Honduras: cops attack striking teachers —again

[Judi Lynn]

Honduras: cops attack striking teachers —again

Submitted by Weekly News Update on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 10:43. Honduran police arrested some 150 people while using tear gas and water cannons to disperse a demonstration by teachers, students and others in Tegucigalpa on Aug. 27, the 23rd day of a strike by teachers over their pension fund and other issues. The protest, which blocked Central America Boulevard for three hours, was called by the Federation of Teachers Organizations of Honduras (FOMH), which includes six unions, and the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), a coalition that formed last year to oppose the June 2009 military coup against then-president José Manuel ("Mel") Zelaya Rosales.

"We had to repel violent aggression and remove the protesters," police commissioner Mario Chamorro said in a press conference. "And we almost immediately released the detainees." The police said the demonstrators burned tires, set up barricades and confronted police agents with clubs, rocks and firebombs. The Associated Press wire service reported that masked teachers fired rifles and revolvers and broke car and shop windows, although it was not clear whether the AP correspondent claimed to have witnessed this or was citing police sources.

The unions and the FNRP said the police attacked the protesters "in a savage manner," launching hundreds of tear gas grenades indiscriminately against protesters and bystanders. Agents clubbed protesters and charged into the nearby Francisco Morazán National Pedagogic University (UPNFM), where they searched classrooms for protesters. The operation was directed by Deputy Police Chief Rene Maradiaga Panchame, accused by human rights organizations of participating in the notorious Battalion 3-16 death squad, which disappeared around 100 people during the 1980s. "Before, the sicarios hid themselves—now they don't," said Berta Oliva, coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees in Honduras (COFADEH), a leading human rights organization.

It was not clear how many people were injured by the agents or affected by the tear gas. Protesters charged that two public institutions, the School Hospital and the Social Security Hospital, turned the injured away without treatment. (El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Aug. 27 from AP; Red Morazánica de Información, Aug 27, via FNRP website)

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[lunamagica]

1. Payments overdue since 2007? Interesting..... n/t

[Downwinder]

2. Pictures from today in Tegucigalpa Fri, 08/27/2010

http://www.quotha.net/node/1150

[Judi Lynn]

3. They really laid that teacher out, didn't they? My god.

We've already seen the dead teachers they killed in the last year, and they do have a real hatred for them. What "morality" they act out in broad daylight against worthwhile, valuable human beings.

What a set-up: bunch of flabby, pasty-faced bastards who stole the government hiding behind the low life violent trolls in the police and military (who are anxious to please their porky little masters, stand in line for extra pay for extra brutality, finding their life's fulfillment and a sense of power chasing helpless people around, beating them to a puddle of goo, torturing them, and, as special treats, killing them) make their enemies list, then send these professional idiots out to harm them.

What a picnic for fools. An entire country held hostage by social perverts, spiritually dead cretins, daring the entire population to try to do anything about it. They apparently think they've created the New Pinochet Chile, or New Dirty War Argentina. F### them all. Their friends in the U.S. government will not be able to protect them from the consequences of their evil deeds.

They don't seem to realize those fascist nightmarish monstrosities were eventually taken out of power, and the criminals who did the torturing and the murdering are being tried for war crimes. These death squad goons and their bosses in Honduras will go the same way in time.

We all know that in the end, the PEOPLE are going to win, after all. Their own Christ said, in the Beatitudes, that the meek will inherit the earth, not the vicious, greedy bastards.

[Peace Patriot]

4. Looks like the U.S. is now going after St. Vincent & the Grenadines, another member of ALBA and

Venezuela ally--to turn St. Vincent & the Grenadines into the next Honduras. The president of St. Vincent & the Grenadines names a group out of Dallas, Texas, that we ought to keep an eye on. Even if there is nothing we can do to stop these horrors, we have an obligation, at least, to know what our government and its corporate masters and war profiteers are doing in our name and try to educate other Americans about it. The Honduras coup is directly related to Honduras joining ALBA when Manuel Zelaya was president. The coup legislature has withdrawn Honduras' membership in ALBA--a trade group that was formed to provide smaller countries with some collective economic clout in dealing with U.S. "free trade for the rich." The U.S. wants slaves in Latin America--that is very clear--and rewards brutality toward teachers and other union members, community activists, human rights workers and anyone with the courage to advocate for democracy and the poor majority.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x40778
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=216831&Itemid=1

[Judi Lynn]

5. Thanks for pointing us to this O.P. for those of us who hadn't seen it yet.

You are absolutely right on target. They ARE attempting to strip away the other ALBA countries, for sure. You are right beyond any doubt.

They already have the Honduras notch on their belts. Monsters.

Clearly their view of human life doesn't have room for respect for others. They are utterly amoral.

Apparently it doesn't matter who's in the White House, unless we get a really evolved person in the White House who is willing to sacrifice his life, if necessary, to steer the country toward a higher, stronger, finer way of life. It's clear the military industrial complex Dwight D. Eisenhower attempted to tell us about is all right wing, all fascist, and it has finally gained control of this country to the point only a giant human being, morally, a titan, would be strong enough to take them on from the President's office.