National Rally in Honduras
against Repression
TEGUCIGALPA - Political and people's
organizations opposed to the current
Honduran government announced for Thursday a
national march in this capital demanding the
end of repression in the country.
The rally will coincide with a general
strike and a national mourning campaign
convened by teachers' organizations after
Professor Jose Manuel Flores was killed by
hooded men two days ago.
The demonstration was called by the National
Popular Resistance Front, leading the
country's social struggles after the June 28
military coup that overthrown President
Manuel Zelaya.
One of the protestors' exigencies is to
allow the statesman's honorary and secure
return. He was expatriate by soldiers in the
June military coup.
Zelaya returned unexpectedly to Honduras on
September 21, and took refuge in the Brazil
embassy in this capital until he could
travel to Dominican Republic on January 27,
at the end of his legal mandate.
The Front announced in a release it is in
mourning after the death of Flores, an
active people's leader and founder of the
Central American Socialist Party.
The alliance of social and political forces
accuses "the Honduran oligarchy and Porfirio
Lobo's facto regime" of that murder. Lobo
took office on January 27.
Three union leaders, two farmers, a
journalist, and three people opposed to the
June 28 military coup have been murdered in
Honduras this year. |
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