Killing Activists in Honduras

[Andronex]

The bodies of slain activists are piling up in Honduras. While it's being kept quiet in most Honduran and international media, the rage is building among a dedicated network of friends spreading the word quickly with the tragic announcement of each compañero/a.

Now that the world heard from mainstream news outlets such as the New York Times of a “clean and fair” election on Nov. 29 (orchestrated by the US-supported junta currently in power), the violence has increased even faster than feared.

The specific targets of these killings have been those perceived as the biggest threats to the coup establishment. The bravest, and thus the most vulnerable: Members of the Popular Resistance against the coup. Their friends and family. People who provide the Resistance with food and shelter. Teachers, students, and ordinary citizens who simply recognize the fallacy of an un-elected regime taking over their country. All associated with the Resistance have faced constant and growing repercussions for their courage in protesting the coup. With the international community given the green light by the US that democratic order has returned via elections, it’s open season for violent forces in Honduras working to tear apart the political unity of the Resistance Front against the coup.

The killings are happening almost faster than they can be recorded.

more... <http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2278/1/>

[Goldstein1984]

1. Death smeath...killings smillings...coup smoup...

This all misses the most important question:

Is this, or is this not, good for "vital American interests" in the region?

[Goldstein1984]

2. Today's daily letter to President Obama

Sent at 1:45 pm AST...

Dear President Obama,

If you've only been watching the mainstream media to keep track of how health care reform is being portrayed, you've no doubt missed the news that democratic activists in Honduras are being systematically killed by the coup regime your administration helped to legitimize.

There are many, like me, whose support for you is disappearing with each of your mistakes. Your position on Honduras was one of those mistakes.

You really screwed the pooch on this one. And the bodies of good people are piling up as a consequence.

Respectfully submitted,

[Judi Lynn]

3. How could anyone other than a republican, a fascist, tolerate these atrocities?

Good message to the President, Goldstein1984.

[ellie]

4. Kicking this

[clear eye]

5. Truly tragic. These are the best young people

who are being killed in the effort to restore a truly representative gov't.

From the same article as the OP, "'As a revolutionary I will be today, tomorrow and forever on the front lines of my people, all the while knowing that I may lose my life.' - Walter Trochez, 25, murdered in Tegucigalpa on 12/13/09"

Lest anyone think these young people were killed in a violent action while firing upon gov't officials, the reality is they were swooped down upon from an unmarked van while walking along a street unarmed in an act of murderous cowardice.