The 188th anniversary of the fight for the independence of Honduras from the Kingdom of Spain, coincided with the 80th day since the coup d’état was staged on June 28th , when the Constitutional President Jose Manuel Zelaya was ousted.

In the mobilizations of Tuesday 15, the Front of Resistance Against the Coup D’État said its demands do not restrict to the reinstatement of Zelaya and taking the coup perpetrators, led by Roberto Micheletti, to court.

The coup regime has led to the creation of a series of alliances in the grassroots movement, which includes calling a Constituent Assembly to carry out a structural reform in the country, after a century and a half of direct dependence on the US, member of La Via Campesina Carlos Reyes told Real World Radio. He spoke from Tegucigalpa where he took part in the demonstration, which had a bigger turn out than the call made by Micheletti to support the de facto regime.

“These eighty days have been very fruitful in terms of political education of the people. This struggle is to reverse the neoliberal privatizations, to give the lands back to the peasats and to have a dignifying life with free education and health care and a participatory democracy”, said the leader of Via Campesina.

But the capital was not the only place of protest: the resistance is present in the 18 departments of Honduras, in cities and rural areas, said Carlos Reyes.

To reinstate democracy in Honduras, the return of Jose Manuel Zelaya is just the start, it is a necessary but not sufficient condition. The second basis of our struggle is to create a new Constitution”, said Reyes.

“The struggle carried out in Honduras is not just legal, but mainly political and it is related with strengthening the class struggle, as part of which a small group of businessmen had been taking over the country, and their natural resources”, he added.

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