Post-Coup Honduras, Their Struggle is Ours. (graphic images)

[Charleston Chew]

Run time: 09:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1s29zCqVQE   Posted on YouTube: March 31, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheRealNews Views on YouTube: 271   Posted on DU: March 31, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 514

 
Report from Land Occupations in Post-Coup Honduras

Poor farmers are taking more and more land from agribusiness that supported the 2009 military coup, and paying with their lives.

It's been more than 20 months since a military coup shook the Central American country of Honduras to it's core. The aftermath has seen a decades old land conflict reach deadly heights as poor farmers occupy agribusiness-owned land, and are often found dead soon after.

In previous years, the farmers would be on their own, but the coup gave rise to a broad resistance movement of which the campesinos are a key sector.

Produced by Jesse Freeston.

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[Charleston Chew]

1. transcript

http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/global-news/2344-report-from-land-occupations-in-post-coup-honduras

[Catherina]

2. Shameful.

Manuel Zelaya: Wikileaks confirms US knowledge of coup and puts Obama in a bind
RED MORAZÁNICA DE INFORMACIÓN

Tegucigalpa. November 29, 2010. The cable revealed by Wikileaks sent to Washington by US ambassador in Tegucigalpa, Hugo Lorens, “Is a revelation that the United States was very aware of the coup d’etat and puts the Obama administration in a serious bind” assures expatriate Honduran president Manuel Zelaya.

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The Coordinator of the Resistance employed the popular adage “in the face of a confession, no further evidence is necessary” to explain that “It is evident that the United States was complicit, knew beforehand about the planning and execution of the coup and kept silent, and had detailed knowledge of the subsequent events.

Similarly, he posited that the cable revealed by the Wikileaks project “reveals the plot hatched against democracy that delegitimizes the current regime. We are now clear that they always knew the truth” Zelaya underscored.

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Zelaya considers that US interference in the internal affairs of Honduras, “which we had already clearly denounced,” is confirmed by the document divulged by Wikileaks, reinforcing the moral imperative to demand that the US stop the violence it promotes in the country, and that, just as it snatched away dreams of democracy, it “immediately become part of the solution, promote the punishment of criminals and reparations to the victims. Nothing else is acceptable.”

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http://quotha.net/node/1416

For you for caring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drlpkQTPr0Y (English subtitles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND8CGMYCkMc (Spanish subtitles)

Rec'd with a thank you

[Charleston Chew]

3. Honduran Students Defend Occupied National University

Raw Footage/Material Crudo

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Wednesday was a national day of action in Honduras as teachers, students, and members of the National People's Resistance Front took part in a third week of actions against the privatization of education. Students of the National Autonomous University in the capital of Tegucigalpa occupied the campus and the surrounding streets. They were then attacked by riot squads launching tear gas and rocks, and by two tanks that fire water mixed with pepper spray. The police entered the campus grounds from a back entrance before being repelled by hundreds students throwing rocks.

It marked the second time in one week that the police entered the university, breaking a Honduran law that prohibits the presence of police or military on Honduran university campuses.

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