It has been ninety days since the population began coming together in civil resistance in the streets and villages in Honduras against the putsch regime that took over power on the 28th of June, 2009, and that was led by Robert Micheletti, which overthrew and forced to exile to Costa Rica the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya.
Manuel Zelaya return on the 21st of September to Honduras caught everybody by surprise, especially those who were about to accept the organization of general elections in November by the dictatorship, and who only dared to condemn grudgingly the putsch whereas trying to leave stealthily the Honduran popular movement. Mr Zelaya’s return has intensified the mobilisation of the popular movements in resistance, which are currently fighting a decisive battle. Thousands of Hondurans have gathered together, have built barricades and organized protests to put an end to the putsch regime.
The Honduran putsch government has responded with a violent repression. An imposing police and military operation has been deployed in order to crash the resistance movement. Many demonstrations have been brutally repressed in front of the Brazilian embassy – where Zelaya has taken refuge – as well as in different districts in the capital Tegucigalpa and in several provincial villages. It is believed that many hundreds of people have been arrested, that there have been tortures and that several people have been shot dead. The four international airports in the country and the border checkpoints have been closed.
The National Front of Resistance Against the Coup d’Etat in Honduras has called for the strengthening of the international solidarity: the putsch regime has to fall.
The NPA has called the labour and democratic movements in France and in Europe to intensify the mobilisation against the Honduran coup d’état, and has asked for its support to the Honduran popular movement. It is indeed a critical situation; a massacre has to be avoided at all costs, especially when the government is imposing a wall of silence.
The NPA calls to a massive participation in the demonstrations organized by the common action of French and Latin-American organizations, in whose action the NPA has been involved now for three months.
Place and time of the demonstration: Place Saint Michel (Paris), on Monday, the 28th of September at 18.30h.
These demonstrations support the demands of the National Front of Resistance Against the Coup d’Etat, which are:
– the immediate and unconditional return of Mr Zelaya to his functions,
– the end of all repressions and the liberation of all political prisoners,
– the convocation of a National Constitutional Agency.
Montreuil (France), the 24th of September, 2009.
_NOUVEAU PARTI ANTICAPITALISTE (NPA, New Anti-Capitalist Party)