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INSIDECENTRALAMERICA | Thursday 16 September 2010

Honduras: Enough Signatures for a Constituent Assembly

TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran National Popular Resistance Front went over its goal of collecting 1.25 million signatures to demand a Constituent Assembly and the return of former President Manuel Zelaya.

The signature-collecting process in cities, towns and villages of the country's 18 departments began on April 20 and will end Wednesday, celebrating the 189th anniversary of Central American independence from the Spanish crown.

The number of signatures stands at 1,269,142, reported Rasel Tome and Elogio Chavez, members of the Front committee responsible for this work.

"Today we tell the international community to hear the voice of the sovereign, who cries out for justice and calls for change. The people have spoken," said Tome.

The aim of the resistance movement is to convene a Constituent Assembly to change the constitution in effect since 1982 and rebuild the country after the 2009 coup.

On June 28 of 2009, a group of soldiers, in complicity with the oligarchy, kidnapped President Manuel Zelaya, and took him by force to Costa Rica.

Zelaya was able to return three months later to the country, where he remained in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa until his departure to the Dominican Republic.

The resistance front is demanding that the government of Porfirio Lobo guarantee the former presidentâ�Ös safe return to Honduras.

"My exile is a crime committed by the current administration and my return should be as requested by the OAS with guarantees and freedom to perform my duties," Zelaya said in a letter to Radio Globo.


 

 

 

 
 
 
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