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Coup in Honduras - Protest Tuesday

La Chola | 29.06.2009 03:18 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Repression

Obama's first military coup?

Yesterday, Sunday 28th June, the Honduran military ousted the democratically elected left wing President of Honduras, kidnapping and flying him out to Costa Rica. The coup was staged just as the country was preparing to vote in a poll over a new constitution, President Manuel Zelaya had fired the head of the army after the military refused to distribute ballot boxes for the vote. A new president has been sworn in, whilst the legitimate President Zelaya refuses to quit, and has made clear that he continues in his post saying “this was a plot by a very voracious elite, which wants to keep this country in an extreme level of poverty.”

Protest tomorrow Tuesday 30 June, 5pm outside the Honduran Embassy (115 Gloucester Place London W1U 6JT). Bring placards, banners, whistles and your mates.

More info

 http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=95892&Itemid=1

 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/28/18604444.php

 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/28/18604428.php

La Chola

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which group?

29.06.2009 11:34

Which group is calling this action please?

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Co-ordinadora Latinoamericano

29.06.2009 22:01

In the early hours of Sunday June 28, a group of soldiers seized the democratically elected president of Honduras Manuel Zelaya at gun-point and took him by plane to Costa Rica. A new president was sworn in, while the army decreed a curfew, tanks patrolled the streets, the government TV channel was taken off the air and a list was issued of social movement leaders to be arrested.

The trigger for the coup was an attempt by Zelaya to call a Constituent Assembly in order to reform the country's constitution. Zelaya's government had carried out a whole series of progressive reforms in the fields of education and health care, breaking the monopoly of the multinationals in the pharmaceutical and oil sector and boosting the minimum wage by 60% and had the support of the majority of workers, peasants and the poor. His government brought Honduras into the ALBA regional bloc, aligning itself with the progressive governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua and others, whose leaders are holding an emergency summit in Managua to reverse the coup.

The masses have come out on the streets and are striking to reject this coup. We give them our full support and demand that the British government backs Zelaya as the only legitimate president of Honduras and acts to bring about the immediate restoration of constitutional order.

Down with the reactionary coup!
Bring back Zelaya!
Solidarity with the people of Honduras!

Emergency picket of the Honduras embassy
5pm Tuesday June 30
115 Gloucester Place, London W1U 6JT (nearest Tube: Baker Street or Paddington)

Called by the Co-ordinadora Latinoamericano (Hands Off Venezuela, Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, Colombia Solidarity Campaign, Ecuadorian Movement in the UK, Latin American Workers Association and Polo Democratico UK) and supported by Colectivo Acuerdo Humanitario, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and Unite London and Eastern region.

The Co-ordinadora Latinoamericano has also called for a picket of the US embassy from 4.30pm on Friday July 3, Grosvenor Square, W1A 1AE (nearest Tube: Bond Street).

Hands Off Honduras!