Strong Anti-Coup Protests Support 48-hour General Strike

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I was watching Telesur this morning and it appears that there could be a clash between the golpista-supporting demonstrators and the university student demonstrators. Hoping not.
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Strong Anti-Coup Protests Support 48-hour General Strike in Honduras

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 23 (acn) Popular organizations in Honduras carried out
protests against the military coup in Tegucigalpa and other cities of
the country, prior to a general strike called for this Thursday and
Friday to demand the re-establishment of the constitutional order in the
country.
Summoned by the National Front against the Coup d'état, thousands of
people marched down the streets of the north of the capital and gathered
in the Central Park located in the historical center of the city,
reported Granma newspaper.
A similar demonstration took place in the city of La Lima, in the
northern department of Cortes, while other groups blocked roads in the
outskirts of San Pedro Sula, the second largest city of the country,
some 250 km to the north of Tegucigalpa.
Organization of the Students’ Front against the Coup also led a
rally in the capital in protest against the de facto government and in
defense of the achievements in education the usurpers said would be
taken away.
Meanwhile, women’s organizations picketed in front of the US embassy
in Tegucigalpa to urge American authorities not to recognize the de
facto regime and to stop supporting the extreme-right sectors and,
instead, take more efficient measures against the coup perpetrators.
This fight is beyond the reinstatement of Manuel Zelaya; these are
our historical demands which we have been fighting for, said one of the
demonstrators according to a Telesur report.
In related news, farmers’ leader Rafael Alegría told Prensa Latina
news agency that the popular protests will continue until democracy is
recovered and constitutional president Manuel Zelaya is reinstated.
Alegría said workers will go on a strike this Thursday and tomorrow
and added that demonstrations will continue in support of the 48-hour
general strike.


Worldnews/ycr/ef/13:40

Intensas protestas antigolpistas en Honduras




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