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The Honduras are under a military coup which overthrew the current prime minister elected 3 years ago, disrupted a referendum election, kidnapped the PM and sent him to Costa Rica and the appointed leader now has mandated a curfew since last night. This organization has published a call for solidarity to the people of Honduras who are on the street trying to reinstate democracy and rejection of this coup worldwide. My best translation from Spanish is not that great but you get the message.
Interesting how the US ambassador was alerted to the fact before it happened and had time to inform and alert heads of international banks and corporations to flee the country, but I guess forgot to alert the prime minister of what was going to happen to him.
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From: Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras - COPINH

The Honduran people and the capital city is under a military coup (coup d'etat). We call for solidarity the International and the social movements of the world to denounce and to press to avoid bloodshed. Civic advice of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras COPINH COUP D'ETAT IN HONDURAS HAS PREPARED AN URGENT OFFICIAL NOTICE
Before the national and international community, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, COPINH, denounces those intentionally perpetrated a coup during the night of the 24th of June of 2009 against the constitutional government of Manuel Zelaya Rosales, his administration, and his very important aspirations.
This act is a desperate reaction of the right and its allies to restrain the people who look for democratic routes for the national transformation. The reactionary right has looked frenetically to stop the National Survey that was to be realised this 28th of June and where the Honduran society was to be asked to support an agreement that settles one Fourth Ballot box in the general elections of November to summon a Constituent National Assembly that would elaborate a new constitution. This offensive coup participant has been planned and executed in an articulated way between the fascist National Congress, mass media and their owners.
The Public Ministry, the most powerful industrialists of the country and the Armed Forces, that have come acting in frank disrespect to the decisions of the executive authority. We denounced that the army has assumed a role similar to the one of a past era, when served as instrument of destabilization and repression. To this campaign, that ends at an out of proportion act of aggression against the Honduran people, some sectors of the hierarchies of the evangelical and catholic churches have been united, that have encouraged and justified the connotation facts of the coup participants. Also we denounced the interference and participation of the government of the USA and his ambassador in Honduras who was alerted beforehand of the facts and has left the country, while calling the managers of the VM, the IMF and other institutions of the North American government, to leave the country, and so they demonstrate to his conspiracy with the participants of the coup.
We call in general the bases of the COPINH and the Honduran organized and not organized people, to mobilize themselves from their communities, village or city, especially of Tegucigalpa, to express their rejection and indignation. We call not to let themselves be intimidated by the terrorist campaign triggered against the will and expression of the people and their right to conceive and to hope of a new country, with justice and fairness. We call to the international community to pronounce themselves decidedly against this aggression to the Honduran town and to express its solidarity and support so that the human rights of the Honduran town do not force. We call to intensify the organized fight to install the Popular and Democratic Assembly National Constituent, now, at this moment historical of our mother country.
Finally, the COPINH, recognizes the Constitutional President of the Republic, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, while we reject any “substitute” imposed by the factual and imperialistic powers. With the ancestral force of Iselaca, Lempira and Etempica rise our voices of life, justice, dignity, freedom and peace.

Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras - COPINH

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