares that:*

*1 We do not recognize Jose Lobo as the President of Honduras.*

*2 We ask governments, international bodies and social movements 
throughout the world not to recognize Lobo as the President of Honduras 
and to sustain the pressure necessary to reestablish democratic  
institutionality to the country. *

*3 We demand that the governments of Central America abstain from 
advancing trade negotiations with the European Union or with other 
government.  Real integration is not possible if the coup is legitimized 
nor if Honduras is marginalized.  Trade can wait.  Democracy and human 
rights cannot!*

*4 We express our permanent solidarity, without conditions nor 
timeframes, with the National Front for Popular Resistance in its 
struggle to restore democracy and to hold a Constituent Assembly that 
recognizes, protects and guarantees the rights of the people of Honduras 
and its organizations. *

*January 28, 2010*
*Hemispheric Social Alliance, Secretariat*
*Bogota, Colombia*
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