July 15, 2009

Zelaya Calls for Uprising in Honduras, Arriba! : Latin American Herald Tribune


Arriba, parias de la Tierra!
En pie, famélica legión!
Atruena la razón en marcha!
es el fin de la opresión!


http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=339253&CategoryId=23558

GUATEMALA CITY – Deposed Honduran President Mel Zelaya issued an appeal here Tuesday for the people of his country to rise up against the “interim” government that took power after the June 28 military coup in Tegucigalpa.

Speaking in the Guatemalan capital, he also vowed that he would soon return to Honduras.

“Insurrection is a right of the people that is deposited in Article 3 of the constitution of Honduras, and the Hondurans should make their constitutional rights count,” Zelaya said in a press conference after private talks with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom.

“I have not surrendered, nor shall I surrender. I will return to the country in the shortest possible time. I don’t want to mention the time or the day, so as not to alert the opposition forces, whom we know are criminals,” the ousted chief executive said.

Zelaya asked Hondurans “not to abandon the streets, the only space they haven’t taken from us.”

“No one is committing a crime by protesting peacefully under a de facto government,” he said. “Strikes, demonstrations, the takeovers (of public buildings), civil disobedience are a necessary process when the democratic order is violated in a country.”


He urged rebellion just hours after Costa Rican President Oscar Arias announced that he had convened representatives of Zelaya and the junta led by erstwhile Honduran Congress speaker Roberto Micheletti for a second round of talks aimed at resolving the crisis.

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