Resistance in Honduras Alive and Jumping
Resistance in Honduras Alive and Jumping
by David Swanson / June 23rd, 2015
June 28 will mark 6 years since the U.S.-backed military coup in Honduras took the people’s government away from them. Thousands of people are still in the streets every week demanding that the wrongful president step down.”Whoever’s not jumping supports the coup!” is the shout as a sea of people leaps repeatedly into the air. The makers of an amazing new film called Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley, will be allowing anyone to view it online for free for two weeks. I recommend you do so.
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Honduras has not simply turned into the worst home of violent crime. And the people have not simply fled to the U.S. border (much compassion they’d receive there!) — No, thousands and thousands of people in this little nation have taken back their land, occupied it, created communities, and built a future, with or without the coup.
President Manuel Zelaya had said he would help. Oligarchs had seized land, or bought land and then devalued the currency. Miguel Facussé took over palm oil plantations, evicted people from their land, got richer than rich, and allowed cocaine flights from Colombia to land on his plantations with U.S. knowledge.
The U.S. for years had been funding, training, and arming soldiers for the oligarchs of Honduras. The leaders of the 2009 coup that overthrew Zelaya had all trained at the School of the Americas in the United States. The U.S. assisted in the coup and in recognition of the coup government Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were part of, and are part of, this ongoing crime, and U.S. military supply shipments to Honduras are at record levels now as the military has merged with the police and turned its weaponry against the people.
More:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/06/resistance-in-honduras-alive-and-jumping/
(My emphasis.)
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I've read that around the time of the coup in 2009, he started importing paras from Colombia to beef up his security on his plantations, and help him with those pesky indigenous Hondurans who actually lived on the land he stole from them.
It's excellent learning about Matta from your link. I really want to look into him as soon as I get the time I need. Another unbelievable monster, among so many!
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