Another nurse union leader murdered in targeted assassination
Sábado 18 de Septiembre de 2010 14:09 Adrienne Pine .Sat, 09/18/2010 - 10:12 — AP
Note: This is translated from El Tiempo, and as is common in that newspaper, even though its reporting is leagues ahead of all the other major newspapers (the ones that sponsored the coup), the fact of targeted assassinations of resistance leaders is minimized in reporting, substituted instead with unconvincing rhetoric of generalized "insecurity" and common crime. Keep that in mind as you read about this latest, atrocious murder of a nurse and union leader who stood up to the U.S.-supported military usurpation of her democracy.
President of SITRAIHSS is murdered
SAN PEDRO SULA.- The president of the Union of Workers of the Honduran Institute of Social Security (SITRAIHSS), Juana Bustillo, died last night after being shot at last night by an individual in the El Roble neighborhood.
Her work colleagues stated that Bustillo, 49 years old, had been meeting until 7:30pm at the IHSS headquarters with other union activists.
She left the building with two people, a man and a woman, in a red pickup truck that she was driving.
She drove north on the boulevard and entered the El Roble neighborhood at the second exit, and parked at a mini-supermarket.
Immediately a subject approached and shot three bullets directly at her. He then ran away to a beige getaway car that had parked behind the pickup truck, in which he fled.
The two people who were with her drove her back to the IHSS hospital in the same vehicle that she had been driving, less than a kilometer away in a straight line on the Boulevard of the North.
Juana Suyapa Bustillo was 49 years old.
The patient was admitted to the emergency department in the middle of a heart attack and was brought in that state to the surgeon, where her state worsened. She was declared clinically dead at 8:30pm, according to the attending doctor doctor Carlos Umaña.
The doctor explained that Bustillo had received three bullet wounds, two to the thorax. One of the bullets punctured her aorta, and that had been the cause of her death.
A son of Bustillo's arrived at the IHSS, and upon being informed of her passing burst into unconsolable tears and had to be taken aside by his mother's work colleagues.
In the hallways the nurses and doctors commented with great concern on the tragic death and lamented the climate of insecurity that is ending the lives of productive people.
They explained that Juana Bustillo had been working at the IHSS for 20 years and had been a union leader for 11.
ANTECEDENTS
On February 3, 2010, Vanessa Janeth Zepeda Alonso, a 29 year old nurse who worked in an IHSS hospital in Tegucigalpa and also member of SITRAIHSS was murdered.
This July 16, the head of purchasing for the Honduran Institute of Social Security and his family were shot at in the Jardines del Valle neighborhood.
On that occasion two criminals shot at the vehicle driven by Lenín Augusto Guevara, along with his wife Fátima Adela Soriano and daughter Andrea Guevara Soriano, barely three years old. The [wife] and the child died and he was wounded. It is assumed that the motive of the attack was robbery.
This article was taken from Quotha 1190
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Over 1.3 Million Petition to Refound Honduras
Over 1.3 Million Petition to Refound Honduras
Domingo 19 de Septiembre de 2010 18:35 By Karen Spring .Recognizing that Congress, the Supreme Court, the oligarchy, and the two dominant political parties would never permit or support a path that would give the majority of Hondurans a voice in the political, social and economic processes of the country, the FNRP announced their commitment to the campaign and began to gather signatures to demand the Constituyente.
The pro-democracy resistance movement known as the National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP) has collected 1,346,876 signatures thus far demanding a National Constituent Assembly that would mark an important step in its struggle to rewrite Honduras' Constitution and refound the country. During the past five months, volunteers from the various groups and organizations that come together under the FNRP have gone out to parks, neighborhoods, villages, cities, and departments all over the country to educate the Honduran people about the proposed Constituyente and collect signatures.
Despite severe repression and the murders of resistance members, the collection of names continued daily. Given the repression, the FNRP reports that many people were reluctant to give their signature for fear that they would later be identified and threatened or killed for participating in the campaign.
Along with many other organizations, the indigenous and campesino organization COPINH (Civic Counsel for Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras) was part of this process, collecting thousands of signatures in the four western departments where they work, during community workshops, gatherings, assemblies and other "places of struggle."
COPINH reports that their efforts in the collection are "a tribute to the martyrs of Honduran society in the struggle for the refoundation of Honduras." COPINH emphasized that it was not an easy mission, as many of their volunteer members were detained, threatened and jailed. Police also attempted to confiscate papers containing signatures that the organization had collected.
Taking Matters into Their Own Hands
On the day (June 28, 2009) that President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown, many Hondurans were going to participate in a non-binding, national opinion poll on whether to include a question on the ballot during the national elections scheduled for November 29, 2009 concerning the formal establishment of aConstituyente. Along with electing their president, congressman and mayor, people would have indicated through a fourth ballot box (cuarta urna whether or not they were in favor of a Constituyente to review and rewrite the Constitution.
The opinion poll and the hopes of those who favor a Constituyente were crushed that day by the coup d'état -- an attempt by the ruling class to stop a process that would challenge their power and position in Honduran society.
Recognizing that Congress, the Supreme Court, the oligarchy, and the two dominant political parties would never support or permit a path that would give the majority of Hondurans a voice in the political, social and economic processes of the country, the FNRP announced their commitment to the campaign and began to gather signatures to demand the Constituyente in July 2010.
Domingo 19 de Septiembre de 2010 18:35 By Karen Spring .Recognizing that Congress, the Supreme Court, the oligarchy, and the two dominant political parties would never permit or support a path that would give the majority of Hondurans a voice in the political, social and economic processes of the country, the FNRP announced their commitment to the campaign and began to gather signatures to demand the Constituyente.
The pro-democracy resistance movement known as the National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP) has collected 1,346,876 signatures thus far demanding a National Constituent Assembly that would mark an important step in its struggle to rewrite Honduras' Constitution and refound the country. During the past five months, volunteers from the various groups and organizations that come together under the FNRP have gone out to parks, neighborhoods, villages, cities, and departments all over the country to educate the Honduran people about the proposed Constituyente and collect signatures.
Despite severe repression and the murders of resistance members, the collection of names continued daily. Given the repression, the FNRP reports that many people were reluctant to give their signature for fear that they would later be identified and threatened or killed for participating in the campaign.
Along with many other organizations, the indigenous and campesino organization COPINH (Civic Counsel for Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras) was part of this process, collecting thousands of signatures in the four western departments where they work, during community workshops, gatherings, assemblies and other "places of struggle."
COPINH reports that their efforts in the collection are "a tribute to the martyrs of Honduran society in the struggle for the refoundation of Honduras." COPINH emphasized that it was not an easy mission, as many of their volunteer members were detained, threatened and jailed. Police also attempted to confiscate papers containing signatures that the organization had collected.
Taking Matters into Their Own Hands
On the day (June 28, 2009) that President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown, many Hondurans were going to participate in a non-binding, national opinion poll on whether to include a question on the ballot during the national elections scheduled for November 29, 2009 concerning the formal establishment of aConstituyente. Along with electing their president, congressman and mayor, people would have indicated through a fourth ballot box (cuarta urna whether or not they were in favor of a Constituyente to review and rewrite the Constitution.
The opinion poll and the hopes of those who favor a Constituyente were crushed that day by the coup d'état -- an attempt by the ruling class to stop a process that would challenge their power and position in Honduran society.
Recognizing that Congress, the Supreme Court, the oligarchy, and the two dominant political parties would never support or permit a path that would give the majority of Hondurans a voice in the political, social and economic processes of the country, the FNRP announced their commitment to the campaign and began to gather signatures to demand the Constituyente in July 2010.
Zelaya sworn in as Representative of Honduras in PARLACEN
Zelaya sworn in as Representative of Honduras in PARLACEN
Lunes 20 de Septiembre de 2010 02:37 Radio La Primerisima .Radio La Primerísima | September 17, 2010
(NEWS ITEM CONFIRMED) The television station Cholusat Sur reports that ex-President Manuel Zelaya has already been sworn in as a member of PARLACEN (the Central American Parliament) in Guatemala City, according to sources within the Honduran resistance movement.
Manuel Zelaya Rosales is the representative for Honduras to the Central American Parliament. Moments ago, the president of PARLACEN swore him in at the headquarters of that organization in Guatemala City.
At this moment, according to Cholusat Sur, Zelaya is surrounded by national and international press covering the event.
Cholusat Sur informs that this swearing in is an act of recognition of President Zelaya.
At this very important moment in the life of the [former] head of state, he is accompanied by his wife Xiomara Castro de Zelaya.
At the same time, media reports inform that this seat had been coveted by the leader of the coup d'etat in Honduras, Roberto Michelleti.
Esdras Amado López, Director del Medio, says this act is a blow to the golpista; a slap in the face of the coupmongering usurper.
In Cholusat Sur one can hear President Zelaya in the background promising to speak to the Honduran station. "It will be my pleasure," he stated.
Taken from Zelaya sworn in as Representative of Honduras in PARLACEN
Lunes 20 de Septiembre de 2010 02:37 Radio La Primerisima .Radio La Primerísima | September 17, 2010
(NEWS ITEM CONFIRMED) The television station Cholusat Sur reports that ex-President Manuel Zelaya has already been sworn in as a member of PARLACEN (the Central American Parliament) in Guatemala City, according to sources within the Honduran resistance movement.
Manuel Zelaya Rosales is the representative for Honduras to the Central American Parliament. Moments ago, the president of PARLACEN swore him in at the headquarters of that organization in Guatemala City.
At this moment, according to Cholusat Sur, Zelaya is surrounded by national and international press covering the event.
Cholusat Sur informs that this swearing in is an act of recognition of President Zelaya.
At this very important moment in the life of the [former] head of state, he is accompanied by his wife Xiomara Castro de Zelaya.
At the same time, media reports inform that this seat had been coveted by the leader of the coup d'etat in Honduras, Roberto Michelleti.
Esdras Amado López, Director del Medio, says this act is a blow to the golpista; a slap in the face of the coupmongering usurper.
In Cholusat Sur one can hear President Zelaya in the background promising to speak to the Honduran station. "It will be my pleasure," he stated.
Taken from Zelaya sworn in as Representative of Honduras in PARLACEN
Refounding Independence Day
Refounding Independence Day
Lunes 20 de Septiembre de 2010 14:57 RAJ .What would press coverage be like if 16% of the US population called for a new constitutional convention? Don't you think there would be analysis, coverage of rallies calling for constitutional reform, and more?
This week in Honduras, the equivalent happened: in a country with an estimated population of 7.8 million, 1.26 million signatures were gathered on petitions to begin the process of writing a new constitution. But don't hold your breath waiting for this to be covered by the mainstream media.
Even in Honduras, only El Tiempo actually reported this development fully. Other newspapers chose only to mention that the Frente de Resistencia had called for marches, always in the context of reporting that security minister Oscar Alvarez was prepared, as he said, to prevent any vandalism, with 3000 police deployed in Tegucigalpa.
The marches called for are counter-demonstrations to the annual observance of September 15, celebrated throughout Central America as the anniversary of Independence from Spain in 1821. This year, September 15 was also the deadline chosen by the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular for the completion of its drive to obtain 1.25 million signatures on a petition for a national constitutional assembly, the asamblea constituyente. In linking the two, the Frente advanced a powerful symbolic claim to following in the footsteps of Honduras' founding fathers.
According to the announcement by Eulogio Chávez, president of the Colegio de Profesores de Educación Media de Honduras (COPEMH), and attorney Rasel Tome, who have been supervising counting of the signed petitions at the office of the beverage workers' union (STIBYS), on Sunday the count reached 1,269,142 signatures. This set the Frente to proceed to mark the anniversary of Independence Day as the beginning of the next phase of their campaign for a constitutional assembly, with a call for nation-wide demonstrations and marches apart from the official celebrations of Independence Day.
In Honduras, whose flag still features a star for each of the countries that once made up the República Federal de Centroamérica, Independence Day is marked particularly by marches by school children who for weeks before have practiced, accompanied by children's marching bands, literally bandas de guerra or military bands, drum corps beating rhythms more appropriate to the armed forces than schools.
This is a festival of nationalism exhibiting a melange of symbols of identity that makes me, as an anthropologist, want to spend pages in thick description.
So to spare you that, take a look at how Wikipedia describes the annual celebration:
Honduras Independence Day festivities start early in the morning with marching bands. Each band wears different colors and features cheerleaders. Fiesta Catracha takes place this same day: typical Honduran foods such as beans, tamales, baleadas, [yuca] with chicharron and tortillas are offered.
The mobilization of children of all ages, from kindergarten to secondary school, in cities across the country, makes September 15 one of those national expressions that becomes a part of the unexamined embodied knowledge that anthropologists identify as the most powerful means for the reproduction of culture. That's what September 15 is ultimately about: children learning that they are part of a national whole through persistent participation, so that as adults they don't even think to question the national myths. What the Frente is seeking to do is push a wedge into that unexamined knowledge, and gain the attention of Honduran society, to open up the possibility of deliberate, consciously considered change in the charter of government.
On this anniversary of Honduras' first foray into self-governance, it is underlining that the call for a constituyente is neither a call for anarchy nor for dictatorship.
The basic questions anyone might have about how, under existing Honduran law, such a process might be initiated are simple enough that they could be addressed in straightforward prose in a series of pamphlets, described on the website Revistazo.
This series was published by a group of religious organizations dedicated to community service, the Organismo Cristiano de Desarrollo Integral de Honduras (Christian Development Organization of Honduras, OCDIH), CARITAS, the Instituto Ecuménico Hondureño de Servicios a la Comunidad (Honduran Ecumenical Institute of Community Services, INESHCO), and Radio Santa Rosa (the radio station of the Santa Rosa diocese). It is a reminder that support for debate about Honduran governance is not, as authorities in Honduras and the US would like to insist, a project of extremists.
If there ever emerges serious discussion of the signature drive for the constitutional assembly in English media, we can expect that the news media will attempt to minimize the achievement. After all, 16% of the population is not a majority. But recall my first analogy: the equivalent in the US, given the 2010 census population estimate of 308 million people, would be more than 49 million people. As another comparison: in January of this year, Gallup reported that nationally, only 27% of US voters identified as Republican; yet no one would argue that Republicans can, or should be, ignored in national policy debates.
International commentators (if they ever pay attention) are also likely to argue that the number is of unknown (or questionable) reliability, because the count was kept by adherents of the cause. This, in fact, is one of the most apparent reasons that the coup d'etat against Manuel Zelaya had to take place on June 28, 2009, to prevent any assessment of the level of support for a constitutional assembly to take place under governmental supervision, even by a government whose credibility had been systematically undermined by media editorializing.
And if, working on a grass-roots level without government or international NGO support, the signature campaign was able to achieve this level of participation, perhaps we have a better idea of what the authors of the coup did not want the world to know: that disillusion with the present form of Honduran government has reached a significant level, one that would need to be taken into account in a truly democratic society.
Which is one thing September 15 is without a doubt about: the first steps taken in Honduras toward government by the Honduran people. Which makes it a good date to take another step along that long road.
This articles comes from Honduras Culture and Politics blog by RAJ - Refounding Independence Day
Lunes 20 de Septiembre de 2010 14:57 RAJ .What would press coverage be like if 16% of the US population called for a new constitutional convention? Don't you think there would be analysis, coverage of rallies calling for constitutional reform, and more?
This week in Honduras, the equivalent happened: in a country with an estimated population of 7.8 million, 1.26 million signatures were gathered on petitions to begin the process of writing a new constitution. But don't hold your breath waiting for this to be covered by the mainstream media.
Even in Honduras, only El Tiempo actually reported this development fully. Other newspapers chose only to mention that the Frente de Resistencia had called for marches, always in the context of reporting that security minister Oscar Alvarez was prepared, as he said, to prevent any vandalism, with 3000 police deployed in Tegucigalpa.
The marches called for are counter-demonstrations to the annual observance of September 15, celebrated throughout Central America as the anniversary of Independence from Spain in 1821. This year, September 15 was also the deadline chosen by the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular for the completion of its drive to obtain 1.25 million signatures on a petition for a national constitutional assembly, the asamblea constituyente. In linking the two, the Frente advanced a powerful symbolic claim to following in the footsteps of Honduras' founding fathers.
According to the announcement by Eulogio Chávez, president of the Colegio de Profesores de Educación Media de Honduras (COPEMH), and attorney Rasel Tome, who have been supervising counting of the signed petitions at the office of the beverage workers' union (STIBYS), on Sunday the count reached 1,269,142 signatures. This set the Frente to proceed to mark the anniversary of Independence Day as the beginning of the next phase of their campaign for a constitutional assembly, with a call for nation-wide demonstrations and marches apart from the official celebrations of Independence Day.
In Honduras, whose flag still features a star for each of the countries that once made up the República Federal de Centroamérica, Independence Day is marked particularly by marches by school children who for weeks before have practiced, accompanied by children's marching bands, literally bandas de guerra or military bands, drum corps beating rhythms more appropriate to the armed forces than schools.
This is a festival of nationalism exhibiting a melange of symbols of identity that makes me, as an anthropologist, want to spend pages in thick description.
So to spare you that, take a look at how Wikipedia describes the annual celebration:
Honduras Independence Day festivities start early in the morning with marching bands. Each band wears different colors and features cheerleaders. Fiesta Catracha takes place this same day: typical Honduran foods such as beans, tamales, baleadas, [yuca] with chicharron and tortillas are offered.
The mobilization of children of all ages, from kindergarten to secondary school, in cities across the country, makes September 15 one of those national expressions that becomes a part of the unexamined embodied knowledge that anthropologists identify as the most powerful means for the reproduction of culture. That's what September 15 is ultimately about: children learning that they are part of a national whole through persistent participation, so that as adults they don't even think to question the national myths. What the Frente is seeking to do is push a wedge into that unexamined knowledge, and gain the attention of Honduran society, to open up the possibility of deliberate, consciously considered change in the charter of government.
On this anniversary of Honduras' first foray into self-governance, it is underlining that the call for a constituyente is neither a call for anarchy nor for dictatorship.
The basic questions anyone might have about how, under existing Honduran law, such a process might be initiated are simple enough that they could be addressed in straightforward prose in a series of pamphlets, described on the website Revistazo.
This series was published by a group of religious organizations dedicated to community service, the Organismo Cristiano de Desarrollo Integral de Honduras (Christian Development Organization of Honduras, OCDIH), CARITAS, the Instituto Ecuménico Hondureño de Servicios a la Comunidad (Honduran Ecumenical Institute of Community Services, INESHCO), and Radio Santa Rosa (the radio station of the Santa Rosa diocese). It is a reminder that support for debate about Honduran governance is not, as authorities in Honduras and the US would like to insist, a project of extremists.
If there ever emerges serious discussion of the signature drive for the constitutional assembly in English media, we can expect that the news media will attempt to minimize the achievement. After all, 16% of the population is not a majority. But recall my first analogy: the equivalent in the US, given the 2010 census population estimate of 308 million people, would be more than 49 million people. As another comparison: in January of this year, Gallup reported that nationally, only 27% of US voters identified as Republican; yet no one would argue that Republicans can, or should be, ignored in national policy debates.
International commentators (if they ever pay attention) are also likely to argue that the number is of unknown (or questionable) reliability, because the count was kept by adherents of the cause. This, in fact, is one of the most apparent reasons that the coup d'etat against Manuel Zelaya had to take place on June 28, 2009, to prevent any assessment of the level of support for a constitutional assembly to take place under governmental supervision, even by a government whose credibility had been systematically undermined by media editorializing.
And if, working on a grass-roots level without government or international NGO support, the signature campaign was able to achieve this level of participation, perhaps we have a better idea of what the authors of the coup did not want the world to know: that disillusion with the present form of Honduran government has reached a significant level, one that would need to be taken into account in a truly democratic society.
Which is one thing September 15 is without a doubt about: the first steps taken in Honduras toward government by the Honduran people. Which makes it a good date to take another step along that long road.
This articles comes from Honduras Culture and Politics blog by RAJ - Refounding Independence Day
Comunicado No. 74
Comunicado No. 74
Viernes 17 de Septiembre de 2010 11:36 FNRP .
Avanzamos seguros hacia la Constituyente
Hondureños y hondureñas hemos hablado contundentemente; expresamos la urgencia de transformaciones sociales, económicas y políticas profundas, que hoy dejaron de ser una exigencia para convertirse en un mandato popular impostergable.
Anunciamos que en la Consulta Popular para la Declaración Soberana iniciada el 20 de abril de 2010 y concluida el 15 de septiembre de 2010, obtuvimos 1,342,876 firmas en todo el país.
La Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, popular, incluyente y participativa es un imperativo de la historia y un mandato popular. Cada una de las firmas que se recogió es un compromiso con el cambio, una declaración de principios, una manifestación de confianza en la Resistencia y un grito de libertad y dignidad.
Debemos recordar también que con la Declaración Soberana el pueblo exige el retorno sin condiciones y de manera segura del compañero Coordinador del FNRP, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, así como de todos los exiliados y exiliadas desterrados por este régimen de terror.
Mientras la oligarquía usa tanques y fusiles para acreditar su poder, la Resistencia, con lápices y tableros en mano, valida su propuesta de Refundación con la demostración de apoyo popular más grande de la historia de nuestro país.
El protagonista de esta gesta es el glorioso pueblo hondureño, decenas de miles de militantes del FNRP en cada lugar del país y retando la represión de un régimen continuador del golpe de Estado que ha seguido asesinando, torturando y apresando a los comprometidos con la causa de la Refundación, asumió la tarea de la consulta con responsabilidad y sacrificio. Ni la intimidación ni el engaño pudieron detener esta marea humana, que se apresta ahora a reunirse en Colectivos de Resistencia por todas las regiones y en cada sector social para discutir cuáles serán los cambios que llevaremos a cabo.
Simultáneamente al levantamiento de Declaraciones Soberanas, desarrollamos actividades para consensuar con todos los sectores que integran el FNRP los contenidos de la nueva Constitución con la que habremos de transformar la sociedad.
En esta etapa que se avecina, continuamos afinando los mecanismos de participación democrática con los que construimos el Frente, consolidándonos organizativamente para enfrentar una oligarquía aferrada al sistema que garantiza sus privilegios, y sobre todo, debemos asumir el tiempo que viene con la mayor creatividad y espíritu revolucionario. Estamos edificando el futuro.
Sirva este día como homenaje a quienes sufrieron el máximo sacrificio por la causa de la Refundación: nuestros mártires, hombres y mujeres valientes por quienes hemos jurado vencer.
A la Refundación no la detendrán con fusiles, avanzamos seguros y con unidad granítica hacia la igualdad y la justicia.
¡Resistimos y Venceremos!
Comité Ejecutivo del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular
Tegucigalpa M.D.C 17 de septiembre de 2010
Viernes 17 de Septiembre de 2010 11:36 FNRP .
Avanzamos seguros hacia la Constituyente
Hondureños y hondureñas hemos hablado contundentemente; expresamos la urgencia de transformaciones sociales, económicas y políticas profundas, que hoy dejaron de ser una exigencia para convertirse en un mandato popular impostergable.
Anunciamos que en la Consulta Popular para la Declaración Soberana iniciada el 20 de abril de 2010 y concluida el 15 de septiembre de 2010, obtuvimos 1,342,876 firmas en todo el país.
La Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, popular, incluyente y participativa es un imperativo de la historia y un mandato popular. Cada una de las firmas que se recogió es un compromiso con el cambio, una declaración de principios, una manifestación de confianza en la Resistencia y un grito de libertad y dignidad.
Debemos recordar también que con la Declaración Soberana el pueblo exige el retorno sin condiciones y de manera segura del compañero Coordinador del FNRP, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, así como de todos los exiliados y exiliadas desterrados por este régimen de terror.
Mientras la oligarquía usa tanques y fusiles para acreditar su poder, la Resistencia, con lápices y tableros en mano, valida su propuesta de Refundación con la demostración de apoyo popular más grande de la historia de nuestro país.
El protagonista de esta gesta es el glorioso pueblo hondureño, decenas de miles de militantes del FNRP en cada lugar del país y retando la represión de un régimen continuador del golpe de Estado que ha seguido asesinando, torturando y apresando a los comprometidos con la causa de la Refundación, asumió la tarea de la consulta con responsabilidad y sacrificio. Ni la intimidación ni el engaño pudieron detener esta marea humana, que se apresta ahora a reunirse en Colectivos de Resistencia por todas las regiones y en cada sector social para discutir cuáles serán los cambios que llevaremos a cabo.
Simultáneamente al levantamiento de Declaraciones Soberanas, desarrollamos actividades para consensuar con todos los sectores que integran el FNRP los contenidos de la nueva Constitución con la que habremos de transformar la sociedad.
En esta etapa que se avecina, continuamos afinando los mecanismos de participación democrática con los que construimos el Frente, consolidándonos organizativamente para enfrentar una oligarquía aferrada al sistema que garantiza sus privilegios, y sobre todo, debemos asumir el tiempo que viene con la mayor creatividad y espíritu revolucionario. Estamos edificando el futuro.
Sirva este día como homenaje a quienes sufrieron el máximo sacrificio por la causa de la Refundación: nuestros mártires, hombres y mujeres valientes por quienes hemos jurado vencer.
A la Refundación no la detendrán con fusiles, avanzamos seguros y con unidad granítica hacia la igualdad y la justicia.
¡Resistimos y Venceremos!
Comité Ejecutivo del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular
Tegucigalpa M.D.C 17 de septiembre de 2010
Proclama del 15 de septiembre de 2010
Proclama del 15 de septiembre de 2010
Miércoles 15 de Septiembre de 2010 18:51 FNRP .El pueblo hondureño se moviliza hoy en cada municipio del país para reclamar derechos que históricamente le han sido negados por una oligarquía mediocre que es a su vez funcionaria de los intereses económicos transnacionales que se han beneficiado de la dependencia absoluta de nuestro país.
Esta gigantesca expresión de coraje y esperanza se desarrolla en medio de un clima de inseguridad y represión. A más de un año del golpe de Estado, la continuación de la dictadura que encabeza Porfirio Lobo, asesina, persigue, tortura y exilia. Todo con el afán de destruir ese proceso de organización que se muestra indetenible.
Los 189 años de independencia formal que hoy se cumplen, se dan el marco del relanzamiento en nuestro país del modelo neoliberal que desde la década de los 90 se instauró para entregar nuestros recursos naturales, eliminar nuestras posibilidades de desarrollo y ponernos al servicio del sistema internacional de expropiación de las riquezas y trabajo de los pueblos por el gran capital.
A pesar de todas estas adversidades, el pueblo hondureño tiene muchos motivos para sentirse optimista y celebrar los esfuerzos y logros del proceso lucha continua que libra desde el 28 de junio de 2009. Nunca antes se había contado con niveles tan altos de conciencia y organización populares; nunca antes tantos sectores sociales habían estado unidos con el objetivo común de realizar transformaciones estructurales profundas.
El FNRP ha logrado ser el canal común de los explotados y marginados para hacer sus reclamos particulares, pero también es la plataforma de unión de todo un pueblo que repudia el sistema social que impone la oligarquía y propone uno nuevo, con igualdad y justicia, donde se garanticen de las necesidades básicas de todos y todas. Eso es lo que da un carácter revolucionario al proyecto al que el pueblo dio el nombre de Refundación.
Ese proyecto cuenta con el mayor respaldo popular de la historia de Honduras, lo que ha quedado demostrado con el compromiso suscrito por más 1.25 millones de personas, que a pesar de la amenaza constante y la represión, exigen de inmediato que se instale una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, incluyente, popular y participativa.
El camino a la refundación no será fácil, la tarea de derrotar políticamente a la oligarquía usando métodos no violentos, imponen seguir una disciplina férrea y asegurar la democracia interna del FNRP para mantener el gran respaldo popular y aumentar la base organizada que sea capaz de cumplir con los ejes trazados desde el inicio: organización, formación y movilización.
El trabajo que se desarrolla es complejo; construimos un instrumento político al mismo tiempo que imaginamos y proponemos una nueva sociedad; conciliamos las innumerables visiones que incorpora la Resistencia y nos reestructuramos permanentemente, inventamos métodos de lucha y protesta pacífica contra la maquinaria de represión del régimen de facto apoyada por el imperialismo. Todo requiere mucho esfuerzo y creatividad, pero se desarrolla con la convicción de que alcanzaremos el poder y construiremos una nueva sociedad.
Hoy 15 de septiembre de 2010, se cumplen 168 años del asesinato de nuestro héroe Francisco Morazán, con su ejemplo y el de todas las mujeres y todos los hombres que dieron su vida por lograr justicia e igualdad, seguiremos hasta la victoria.
¡Resistimos y Venceremos!
Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular
15 de septiembre de 2010
Miércoles 15 de Septiembre de 2010 18:51 FNRP .El pueblo hondureño se moviliza hoy en cada municipio del país para reclamar derechos que históricamente le han sido negados por una oligarquía mediocre que es a su vez funcionaria de los intereses económicos transnacionales que se han beneficiado de la dependencia absoluta de nuestro país.
Esta gigantesca expresión de coraje y esperanza se desarrolla en medio de un clima de inseguridad y represión. A más de un año del golpe de Estado, la continuación de la dictadura que encabeza Porfirio Lobo, asesina, persigue, tortura y exilia. Todo con el afán de destruir ese proceso de organización que se muestra indetenible.
Los 189 años de independencia formal que hoy se cumplen, se dan el marco del relanzamiento en nuestro país del modelo neoliberal que desde la década de los 90 se instauró para entregar nuestros recursos naturales, eliminar nuestras posibilidades de desarrollo y ponernos al servicio del sistema internacional de expropiación de las riquezas y trabajo de los pueblos por el gran capital.
A pesar de todas estas adversidades, el pueblo hondureño tiene muchos motivos para sentirse optimista y celebrar los esfuerzos y logros del proceso lucha continua que libra desde el 28 de junio de 2009. Nunca antes se había contado con niveles tan altos de conciencia y organización populares; nunca antes tantos sectores sociales habían estado unidos con el objetivo común de realizar transformaciones estructurales profundas.
El FNRP ha logrado ser el canal común de los explotados y marginados para hacer sus reclamos particulares, pero también es la plataforma de unión de todo un pueblo que repudia el sistema social que impone la oligarquía y propone uno nuevo, con igualdad y justicia, donde se garanticen de las necesidades básicas de todos y todas. Eso es lo que da un carácter revolucionario al proyecto al que el pueblo dio el nombre de Refundación.
Ese proyecto cuenta con el mayor respaldo popular de la historia de Honduras, lo que ha quedado demostrado con el compromiso suscrito por más 1.25 millones de personas, que a pesar de la amenaza constante y la represión, exigen de inmediato que se instale una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, incluyente, popular y participativa.
El camino a la refundación no será fácil, la tarea de derrotar políticamente a la oligarquía usando métodos no violentos, imponen seguir una disciplina férrea y asegurar la democracia interna del FNRP para mantener el gran respaldo popular y aumentar la base organizada que sea capaz de cumplir con los ejes trazados desde el inicio: organización, formación y movilización.
El trabajo que se desarrolla es complejo; construimos un instrumento político al mismo tiempo que imaginamos y proponemos una nueva sociedad; conciliamos las innumerables visiones que incorpora la Resistencia y nos reestructuramos permanentemente, inventamos métodos de lucha y protesta pacífica contra la maquinaria de represión del régimen de facto apoyada por el imperialismo. Todo requiere mucho esfuerzo y creatividad, pero se desarrolla con la convicción de que alcanzaremos el poder y construiremos una nueva sociedad.
Hoy 15 de septiembre de 2010, se cumplen 168 años del asesinato de nuestro héroe Francisco Morazán, con su ejemplo y el de todas las mujeres y todos los hombres que dieron su vida por lograr justicia e igualdad, seguiremos hasta la victoria.
¡Resistimos y Venceremos!
Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular
15 de septiembre de 2010
Comunicado No. 73
Comunicado No. 73
Martes 07 de Septiembre de 2010 06:30 administrador .1. La oligarquía está demostrando cuáles fueron los motivos para dar el golpe de Estado el 28 de junio de 2009; continuar ilimitadamente la concentración de riquezas a partir a partir del robo del trabajo y los recursos de las grandes mayorías. Esas intenciones se hacen cada vez más claras, cuando se pretenden destruir todos los derechos y conquistas que la Clase Trabajadora logró en décadas de luchas y sacrificios.
2. Las organizaciones populares, integradas en el Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular, se movilizan en todo el país para exigir que se detenga esta ofensiva neoliberal contra los pobres. Las exigencias que se han fijado son: a.) El aumento al salario mínimo; b.) El aumento general a los empleados públicos; c.) El rechazo a las leyes que el régimen de facto promueve para impulsar el trabajo temporal y por horas; d.) La eliminación de la ley de inversión público-privada. e.) La solidaridad con la lucha de los trabajadores de la UNAH, f.) La defensa del decreto 18-2008, que da ciertas garantías a los campesinos g.) El rechazo a la privatización de los recursos naturales, que se oculta de manera falaz tras la fachada de producción de energía “limpia”.
3. Manifestamos una vez más que todos los actos de este régimen son ilegítimos e ilegales por que se imponen desde poderes del Estado secuestrados por una clase privilegiada en contra de la voluntad del pueblo.
4. Las reivindicaciones populares son parte fundamental de la agenda del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular, y nos movilizaremos siempre que se atente contra ellas, pero sabemos que para darle solución a los problemas estructurales de nuestra sociedad y detener definitivamente las injusticias cotidianas que se dan en el sistema capitalista neoliberal contra las clases desposeídas, debemos avanzar hacia la refundación del país, de su sistema económico, de las leyes que lo rigen y los valores que se imponen para perpetuar la explotación. La instalación de la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente es el primer paso hacia esa transformación, por eso no descansaremos hasta lograrla.
¡Resistimos y Venceremos!
Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular
Tegucigalpa M.D.C 7 de septiembre de 2010
Martes 07 de Septiembre de 2010 06:30 administrador .1. La oligarquía está demostrando cuáles fueron los motivos para dar el golpe de Estado el 28 de junio de 2009; continuar ilimitadamente la concentración de riquezas a partir a partir del robo del trabajo y los recursos de las grandes mayorías. Esas intenciones se hacen cada vez más claras, cuando se pretenden destruir todos los derechos y conquistas que la Clase Trabajadora logró en décadas de luchas y sacrificios.
2. Las organizaciones populares, integradas en el Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular, se movilizan en todo el país para exigir que se detenga esta ofensiva neoliberal contra los pobres. Las exigencias que se han fijado son: a.) El aumento al salario mínimo; b.) El aumento general a los empleados públicos; c.) El rechazo a las leyes que el régimen de facto promueve para impulsar el trabajo temporal y por horas; d.) La eliminación de la ley de inversión público-privada. e.) La solidaridad con la lucha de los trabajadores de la UNAH, f.) La defensa del decreto 18-2008, que da ciertas garantías a los campesinos g.) El rechazo a la privatización de los recursos naturales, que se oculta de manera falaz tras la fachada de producción de energía “limpia”.
3. Manifestamos una vez más que todos los actos de este régimen son ilegítimos e ilegales por que se imponen desde poderes del Estado secuestrados por una clase privilegiada en contra de la voluntad del pueblo.
4. Las reivindicaciones populares son parte fundamental de la agenda del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular, y nos movilizaremos siempre que se atente contra ellas, pero sabemos que para darle solución a los problemas estructurales de nuestra sociedad y detener definitivamente las injusticias cotidianas que se dan en el sistema capitalista neoliberal contra las clases desposeídas, debemos avanzar hacia la refundación del país, de su sistema económico, de las leyes que lo rigen y los valores que se imponen para perpetuar la explotación. La instalación de la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente es el primer paso hacia esa transformación, por eso no descansaremos hasta lograrla.
¡Resistimos y Venceremos!
Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular
Tegucigalpa M.D.C 7 de septiembre de 2010
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