Radio Mundo Real

The antidemocratic rule in Honduras began with the coup d’etat of June 28 of 2009, and it is still in place, despite the attempts of the neighboring countries to legitimize Porfirio Lobo’s government.

For this reason, the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) aims to collect 1.2 million signatures so that the people create a Constituent National Assembly.
“But the signatures will not be delivered to the coup government”, the activists Betty Matamoros and Francisco Rios said in an interview with Radio Lora of Switzerland. A new constitution will enable to democratize the access to natural resources, which today are in the hands of eight to ten families”, said the FNRP.

The anti-coup forces demand the Organization of American States (OAS) to “help dismantle the coup regime through the Constituent Assembly, instead of recommending a “rushed legal recognition” for Honduras, referring to the call for the country to be reinstated in the OAS, as suggested by the Central American Integration System (SICA).

The FNRP believes that the US State Department is behind this demand, which was questioned by the Nicaraguan government, and which aims to install new military bases in Honduras. The bases will follow the US “geo-political imperialistic strategy against countries of the region”.

They also claim that in Honduras “all the terrible human rights violations of the coup” are still happening, in some cases the repression has even worsened.

In the interview with Radio Lora, broadcasted by the news report Mas Voces, the FNRP activists report that repression is “more selective” on this stage, and that the paramilitary groups “are still operating”.

The condolence notes of the grassroots organizations are commonplace. Last week, the FNRP issued a press release as a result of the murder of Marco Tulio Amaya, an active member of the Resistance, and lawyer of the leaders who were imprisoned for opposing the coup d’etat.

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