Salvadoran Social Movement Responds to Coup in Honduras: July 1, 2009

CRIPDES is receiving information daily from their colleagues in the Honduran social movement, who have been constantly moving around the country because of persecution.

As a demonstration of their support for the Salvadoran people, CRIPDES and the MPR-12 are organizing hundreds of people to march at two areas of the Honduran border of El Salvador, in El Poy and El Amatillo in Chalatenango on Friday July 3^rd and Saturday July 4^th, the date when Zelaya plans to return to the country. Representatives from the Organization of American States and the Presidents of various Latin American countries plan to accompany Zelaya’s return to the country on Saturday.

Official Statement: CRIPDES Condemns Coup in Honduras

The CRIPDES Directive stands in solidarity with the people of Honduras, who, on June 28^th, 2009, suffered an antidemocratic aggression from the reactionary sectors of society who created a Coup against the constitutionally elected president Manuel Zelaya. This was imposed against the will of the people, breaking with all the national, international and constitutional laws of the country, and violating freedom of expression and freedom of protest.

Powerful groups in Honduras have tried to justify the coup with a conspiracy, presenting a false letter stating the renouncement of Zelaya. But Zelaya’s statements from Costa Rica have put the democratic legality of the Attorney General, Supreme Court and Congress of Honduras in serious doubt. All of these institutions have committed a crime in backing an illegal coup.

We demand the reinstatement of the legitimate president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, so that human rights, social and political stability and calm can return to our neighboring country of Honduras.

We call on all of the social organizations, international cooperation, institutions and individuals who defend human rights to take a stand and demand respect for the human rights of the people of Honduras and pressure for the reinstatement of the government that was democratically elected by the people. Also, we call on the Integration System of Central America, the Organization of American States and the United Nations to go beyond making declaration of condemnation but to also take actions that will guarantee the restitution of the legitimate government and human rights in Honduras.

CRIPDES maintains in alert and in permanent solidarity with the Honduran people, with the goal of reinstating constitutional order in a peaceful way in Honduras.

San Salvador, El Salvador, June 29 2009

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