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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Peter Cook <pseacook@comcast.net><BR>Subject: [BMDC] Condemn Honduran Political Repression and Demand Withdrawal of U.S.Recognition of Illegitimate Lobo Government!<BR>To: mayday@lists.riseup.net<BR>Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:26 AM<BR><BR>
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<H1 style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT color=black size=5 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Condemn Political Repression in Honduras</SPAN></FONT></B></H1>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><FONT color=#990033 size=3 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #990033; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Demand an end to tortures, rapes, abductions, assassinations and all political repression and human rights violations by the illegitimate Porfirio Lobo government in Honduras . <BR><BR>Withdraw U.S. recognition of the illegitimate, coup-based Lobo government. <BR><BR>Let the Honduran People restore democracy through convening the Constitutional Convention they have been demanding to rebuild their country on a basis of equality and justice.</SPAN></FONT> </B></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank><B><FONT title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression color=#660000 size=4 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; COLOR: #660000; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sign the Emergency Petition!</SPAN></FONT></B></A> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">at <A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression</A><BR><BR><A title=outbind://13-000000002DDA75162CE2E744AA8EB35471BB8DB364E87C00/#spanish
href="http://us.mc389.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=1&.tm=1267221424&.rand=a8l2otu2a6aoo#spanish" rel=nofollow>Texto en Español</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Dear friends, <BR><BR>The situation in Honduras is turning more difficult and dangerous for the people opposing the coup. The repression and human rights violations against the leaders of the National Popular Front of Resistance, particularly trade unionists, women, persons from the LGBT community and reporters is becoming a policy of the new government and it will only increase with the signing of treaties in matters of defense and surveillance with the pro-U.S., fascist, paramilitary government of Alvaro Uribe of Colombia. <BR><BR>The United States, by orchestrating and supporting this coup since the very beginning, and by openly recognizing the Lobo government as one that supposedly will bring 'peace and democracy' to the people of Honduras, yet not
recognizing the human rights violations and demanding from the international community to do the same, is clearly working on behalf of its own interests of domination of the region and its profit-hungry corporations. <BR><BR>The coup in Honduras has not only been a criminal act against the people of Honduras, but also a message to all the governments of the region that are working on behalf of their peoples and not on behalf the U.S. corporations. The message is clear: "the United States will encourage coups against you", bringing back the era of military dictatorships of the 70' and 80's that massacred thousands of Latin Americans.<BR><BR>We encourage you to sign the following petition but to not stop after you sign online. Please use the text or modify it as you see fit to write letters to your newspapers, call radio talk shows and make a commentary, print it and give it out to friends, relatives and coworkers. In short, try in every way possible to
expose this crime which is just the beginning of a new U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean to regain its criminal domination.<BR><BR>The peoples of the region will thank you. The only thing they want is to build their countries free of foreign domination, live in peace and have a better life for them and the new generations to come.<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=ES>Thank you<BR>International Action Center</SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><BR><A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank><B><FONT title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression color=#660000 size=4 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; COLOR: #660000; FONT-SIZE:
13.5pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sign the Emergency Petition!</SPAN></FONT></B></A> <FONT face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">at <A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression</A><BR><BR>Petition Text:</SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR>To: President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton <BR><BR>CC: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Congressional Leaders, media representatives <BR><BR>STOP the political repression and human rights abuses in Honduras <BR><BR>Withdraw U.S. Government Recognition of the illigitimate Porfirio Lobo government in Honduras <BR><BR>Let the people of Honduras convene the Constitutional Assembly they have been demanding to
rebuild the country on a basis of equality and justice <BR><BR>On November 29, 2009 Porfirio Lobo became the president of Honduras. Contrary to what the United States Department of State affirms, these elections were not TRANSPARENT. Most Hondurans rejected these elections since they were held under an illegitimate, unconstitutional and criminal de facto government that was the product of a military coup against the legitimate and democratically elected President, José Manuel Zelaya. <BR><BR>The elections were held in a climate of systematic violence and repression of the people who opposed the coup. Since June 28, 2009 according to CODEH (Committee in Defense of Human Rights in Honduras), this violence has led to 150 political assassinations, thousands of arrests, torture, kidnapping, harassment and exile of many members of the resistance, which is grouped under the National Popular Front of Resistance to the Coup (FNRP). <BR><BR>This violence has not
diminished since Lobo's Jan. 27, 2010 inauguration. On the contrary, the new government, which is a mere continuation of the coup regime, is upholding and legitimizing the repression against the Resistance. The Lobo government has, with ample international news coverage, announced the establishment of a "process of national reconciliation" and a "truth commission" that would find out and presumably punish crimes committed during the coup. This, however, is a complete travesty and a smokescreen to clean up its image in order to be accepted by the international community. <BR><BR>For this illegal government has kept in their posts the military chief, commanders and the defense minister responsible for the criminal coup; and the so called Truth Commission refuses to investigate the persistent violations of human rights. <BR><BR>Since Lobo took office, the political persecution, intimidation and violence against leaders of the resistance by repressive and
paramilitary forces allied to the police and army have continued unabated. In the first three weeks of his presidency the following has occurred: <BR><BR>Peasants from the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguán were shot at and wounded by army and police on the day of Lobo's inauguration; <BR><BR>On Feb. 2, two videographers who cover the resistance were temporarily abducted and tortured. <BR><BR>The following day, the body of 29-year-old union leader Vanessa Zepeda was found after she had been kidnapped and tortured. <BR><BR>On Feb. 10, Edgar Martínez, his spouse, two brothers and a friend were temporarily kidnapped and tortured. Two women were raped. <BR><BR>On Feb. 11, two men raided the home of Porfirio Ponce, resistance leader and vice-president of STYBIS, the beverage industry workers union whose Tegucigalpa headquarters serves as the resistance's main office. The men took Ponce 's computer and spilled blood on his bed as a warning. <BR><BR>Hermes
Reyes, member of the Artists Movement in Resistance, was temporarily abducted and tortured on Feb 12. <BR><BR>Three days later, Julio Fúnez Benítez, an active member of the resistance and the Union of Workers of SANAA, the National Service of Water and Sewage Systems, was shot dead by two paramilitaries on a motorcycle. <BR><BR>Under these circumstances of extreme violence, there is no possibility of "reconciliation." <BR><BR>I condemn these acts of violence. <BR><BR>I further condemn the government of the United States for its involvement, support of and assistance to the Honduran army and those involved in the coup and its silence in the face of these human rights violations. <BR><BR>Therefore I demand: </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The immediate end of the political persecution and intimidation of the members of the National Popular Front of Resistance. </SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The removal from office of the perpetrators of the military coup. </SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">That the United States government withdraw recognition of the Porfirio Lobo government. </SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">That a truly independent commission be established with the participation of the people of Honduras to investigate human rights violations and crimes against humanity. </SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">That the people of Honduras be free to convene the Constitutional Assembly that they have been demanding in order to rebuild their country on a basis of equality and justice. </SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
<DIV><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sincerely, <BR>(your signature will be added based on the contact information you provide)<BR><BR><A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank><B><FONT title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression color=#660000 size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; COLOR: #660000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sign the Emergency Petition!</SPAN></FONT></B></A> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">at <A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression</A><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A title=http://www.iacenter.org/donate href="http://www.iacenter.org/donate" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Donate</A> at <A title=http://www.iacenter.org/donate href="http://www.iacenter.org/donate" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.iacenter.org/donate</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BR><BR><A name=spanish rel=nofollow></A><BR></SPAN></FONT><B><FONT size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">En Español:</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank><B><FONT title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression color=#660000 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; COLOR: #660000; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">¡Firme la Petición de Emergencia en lí</SPAN></FONT></B></A></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank><B><FONT title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression color=#660000 size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; COLOR: #660000; FONT-SIZE:
12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">nea!</SPAN></FONT></B></A> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">a <A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression</A></SPAN></FONT><BR><BR><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=ES>Estimados/as compañeros/as,<BR><BR>La situación en Honduras se está haciendo más difícil y peligrosa para las personas que se oponen al golpe de estado. La represión y las violaciones de los derechos humanos de los/as dirigentes del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular, especialmente de los/as sindicalistas, las mujeres, las personas de la comunidad LGBT y los/as reporteros/as se está convirtiendo en una política del nuevo Gobierno y sólo aumentará con la firma de los
tratados en materia de defensa y vigilancia con el Gobierno aliado de los EEUU, del fascista y paramilitar Álvaro Uribe de Colombia.<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang=ES>Estados Unidos, al orquestar y apoyar este golpe de estado desde el comienzo y al reconocer abiertamente el Gobierno de Lobo como uno que supuestamente traerá "paz y democracia" al pueblo de Honduras, pero que a la misma vez no reconoce las violaciones a los derechos humanos y exige a la comunidad internacional que también reconozca el gobierno espurio, claramente está trabajando en nombre de sus propios intereses para la dominación de la región y en beneficio de sus empresas hambrientas de ganancias.<BR><BR>El golpe de estado en Honduras no sólo ha sido un acto criminal contra el pueblo hondureño, sino también un mensaje a todos los gobiernos de la región que trabajan para sus pueblos y no para las
corporaciones estadounidenses. El mensaje está claro: "Estados Unidos alentará golpes contra usted," trayendo de vuelta la época de las dictaduras militares de los años 1970-80 que masacraron y desaparecieron a miles de latinoamericanos/as. <BR><BR>Les exhortamos a que firmen la siguiente petición pero a que no se detengan después de firmar en línea. Por favor, utilice el texto o modifíquelo como necesite para escribir cartas a los periódicos, llamar a programas de entrevistas de radio y hacer un comentario, imprimirlo y repartirlo a sus amistades, familiares y compañeros/as de trabajo. En resumen, trate de todas las formas posibles de exponer este crimen que es sólo el comienzo de una nueva intervención de Estados Unidos en América Latina y el Caribe para recuperar su criminal dominación. <BR><BR>Los pueblos de la región se lo agradecerán. Lo único que ellos/as quieren es refundar sus países libres de dominación extranjera, vivir en
paz y tener una vida mejor para ellos/as y para las generaciones venideras. <BR><BR>Gracias.<BR>Centro de Acción Internacional</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Helvetica><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank><B><FONT title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression color=#660000 size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; COLOR: #660000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">¡Firme la Petición de Emergencia en </SPAN></FONT></B></A></SPAN></FONT><A title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression href="http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression" rel=nofollow target=_blank><B><FONT title=http://www.iacenter.org/honduras/condemnhonduranrepression color=#660000 face="Arial Narrow"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Narrow'; COLOR: #660000; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">lí</SPAN></FONT></B></A><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CC: Ban Ki-moon, Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas; Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado; Líderes del Congreso; Representantes de los Medios <BR><BR>NO a la represión politica y las violaciones a los derechos humanos en Honduras <BR><BR>Que el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos retire el reconocimiento al Gobierno ilegítimo de Porfirio Lobo en Honduras <BR><BR>Que el pueblo hondureño tenga la libertad para convocar la Asamblea Constituyente que ha venido exigiendo a fin de reconstruir su país sobre bases de igualdad y justicia. <BR><BR>El 29 de noviembre de 2009, Porfirio Lobo se convirtió en Presidente de Honduras. Contrariamente a lo que afirma el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos, estas elecciones no fueron TRANSPARENTES. La mayoría de los/as hondureños/as rechazaron estas elecciones porque se celebraron bajo un
Gobierno de facto ilegítimo, inconstitucional y criminal producto de un golpe de estado contra el Presidente legítimo y elegido democráticamente, José Manuel Zelaya. <BR><BR>Las elecciones se celebraron en un clima de sistemática violencia y represión de las personas que se oponían al golpe de estado. Desde el 28 de junio de 2009, esta violencia ha llevado a 150 asesinatos políticos, miles de detenciones, tortura, secuestro, acoso y exilio de muchos/as miembro/as de la resistencia , que se agrupa bajo el Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular Contra el Golpe de Estado (FNRP).<BR><BR>Esta violencia no ha disminuido desde la inauguración de Lobo el 27 de enero de 2010. Por el contrario, el nuevo Gobierno, que es una mera continuación del régimen golpista, está preservando y legitimando la represión contra la resistencia . El Gobierno de Lobo anunció, con amplia cobertura por los noticieros internacionales, el establecimiento de un "proceso
de reconciliación nacional" y una "Comisión de la verdad" para presumiblemente averiguar y sancionar los delitos cometidos durante el golpe de estado. Sin embargo, esto es una total farsa y una cortina de humo para limpiar su imagen con el fin de ser aceptado por la comunidad internacional.<BR><BR>Pues este gobierno ilegal ha mantenido en sus cargos al jefe militar, los comandantes y el Ministro de defensa responsables del criminal golpe de estado; además, la llamada Comisión de la verdad se niega a investigar las persistentes violaciones a los derechos humanos.<BR><BR>Desde que Lobo asumió el cargo, la persecución política, la intimidación y la violencia contra los/as dirigentes de la resistencia por las fuerzas represivas y paramilitares aliadas a la policía y el ejército han continuado. En las tres primeras semanas de su presidencia ha ocurrido lo siguiente:<BR><BR>Miembros del Movimiento Unificado Campesino de Aguán fueron heridos por
disparos del ejército y la policía en el mismo día de la inauguración de Lobo;<BR><BR>El 2 de febrero, dos camarógrafos que cubren la resistencia fueron temporalmente secuestrados y torturados.<BR><BR>Al día siguiente, el cuerpo sin vida de la dirigente sindical Vanessa Zepeda, de 29 años de edad, fue encontrado después de que ella había sido secuestrada y torturada.<BR><BR>El 10 de febrero, Edgar Martínez, su esposa, dos hermanos y una amiga fueron temporalmente secuestrados/as y torturados/as. Dos mujeres fueron violadas.<BR><BR>El 11 de febrero, dos hombres asaltaron la casa de Porfirio Ponce, líder de la resistencia y Vicepresidente del STYBIS, el sindicato de trabajadores de la industria de bebidas cuya sede en Tegucigalpa sirve como oficina principal de la resistencia. Los hombres se llevaron la computadora de Ponce y derramaron sangre en su lecho como una advertencia.<BR><BR>Hermes Reyes, miembro del Movimiento de Artistas en
Resistencia , fue temporalmente secuestrado y torturado el 12 de febrero. Tres días más tarde, Julio Fúnez Benítez, miembro activo de la resistencia y del sindicato de trabajadores del SANAA, Servicio Autónomo Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, fue asesinado a tiros por dos paramilitares en una motocicleta.<BR><BR>Bajo estas circunstancias de extrema violencia, no existe ninguna posibilidad de "reconciliación".<BR><BR>Yo condeno estos actos de violencia.<BR><BR>Condeno además la participación del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos por su apoyo y asistencia del ejército hondureño y de los involucrados en el golpe de estado y su silencio ante estas graves violaciones a los derechos humanos.<BR><BR>Por lo tanto exijo:</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">El fin inmediato a la persecución política e intimidación de los/as miembros/as del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular; </SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">La destitución de los autores del golpe de estado militar de sus puestos en el gobierno; </SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Que el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos retire el reconocimiento al Gobierno de Porfirio Lobo; </SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Que se establezca una Comisión verdaderamente independiente con la participación del pueblo hondureño para investigar las violaciones a los derechos humanos y crímenes de lesa humanidad; </SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Y que el pueblo hondureño tenga la libertad para convocar la Asamblea Constituyente que ha venido exigiendo a fin de reconstruir su país sobre bases de igualdad y justicia. </SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
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