“Congress should move quickly to restore the president and the democratic order,” said Schakowsky, an Illinois congressman, in a press conference following her visit to Honduras.
“I’m not qualified to comment on the process” being carried out by the Honduran Parliament, but “I hope progress is made,” she stated.
“I think the president-elect must be restored and Congress must take action as soon as possible”.
Schakowsky arrived in Honduras on Tuesday, and was invited by the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, Cofadeh, and met with representatives of humanitarian agencies, business and Congress, among others.
“From what I’ve seen, it is obvious that there has been a deterioration of the human rights situation after the coup,” she said, adding that she heard “personally the testimony of several victims or relatives” affected.
In reporting on her visit on Wednesday with Zelaya in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, she said that “he is a victim of human rights abuse” and “is a prisoner” in the building, where he has stayed from September 21st until present.
U.S. lawmaker recounted that during the meeting, Zelaya played for her “a recording of the music and noise” emitted by devices installed by the security forces outside the embassy, sounds she described as “intolerable.”
She also said she could see the big nighttime floodlights that illuminate the embassy.
“We need to stop these abuses and have a restoration of democratic order” in Honduras, said Schakowsky.
She said that during her stay in Honduras, she met with relatives of Isy Wendy Murillo and Avila, two of the five people killed in violent incidents recorded after June 28th, and heard the case of a 13 year old boy shot, among others.
She did not meet with anyone from Micheletti’s side.
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Do we know of any other Illinois politicians that don’t know what they are doing and not fully investigating the situation before they speak? One that may be pushing America to socialism?
If Honduras succeeds in holding up it’s constitution, it may be one of the last democracies in the Americas.
Democrats, intentionally avoiding looking for the truth. Sad when it would only take a little effort to talk to the opposition.
As for the protestors, throwing bottles, burning tires, destroying public property, and vandalizing is not “innocent protesting”. As for the media, any country, the USA included, would shut down any media outlet that was reporting bold face lies that were designed to stir up violence. That is not stiffling the press, that is fighting disorderly conduct and the unethical actions of these reporters.
As for the international press, it is time for them to actually go to Honduras and report rather than just reprinting what the propaganda farms are selling.
Disgusting politician from commie country, Illinois.
Schakowsky, sounds Russian to me, you would think those people would have learned something about how opressive Socialism can be, you know, with Lenin, uncle Joe (Stalin) and all the other that followed on their footsteps.
It is simply a shame that somebody like this woman can come to our country and act and behave as if she is confused about the difference between the terms “Free Speech” & “Irresponsible Speech”.
Ms. Schakowsky, you are talking as if you went to a place that only exists in your imagination, for the violation of ‘Human Rights’ you are referring to are mainly arrests that hapenned when very violent rioters were setting privatelly owned business and vehicles on fire, assaulting private citizens and wielding clubs and stones when trying to acertain their “Right to Free Speech”, which by the way they chose to use by trying to scare a country into submission, and for your information, the only reason that this did not hapen, Ms. Schakowsky was that the majority (a large one at that) of Hondurans do openly and enphatically reject the concept of Socialism as a form of Government for that country.
So get your story straight, Ms. Schakowsky, in our country, people that see the world like you do, with only one eye open, are not welcome because you do not have honest intentions, how easy it was for you to ignore that hardly anybody walks into prison out of their own will, like Zelaya did when he went into the Brazilian embassy, an act that by allowing it to happen the president of Brazil has earned the scorn of his people, but of course, he does not care, for he is a Socialist, what do they care about what their people think?
Zelaya chose to enter the Country of Honduras at his own risk, and from the Brazilian Embassy he has conducted a campaing that calls for chaos and destruction.
It was just as easy for you to forget that the side of Zelaya had a nephew of Mr. Micheletti murdered, a serving Colonel of the Armed Forces and kidnapped the elderly father of the Deputy Minister for National Security, and most recently, maybe when you were there, they murdered the younger of Mr. Callejas, a former president and still a very influential man in the political and economical spheres of power in Honduras, whom just happens to oposse Zelaya and his view of the world.
Ms. Schakowsy, please get with the program; Do you really want to help Honduras, call for freeing the aid money that is being held back, a weapon that is only hurting the very poor of Honduras.
Get real or shut up, as i remind you, free speech does not warrant you the freedom to speak irresponsibly, mostly about another nations right to protect its legal system and the choice of the majority, what a real Democracy should be, by the way.
Zelaya chose to deviate from what you so fashionably call the “Path of Democracy” all by himself, he shifted ideologies once he was in power, therefore robbing the voters of their choice, and then he violated the constitution in order to stay in power indefinetly, an attempt that it is punished by forcing you to resign.
What part of all of this do you not understand?
I would gladly spell it out for you.
Democracy spells freedom of choice, but it is in order to guarantee a continuous freedom of choice, not Chavez’s style, where once he was chosen, he would no longer allow his people to choose if a change is wanted.
Schakowsky, get your nose off Honduras and go back to your country where there are many pressing problems to deal with.
As an American and Foreign Service officer under 8 US Presidents, I admire the Honduran people and their Constitution. I particularly admire their patience with an arrogant idiot like Congresswoman Schakowsky, who doubtless hasn’t the slightest idea that she is advocating Marxism for Honduras just as she is for the United States.
to U.S. Rep. Janice Schakowsky….. since you refuse to FULLY investigate the true facts of what happened, and what the rule of law and the Honduras Constitution says….. I have a message just for you…..
GO HOME AND LEAVE HONDURAS to handle it’s internal affairs by it’s self……
Stay STRONG Honduras, only 17 more days until the elections of the Honduran free people..