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Date: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:41 PM<br>Subject: [Presente-Honduras] two fast translations- Zelaya on the repression & Interamerican HR<br>To: Presente Honduras <<a href="mailto:presente-honduras@lists.mayfirst.org">presente-honduras@lists.mayfirst.org</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font color="#000000"><b><span lang="ES" style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Carta del Coordinador General en apoyo al magisterio</span></b><span lang="ES"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="ES" style="COLOR: blue"><br><font size="3">Letter from the General Coordinator of the FNRP in Support of the Teachers</font></span><span lang="ES"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="ES" style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">March 24, 2011</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="ES" style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">Compañeros y Compañeras</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">I write these lines to condemn the inhuman attacks against the teachers of the nation. The attacks have as their only aim to<span> </span>liquidate the teachers’ organizations and to break-up the social movements in Honduras; never before has such a brutal plan been executed in our country using such premeditation and advantage to sustain the privileges of a voracious and bloody elite. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">We find ourselves facing nothing less than the execution of the third part of the conspiracy that destroyed democracy with the Coup d’Etat of June 29, 2009, which consists of the appropriation at all costs of the country’s natural resources to fill their pockets at the expense of millions of poor people; the first mission towards this goal is to destroy the organized sectors, beginning with the national teachers’ organizations. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><br><font size="3"><font color="#000000"> </font><span style="COLOR: blue">Submission to the International Monetary Fund agreements negotiated by the regime, include the reduction of the wage base through firings, restructuring and the dismantling of union organizations in the country. We must not make any mistake about the true intentions of the repression which is to break the will of the teachers’ struggle; when they show their inflexibility and are spending millions of lempira on bombs and bullets with the security forces, we cannot believe that they are only thinking about the Teachers’ Law. </span><br>
</font><span lang="ES"><br></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">We must understand that they are not looping for Solutions for Honduras.<span> </span>They are only following instructions and are creating the system, the enclave that includes the conditions for the privatization of health, Education, and the other public services. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: blue">The payment required by the Teachers’ Law, if we fulfill it, is viable and must be paid; the State can do so; I personally know the issue well, and I have no doubt that this is not a question of a lack of government funds; it is part of a plan that implies the disappearance of the professional organizations of the teachers for other organized forms in the country that favor their goals. This macabre strategy is directed at destabilizing all the social organizations with conscience such as those of the teachers nationally. </span><br>
</font><span lang="ES"><br></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">Compañeros to know their plan gives an advantage and allows us to join with other sectors affected by the Coup d’etat. The destiny of Honduras, and other countries in the region,<span> </span>is at play in this struggle. The dimensions of this issue require urgent attention because the level of repression shows the desperation of the regime in the face of the strength of our ideas and the truth that is with us. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">Our mission is to support without reservation the teachers, the men and women that struggle, so under no circumstances are the decrees against the teachers upheld; and to demand their immediate derogation. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">Compatriots this is the hour to give the best of ourselves. They are the aggressors, those that behave with brutality, we can beat them; we can win over them with the unity of the people and defeat the perfidy that those who don’t love the Education of the people nor the mission of the teachers.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">We continue in the struggle; comrade teachers: count on us; the Honduran people support the teachers until victory. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></b><font color="#000000"><b><span lang="ES" style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">José <span>Manuel Zelaya</span> Rosales<br>
Coordinador General<br> Frente Nacional de <span>Resistencia</span> Popular</span></b><span lang="ES"></span></font></p><span lang="ES" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span lang="ES"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Honduras. Misión Internacional en Washington para entregar su informe preliminar a la CIDH</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font color="#000000"><b><span lang="ES" style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Violaciones en el Bajo Aguán trascienden a nivel internacional</span></b><span lang="ES"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue">Honduras</span></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue">: International Mission in Washington to present preliminary report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights</span></b><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">Violations in the Lower Aguan Moves to the International Level</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.rebelion.org/mostrar.php?tipo=5&id=Giorgio%20Trucchi&inicio=0" target="_blank"><span><span style="COLOR: #0066cc"><font size="3">Giorgio Trucchi</font></span></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><br><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">The grave violations against peasant families in the Lower Aguan and the criminalization of their struggle for access to the land the right to a decent live, now have risen to the International level. <span> </span>Delegates of the International Mission that last month investigated the situation of human Rights in the Lower Aguan are in Washington, D.C., USA, to turn over their preliminary report to the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: blue">On March 25, the counselor for Honduras for the Commission, Felipe Gonzalez will meet with the delegation from the International Mission*, of which Rel-UITA is a part, to receive the preliminary report n the serious violations of human Rights found Turing their stay in the Lower Aguan. </span><br>
</font><span lang="ES"><br></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">In the report, that consists of 48 pages, the severe crises of human Rights affecting this regions of Honduras is evidenced; the principal elements are the assassination of 23 campesinos, one journalist and his spouse, as well as the ineffectiveness of the institutions charged with providing justice and the total impunity that reigns in the area. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: blue">Furthermore, the delegates presented to the Commission the multiple violations of the right to physical integrity, and cases of kidnapping and torture, multiple injuries and sexual abuse. Also, it will emphasize the systematic forced displacements of the campesino settlements which are violations of the right to food, housing, health and which also flagrantly violate the established standards of international law and due process. </span><br>
</font><span lang="ES"><br></span><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">Finally, the delegates of the International Mission will speak of the total lack of<span> </span>(government) fulfillment of the agreements signed with the campesino organizations and the lack of fulfillment of the legal rulings related to the agrarian arena, and the recommendations made by national authorities and the international community, as well as the worrisome climate of stigmatization and criminalization of the peasant struggle in Lower Aguan. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: blue">“The presence of a delegation from the Mission in Washington is very important. Achieving the placement of the theme of Lower Aguan on the agenda of the Interamerican Human Rights Commission can be a fundamental element so that other international organisms use the report and demand that the State of Honduras comply with the them”, a leader from the Committee of Families of the Disappeared Detainees in Honduras (COFADEH), Mary Agurcia, told Sirel. </span><br>
<br></font><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Honduras on the Agenda<br></font><span style="COLOR: blue">The grave situation in which the country is living will also be debated within the Framework of a Public Hearing by the Commission on Honduras. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><span style="COLOR: blue">During the hearing the case of the systematic criminalization of the defenders of human Rights and the illegal firings of judges and magistrates by the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras, as reprisals for denouncing the coup d’Etat of June 2009 will also be discussed. </span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">In this context, the delegates of the International Mission will have the transcendental opportunity to present and explain the grave situation that exists in Lower Aguan which gives even more important tot he presence of the Mission in the U.S. capital. </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">Finally, the theme of Honduras and the violations of human rights was also given prominence yesterday (March 24) during an informational meeting, attended by his advisors and the general public,<span> </span>in the office of the U.S. Congressman, James McGovern.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="COLOR: blue"><font size="3">*APRODEV (Association of Development Agencies linked to the World Council of Churches); CIFCA (Copenhagen Initiative for Central American and Mexico); FIAN International; FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights); Rel-UITA (Latina American Region- International Union of the Workers in<span> </span>Food, Agriculture, Hotels, Restaurants, Tobacco and Procesing) </font></span></p>
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