Central America Caravan

Emergency Action 

Honduras: De Facto Elections Equal a De Facto Government - Not Democracy!

We Are All Honduras - Chicago VIGIL 

In front of the Honduran Consulate at 4439 West Fullerton

Join us in a vigil to protest the illegal elections organized by the coup government - in the midst of a growing human rights crises - and to honor the assassinated and imprisoned members of the anti-coup resistance.

At 4 pm, there will be a ceremony marking the closing of the polls and the attempted murder of democracy in Honduras.

Join Us! 

Concert for Honduran Resistance

Entrance: $10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Bands: Pachamama, Jumpship, Carlos Yamil Lumbi

The struggle continues in Honduras. The supposed agreement between President Manuel Zelaya and the "golpista" government led by Roberto Micheletti has fallen apart. The agreement, created at the behest of the US state department, proved to be an empty shell under whose authority Micheletti created a unilateral "unity" government. The US is waffling about its position on the legitimacy of the government and the status of the November 29 elections in Honduras, while the Organization of American States (with the exception of the US) has declared that it will not recognize the elections. President Zelaya remains holed up in the Brazilian embassy and the Honduran Resistance has vowed to continue its battle against the coup. 

Here in Minnesota, the Minnesota Cuba Committee is part of the newly formed group, Hands Off Honduras, and is helping to organize the concert on November 28 to support the Honduran resistance.

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Protest in Solidarity with the People of Honduras!  Demand that the US government not recognize the Nov 29th elections, held under the illegal coup in Honduras!  Sponsored by Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalitionwww.BALASC.org

Demand that U.S. recognize human rights violations NOT elections

Protest the U.S. intent to recognize elections under martial law in Honduras

Time is running out. On November 29th, the Honduran military and business junta that illegally seized power on June 28th and that has since violently repressed the country’s people and press will hold “elections” effectively closing all possibility for a reversal of the coup d’ etat that ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009. 

The announcement in late October of an agreement between President Zelaya and the coup regime, although extremely flawed, gave to many the hope that a semblance of the democratic process would be restored in Honduras after all. However, the coup regime has reneged on its obligations under the accord by refusing to allow President Zelaya to be reinstated prior to the elections.  The coup regime is attempting to launder the coup d’etat with martial law elections that the opposition cannot meaningfully contest. 

President Zelaya, the National Front Against the Coup, and a broad-based popular movement in Honduras have called for a boycott of the elections.  Twenty-three Latin American nations are echoing the cry of the Honduran people and have expressed that they will refuse to recognize the coup-regime elections.  These nations have opted to instead recognize the widespread violations of human rights committed by the cup regime.  The U.S. State Department representatives continue to deny having heard any reports of human rights abuses.

In a recent and shocking policy shift, the U.S. plans to almost unilaterally recognize these elections as legitimate. While the State Department claims the elections represent a way for Honduras to “move forward” out of the crisis, those who know the history of Latin America know that without justice and accountability, Honduras is in danger of repeating the repression and suffering of dirty wars throughout Latin America’s history.

Please join Hondurans for Democracy at the State Department to personally deliver human rights reports on Honduras and to tell President Obaman, Secretary Clinton, and other key decision-makers that their position, and their cowardly silence on human rights abuses in Honduras at the hands of the coup regime, are completely unacceptable.

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Questions? E-mail us! mramos@porlademocracia or smoncada@porlademocracia

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