Press release
Down with the coup and the state of siege in Honduras!
No negotiations with the coup plotters!
All our solidarity with the women and all the Honduran people in struggle
(Buenos Aires, July 3, 2009) The group Pan y Rosas – as it has done from the beginning – expresses its most vigorous repudiation of the coup d'état in Honduras perpetrated by groups of the Honduran bourgeoisie, with the active collaboration of the Armed Forces, the Supreme Court of Justice, the Parliament, the churches and the big communications media. We also reject the state of siege decreed on July 1 by Micheletti's de facto government, that is reducing the democratic freedoms of the Honduran people even more, and we demand the immediate release of the arrested militants.
In addition, we reject the interference of the OAS – commanded by US imperialism – whose Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, will arrive in Honduras today with the obvious intention of negotiating "a solution to the political crisis" with the coup plotters. This "solution" is nothing other than the reestablishment of a regime that, with or without Zelaya, not only guarantees the interests of Honduran businessmen and landowners, but also future impunity for the coup participants.
In addition, we reject the interference of the OAS – commanded by US imperialism – whose Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, will arrive in Honduras today with the obvious intention of negotiating "a solution to the political crisis" with the coup plotters. This "solution" is nothing other than the reestablishment of a regime that, with or without Zelaya, not only guarantees the interests of Honduran businessmen and landowners, but also future impunity for the coup participants.
Women in struggle, the working people of Honduras, and those of us who are mobilizing throughout Latin America and the world against the coup, cannot trust that the OAS – that, in its history, recognized all the bloodthirsty dictatorships of Latin America in the 1970's and 1980's, that backed the criminal blockade of Cuba for more than four decades, and that supports the submission of Latin American countries to imperialism – can give a solution that would favor the popular sectors and their democratic freedoms. Quite the contrary: it seeks an "agreed upon" solution with the coup plotters. For that reason, we the women of Pan y Rosas call for the broadest popular mobilization against the coup in Honduras and for trusting only in our own strength, that of the exploited and oppressed, to overthrow the coup and prevent the consolidation of a reactionary conclave in the region, setting a terrible precedent on our continent.
Down with the coup and the state of siege!
No negotiations with the coup plotters!
US imperialism, get out!
Our solidarity is with the women and all the Honduran people in struggle!
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