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CENTRAL AMERICA
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23 November 2010 |
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Hondurans
Reject
Visit by
Ex
Colombian
President
TEGUCIGALPA
-
Members
of the
National
Popular
Resistance
Front
repudiated
the
visit of
ex
Colombian
President
Alvaro
Uribe,
one of
the
first in
recognizing
the
government
emerged
from the
coup in
Honduras.
Uribe,
who
arrived
in this
capital
on
Sunday
under
tight
security
invited
by the
Honduran
Private
Business
Council,
was
welcomed
by
President
Porfirio
Lobo at
the "Hernan
Acosta
Mejia"
air
base.
Dozens
of
demonstrators
dressed
in black
staged a
sit-in
at the
international
airport
in
Toncontin
chanting
"Uribe,
Murderer,
Go Home"
and "the
united
people
will
never be
defeated."
Uribe
was one
of the
first
presidents
in
recognizing
Lobo's
government,
in power
since
January
27 in
the wake
of
elections
carried
out
under
institutional
rupture.
According
to
denunciations
made by
members
of the
Front,
Colombian
citizens
are
training
here
paramilitary
groups
to crush
popular
movements.
"Farmers
and
youngsters
have
been
murdered
in
collaboration
with
Colombia
under
the
pretext
of
fighting
drug
trafficking,"
demonstrator
Reinan
Centeno
said.
Other
demonstrations
have
been
scheduled
for
tomorrow
outside
the
National
Congress
headquarters,
where
Uribe is
expected
to be
granted
an
award.
Police
spokesman
Leonel
Sauceda
warned
that
security
forces
"have
the
right
under
the law
to use
force in
case the
demonstrations
get out
of
control."
Police
officers
reinforced
their
watch in
Parliament
and
other
places
of the
capital,
as
helicopter
gunships
overflew
the city
as part
of a
security
plan to
protect
the ex
Colombian
president,
despite
widespread
rejection.
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