COMMUNIQUE N° 1
Sunday, August 29, 2010
General Strike Regional Committee
Translated by J. Atlee

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Honduras: Something's not right; we must act immediately

The general strike is basically a weapon of last resort of the people in order to have their demands be heard. But even being a very broad movement is not enough to ensure its success...
Ricardo Arturo Salgado (translation by Adrienne Pine)

"A few with courage," the movie's called. This shameless piece of poorly-acted propaganda, "based on a true story," is the combined story that Billy Joya and Oscar Álvarez want you and all of Honduras to believe about them. "Did you know that we're not delinquents, Moises?" says the evil criminal mastermind. "Then what are we?" asks his protegé. "Revolutionaries." In this work of bold fiction, the police (actually, probably 3-16, since Billy Joya did succeed in freeing some fabulously wealthy kidnap victims, and the actors were trained with the Cobra squad here) are heroes uninterested in money, and anyone who opposes the system is a criminal—although of course this is true by definition when one defines dissent as a criminal act. It was mostly produced, as I understand it, following the coup, and there can be little doubt that it was made in consultation with "Showman" Alvarez and Billy Joya, who himself has a media production operation.

This is what Pepe Lobo thinks of teachers. Taken from a friend's Facebook photo album:

Feminists in Resistance
August 27, 2010
Bulletin No. 22 (my translation)

Women teachers are fighting...they are also teaching! Everyone rise up against military repression!

From a friend, screenshot taken from TV Globo:

This is the SUV, property of the National Congress, that today was driven by paramilitaries who, from inside, shot at men and women teachers in Tegucigalpa.
Camioneta propiedad del Congreso Nacional en la que el día de hoy se conducían paramilitares que dispararon contra maestros y maestras en Tegucigalpa.

Communiqué No. 71
Thursday, August 26 2010 14:47 FNRP

The National Popular Resistance Front communicates to the population of Honduras and the international community:

From yesterday. More translations to come.

Stop killings of Honduran journalists
Miami Herald. August 27, 2010

OUR OPINION: Solving murders must be a top priority.

Honduran radio reporter Israel Zelaya Díaz was found dead Tuesday night on the side of a rural road in San Pedro Sula, making him at least the eighth journalist killed in that country this year.