23 November 2010 | News | Human rights
Lobo’s friends
Uribe’s visit repudiated in Honduras as an offense to the people’s dignity
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Former Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe visited Honduras, where he was received with honors by Porfirio Lobo’s coup regime. In response to this, the National Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) issued a declaration saying: “If Hitler resuscitated, the National Congress of Honduras would also honor him”.
The Honduran grassroots organizations said that Uribe’s visit is an offense to the peoples’ dignity and national sovereignty.
“It is clear that the coup perpetrators are recognizing those who supported the coup d’etat. That is contradictory because they say that Honduras fights drug trafficking, but it is actually recognizing a drug dealer, according to declassified CIA documents”, said Juan Barahona, co-coordinator of the National Front of Popular Resistance (NFPR).
The meeting between Lobo and Uribe – where they obviously discussed security and the fight against organized crime – took place a few days after the anti-coup organizations of Honduras exposed the links of Colombian paramilitary groups with violent incidents in Bajo Aguan.
On November 15, nearly 200 private security guards hired by Miguel Facusse killed five leaders of the Peasant Movement of Aguan (MCA).
“The blood of the massacred people is still fresh and paramilitarism in Bajo Aguan has the approval of Uribe and his palm oil model”, said the FNRP.
They claim that the recognition granted by the National Congress to Uribe is a “mockery to human rights” to exacerbate the existing cracks in this Central American country.
Elsy Banegas, from the Coordination of Grassroots Organizations of Bajo Aguan, told Mas Voces radio show, about the issue of palm oil expansion in that area of the country.
