The National Front against the Coup D’état in Honduras, composed of the different organized groupings in the country, united in the face of the situation caused by the coup d’état, conveys:
1. We energetically condemn the assassination of comrade Roger Bados, a militant of the Democratic Unification party and a member of the Popular Block. The incident occurred in his house and left his housemate and his sister wounded. Roger was an active member of the Honduran popular movement and actively participated in actions against the coup. We demand punishment for those intellectually and materially responsible for this crime.
2. We reiterate our demand for the unconditional return of institutional order in the country, and at the same time we reaffirm our desire to continue with the process that will bring us to the creation of a National Constituent Assembly that allows the re-founding of Honduras.
3. With regards to the mediation talks happening in San José, Costa Rica, we denounce that its been shown that all of this has been a delaying tactic to keep President Zelaya out of the country. It is not true that the talks are open, for when the commission of President Zelaya’s government asked that the mediation happen in Honduras there was no response and the coupists’ commission stated plainly that they would not accept that this process occur in our territory.
4. We repudiate the persecution and capture of Telesur journalists. They were detained Sunday morning by the national police, removed from the hotel they were staying in, taken to the embassy of that country [Venezuela], all this based on the argument that they didn’t have anything to do in Honduras. We condemn the repression against media outlets that report on what is really happening in the country.
5. We inform the rest of the Honduran people that the radio programs by the Center for Women’s Rights and the Center for Women’s Studies, which are broadcast on the radio station Voices, on Saturday, July 11, the signal was cut at the time they were to be broadcast. These programs report on the actions occurring against the coup.
6. We convey that last weekend there were various protests and occupations against the coup all over the country. In San Pedro Sula, Santa Barbará, Sava, Sonaguera, Trujillo, Tocoa, Copan, and Tegucigalpa, where on Saturday a political-cultural event was held in the location where the armed forces killed young Isis Obed Murillo. The homage included protest music by prominent artists, messages from different people, among them the relatives of the youth, there was also a Garífuna ceremony.
7. We call on the entire population to continue the struggle and demand the return of individual guarantees, as for now the curfew has been lifted but the rights of the people continue to be violated as the guarantees are still suspended. The intimidation of people by militarizing offices, organizations, highways, and other locations also affects all people.
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