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flamingdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 02:24 PM Original message |
Popular Resistance to the Coup in Honduras: an Interview with Bertha Caceres |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. WOW! THIS IS A FABULOUS RANT! Bertha Caceres is one smart, focussed woman! |
For those who don't have time to read it all, or are daunted by the long text, here are some sterling quotes:
Bev: How have laws been trampled or revised to justify all this? Bertha: One way is, as I mentioned, the curfew, using the curfew and the state of emergency, with the suspension of all of our constitutional rights and guarantees. The regime has pushed forward laws that, for example, when they have captured activists, with the help of the Supreme Court, which is in support of the coup, they've used a category of accusation against the compañeros like sedition, terrorism, illegal protests. They've used these same courts and the prosecutor's office to close radios and television stations. This has been documented on Channel 36, Radio Progress, Radio Globe, and the indigenous community radio stations. They've also passed a law that considers it treason to be in resistance, to speak out against the coup, to even mention that in Honduras there was a coup is considered terrorism and high treason against the state. There have been a series of actions that are illegal, unconstitutional, in violation of human rights, and they practically haven't even had to change many laws to do it, because all of this law was there as part of the plan for the war against terrorism that Bush was pushing in Central America, and by using these laws they have criminalized the social movement, they've repressed us, and it doesn't really matter to them whether or not there's a law. It's a coup. ----- We've been able to unite ourselves around one central objective, which is to overthrow the dictatorship. Overcoming the individual interests of organizations, of different sectors... And to demand not only the reinstitution of the democratic president Manuel Zelaya, but also to unite around other historic demands, including the formation of a national constitutional assembly which is popular and democratic and has direct participation of the people. ...(the Oligarchs have) realized that the people of Honduras have taken this on as a historical obligation. They made a mistake when they thought the resistance was only going to last three days. That's what they said: "Three days and this will all be over." And they were wrong... . ----- ...the biggest accomplishment of this movement: the unity of a social movement led by the Honduran people. And they didn't wait for structure or directions or ideology or leaders or anything. They didn't wait for anything. They had this explosion of organization, of rebellion, of insurrection in a way that was spontaneous, autonomous, and creative. And this pushes the social movements to become more conscious. The significance of a coup and a military dictatorship helps us form ourselves into what we call here one big knot. We're all united under the same objective, including in complicated issues like electoral politics. I think there's been a real process of maturing in this movement. The movement understands that the resistance front, which is a broad-based movement with a lot of different mass organization, needs to maintain its principles, and maintain its independence, and push these anti-coup electoral forces to join with the direction of the Honduran people, who have joined together around one proposal... ---- ...the coup in Honduras has not just been against Honduras, it hasn't just been against Mel Zelaya and his cabinet. It's been against all of the emancipatory processes. It's been a clear, threatening message to the progressive and leftist governments in our continent. It's a clear message that the ultra-right and the imperialists aren't going to stop. They want to reclaim power in the middle of the economic crisis, where they know very well that they need our resources. The military coup in Honduras was directly related to the plundering of our resources. It's very clear the involvement of gringo geopolitical interests in the region. It's connected to other plans of militarization and annexation: the case of Colombia, the threat of destabilization of the governments of Ecuador, of Bolivia, and of Paraguay, and others. And of our region in Central America. ---------------------------- :applause: |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. One more quote--about the disgusting misuse of ALBA funds... |
(I didn't know this--jeez!)
Bertha Caceres: I think we need to be clear that this coup is the beginning of a strategy of direct aggression, and aggression backed by the US, against the process of integration of the ALBA (Bolivian Alternative for the Americas). The Honduran people were really fighting for ALBA. It was an initiative in part by the president, but it was something that we had to push for. And that's why it outrages us to see that these tyrants, these assassins, are using the money of the ALBA, this money that was produced by the labor of our brothers in the Caribbean, of the Venezuelan and Cuban people, to pay for their international jet-setting. That they're using to pay the plane tickets of http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/popular-resistance-to-the_b_301211.html |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 08:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Remember that the golpistas in Venezuela sacked Miraflores? |
At the end of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", they can't find part of their sound equipment for the press conference and Chavez says, "Did they take that, too?"
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