Killing Organizers in Honduras...

[maryf]

January 5, 2010
Left to Fend for Themselves
Killing Organizers in Honduras

By JOSEPH SHANSKY

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.

On Sunday, Dec. 7, a group of six people were gunned down while walking down the street in the Villanueva neighborhood of Tegucigalpa. According to sources, a white van with no license plates stopped in front of the group. Four masked men jumped out of the van and forced the group to get on the ground, where they were shot. The five victims who were killed were:

· Marcos Vinicio Matute Acosta, 39

· Kennet Josué Ramírez Rosa, 23

· Gabriel Antonio Parrales Zelaya, 34

· Roger Andrés Reyes Aguilar, 22

· Isaac Enrique Soto Coello, 24

Much more at link:

http://www.counterpunch.org/shansky01052010.html

[madrchsod]

1. they have the usa`s blessing....move on- there`s nothing to see

[maryf]

2. yep, its all been taken care of...

:mad:

[Peace Patriot]

3. 'Enemies' of America: teachers, students, union leaders, ordinary citizens--the best and brightest

of the Resistance. This is very, very, VERY infuriating--as well as tragic.

You know what one coup general said. He said that, by their coup, they were "preventing communism from Venezuela reaching the United States." (--quoted in a report on the coup by the Zelaya government-in-exile).

This tells us all we need to know about who is advising these murderers, who is funding these murderers, who created the "lipstick on a pig" P.R. strategy of holding an election under martial law, while leftists were being imprisoned, tortured, raped and murdered, and who is benefiting most from this state terrorism: the corpo-fascists who run things here.

"Communism from Venezuela" = universal health care, free education through college, government "of, by and for the people," transparent elections, kicking Exxon Mobil out of your country, evicting the World Bank/IMF loan sharks from your region, banning the failed, corrupt, murderous U.S. "war on drugs," and generally kicking global corporate predator and war profiteer butt. Venezuela has a mixed capitalist/socialist economy and they are doing much better than most countries of the world, in the U.S. bankster-induced depression, because of their socialist policies. They are NOT a "communist" country, and--contrary to everything you have heard from our corpo-fascist press--Chavez is NOT a "dictator." Venezuela has a REAL democracy, as opposed to this pathetic, looted, war-mongering thing we call "democracy" in the U.S.

[maryf]

6. Anyone who places people over profits is ok in my book!

Chavez has certainly served his people! And considering how many coup officers were trained in Fort Benning, Georgia, of course they'd want to keep their alma mater safe from communism...The corporatists are terrified by the revival of the left in Latin America, which means they get uglier by the day...

Keep speaking out, Peace Patriot!

[leftstreet]

7. +1

[anonymous171]

8. If Zelaya is a communist then I am Hugo Chavez. nt

[maryf]

9. Excellent point...

Zelaya is not that far left, just anything left of fascist is too far left for some...

[Overseas]

4. K&R. //nt

[maryf]

5. Thanks for all the recs!

Shows the concern we should all have!

[maryf]

10. morning kick, nt

[blindpig]

11. SOP for School of the Americas grads

any bets?

[maryf]

12. Oh without question...

During the initial coup it was stated as much in daily reports... http://www.soaw.org

[maryf]

13. Here's two

"The military coup was lead by graduates of the School of the Americas: Chief of Staff Commander General Romeo Vasquez and Air Force Commander General Luis Javier Prince." from soaw