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Insulza Pleased with Zelaya’s Post

News on September 21, 2010 by Administrator| Comments Off

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today said he was pleased with the swearing in of former Honduran President José Manuel Zelaya as a deputy of the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) in representation of his country.

"The incorporation of former President Zelaya to the PARLACEN is an act of justice, since he was elected democratically at the polls and headed the legitimately constituted government of all Honduran people, and the place he fills today in the Central American Parliament corresponds to him," Secretary General Insulza said.

The Report on the situation in Honduras, which Insulza submitted in July and was mandated by the Foreign Ministers of the hemisphere, signaled the appropriateness of former President Zelaya occupying the position that legally corresponds to him as a former Central American head of state. This designation "constitutes a further step on the road to normalizing the situation created as a consequence of the coup d’état of June 28, 2009," Secretary General Insulza said.

– Press Release from OAS

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Zelaya Demands ALBA Speak Up

News on August 25, 2010 by Administrator| Comments Off

Ex-President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, is asking member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) to put pressure on the Honduran government for an explanation about the destiny of certain funds he has been accused of diverting during his administration.

The funds Zelaya is referring to came from ALBA, and his administration is being accused of diverting $98 million worth. According to the High Court of Accounts President, Miguel Angel Mejia, Venezuela donated $100 million to the permanent commission of contingencies (COPECO), of which only two million were used and the rest transferred to the presidency under Zelaya.

Zelaya has denied the charge, and insisted that when he was ousted, he had left the funds intact in the national treasury.

For that reason, he has called on ALBA member countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela to ask the Honduran government for an explanation.

Honduras is not an ALBA member country; they withdrew from the alliance after Zelaya was kicked out of office.

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Hunger Strike on Day Six

News on May 24, 2010 by Administrator| Comments Off

Five Honduran judges have been on a hunger strike for six days in protest of a decision by the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) to dismiss four magistrates that condemned the June 28th actions against former president Manuel Zelaya.

Thursday another two people joined the strike, and there are now seven strikers demonstrating in La Merced Park, across from Congress in downtown Tegucigalpa.

The demonstrators want to see reversed the dismissal of Judges Alonso Chevez and Guillermo Lopez (two of the strikers), Ramon Enrique Barrios, and Tirza del Carmen Flores, whose dismissals were announced on May 5th.

Honduran Deputy Marvin Ponce presented on Friday a motion to the National Congress to investigate the SCJ for the arbitrary decision.
The legislator proposed to Congress the appointment of a commission to analyze the administrative behavior of the judicial branch.

Judges Guillermo Lopez, Jose Pineda, Gerson Medina, Pablo Munguia and Chevez, who are members of the Association of Judges for Democracy, went on strike on Monday, while the two new members of the group are a high school student, Michael Urbina and a small farmer, Teodoro Carbajal.

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