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By Prensa Latina [Havana]
Published 18 AUG 2009
Tegucigalpa, 18 AUG (PL) Popular resistance against the coup d'état |
has now reached its 52nd consecutive day, with marches in the capital and actions to promote public awareness in neighborhoods, leaders of the movement announced
Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, from the leadership of the Frente Nacional contra el Golpe de Estado, explained that details of these demonstrations will be given in gathering places, for security reasons.
She recalled that members of the armed forces and the police are following the demonstrations, as part of their repressive actions and harassment, for the sake of intimidation.
The general coordination of the Frente, President of the Federación Unitaria de Trabajadores (FUTH), Juan Barahona, confirmed that this Tuesday, the gathering place of the opposition will be in the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional.
The general secretary of the FUTH, Israel Salinas, specified that there the collective leadership of the Frente will adopt actions for the day, in an effort to obstruct repression.
Salinas announced the 22nd communiqué form the Frente yesterday, in which popular organizations confirm that they will maintain peaceful resistance for the return of constitutional order and for the return of the President, Manuel Zelaya.
The document also confirms the desire of those forces to call a Constituent Assembly to draw up a Magna Carta with changes in favor of the impoverished majorities and for a really participatory democracy.
Indigenous leader Cáceres explained that among the actions in the neighborhoods, educational meetings with the population about the meaning and results of the June 28 military coup d'état were scheduled.
The Frente announced a new way to express rejection of the coup plotters for next Wednesday: in the capital, a big caravan of vehicles, from bicycles to heavy trucks, "everything that rolls along and makes noise."
Last Sunday, the alliance of popular organizations carried out a national assembly to analyze strategies of struggle, although it only announced a big concert next Sunday.
During the 12-hour performance, beginning at 9 a.m., Honduran artists and those from other countries like Argentina, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Costa Rica, among them the popular group Los Guaraguao, will show up.
