Comments on: Washington on Honduras: The Tight Rope Walker http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/washington-on-honduras-the-tight-rope-walker/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mary http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/washington-on-honduras-the-tight-rope-walker/#comment-52755 mary Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:29:37 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=9868#comment-52755 CANCEL THE MEETING BETWEEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT & THE HONDURAS COUP REGIME! PLEASE Call the State Department (202-647-4000) on Monday August 24, 2009 … [Ask ten friends, or fifty or more, to also call] … AND SAY NO! to Hillary Clinton meeting with Honduran Coup Makers and Human Rights Violators. According to State Department spokesperson Ian Kelly, an official delegation of the regime installed by military coup in Honduras is invited to Washington to meet with U.S. "officials". The meeting will be to work "toward restoration of democratic and constitutional power in Honduras." The regime has used State repression and terror since June 28th, including the killings of at least 10 people. Since one day after the coup, the OAS (Organization of American States) labeled it an illegal regime and called for the “immediate and unconditional” restoration of President Zelaya and his government. By once again welcoming an official delegation to Washington, the U.S. government would be obstructing the restoration of the legitimate government of President Zelaya and would be ‘legitimizing’ the illegal regime. We ask everyone who cares about the right of the Hondurans to be free from a military-installed regime to call the State Department on Monday, at 202-647-4000, to ask for cancellation of any meeting in Washington with representatives of the illegal regime. From: Committee in Solidarity with the Resistance to the Coup in Honduras. http://www.hondurasresists.org / info@hondurasresists.org / 617-610-3784 WHAT TO DO TO DONATE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE FUNDS TO PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT IN HONDURAS, MAKE CHECK TO “RIGHTS ACTION” AND MAIL TO: UNITED STATES: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887 CANADA: 552-351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8 For foundations and institutional donors, Rights Action can – upon request - provide a full proposal of which organizations and people we are channeling funds to and supporting. AMERICANS AND CANADIANS SHOULD CONTACT YOUR OWN MEDIA, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, SENATORS & MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT - EVERY DAY, DAY AFTER DAY - TO DEMAND: An end to police, army and para-military repression and respect for safety and human rights of all Hondurans Unequivocal denunciation of the military coup No recognition of this military coup and the ‘de facto’ government of Roberto Micheletti No recognition of the November 2009 elections, that candidates are campaigning for, even as the country is militarized and repression is widespread Unconditional return of the entire constitutional government of President Zelaya Concrete and targeted economic, military and diplomatic sanctions against the coup plotters and perpetrators Application of international and national justice against the coup plotters Reparations for the illegal actions and rights violations committed during this illegal coup FOR MORE INFORMATION: Karen Spring (Rights Action) in Honduras: [504]9507-3835, spring.kj@gmail.com Grahame Russell (Rights Action), in USA: 1-860-352-2448, info@rightsaction.org CANCEL THE MEETING BETWEEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT & THE HONDURAS COUP REGIME!

PLEASE Call the State Department (202-647-4000) on Monday August 24, 2009 …

[Ask ten friends, or fifty or more, to also call]

… AND SAY NO! to Hillary Clinton meeting with Honduran Coup Makers and Human Rights Violators.

According to State Department spokesperson Ian Kelly, an official delegation of the regime installed by military coup in Honduras is invited to Washington to meet with U.S. “officials”.

The meeting will be to work “toward restoration of democratic and constitutional power in Honduras.”

The regime has used State repression and terror since June 28th, including the killings of at least 10 people.

Since one day after the coup, the OAS (Organization of American States) labeled it an illegal regime and called for the “immediate and unconditional” restoration of President Zelaya and his government.

By once again welcoming an official delegation to Washington, the U.S. government would be obstructing the restoration of the legitimate government of President Zelaya and would be ‘legitimizing’ the illegal regime.

We ask everyone who cares about the right of the Hondurans to be free from a military-installed regime to call the State Department on Monday, at 202-647-4000, to ask for cancellation of any meeting in Washington with representatives of the illegal regime.

From: Committee in Solidarity with the Resistance to the Coup in Honduras.

http://www.hondurasresists.org / gro.stsisersarudnohnull@ofni / 617-610-3784

WHAT TO DO

TO DONATE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE FUNDS TO PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT IN HONDURAS, MAKE CHECK TO “RIGHTS ACTION” AND MAIL TO:

UNITED STATES: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
CANADA: 552-351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8
For foundations and institutional donors, Rights Action can – upon request – provide a full proposal of which organizations and people we are channeling funds to and supporting.

AMERICANS AND CANADIANS SHOULD CONTACT YOUR OWN MEDIA, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, SENATORS & MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT – EVERY DAY, DAY AFTER DAY – TO DEMAND:

An end to police, army and para-military repression and respect for safety and human rights of all Hondurans
Unequivocal denunciation of the military coup
No recognition of this military coup and the ‘de facto’ government of Roberto Micheletti
No recognition of the November 2009 elections, that candidates are campaigning for, even as the country is militarized and repression is widespread
Unconditional return of the entire constitutional government of President Zelaya
Concrete and targeted economic, military and diplomatic sanctions against the coup plotters and perpetrators
Application of international and national justice against the coup plotters
Reparations for the illegal actions and rights violations committed during this illegal coup
FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Karen Spring (Rights Action) in Honduras: [504]9507-3835, moc.liamgnull@jk.gnirps
Grahame Russell (Rights Action), in USA: 1-860-352-2448, gro.noitcasthgirnull@ofni

]]> By: mary http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/washington-on-honduras-the-tight-rope-walker/#comment-52591 mary Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:34:35 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=9868#comment-52591 Over 90 Scholars and Latin America Experts Call on Human Rights Watch to Speak Out on Honduras Abuses Washington, D.C. - 93 scholars and Latin America experts from institutions such as Yale, Harvard, and New York University sent an open letter to Human Rights Watch today urging the organization to highlight various human rights violations in Honduras under the coup regime, and to conduct its own investigation. The signers, who include well-known experts on Latin America such as Eric Hershberg, John Womack, Jr., and Greg Grandin, Honduras experts such as Dana Frank and Adrienne Pine, and well-known authors including Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Naomi Klein, note that Human Rights Watch could help force the Obama administration to denounce the abuses and put greater pressure on the regime. Highlighting "politically-motivated killings, hundreds of arbitrary detentions, the violent repression of unarmed demonstrators, mass arrests of political opposition, and other violations of basic human rights," the letter notes that Human Rights Watch has not issued a statement or release on the situation in Honduras since July 8, a little over a week following the June 28 coup d'etat. The signers write, "...the coup could easily be overturned, if the Obama administration sought to do so, by taking more decisive measures, such as canceling all U.S. visas and freezing U.S. bank accounts of leaders of the coup regime." The letter comes just a day after Amnesty International issued a new report on the coup regime's violations of human rights in cracking down on protests, and as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (part of the Organization of American States) wraps up a fact-finding delegation to Honduras. The author of the Amnesty International report, Esther Major, has stated that the report was released to call on the international community to take action to "prevent a human rights crisis occurring in Honduras." The full text of the letter to Kenneth Roth, the executive director of HRW follows: http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/22402 Over 90 Scholars and Latin America Experts Call on Human Rights Watch to Speak Out on Honduras Abuses

Washington, D.C. – 93 scholars and Latin America experts from institutions such as Yale, Harvard, and New York University sent an open letter to Human Rights Watch today urging the organization to highlight various human rights violations in Honduras under the coup regime, and to conduct its own investigation. The signers, who include well-known experts on Latin America such as Eric Hershberg, John Womack, Jr., and Greg Grandin, Honduras experts such as Dana Frank and Adrienne Pine, and well-known authors including Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Naomi Klein, note that Human Rights Watch could help force the Obama administration to denounce the abuses and put greater pressure on the regime. Highlighting “politically-motivated killings, hundreds of arbitrary detentions, the violent repression of unarmed demonstrators, mass arrests of political opposition, and other violations of basic human rights,” the letter notes that Human Rights Watch has not issued a statement or release on the situation in Honduras since July 8, a little over a week following the June 28 coup d’etat.

The signers write, “…the coup could easily be overturned, if the Obama administration sought to do so, by taking more decisive measures, such as canceling all U.S. visas and freezing U.S. bank accounts of leaders of the coup regime.”

The letter comes just a day after Amnesty International issued a new report on the coup regime’s violations of human rights in cracking down on protests, and as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (part of the Organization of American States) wraps up a fact-finding delegation to Honduras. The author of the Amnesty International report, Esther Major, has stated
that the report was released to call on the international community to take action to “prevent a human rights crisis occurring in Honduras.”

The full text of the letter to Kenneth Roth, the executive director of HRW follows:

http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/22402

]]> By: Josie Michel-Brüning http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/washington-on-honduras-the-tight-rope-walker/#comment-52388 Josie Michel-Brüning Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:16:30 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=9868#comment-52388 Thanks for your addition, dear Mary. Thanks for your addition, dear Mary.

]]> By: mary http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/washington-on-honduras-the-tight-rope-walker/#comment-52385 mary Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:14:32 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=9868#comment-52385 Ten of the most powerful families in Honduras financed the coup CARACAS, August 16.—Honduras National University researcher Leticia Salomón stated yesterday that 10 of the most powerful families in her country financed the June 28 coup against Manuel Zelaya, the legitimate and constitutional president. During the broadcast of his Sunday program "José Vicente Hoy," the Venezuelan journalist José Vicente Rangel reported on Salomón’s information that the coup was planned by a business group headed by Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé, former Honduran president and owner of the La Tribuna newspaper. He added that the daily, together with La Prensa and El Heraldo morning papers, and Channels 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 were the main pillars of the coup. "History is repeating itself: the Honduran media, like those of Venezuela in 2002 and 2003, acted as the spearhead against democracy and fundamental rights," Rangel emphasized. (ABN) Translated by Granma International http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/agosto/lun17/familia-honduras.html Ten of the most powerful families in Honduras financed the coup

CARACAS, August 16.—Honduras National University researcher Leticia Salomón stated yesterday that 10 of the most powerful families in her country financed the June 28 coup against Manuel Zelaya, the legitimate and constitutional president.

During the broadcast of his Sunday program “José Vicente Hoy,” the Venezuelan journalist José Vicente Rangel reported on Salomón’s information that the coup was planned by a business group headed by Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé, former Honduran president and owner of the La Tribuna newspaper.

He added that the daily, together with La Prensa and El Heraldo morning papers, and Channels 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 were the main pillars of the coup.

“History is repeating itself: the Honduran media, like those of Venezuela in 2002 and 2003, acted as the spearhead against democracy and fundamental rights,” Rangel emphasized. (ABN)

Translated by Granma International
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/agosto/lun17/familia-honduras.html

]]> By: Josie Michel-Brüning http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/washington-on-honduras-the-tight-rope-walker/#comment-52343 Josie Michel-Brüning Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:58:58 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=9868#comment-52343 Dear Arnold August, my eyes are burning after having read your extensive article. But I never read one so well-funded about the situation of Honduras, so far. Thank you very much. The key for any solution within the U.S.-American system does not seem to lie in the hands of President Obama, but in those of powerful lobbies in the wall street and in Miami. They seem to abuse Obama's smart image of change. And he himself seems to fear to be dead man, if honestly opposing those powerful lobbies. However, to any human being honestly searching for peace on earth and democracy in its original meaning the U.S. system is unmasked. I personally am involved in the international campaign to free the "Cuban Five" and supporting campaigns to free Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier. Only few names in comparison to the many, but all of them - clearly proofed - unjustly held in U.S. prisons, all of them victims of violation of human rights, violations of U.S. law and in the case of the Cuban Five against international law, see Conclusion of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions (Human Rights Commission) May 27, 2005, http://www.freethefive.org/updates/Solidarity/SLUNJudgement_052705.htm . Afghanistan, Iraq, Honduras, there are so much signs, the bitter fruits of U.S. foreign policy, apart from those U.S. people themselves are forced to swallow - the loss of their sons in wars for the profit of the few and keyword: healthcare. How long do they want to endure all this? Dear Arnold August, my eyes are burning after having read your extensive article. But I never read one so well-funded about the situation of Honduras, so far.
Thank you very much.
The key for any solution within the U.S.-American system does not seem to lie in the hands of President Obama, but in those of powerful lobbies in the wall street and in Miami.
They seem to abuse Obama’s smart image of change.
And he himself seems to fear to be dead man, if honestly opposing those powerful lobbies.
However, to any human being honestly searching for peace on earth and democracy in its original meaning the U.S. system is unmasked.
I personally am involved in the international campaign to free the “Cuban Five” and supporting campaigns to free Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier.
Only few names in comparison to the many, but all of them – clearly proofed – unjustly held in U.S. prisons, all of them victims of violation of human rights, violations of U.S. law and in the case of the Cuban Five against international law, see Conclusion of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions (Human Rights Commission) May 27, 2005, http://www.freethefive.org/updates/Solidarity/SLUNJudgement_052705.htm .
Afghanistan, Iraq, Honduras, there are so much signs, the bitter fruits of U.S. foreign policy, apart from those U.S. people themselves are forced to swallow – the loss of their sons in wars for the profit of the few and keyword: healthcare.
How long do they want to endure all this?

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