[HNA] Fwd: [Presente-Honduras] COFADEH re congress today

Wed May 14 06:21:19 PDT 2014

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From: Dana Frank <dlfrank at ucsc.edu>
Date: Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:31 PM
Subject: [Presente-Honduras] COFADEH re congress today
To: Presente Honduras <presente-honduras at lists.mayfirst.org>

Here's a COFADEH article, on Defensores en Linea, about what happened today
inside and outside Congress, and a crude translation.

Dana

"The Order From the National Congress Was to Repress All Action by the
Opposition."
Marvin Palacios, May 13, 2014.  Defensores en Linea (COFADEH)

The President of the National Congress, Maurico Oliva, gave the order to
brutally repress the opposition party Libertad y Refundación (LIBRE)  and
the activists and leaders that were demonstrating peacefully below the
National Congress.

The order of the day was repression and violence, said the congressmembers
from LIBRE.  The violent actions led by agents of the State left several
congressmembers hospitalized and dozens of demonstrators with serious
blows/injuries, produced by the brutality with which riot troops and
military police acted.

Around 4:00 in the afternoon a strong contingent of military police, police
from the Special Operations Command (COBRA), and military troops entered
into the hall of sessions of the National Congress, occupied strategic
positions inside the big hall, surrounded the congressmembers of LIBRE and
began to use batons, tear gas bombs, and shields to assault, push and
mistreat and beat the representatives of the people.

There was no consideration for anyone, including congressmembers such as
Claudia Garmendia, congressmember from the department of El Paraíso, who
suffered the charge of the military soldiers, in which she was surrounded
on the floor, and rescued by one of her congressmember companions.

Ex-President Zelaya, upon being expelled with shoves and blows from the
second level of the National Congress, where he presides over the bench of
the 36 congressmembers of LIBRE, said `those who are governing Honduras are
beasts.'

Later he added sadly that `it's only taken 100 days for president Juan
Orlando Hernández to show us his fangs; he will not be releected to govern
because the Honduran people reject his dictatorship.'

In the streets of the historic center you could breath smoke and pepper gas
in industrial quantities, and while people covered their mouths with
scarves, others were persecuted and beaten by those in uniform.

The central park was once again the scene of battle between demonstrators
and police, but in disproportionate conditions.  Many of the protesters
were persecuted and beaten by those in uniform.

Congressmember Claudia Garmendia was hospitalized because of the blows and
gases she received inside the hall of sessions of the National Congress;
also the congressmembers Elvia Argentina Erazo (Copán) and Audelia
Rodríguez (Atlántida).

Congressmembers Hari Dixon, Rafael Alegría, and Wilfredo Paz were beaten.
 The Red Cross transfered several disheartened and injured people to the
Hospital Escuela.

Several days ago LIBRE called for a peaceful demonstration underneath the
National Congress [Transl:  the building is sort of on big stilts, with an
open area on the first floor; the actual congress is on the second floor],
demanding that, because LIBRE is the second political force in the country,
with 36 congressmembers, it be represented in the Supreme Electoral
Tribunal.  The demand was met by a response from the President of Congress
Mauricio Oliva that LIBRE had to obtain 86 congressmembers in order to be
included. And the other response from Oliva was made this afternoon, in
ordering a brutal repression agains the opposition politicians, activists,
and leaders of LIBRE.

The situation is worrisome to human rights bodies, considering tomorrow
environmentalists will arrive at the National congress tomorrow to demand
an end to concessions for extraction of the country's mineral resources.

La orden desde el Congreso Nacional fue reprimir toda acción de la
oposición<http://defensoresenlinea.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3120:la-orden-desde-el-congreso-nacional-fue-reprimir-toda-accion-de-la-oposicion&catid=42:seg-y-jus&Itemid=159>
Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:23 Marvin Palacios
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*Tegucigalpa.*

El presidente del Congreso Nacional, Mauricio Oliva dio la orden para
reprimir con brutalidad al partido de oposición Libertad y Refundación
(LIBRE) y a los activistas y dirigentes que se manifestaban pacíficamente
en los bajos del Congreso Nacional.
La orden del día fue represión y violencia expresaron diputados de LIBRE.
Las acciones violentas protagonizadas por agentes del Estado dejaron a
varios diputados y diputadas hospitalizadas y a decenas de manifestantes
con golpes de gravedad producto de la brutalidad con que actuaron efectivos
antimotines y policías- militares.

Alrededor de las 4:00 de la tarde un fuerte contingente de policías
militares, policías del Comando de Operaciones Especiales (COBRA) y
efectivos militares ingresó al salón de sesiones del Congreso Nacional,
ocupó posiciones estratégicas dentro del gran salón, rodeó a los diputados
y diputadas del partido LIBRE y procedió a utilizar toletes, bombas
lacrimógenas y escudos para agredir, empujar y maltratar golpear  a los
representantes del pueblo.

No hubo ningún tipo de consideración para nadie, incluso diputadas como
Claudia Garmendia diputada del departamento de El Paraíso sufrió la
embestida de los militares de tal forma que rodeó por el piso y fue
rescatada por uno de sus compañeros diputados.

El ex presidente Manuel Zelaya al ser expulsado a empellones y golpes del
segundo nivel del Congreso Nacional, donde preside la bancada de 36
diputados del partido LIBRE, expresó: "son bestias los que gobiernan
Honduras".

Para luego añadir con tristeza que  "han bastado cien días para que nos
muestren los colmillos, el presidente Juan Orlando Hernández, no será
reelecto como gobernante ya  que su dictadura la rechazará el pueblo
hondureño”.

Por las calles del centro histórico se respiraba humo y gas pimienta en
cantidades industriales, y mientras la gente cubría sus bocas con pañuelos,
otros eran perseguidos y golpeados por los uniformados.

El parque central fue nuevamente escenario de un combate campal entre
manifestantes y policías pero en  condiciones desproporcionales. Muchos de
los protestantes salieron heridos de consideración productos de los golpes
que recibieron de parte de la policía militar y del orden público.

La diputada Claudia Garmendia fue hospitalizada por los golpes y gases
recibidos dentro del salón de sesiones del Congreso Nacional,  también las
diputadas Elvia Argentina Erazo (Copán) y Audelia Rodríguez (Atlántida).

 Los diputados Hari Dixon, Rafael Alegría, Wilfredo Paz fueron golpeados.
La Cruz Roja trasladó al Hospital Escuela a varias personas desmayadas y
lesionadas.

El partido LIBRE convocó desde hace varios fías  a una manifestación
pacífica en los bajos del Congreso Nacional para exigir que se incluyan
representantes de la segunda fuerza política del país como es Libertad y
Refundación con 36 diputados ante el Tribunal supremo Electoral. La
exigencia encontró  respuesta del presidente del Congreso Nacional Mauricio
Oliva al expresar que LIRE debe conseguir 86 diputados para lograr la
inclusión.
Y la otra respuesta de Oliva se concretó esta tarde al ordenar una brutal
represión contra los opositores políticos, activistas y dirigentes de LIBRE.

La situación es preocupante para organismos de derechos humanos al
considerar que mañana llegarán

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