sendet from Roberto Quesada 14 de enero a la(s) 15:38 WELCOME TO HONDURAS MR. BAN KI-MOON PLEASE HELP TO HONDURAS: LETS BREAK THE MEDIA BLOCKADE! Help us distribute this letter from former President Manuel Zelaya Rosales to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, as he is visiting Honduras this week. In Honduras over 90 percent of the press has been purchased by the regime of Juan Orlando Hernandez. As a result, must of what we receive abroad is disinformation. Thank You! RQ (Aunque usted no hable inglés, envíeselo a sus amistades y familiares que si lo hablan, que circule en el exterior. Gracias). *** The Secretary General of the United Nations is visiting Honduras and the following is a letter that former President and general Coordinator of the Libre Party wrote to him. This is a very assertive letter which summarizes the crucial and urgent issues faced by the Honduran people today. We hope that you would help us spread the word by sharing this letter among your contacts. In permanent resistance and struggle. Tegucigalpa, MDC January 13, 2014. Mr. BAN KI-MOON Secretary General United Nations Dear Mr. Secretary: Your visit it’s very appropriate to express our deep appreciation and to inform you that from June 28, 2009 in our country complete impunity prevails against those who perpetuated the military coup which was condemned unanimously by the United Nations. Since the coup, to today, the victims of killings, human rights violations and torture are still demanding and waiting for the application of justice that never arrives. Since the coup, the majority of our population is torn between poverty and extreme poverty; increasing state violence, organized crime, extrajudicial executions; constant crimes committed by death squads and paramilitary groups, massacres against children and youth, are the order of the day in the most brutal violation of human rights. Honduras is now a militarized state, a situation that has been observed and explained in the Preliminary Report of the Mission of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in their in loco visit to Honduras at the end of 2014. The annual report of Human rights Watch (World Report, 2014) also shows the crisis and likewise over a hundred US congressmen spoke in 2014 through a public letter to protest human rights violations, the military crackdown of congress members who make up the opposition and the state coercion experienced by the Honduran people. For the fifth consecutive year since 2010, the people have been denied access to the funds from the Millennium Challenge Account of the United States, due to the loss of confidence of the international community for the high levels of violence, systematic violations of human rights and corruption of the HONDURAS administration today. The Honduran people, outrageously withstands the devaluation of its currency, over nine fiscal adjustments, inconsiderate tax increases for the poor and public debt. This administration has lost all honesty in handling public funds and has legalized the secrecy of public life arbitrarily changing the Transparency Act and Access to Public Information passed during my administration. Thousands of workers from government institutions that are being privatized, have been suspended and fired arbitrarily; while others are persecuted mercilessly as teachers, workers, and peasants are killed, especially in the northern part of the country. The working class is living on low wages, and this admiration has frozen all increases and benefits, despite inflation, the high cost of living and the progressive devaluation. Juan Orlando Hernandez, congressman and pro-coup in 2009 and current President of the Republic, has consistently refused to have a national dialogue with the opposition, instead he limits open dialogue and tolerance about different ideas with his media control and exaggerated propaganda in an authoritative and fraudulent way, represses social demands, imposing a system of military terror with security policies where fundamental civil rights have practically all disappeared and he threatens with disappearing the National Preventive Police to create a parallel military police. Blackmail, persecution, public statements and press chains threatening the opposition to be associated with organized crime, are everyday forms of treatment to their opponents, from President Hernandez and his twisted personality. Laws limiting individual and collective freedoms, such as the “Listening and Intervention of Private communications of citizens”; Terrorism Act; Act against conspiracies and laws of accelerated militarization of the state; illegal dismissal and without any pre-established procedure of judges and magistrates who ruled against the coup; arbitrary dismissal of four judges of the Constitutional Court for opposing the past elections fraud ; and unlawful and arbitrary appointment of the judges of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General; are some of his actions; typical of a tyrant. Without respecting the procedure already established in the Constitution: the referendum (plebiscite or referendum), and denying the people their political rights, a strong group of congressmen in support of the government have officially proposed amendments to the Constitution by means of the Court, for the sole purpose of allowing the presidential continuity. Mr. Secretary, your visit to our country is a great opportunity, for you to become aware without intermediaries, of the brutal subjugation imposed on to the Honduran people and the constant denial of the rights that we as a democratic and peaceful opposition face. WE DO NOT accept the violence and confrontation promoted by the President in an authoritarian manner and without legitimacy, since he has obtained just 34% of the national electorate. Mr. Secretary, we have NOT lost hope to finding solutions for HONDURAS. In this timely opportunity we appeal to your high position at the United Nations, to advocate for the reconciliation, dialogue, JUSTICE and PEACE TODAY missing from the Honduran State and absent on the agenda of who govern US. With the highest consideration and respect, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales Constitucional President of Honduras, 2006-2010 Translated from Spanish: by Lucy Pagoada-Quesada.
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