Potential Massacre In Northern Honduras Feared

Potential Massacre In Northern Honduras Feared
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 11:12 am
Press Release: OPLN
Potential Massacre In Northern Honduras Feared

Urgent Announcement

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
Sunday April 11, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1004/S00207.htm

Congress certainly exercises almost no oversight; there's a huge secret budget; after WWII, there was significant recruitment of Nazis and anti-communist mafiosi; today, the folk involved wander a sleazy world of arms dealers and drug traffickers; There's a big machine there that left alone lumbers on its destructive way automatically, by tradition and force of habit

if it's happening in broad daylight and being denied by the SoS, is it?

I think the fake Truth and Reconciliation commission was discussed in DC yesterday. It might be worth finding the transcript to see who tesitified or what the format of the meeting was.

the internal politics of the US government and its various agencies can be at least as rough as the politics we see in public and that the organizational charts may give a highly misleading picture of the actual distribution of power. Winning elections alone is not enough: one still needs to fight against entrenched foes

(not sticking up for her, just saying)

Honduras government caves in to land campaign
Thursday 15 April 2010

The Honduran government has caved in to the demands of thousands of poor farm workers by granting them 11,000 acres of state-owned land that they have occupied since last year.

After 14 hours of intense negotiations coup president Porfirio Lobo's government agreed on Tuesday to grant the land to 3,000 farm workers, or campesinos, who are using it to grow African oil palms in the Aguan valley.

Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguán leader Ruddy Hernandez praised the deal as a sign of "the government's serious commitment to resolving our problems."

"It creates an opening to establish calm in our region," he said.

Honduran Agrarian Reform Minister Cesar Ham said that Tuesday's deal constitutes the largest land grant to the poor in the history of the nation, where class tensions were a key factor in the June coup that ousted progressive then-president Manuel Zelaya.

The state-owned land, located in the same region as the protest, is to be granted within a year. The government also pledged to provide the farm workers with financial assistance and technical support.

But the farm workers did not immediately abandon the land that they seized last year just before the coup.

The government has deployed more than 2,000 soldiers and police in the area, ostensibly to seize drugs and illegal weapons, and the campesinos are demanding that the troops withdraw.

Mr Lobo's administration has yet to make a decision on that.

The deployment has drawn protests from opponents of last year's coup.

The National Popular Resistance Front has warned that the troops may be ordered to clear the squatters.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/89218