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INSIDECENTRALAMERICA
| Thursday 16
September 2010 |
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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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