In Honduras:

Resistance consolidating changes

Honduras: People’s unity and their determination to revert the military coup have consolidated the Honduran people hopes for achieving a truly fair participative democracy in Honduras, said left-wing presidential candidate Cesar Ham.

In statements to Prensa Latina, Ham who presented himself as candidate for the Democratic Unified Party (UD in Spanish) added that peoples’ resistance confirmed the possibility of changing the conditions of misery and exploitation his country is living.

There was Honduras before the June 28 coup, and there is another after it, he said.

The constitutional order in the country was broken last June 28 when masked troops kidnapped President Manuel Zelaya and forced into exile in Costa Rica.

When the news was heard popular leaders and thousands of people gathered in front of the presidential house demanding Zelaya’s return and condemning coup leaders.

Marches and demonstration have been going for 21 days, in spite of brutal repression by the armed forces, he recalled.

With such facts, we are hopeful that we will be able to make necessary changes in the exploitating structures that have plunged Hondurans into misery, he expressed.

Ham showed his refusal and that of UD to international maneuvers aimed at trying to deprive the Honduras people of the opportunity of fighting oligarchy and military coup leaders.

He also noted that UD has clearly expressed its position regarding the US-backed mediation by Costa Rica President Oscar Arias.

Tegucigalpa, Prensa Latina