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Urgent Message from Organización Política Los Necios

We make a call to the international community regarding the militarization and potential massacre in the valley of Aguán, Northern Honduras. Reports estimate that of over 5000 police and military from all over the country have arrived in the valley of Aguán. There are over 3,500 families with women, children and elderly people who since last year have reclaimed land that was stolen or forcefully removed by the businessmen Miguel Facusse, René Morales and Reynaldo Canales.

News is arriving from the Aguán valley that a curfew has been called by the Honduran Government. This is the preparation of an imminent and violent eviction from the repressive state and paramilitary forces who are under the orders of the Prime Minister Pepe Lobo but who are being commanded by the landowners Miguel Facusse, René Morales y Reynaldo Canales. These actions are being undertaken with the complete knowledge and support of the U.S Government which has US military operating in the area obtaining information and intelligence.

We fear of a massacre for the landless families who are facing the direct, violent brutality of the neocapitalist, neocolonial system that maintains people exploited and devoid of a dignified life.

Please show your solidarity with the Honduran people and denounce the repression of the Honduran people.

Organización Política Los Necios
20:19 Sunday April 11, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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Newsletter 12 April 2010

Note of Bereavement - José Leonel Álvarez Guerra, member of the La Confianza Cooperative, the MUCA

Statement 54. Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular

The Reagan Generation, The Lost Generation, By Gilberto Ríos Mungía

Photographic Presentation of the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular Demonstration of April 7 at the National Congress. Many thanks to the website Venas Abiertas.

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Jose Leonel Alvarez Guerra, Member of MUCA Assassinated

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The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class, and Crisis

The visit to COPINH was amazing. On the first day they took us to a "Cabildo Abierto" in San Francisco de Opalaca, a municipality about 2hrs drive from La Esperanza. The community is strongly Lenca (indigenous) in background.

The Cabildo Abierto was an example of grass roots politics in action. It took the form of an open air meeting (very hot/dusty) with anybody being able to take the microphone. They also took votes by a show of hands. People had come in from a number of villages dotted around Opalaca.

The main resolution passed on that day was to oppose the construction of Hydro-electric dam projects in their municipality.

We stayed in the Utopia Centre just outside La Esperanza. The Utopia centre is currently acting as a kind of refuge for people fleeing persecution by the golpistas, so it has a kind of nervous edginess to it.

The place is also continuously being watched by the police or by other coup supporters who usually pass by in unmarked cars once or twice a day. The Utopia Centre also served to accommodate 1200 delegates to the meeting held by COPINH…

Manchester-Honduras visit… … just before we arrived in Honduras.

After COPINH we moved on to Triufo de la Cruz and were able to visit Radio Faluma Bimetu (Sweet Coconut). This radio station broadcasts from the perspective of the Garifuna (Afro-Honduran) community.

The station was attacked on 6th January. Unknown armed individuals proceeded to torch the community radio and to loot the station’s radio equipment.

Since then the station was rebuilt with the help of COMPPA (loosely translates as Communications for Popular Autonomy) and the Garifuna community.

Contact us: ring 07762 618 233, email hondsol.mcr@googlemail.com or join us on Facebook.

Peasant leader assassinated Hondurashumanrights.wordpress.com José Leonel Alvarez Guerra (35), a member of the La Confianza with the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguán, MUCA, was killed by two men on a motorcycle, when he was coming home in the Manga Seca neighborhood in Tocoa, Colón, this April 7.

The modus operandi of the perpetrators had the same characteristics as denounced by the peasants in earlier days, when they noted that a group of 30 men were being trained by Billy Joya Amendola, member of 3-16 death squad in the eighties and who from June 28, 2009, day of the coup, remained very active and served as security adviser under Roberto Micheletti.

Campesino assassinated!

An extremely dangerous situation is developing in the municipality of Tocoa, department of Colon in the region known as the Bajo Aguan in Honduras.

In the days leading up to the April 1st murder of a young campesino, the preparation of a “false flag” operation intended to confirm the (false) existence of an armed resistance movement in Honduras was exposed. On April 1, 22 year old Miguel Alonso Oliva was fatally shot in the back during the occupation of the Boleros farm. This killing comes after the steady escalation of the presence of military, police and private security forces in the area.

5 journalists killed in 2 weeks Five Journalists Murdered in the last two weeks of March. On March 27 two journalists in the eastern Honduras department of Olancho, José Bayardo Mairena Ramírez and Manuel Juárez, were killed when they were shot from another vehicle. On March 14 gunmen shot dead journalist Nahúm Palacios and seriously wounded a companion, Yadira Sanchez Rivas (who died from her wounds on 3/28) on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. On March 11, two gunmen killed journalist David Meza in La Ceiba, a town near Tocoa. Meza, 51, was attacked from a vehicle when he reached his house in his car.

‘Text-book’ state terror: death-squads kill teacher

On March 23, at the same moment that a group of seven Honduran lawyers were presenting information to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in Washington DC concerning systematic human rights abuses being committed against the pacifist Honduran National Resistance Front (FNRP), a death squad comprised of heavily armed men wearing ski masks and civilian clothes, killed a prominent FNRP member, a teacher, in front of his high school students.

Murders of resistance members continue.

Wednesday March 17th, Mr. Francisco Castillo, member of the national resistance against the coup d'etat was murdered. Prior to the coup he worked in a company owned by Miguel Facusse; Facusse's participation in the coup d'etat made him quit.

Death squads target street children Casa Alianza

November and December saw some of the worst levels of violence we have witnessed: 165 children and young people were brutally murdered or extra-judicially executed over the two-month period of November and December 2009. Last year, a total of 627 children and young people were violently murdered and/or extra-judicially executed. 25% of these were children under the age of 18. This brings the total number of killings recorded by Casa Alianza Honduras since 1998 to 5,164 as of December 2009.

Comment by Honduras Solidarity Mcr: Death squads have been stalking the streets of many towns in Honduras for numerous years.

It is alleged that frequently these death squads are "employed" by local business leaders and are used as a form of social cleansing. It is also suspected that the death squads are actually composed of Police officers operating "after hours" and without their uniforms.

Submitted by the authors to Axis of Logic