Publicado el 12/06/2012
Policías y militares desalojan al Movimiento Campesino de San Manuel y destruyen sus viviendas
Unos cuatrocientos militares y policías desalojaron a los campesinos y campesinas quienes desde el 23 de mayo se posesionaron por tercera vez de unas tres mil manzanas de terreno que disputan con la Compañia Azucarera Hondureña Sociedad Anónima, CAHSA.
A las seis de la
mañana los uniformados llegaron en seis patrullas, cuatro buses
contratados por CAHSA, carros particulares de empleados de la Compañía,
tres maquinas y un tractor con el cual destruyeron cultivos de maiz y
frijol que ya tenían sembrados los campesinos. A la entrada del predio
detuvieron a más de ciento cincuenta hombres.Unos cuatrocientos militares y policías desalojaron a los campesinos y campesinas quienes desde el 23 de mayo se posesionaron por tercera vez de unas tres mil manzanas de terreno que disputan con la Compañia Azucarera Hondureña Sociedad Anónima, CAHSA.
A las siete de la mañana llegaron hasta el campamento donde las trece empresas campesinas tenían instaladas champas, casas improvisadas, donde vivían desde hace muchos meses. Todas las champas fueron destruidas con los enseres y alimentos que tenían dentro. Unas 15 mujeres que se encontraban en el lugar también fueron apresadas, una de ellas fue arrastrada al resistirse a la detención.
(Notese como el mismo juez ejecutor ayuda a reprimir a la ciudadana introduciendole a la fuerza al bus) evidenciando la complicidad de de jueces venales para aplicar "u justicia" solo contra los desposeidos.
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Exigiendo justicia...
Otra vez se toman finca “Paso Aguán” de Miguel
Facussé
Tocoa, Colón.- Vecinos de la comunidad de Panamá se tomaron
desde el domingo ocho de julio de 2012 el camino de acceso a la finca Paso
Aguán, propiedad de Miguel Facussé Barjum; y mas de 50 militares del Décimo
Quinto Batallón de Fuerzas Especiales acudieron con su armamento de guerra para
amedrentarlos.
El Décimo Quinto Batallón de Fuerzas
Especiales, con sede en la comunidad de Río Claro, jurisdicción de Trujillo, es
comandado desde enero de este año por el CORONEL SELMAN DAVID ARRIAGA ORELLANA. Los jefes de esta unidad militar siempre han sido acusados por los
campesinos del Aguán de estar en las planillas de los terratenientes Miguel
Facussé y René Morales, pues suelen acudir de inmediato ante las llamadas de auxilio
de los guardias privados, o de los empleados de confianza de estos
terratenientes.
Antecedentes
Recientemente, el viernes 06 de junio,
en la finca Paso Aguán fue encontrado muerto y enterrado entre las palmeras el
campesino independiente GREGORIO CHAVEZ ARANDA
(69), después de permanecer desaparecido desde el lunes 02 de junio.
Al día siguiente del desaparecimiento
de GREGORIO CHAVEZ los vecinos de la comunidad hicieron la denuncia del hecho a
la policía y se tomaron por primera vez el acceso a la comunidad para evitar
que los camiones cargados de fruta salieran rumbo a la fabrica de Facussé y que
los guardias privados, que habían abandonaron las fincas, ingresaran de nuevo
mientras no les entregaran al desaparecido.
Desde el lunes en horas de la noche,
que se dieron las primeras búsquedas de don GRAGORIO CHAVEZ, los vecinos de la
comunidad señalaron a los guardias de Miguel Facussé como los responsables de su
captura y secuestro; ellos reforzaron esta versión cuando cerca de la huerta del
desaparecido encontraron abandonado el machete con el que limpiaba sus
cultivos.
Esta versión se vio reforzada cuando
al día siguiente vieron al otro lado de la cerca, bajo las palmeras,
movimientos de tierra que evidenciaban una lucha entre varias personas y cerca
del lugar encontraron un cartucho de escopeta similar a las usadas por los
guardias privados.
El día del desaparecimiento de don GREGORIO
CHAVEZ, los guardias privados abandonaron los predios de la finca de Paso Aguán,
y Roger Pineda, empleado de confianza de Miguel Facussé, salió en los medios de
comunicación diciendo que lo del desaparecido era un invento y una simple
excusa para robar fruta de la finca de Paso Aguán.
El incendio y las supuestas pérdidas de la
Corporación Dinant
Misteriosamente la noche del martes,
una casa-bodega propiedad de Corporación Dinant en la comunidad de Panamá cogió
fuego y supuestamente desparecieron dos tractores que se encontraban en el
predio. Pineda dijo entonces que Dinant habían sufrido pérdidas millonarias.
Uno de los tractores fue ubicado al día
siguiente cerca de Tocoa por el jefe policial de Tocoa, Comisionado Mejía
Rosales, cuando se dirigía cargado de fruta desde Panamá rumbo a la pavimentada
que conduce a Trujillo; cuando se le
preguntó por los culpables al jefe de la policía no quiso revelar sus nombres y
dijo que habían sido liberados por que nadie se presentó a acusarlos, además de
que ellos portaban documentos de compra.
Fuentes cercanas a la policía confirmaron
a varios campesinos de la comunidad Panamá que los detenidos eran guardias de
Facussé y que al momento de su captura por el jefe policial llevaban la fruta
rumbo a la planta extractora que el terrateniente posee en la comunidad de Quebrada
de Arena.
En la bodega incendiada, los vecinos
de la Panamá aseguran que se encontraba una bicicleta propiedad de JOSE ANTONIO LOPEZ LARA (43), otro
desaparecido de la comunidad vecina de Rigores y quien está desaparecido desde el
2011, cuando en las cercanías de la misma finca de Paso Aguán buscaba un lugar de
pesca en el río Aguán. Los vecinos aseguran que la bicicleta, después de su
reconocimiento, fue montada en un carro de la Policía Nacional Preventiva.
El incendio de la casa-bodega y el
supuesto robo de los tractores les sirvieron de excusa a los militares del Décimo
Quinto Batallón de Fuerzas Especiales y al Jefe Departamental de la Policía
Nacional preventiva de Colón, Comisionado Mejía Rosales, para apoyar la
reinstalación de los guardias en la finca Paso Aguán y militarizar la comunidad
de Panamá.
Aparece el desaparecido, asesinado y enterrado
en finca de Facussé
El viernes 6 de julio se cayo el
cuento Roger Pineda cuando un grupo de vecinos encontraron los restos de don GREGORIO
CHAVEZ ARANDA después de recorrer casi toda la finca Paso Aguán en compañía de
agentes de la policía de la comunidad de Ilanga, que les brindaban seguridad ante
las amenazas de los guardias privados de Facussé que les impedían el paso hacia
el lote del hallazgo.
Al conocerse la noticia del hallazgo, Roger
Pineda, hombre de confianza de Facussé, corrió a desmentir por los medios de
comunicación nacional el involucramiento de los guardias privados en el
secuestro y posterior asesinato de GREGORIO CHAVEZ ARANDA, casi llega a firmar
que son unas mansas palomas victimas de los desalmados campesinos del Aguán.
GREGORIO CHAVEZ fue encontrado cerca
de un puesto de control de los guardias privados de Facussé, en un extremo de
la finca Paso Aguán. Para llegar hasta ese lugar se tiene que conducir a
velocidad moderada un carro un poco más de 15 minutos.
Su cabeza estaba envuelta por una
bolsa plástica, lo que hizo suponer a quienes presenciaron su exhumación que
fue torturado antes de su muerte y asfixiado por sus asesinos. En su puño
derecho portaba su reloj y en las bolsas de su pantalón se encontraron su
cartera con todos sus documentos por lo que desde un principio se descartó el
robo como la motivación principal de su muerte.
En la comunidad se le estimaba por ser
una persona de bien, muy servicial con todos los vecinos, por lo que también se
descarta la venganza como una motivación de su asesinato. Era un reconocido
“Celebrador” o “Delegado de la Palabra de Dios” en la comunidad que es atendida
pastoralmente por un sacerdote jesuita de la Parroquia de Tocoa.
Los guardias, dueños y señores de los caminos
Los vecinos de la comunidad de Panamá cuentan
que ellos no pueden circular libremente por los caminos que cruzan las
palmeras, los guardias de Facussé se lo prohiben. Una mujer se atrevió a decir
que tiene cuatro años de no visitar su propiedad a orillas del río Aguán pues
tiene miedo de no regresar con vida a su casa.
Otras personas nos dijeron que desde
que los guardias de Facussé se instalaron en la comunidad de Panamá, no pueden
ir a pescar al río Aguán, muchos menos a bañar como lo hacían en las semanas
santas de otros años o en las épocas de mucho calor.
Ellos aseguran que estos caminos no
los construyó Facussé, que existen desde épocas de las compañías, pero que sus
guardias se han apropiados de ellos.
“No puede entrar a las fincas ni un
animalito por que ellos practican tiro al blanco. Caballos, vacas, gallinas y
cerdos se nos desaparecen, pero no podemos entrar a buscarlos”, afirmaron los
vecinos mientras esperaban recibir el carro que traía los restos de don GENARO
CHAVEZ ARANDA.
De nuevo se retiraron los guardias y los
militares
La comunidad sabe que pronto regresarán
los militares y los policías, no a brindarles seguridad, ni justicia, “ellos
regresarán para reinstalar a los guardias de Miguel Facussé en las fincas”.
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Honduras Coup Update June 2012
On June 28, Honduras had been under three years of military coup. The
regime´s own Truth Commission follow up report shows only 13 of 84 of
its recommendations have been implemented. The European Union rubs the
wound by signing, in Honduras, the EU-Central America Free Trade
Agreement one day after the coup anniversary date – this has been
denounced by Central American and European civil society organisations
as symbolic of EU prioritising economic interests above respect of human
rights. And the IMF tried to impose an accelerated devaluation of the
Honduran currency Lempira, as a condition for a new ´stand by´
agreement.
As organising begins for the next election, due in 2013, it is
evident that there are no conditions for the election already, with
seven killings so far against candidates.
Days before this third anniversary of the Honduras coup, Paraguay had a ´parliamentary coup´ - see here more details:http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3710-video-paraguay-impeachment-or-political-coup
In the context of the recent killings on the Patuca River, not far
from a new US military base, involving US anti-drug agency helicopters,
the US progressed its talks with Honduras on CARSI (Central America
Regional Security Initiative) for which it also signed aid of $1.3
million for criminal investigations as part of the 2011-2012 CARSI
package. The US also just announced a further 15 Honduran coup officials
can have their US visas back, and appointed the grandson of a Honduran
dictator as its Latin America Advisor.
Within Honduras, an international Bajo Aguán region human rights
report by nine international organisations and networks stated that the
main issues are landgrabbing, monocrop expansion, concentration of land
in few hands, militarisation, grave human rights violations including
killings, rape and forced evictions, impunity and criminalisation of
social protest. It also recommended that the Central America – Europe
Free Trade Agreement not be signed under these circumstances. MUCA, one
of the farmers´ movements in Bajo Aguán, was pressured to again sign an
agreement against their own interests and subjected to re-militarisation
by a number of national and international state and private armed
forces.
On militarisation, nationally, ministers have just requested to
extend the endorsement for the military to continue police duties by
another 180 days.
The Education minister of the resistance, Escoto, dismissed
provincial education directors that obtained their positions illegally
through political affiliations, but the judicial and executive branches
illegally endorsed their reinstatements.
For more on the above: go to http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/expanded-part-of-email-summary.php
Persecution in June 2012
Summary of political killings in June 2012
· On
7/6/12, the Vice-principal and lecturer of INTAE business school,
active FNRP and teachers union member Miguel Ángel Ramos, was
assassinated by hitmen when walking to work.
· On
12/6/12 active resistance member, FNRP political commission member and
Bo El Estadio Collective coordinator, Joel Orellana, was riddled with
bullets.
· On
24/6/12, shots were fired at a family in a car, killing Jenny
Izaguirre, gravely wounding Arturo Ramírez and a bullet grazed Jenny´s
son. Jenny is a teacher, her spouse Arturo is a FNRP/Libre activist.
· On
25/6/12, high school student, and active member of FNRP and Libre
party Carlos Jese Portillo Yanes (20) was found dead inside a plastic
bag. He was last seen transporting people to a Libre event.
Persecution against farmers this June
· The
Bajo Aguan International Human Rights Watch reported an escalated
repression, and denounced reactivated eviction orders (against Marañones
and right bank settlements La Confianza, La Aurora, La Lempira, and La
Concepción). It also condemned the regime for forcing farmers to sign an
agreement against their interests under threat of imminent bloodshed,
as a demonstration of the lack of political will by regime heads
Lobo/Ham (Agrarian Minister). It also denounced the re-militarisation in
the last 15 days of June by Honduran, US, Colombian, and Israelí
missions, with movements of
arms into the Bajo Aguán region.
· On
12/6/12, a contingent of six patrols (including the four buses and
other cars contracted by sugar company CAHSA, three heavy machines and a
tractor), hundreds of police, cobra and investigative agents, carried
out a brutal eviction with a DPP order against hundreds of farmers of
MOCSAM Movimiento Campesino de San Manuel Cortés at El Coowle. On this
occasion – the third eviction in under two months - they detained 21
including 17 women, with hooded paramilitaries returning three hours
later to try to capture more. The contingent illegally destroyed homes
together with
household goods and foods, their community shop was destroyed, and the
police ate and drank from it. A small plane sprayed poison on around 100
hectares of maíz, and other crops were destroyed.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zsSJVMZRDo&feature=youtu.be. Those detained have to sign at the courts regularly, having been charged with land usurpation.
· On
21/6/12, Danlí court issued an eviction order against 40 Danlí farmers
accused of usurpation of land from the Alfaro family in the Jamastrán
Valley of Ruano. The farmers have possessed the land for 15 months and
have received Agrarian Department´s written confirmation that the lands
are national lands. One of the farmers was murdered four months before,
and no authorities came.
· On
25/6/12, Aguán MUCA leaders José Luíz Dubon Díaz, Juan Angel Rodríguez,
Timoteo Mendoz Zuazo, Justo Leonel Cruz Padilla had their weapons that
they carry legally for personal protection confiscated by an operation
by Patrol 42 at the exit of La Ceiba to Colón.
· On 28/6/12, police arrived to evict the hundreds who occupied the La Democracia Bridge in El Progreso for 5 hours.
· On
29/6/12 MARCA farmer Julián Hernández was victim to persecution by four
hooded men who look like soldiers, circulating around his home several
times. Julián is the president of La Trinidad, and this occurred as the
military evicted private guards of the usurping landowners after the
farmers won their case at the tribunals.
Persecution, including killings, against teachers and students
· Luis
Agurcia – teachers unions leader (Teachers Federation Secretary) and
FNRP leader of Trujillo, who with others occupied the Colón provincial
area education office, was charged with sedition – the Bajo Aguán Human
Rights Watched warned there is likely to be an arrest warrant against
him.
· On
3/6/12, military and police evicted teachers occupying the provincial
area education office in Colón, where teachers protested irregular acts
by the provincial director in relation to appointment of teachers, and
the director also has been politically persecuting unionised teacher
leaders there – eg Luis´s case above, and teacher/FNRP leader Will
Paz receives constant death threatsby text message.
· On
7/6/12, in San Pedro Sula, vice principal/lecturer of INTAE (business
administration of companies institute) and active FNRP and Copemh
member Miguel Ángel Ramos (47) was assassinated with 9mm gunshots to the
head by hitmen jumping out of a van when he was walking to work and
passing by the Teachers College UPNFM, accompanied by his 12 years old
son. They had been followed for a time. Nothing was stolen. Apart from
participating in marches against the coup, teachers and court actions,
Miguel has been supporting a fair trade project at INTAE and teaches
social science in
the afternoons and was a student advice coordinator.
· On
11/6/12, Education Minister Marlon Escoto received a texted death
threat, ´We are going to burn you alive h… don´t mess with the cachureco
teachers of Cortés, dog. On feet or dead, never on knees, son of a b…´
from number 33919608. Marlon had announced he was suspending 14 of the
18 provincial education directors (who are affiliated with the national
party) because their appointments were illegal.
· On
15/6/12, Provincial Director Fredy Díaz sued the secretary of the
teachers selective committee of Copán and FNRP coordinator there Dilsia
Cantarero for defamation, for having denounced him for irregularities
and corruption.
· On
20/6/12, student activist Pedro Joaquín Amador, who was arrested in a
student solidarity protest supporting students suspended for their
political organising, had his first hearing – he continues to be charged
for damages against police, although the baseless charge of ‘attempt
against police’ had been dropped and despite the damages charge also not
having enough elements, according to human rights organisation Cofadeh.
Persecution including killing against artists and their families
· On
12/6/12, a kidnap attempt against Bessy Duarte was made as she left a
bank and was intercepted by a black van without numberplates. She was
pushed and under threat and the money she took out was taken off her,
but she managed to escape. Bessy is themother of a well known resistance
member and singer of Café Guancasco, Pavel Nuñez, whose family has been
in the last weeks subject to extortion and telephone threats because of
which they had to move home.
· On
19/6/12 the Honduran theatrical community made a statement condemning
the assassination of Walter David González Contreras (31), an active
member of the La Fragua Theatre. He was shot by unknown persons on his
way home from a party.
Persecution against indigenous activists
· On
13/6/12, individuals attempted to kill Copinh leaders (executive
commission members) Juan Vásquez and Sotero Chavarría, shooting at
them at least twice, hitting their Copinh car and causing a car
accident, as Juan and Sotero were driving back from a Copinh activity.
Copinh has been denouncing threats and intimidation against them by
armed persons of the state, who are paid by companies to develop
megaprojects on indigenous territories.
· On
17/6/12 the Tribu de San Francisco de Locomapa Tolupán indigenous
community in Yoro, who belong to Movimiento Amplio por la Dignidad y la
Justicia denounced repeated death threats which their members have
received as they organise to block the entry of woodchopping machines.
These are owned by businessman Kenton Landa Uclés. The context is that
the Indigenous community´s right to determination on their land has been
violated and the authorities have always taken the company´s side.
· On
28/6/12, active member of the Cuchilla community of Ceguaca, Bonifacio
Muñoz Troches, was shot at in the back by Pablo Hernández when Bonifacio
was working in the cornfield. Bonifacio was in a land struggle, having
occupied the land since 15/4/12. Hernández has been denounced by members
of this community for trying to illegally take the land. There has been
no justice against the perpetrator.
Persecution and killings against resistance members who are also Party activists/candidates
· On
12/6/12, active resistance member and FNRP political commission member
and Bo El Estadio Collective coordinator, Joel Orellana, was riddled
with bullets and assassinated. He was someone very enthusiastic and
always said after protests, ´resistimos y venceremos hasta la victoria´.
· On
23/6/12, at an activity collecting signatures of the group 5 de Julio
of the Libre Party at the Central Park, four police chased and beat an
underage youth who rode in a scooter and unfairly detained him. The
police also then dismantled an electricity connection the 5 de Julio had
to make announcements.
· On
24/6/12, in the capital city, unknown persons who travelled in a
vehicle with tinted windows without numberplates intercepted and
attacked with gunshots a family travelling home in a vehicle - Jenny
Izaguirre died in this attack. Arturo Ramírez was gravely wounded in the
abdomen damaging his liver and pancreas. Jenny´s son had a bullet graze
on his cheek. Jenny is a teacher and her spouse Arturo is an FNRP/Libre
resistance activist in charge of logistics in one of the movements
inside Libre. There was no kidnapping or robbery.
· Also
on 24/6, Comayagua leader Juan Ramón Flores´s home was raided – the
assailants took only documents and a Libre party computer, even though
50,000 lempiras were visible, and every corner was obviously searched –
the family reported another raid at the office in which the same
information taken away from the home was taken away there. The family
has dispersed and is terrorised/traumatised and has applied for
cautionary measures. A year ago Juan had been kidnapped and managed
miraculously to escape.
· On
25/6/12, high school student and active FNRP and Libre member Carlos
Jese Portillo Yanes (20) was found dead with hands and feet tied with
shoelaces and bruises in the head, inside a black plastic bag in San
Pedro Sula. He was last seen helping transport people on the Sunday to
an FNRP activity in preparation for the next internal elections. Some
witnesses say he was intercepted by 3 people in a pick-up, who forced
him into it and took him to an unknown destination. Carlos´s father,
Carlos Portillo, is one of the
FNRP leaders in Villanueva.
· On
30/6/12, police under directions from police spokesperson Hernán Mejia,
were taking ID cards from passengers to block the arrival of the
caravan of buses that were going to Santa Barbara for the launching of
the presidential candidate Xiomara Castro of Libre – the resistance´s
political party - in Santa Barbara.
Persecution of journalists
· On
12/6/12, at the MOCSAM farmers eviction by police and army, a presumed
employee of the sugar company CAHSA filmed and photographed
repeatedly journalists Leonardo Aguilar and Gerardo Chevez of Radio
Progreso, and Bartolo Fuentes of Vida Laboral, who were there to cover
the eviction. When Bartolo asked him why he was photographing them, the
person moved to hide behind the military and police, before slipping
away from the scene. Gerardo recognises the man who has been seen in
three eviction operations in the region, and so it is assumed that he is
from the sugar company.
Gerardo said at the second eviction, he was riding on motorcycle when
followed for 2 km by unknown persons who signalled for him to stop.
· On
28/6/12, police detained and kidnapped for 2.5 hours the photographer
Edwin Murillo of TV channel Hable como Habla, who was arriving to film
the discovery of a body inside a cardboard box in Comayagüela. Police
attacked and handcuffed him and took him to an unknown destination and
spent the first minutes beating him. Edwin was with journalist Alejandra
Vásquez – when they arrived at the crime scene Edwin was attacked and
handcuffed and taken by patrol M1-08 and taken to an unknown
destination. The Hable como Hable director and owner Eduardo Maldonado
searched for Edwin in
different police stations and called on the police head on TV and via
social networks to demand the physical safety of the young photographer.
Edwin appeared 2.5 hours after the capture – the police patrol M1-08
claimed that he was taken places but never to a police station.
A snapshot of actions in Honduras and solidarity actions internationally
In Honduras
On
June 1, thousands of farmers with social and grassroots organisations
and unions of the Aguán region mobilised at Tocoa city, demanding their
land rights. They blocked traffic on the Tocoa bridge.
Compas from indigenous organisations Copinh, ONIHL and
Garifuna, and of the Movimiento Amplio por la Dignidad y la Vida began a
walk (in cases, in intense rain and sun) to Tegucigalpa from different
parts of Honduras for a continental mobilisation of June 5 to defend
natural resources from commercial exploitation. They arrived at the
Natural Resources Department where they chanted that as a community they
knew that ´green economy´ is a farce. They stood firm to the police who
tried to say they were violating people´s right of movement, and the
community proclaimed that they were defending everyone´s right to land
and water, that it is for defending, not for selling. They played drums,
marched onto the DPP, occupied streets and used a powerful megaphone.
They shared food, speeches, and inaugurated a people´s café with a big
pot of coffee on some firewood and rocks, outside the government
offices.
FNRP organised on 23/6/12 at the Stibys union to form a committee of
solidarity with the Paraguayan people resisting a coup, they organised
protests and shared news.
On
June 28, masses of people mobilised in different parts of Honduras as
the resistance against the coup. The FNRP commemorated 3 years of
resistance. http://nicaraguaymasespanol.blogspot.com/2012/06/fotos-honduras-tres-anos-de-resistencia.html and denounced the coup in Paraguay.
On June 29, Central American activists gathered in protest against
the signing of the ADA – Central America – EU Free Trade Agreement,
outside the place of its signing (Plaza San Martín hotel district), one
day after the third anniversary of the military coup in Honduras. A
delegation of FNRP, Mesoamericans in Resistance, Vía Campesina,
Mesoamerican Forum, Social Continental Alliance CA, Refoundational
Space, delivered a public letter to the presidents of SICA gathered for
the signing http://nicaraguaymasespanol.blogspot.com/2012/06/fotos-honduras-movimientos-sociales.html.
, highlighting the impact of militarisation and neoliberalisation on
the communities. They denounced the
creation of tax exempt areas in Central American countries that the FTA
brings, against the health and education of the peoples, as well as
against food sovereignty through promoting expansion of monocrop export,
including for biofuels.
The MARCA farmers began land occupations in December 2009 (they were
part of MUCA then) and in April 2010 decided not to negotiate with the
government (MUCA negotiated) and continued their struggles in the
tribunals and continued the occupations of the land, in conflict with
Miguel Facussé (occupied for 16 years) and René Morales (occupied for 2
years). They won their cases finally on June 29, 2012, and judges and
police arrived on their lands, San Isidro, Despertar and Trinidad, to
evict the security guards of Miguel Facussé and René Morales.
This
is a victory for the farmers, but there is still persecution against
the farmers of MARCA, plus the large landholders have expressed they
will appeal the decision and action. In the 18 years of judicial
struggle so far, the farmers have suffered persecution, arrests,
tortures, human and material losses – nine MARCA farmers have been
killed to date, but it is the only agrarian conflict so far resolved in
favour of farmers in Bajo Aguán today.
Internationally….
In
Sydney on 23 June 2012, an action was held to mark three years of coup
and coup resistance in Honduras and to remember those whose lives have
been killed in resistance - the committee organised street theatre,
singers, and speakers from Friends of the Earth Sydney, Colectivo Mujer,
Teachers Federation, and CFMEU. See article and video link here http://indymedia.org.au/2012/06/27/solidarity-gathering-for-the-honduran-resistance
Other actions held for International Day of Solidarity with Honduras
included efforts from a number of cities in the US including in LA where
a vigil was organised by immigrant and lgbti groups http://youtu.be/t2XK2WAXKlc. In
Chelsea, a Freedom Songs and Poetry night was organised with a recently
returned guest who spoke about the killings against La Mosquitia
people, and in Argentina sit-ins were organised protesting three years
of
military coup, at the Honduran Embassy at noon, and then at the
Paraguayan Embassy at 2pm.
Hondurans
Copinh indigenous and feminist leader Berta Caceres toured and gave
talks in Italy, Austria and Germany, and Cofadeh human rights leader
Bertha Oliva was invited to give talks by the Agrupación de Familiares
de Ejecutados Políticos in Chile, about human rights violations in
Honduras.
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