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Honduran Resistance Unwavering
Tegucigalpa, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of Honduran demonstrators returned on Monday to the streets of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to repudiate the repression of the pro-coup regime and demand the restitution of constitutional President Manuel Zelaya.
In spite of the barbarity unleashed by this fascist government, the people's resistance remains strong, said the leader of the Unitary Confederation of Honduran Workers, Israel Salinas.
On Sunday, the regime prevented the plane carrying Zelaya from landing in Toncontin airport. He was returning to the country along with Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas and president of the UN General Assembly Miguel D Escoto.
Army troops deployed in the air terminal violently crushed thousands of people who were waiting for Zelaya to arrive, killing two teens and wounding over a dozen demonstrators.
Popular organizations declared today as a mourning day in homage to the victims and carried a coffin in their march towards the Government House.
"Murderers, murderers," shouted the protesters outside Army and police posts installed to prevent them from getting near the place.
Similar demonstrations were reported in San Pedro Sula, the country's second main city.
Nine days after the coup, the country remains semi-paralyzed and under curfew, with hundreds of union members, students, farmers and representatives of other sectors arrested.
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US Double Standard in Honduras
Managua, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) Nicaraguan Central American Parliament Legislator Jacinto Suarez denounced the US political double standard with Honduras.
Suarez told TV channel Multinoticias and En Vivo magazine that the US condemns the coup on one hand and secretly supports the perpetrators on the other.
The Central American legislator termed illegal the coup led by Roberto Micheletti and exposed US efforts to legitimize it.
Impeding President elect Manuel Zelaya's landing on Sunday in Tegucigalpa increases repudiation of the culprits.
Suarez said the White House and those involved in the coup do not accept Zelaya's ties with the national social movement, and warned of the return to power of fascists and criminals.
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Paraguay Lugo for Zelaya Return
Asunción, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) President Fernando Lugo returned to Paraguay Monday after working for the return of Honduran President Zelaya.
Lugo had been in El Salvador, where he continued to help with the return of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to his native country, together with other presidents of the continent.
Lugo participated in a special meeting of the Organization of American States in Washington, where discussions and a vote took place giving a time limit to the coupists for the restitution of Zelaya.
Paraguay joined in the OAS unanimous protest and sanctions for the coup in Honduras.
Together with Presidents Rafael Correa (Ecuador) and Cristina Fernandez (Argentina), Lugo was working for the restitution of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to retake his post as President of his country.
Lugo was accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister Hector Lacognata, and international politics advisor Gustavo Codas.
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Venezuela PSUV to US: Define Honduran Stand
Caracas, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) requested on Monday US President Barack Obama make a categorical pronouncement and take actions in rejection of the coup in Honduras.
On behalf of the leadership of the country's largest party, Ramon Rodriguez convened a debate of international ideas to interpret the reality of what is happening in the national context in Honduras.
This call for Obama to define his position joins similar demands by politicians and representatives of the Venezuelan society, who have warned of the US interference in the case and are wondering what has been the role of the US president in all this.
Rodriguez urged the US president to go "beyond nice words" and set a clear stand about the coup he described as an action to try to check the advances of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA).
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Honduras Indefinite Teachers Strike
Tegucigalpa, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) Teachers and workers in Honduras are on strike since Monday for an unlimited period of time to demand the return of constitutional President Manuel Zelaya, brutally kidnapped and expelled from his nation by military forces.
The Federation of Magisterial Organizations and others of workers that belong to the Popular Bloc convened the strike of teachers, which are anti-coup entities that condemn the military coup and reject the de-facto government.
The whole educational sector is on strike, said magisterial leader Reina Centeno.
She also denied the announcement made by coup leaders, who wrongly said classes had resumed.
Organizations of workers reaffirmed the continuity of the demonstrations in support to the return of Zelaya, despite the crude and violent military repression. Zelaya is expected to meet today with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to analyze the situation in the Central American nation, media said.
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Perez Esquivel for Action Against Honduras Coup
Buenos Aires, Jul 6 (Prensa Latina) Nobel Peace Prize winner (1980) Adolfo Perez Esquivel in a statement published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, urged all the peoples of America and the world to condemn the coup perpetrated in Honduras.
Perez Esquivel said in a message via internet that this coup represents a threat for the entire continent, an attempt to reintroduce US interventionism in the countries of the region.
This action responds to policies imposed to ensure hegemonic, political and economic interests in the continent, the document reads, which urges all nations to carry out a fierce continental demonstration to prevent that dictatorship from consolidating.
The document also criticizes some administrations that have done little to protest this coup, mentioning the case of US President Barack Obama.
Perez Esquivel said he first pronounced under pressure from Latin American leaders and saying no more so far because he knows military coups are supported by the Pentagon and the CIA and by economic, ecclesiastic and political groups.
Coup leaders did not allow the Venezuelan plane with President Manuel Zelaya and the President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D Escoto to land.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel rejected the coup d' etat conducted early Sunday against President Manuel Zelaya and asked that the military and all those involved in the coup be condemned.
He also extolled the courage and high level of responsibility demonstrated by Zelaya to return his country.
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