Thousands of Zelaya supporters renew protests in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Thousands of Zelaya supporters renew protests in Honduras
26 February 2010 | 02:02 | FOCUS News Agency

Tegucigalpa. Thousands of supporters of ousted Honduras president Manuel Zelaya took to the streets of the capital Thursday for the first time since President Porfirio Lobo took office last month, AFP reported. Lobo, who was elected in controversial polls held under the de facto regime, took power on January 27 and granted Zelaya safe passage to the Dominican Republic.

Zelaya, a centrist who swung to the left while in office, had spent several months holed up in the Brazilian embassy after secretly returning to the Central American nation.

Thursday's protesters called for reform of the constitution and denounced corruption and rights abuses since Zelaya was ousted last June.

Some 10,000 people set off from the capital's main university but were blocked by soldiers from nearing the presidential palace and diverted to the parliament in the city center instead, according to organizers. Six teachers' unions backed the protests and called for classes to be suspended nationwide.

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n211320

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Thousands of Hondurans March in Anti-Coup Protest

In Honduras, thousands of supporters of the ousted former President Manuel Zelaya took to the streets Thursday for a march in the capital Tegucigalpa. It was the first major demonstration since the inauguration of Honduran President Porfirio Lobo last month. Protesters called for constitutional reforms, payments of back wage to teachers, and an end to attacks on Zelaya supporters. The National People’s Resistance Front says one of its supporters was shot to death this week at her home in front of her two young children. The victim, Claudia Brizuela, was the daughter of a radio host critical of the coup that ousted Zelaya last year.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/26/headlines#6

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[Judi Lynn]

1. HONDURAS: No Calm for Lobo on Home Front

HONDURAS: No Calm for Lobo on Home Front
By Thelma Mejía

TEGUCIGALPA, Feb 26, 2010 (IPS) - Less than a month into his term, Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is facing street protests, complaints of human rights violations, and criticism of the truth commission he set up to investigate the Jun. 28 coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya

Thousands of Zelaya supporters took to the streets Thursday to demand reforms of the constitution and an end to attacks on backers of the ousted president, denounce corruption and rights abuses since the coup, and protest the high cost of living and soaring poverty levels.

Several teachers unions demanding payment of back wages also took part in the protests organised by the National Front of Resistance Against the Coup, now known as the Popular Resistance Front.

In addition, the demonstrators were protesting Wednesday's murder of social activist Claudia Brizuela, the daughter of Pedro Brizuela, a veteran leftist leader who was a founder of the now-defunct Communist Party of Honduras and is a member of the Popular Resistance Front in the northern city of San Pedro Sula.

The 36-year-old Brizuela was shot dead in her home by unidentified gunmen. Her father said her death "is clearly a message aimed at intimidating my family and the Popular Resistance Front.

"We are living in a police state that carries out surveillance on and persecutes the members of the resistance against the coup, and the death of my daughter can only be interpreted in this context," Brizuela told the local media.

According to the Committee of Families of the Detained-Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), rights violations have continued under Lobo, despite his promise to ensure full respect for human rights.

COFADEH activist Mery Agurcia told IPS that the activist's murder was similar to previous "selective killings used to eliminate supporters of the people's resistance movement.

More:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50470

[protocol rv]

2. I wonder, who is financing the unrest?

Zelaya is a rich guy, do you thinnk he's financing unrest?

[Wilms]

4. Hurts that bad? n/t

[EFerrari]

3. Beautiful!

:hi: