The 800-page report recognizes that there was a coup d’ Etat in the country on June 28th 2009, but it doesn’t make reference to the serious human right violations that have been taking place these past two years.

The report also states that the elections that resulted in Porfirio Lobo’s coming to office were “legitimate” (despite taking place amid a dictatorship), because they had been called a month before the coup.

The CVR was a result of the Guaymuras, San José-Tegucigalpa agreement, negotiated by ousted President Manuel Zelaya and de facto President Roberto Micheletti, mediated by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the US government. The commission, led by Guatemalan former president, Eduardo Stein, was made up by four more members: former Canada Ambassador to the US and Cuba, Michael Kergin, former Peruvian Justice Minister, María Amadilia Zavala, the Head and former Head of the Independent National University of Honduras, Julieta Castellanos and Jorge Omar Casco respectively.

The day the report was published, Zelaya, now coordinator of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) that has led the struggle against the Coup the past two years, held a press conference in Tegucigalpa, capital city of the country, to comment on the new report. There, he said it was important that the report recognized that a Coup d’Etat was what took him from power, but he highlighted that there wasn’t any investigation about the origin of the ousting, or the participants involved in the process. “You can’t say that they were only military officers and politicians who participated. There were also civilians and people from other countries who came here to organize and plan the Coup for months, first by creating chaos and then by perpetrating the Coup itself”, said Zelaya.

The former president also added that the report doesn’t make reference to the human rights violations that took place in Honduras these past two years, or the fact that the people who captured Zelaya on June 28th, 2009, had the order to kill him.

Meanwhile, Oliva criticized the report in a stronger way. COFADEH’s general coordinator completely rejected the CVR’s report: “I think the report is very offensive for the families of the over 100 people that died during the regime”, said in an TV interview made by Dick and Mirian Emanuelsson.

The report is “tragic”, because now people will say that “a process of dialogue, peace and reconciliation is starting in Honduras”, said Oliva. “But the squads and exiles continue”, she warned. The activist also said that there isn’t a record in the country of the threats to “freedom and life” and that the attacks against leaders of the Front and their families are systematic.

Oliva also regretted that the CVR’s report “is “cleaning” the actions of the Armed Forces and military officers”, who violated the “constitutional order and committed crimes against the country”.

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