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Urgent Action: Call the White House and State Department on Honduras!

Agreement Falls Apart!

[The Alliance for Global Justice has received this important action
alert from School of the Americas Watch (SOAW). We urge you to take
action.]

We are extremely concerned about the situation in Honduras, where
SOA graduates overthrew the democratically elected government on
June 28, 2009. An agreement that was brokered last week between
representatives of President Zelaya and the coup regime was supposed
to "return the holder of executive power to its pre-June 28 state"
but it turns out it was just another stalling tactic by the coup
regime. [Nicaragua Network note: U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC)
said that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Assistant
Secretary Thomas Shannon had assured him that the US would recognize
the outcome of the Honduran elections regardless of whether Manuel
Zelaya was reinstated. This is unacceptable.] Read a statement from
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya below.

SOA Watch supports the three key demands that the National Front
of Resistance Against the Coup in Honduras has put forward:

7 the return to constitutional order with the reinstatement of the
legitimate president, Manuel Zelaya Rosales 7 respect for the
sovereign right of the Honduran people to establish a National
Constituent Assembly for the purpose of refounding their nation 7
punishment for those who have violated human rights.

Join us in calling the White House and leave a message for President
Barack Obama and Dan Restrepo (Special Assistant to the President
and National Security Council Senior Director for Western Hemisphere
Affairs) at 202-456-1111 or 202-456- 1414 and the State Department
and leave a message for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon (202-647-4000) telling them to
not recognize the coup regime's elections that are scheduled for
November 29. President Zelaya must be reinstated!

Statement by Honduran President Manuel Zelaya:

PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC From the Desk of the President Tegucigalpa
November 6, 2009

[Translation by Patricia Adams, The Quixote Center. Original Spanish
version below.]

DELCARATION

Our weapon are ideas, our struggle is peaceful Agreement Failed
because of Micheletti's Failure to Comply.

In the face of the mockery that Mr. Micheletti has made of the
Honduran People and the International Community: boycotting the
Tegucigalpa/San Jose Agreement; letting the deadline for the creation
of the Government of Unity pass without convening the National
Congress, as is within his power and responsibility to do per the
written agreement; the lack of a will to fulfill the Agreement in
both letter and spirit is clear; ignoring the Plan Arias proposal,
as well as the OAS and the UN resolutions; we declare that the
Agreement has been a failure, because of the failure of the de facto
regime to comply with the commitment to organize and install a
government of unity and national reconciliation by this date; a
government which should by law be presided over by the President
elected by the People, Josi Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

1. We are not willing to give up the rights of the people by
legitimating this Coup d'Etat.

2. We do not accept the militarization of society nor that the
President of Honduras be named by the elite of the Armed Forces.

3. Democracy is the highest good of society and is the only path
for confronting the problems of the third poorest economy in Latin
America, and therefore we are not willing to be cheated nor that
our Democracy be robbed from us.

4. The permanent violations of Human Rights, the cancellation of
public freedoms, the confiscation of communication media, as well
as the status of the President elected by the people who is surrounded
by the military inside the Brazilian Embassy and the political witch
hunting, is all proof of the preparation of an enormous Political-Electoral
fraud on November 29th.

5. We announce that we will completely ignore this electoral process
and the results of the aforementioned evils, elections under a
dictatorship are a fraud for the people.

6. We invite the Ministers of the OAS to make immediate pronouncements
about the actions of the government legitimately elected by the
people of Honduras, and to continue to condemn and ignore this de
facto regime.

7. On behalf of the people, we thank the International Community,
the OAS, Secretary Insulza, the ex- President of Chile Mr Ricardo
Lagos Escobar, and the US Labor Secretary Mrs Hilda Solms.

Versisn original en espaqol:

PRESIDENCIA DE LA REPUBLICA Del Escritorio de Seqor Presidente
Tegucigalpa 6 de noviembre del 2009

PRONUNCIAMIENTO

Nuestra armas son las ideas, nuestra lucha es pacifica Fracasa
Acuerdo por Incumplimiento de Micheletti.

Ante la burla que el Seqor Micheletti ha inferido al pueblo Hondureqo
y a la Comunidad Internacional, Boicoteando el Acuerdo Tegucigalpa/San
Josi y dejar que se vencieran los plazos para la Organizacisn del
Gobierno de Unidad al no convocar al Congreso Nacional de acuerdo
a sus facultades y compromisos suscritos, evidentemente se manifiesta
la falta de voluntad para cumplir la letra y el espmritu del Acuerdo,
desconociendo la propuesta del Plan Arias, la resoluciones de
Organizacisn de Estados Americanos de Naciones Unidas, declaramos
fracasado el Acuerdo por el incumplimiento del rigimen de facto del
compromiso de que a esta fecha debma de estar organizado e instalado
el gobierno de unidad y de Reconciliacisn nacional; El que por ley
debe de ser presidido por el Presidente Electo por el Pueblo Josi
Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

1. Que no estamos dispuestos a perder los derechos del pueblo
legitimando este Golpe de Estado.

2. No aceptamos que se militarice la sociedad y que el Presidente
de Honduras sea nombrado en las Czpulas de las Fuerzas Armadas.

3. La Democracia es un bien supremo de la sociedad y es el znico
camino para enfrentar los problemas de la tercera economma mas pobre
de Latinoamirica por lo que no estamos dispuestos a permitir que
nos roben con este tipo de trampas nuestra Democracia.

4. Las violaciones permanentes de los Derechos Humanos, la cancelacisn
de las libertades pzblicas, y la confiscacisn de medios de comunicacisn
al igual que la situacisn del Presidente electo por el pueblo rodeado
por militares en la sede Diplomatica del Brasil y la persecucisn
Polmtica es la prueba evidente de la preparacisn de un gran fraude
Polmtico-Electoral para el 29 de noviembre.

5. Anunciamos nuestro total desconocimiento a este proceso electoral
y a los resultados por los vicios antes mencionados, elecciones
bajo dictadura son un fraude para el pueblo.

6. Invitar de manera inmediata a los Cancilleres de la OEA a que
se pronuncien sobre lo que acontece en el gobierno legmtimamente
electo por el pueblo Hondureqo y continui la condena y el desconocimiento
a este rigimen de facto.

7. Agradecemos al pueblo el apoyo brindado por la Comunidad
Internacional, a la Organizacisn de Estados Americano, secretario
insulsa al ex Presidente de Chile Seqor Ricardo Lagos Escobar, a
la Ministra de Trabajo del Gobierno de Estados Unidos Seqora Hilda
Solms.

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