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Resistance Consolidating Changes in Honduras
Tegucigalpa - People's unity and their determination to
revert the military coup have consolidated
the Honduran people hopes for achieving a
truly fair participative democracy in
Honduras, said left-wing presidential
candidate Cesar Ham.
Honduras Coup Resistance on Day 21
Zelaya Vows to Return to Honduras In
statements to Prensa Latina, Ham who
presented himself as candidate for the
Democratic Unified Party (UD in Spanish)
added that peoples' resistance confirmed the
possibility of changing the conditions of
misery and exploitation his country is
living.
There was Honduras before the June 28 coup,
and there is another after it, he said.
The constitutional order in the country was
broken last June 28 when masked troops
kidnapped President Manuel Zelaya and forced
into exile in Costa Rica.
When the news was heard popular leaders and
thousands of people gathered in front of the
presidential house demanding Zelaya's return
and condemning coup leaders.
Marches and demonstration have been going
for 21 days, in spite of brutal repression
by the armed forces, he recalled.
With such facts, we are hopeful that we will
be able to make necessary changes in the
exploitating structures that have plunged
Hondurans into misery, he expressed.
Ham showed his refusal and that of UD to
international maneuvers aimed at trying to
deprive the Honduras people of the
opportunity of fighting oligarchy and
military coup leaders.
He also noted that UD has clearly expressed
its position regarding the US-backed
mediation by Costa Rica President Oscar
Arias.
The dialogue process should only seek the
unconditional return of president Manuel
Zelaya to the government, he emphasized.
He added that those who violated the
Constitution, human rights and repressed the
population must be punished. |
