“It’s true that we haven’t been able to reverse the coup (…) but we achieved something important for Honduras: progressive social and political forces being able to work together as part of the Front, which is today the largest opposition force in the country”, said leader Rafael Alegria, coordinator of CLOC Central America, in an interview circulated by the communications team of that organization.

The position of the US government in accepting the “false elections” that took place in 2009 and the weak opposition by a large part of the international community explain, according to Alegría, the continuity of the coup regime led by Porfirio Lobo.

Despite this, the peasant leader highlighted how around 1 million Honduran people received ousted president Manuel Zelaya when he returned to Honduras on May 30th.

The coordinator of CLOC Central America considers that May 30th represents the beginning of a new stage, which will be marked by a political debate with Zelaya to analyze the most convenient political tool to use in the future. This decision will be made in an assembly where 1800 union leaders, peasants and students will participate on June 26th.

“We will continue fighting, and we hope that we will be able to bring about change”, said Alegría. Meanwhile, when analyzing what happened in these past two years, reference needs to be made to the serious social crisis and education conflicts that took place in the country, the struggle for land, and the agrarian reform.

“41 farmers have been murdered in Bajo Aguan by paramilitary forces and thousands have been arrested and imprisoned. There is a deep economic crisis, unemployment, over 2.5 of the 4 million farmers are extremely poor, and 8 out of 10 peasant families don’t have lands”, said the peasant leader.

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