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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Declaration of the Hemispheric
Social
Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style="">Honduras: without democracy and without a President.<span
style=""> </span>The Resistance continues.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">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.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">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. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">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.<span style=""> </span>On
the contrary, the resistance has
strengthened in reach and in the development of a political agenda. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Therefore, the
Hemispheric Social Alliance declares that:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">1 We do not recognize
Jose Lobo as the President of Honduras.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">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<span style=""> </span>institutionality
to the country. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">3 We demand that the
governments of Central America abstain from advancing trade
negotiations with
the European Union or with other government.<span style="">
</span>Real integration is not possible if the coup is legitimized nor
if Honduras
is marginalized.<span style=""> </span>Trade can wait.<span style="">
</span>Democracy and human rights cannot!<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">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. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<b style="">January 28, 2010<o:p></o:p></b>
<br>
<b style="">Hemispheric Social Alliance, Secretariat<o:p></o:p></b>
<br>
<b style="">Bogota, Colombia<o:p></o:p></b>
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