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They say that when beasts are cornered they become more ferocious, and that is what is happening in Honduras. The gringo visas of high officials in Micheletti's administration that were canceled a couple days ago, the permanent curfew in a quarter of the country as a response to the presence of Zelaya at the border, the gringo ambassador Llorens's visit to president Mel in Managua are making the regime desperate, and they are releasing all the monsters they have been caging for so long.
We returned to the city of El Paraíso and saw that the vast majority of the protesters who were at the checkpoints have returned to Tegucigalpa or have gone over the mountains to Nicaragua to join the nearly 2,500 people currently waiting outside the country. We spoke about this with indigenous leader and vice presidential candidate for the independent movement Bertha Cáceres, who told us with a smile on her face how they had managed to make a mockery of the military siege; neither with full battalions pursuing them, nor with their helicopters were they able to find the 300 peasants, she said, and with this the indigenous people showed the military that they aren't that perfect impenetrable machine that they think they are.
For her part Xiomara Zelaya, transformed into a sort of Honduran Eva Perón, waited on safe conduct to pass through the military checkpoints and reunite the president with his family. The safe conduct arrived, but for her alone, without her family, without her sypathizers. She rejected it, saying she couldn't trust them, obligating the army to reinforce the military siege in the zone. It left a deep impression on me to see, in the pre-dawn hours, all the civilian vehicles full of armed men, paramilitaries directly descended from the Contras, shouting on loudspeakers that they wanted everyone to go away, her and the mob accompanying her, because according to them the protesters are to blame for all this and not the government that has besieged them.
Today, Thursday, we joined the resistance march in the north of the city. We knew they were being attacked; in fact we caught up with them some ten kilometers from the place where the attacks began, and they were still fleeing the police. Around the Social Security office in the Zonal Belén market, we began filming the brutal repression of the protesters. They had them in buses, and even inside they continued beating them, with batons, with rifle butts, and kicking them. People tried to protect themselves but it's impossible to achieve that when there are so many of them.
Then we heard the order from the armored car of the police, letting the other police know that we were filming them. This caused alarm among the police, since after denying the previous two murders they had carried out, various videos had surfaced proving their responsibility for them. Immediately a dozen police came toward me and another journalist, arriving with all the accumulated fury from a month of resistance. First they demanded my videotape, and as they beat me with their batons I gave it to them. They threatened me, saying that if I was Nicaraguan they would kill me (thankfully I am not), but they were not satisfied with the tape and began to attack me and the camera, throwing it on the floor, smashing it and destroying it completely. Then they took it away. They told me that it was "bad Hondurans" like us that had made the world force Honduras to its knees, that we weren't "objective" in our presentation of information and that in our country nobody was being repressed. They said this to me while they were beating me, searching me and taking my cell phone so I couldn't communicate with anyone. Then they left. They returned the camera to me three hours later at the police station and I had to argue with the officer who tried to write that the camera was in "poor condition" and not destroyed.
I walked a few blocks to see my compañero with his busted head. They also took his camera but unlike mine, they didn't destroy his and thus it didn't reappear. No doubt they're happily videotaping with today's bounty.
In the police station at Belén they held some 200 detainees, who were beaten and exhausted after the stubborn pursuit they'd been subjected to. Among them was Juan Barahona, popular leader and Carlos H. Reyes, presidential candidate for the independent movement, who they had beaten so ferociously that his arm was split in two parts.
A high school teacher is hospitalized for a shot in the head. He is in a coma and it is most likely that he will die, with some ten internal wounds in addition to the gunshot wounds. Immediately the police came out claiming that the shots were fired by the protesters themselves, a technique that was used in the Venezuelan coup with its total of 60 dead.
The government of Micheletti announced that the time had come to "establish order" in the country. The same man who admitted that it was God who named him president and not the people. God, Order, Peace, Democracy. Fascism has come out of the sewers with all its teeth sharpened.
¡NO PASARÁN!
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Día treinta y dos. 30 de julio de 2009
Dicen que cuando las bestias están acorraladas se vuelven más feroces, eso es lo que está pasando en Honduras. Las visas gringas canceladas hace un par de días a altos ejecutivos de la administración Micheletti, el permanente toque de queda en una cuarta parte del país como respuesta a la presencia de Zelaya en la frontera, la visita del Embajador Gringo Llorens al presidente Mel en Managua tienen al régimen desesperado y están echando mano a todos los monstruos que han tenido guardados por tanto tiempo.
Volvimos a la ciudad de El Paraíso y vimos como la gran mayoría de los manifestantes que se encontraban en los retenes se han vuelto a Tegucigalpa o se han ido por las montañas a Nicaragua para sumarse a los cerca de 2,500 que en la actualidad esperan fuera del país. Sobre eso conversamos con Bertha Cáceres, dirigente indígena y candidata a la vice presidencia por el movimiento independiente quien nos contó, con una sonrisa en el rostro, como lograron burlar el cerco de batallones completos que les daban persecución, ni con los helicópteros pudieron encontrar a trescientos campesinos, dijo, y con eso los indígenas mostraron que los militares no son esa máquina perfecta e impenetrable que ellos se creen.
Por su parte Xiomara Zelaya, convertida en una especie de Eva Perón hondureña, esperaba el salvo conducto para pasar los retenes militares y poder juntar al Presidente con su familia. El salvo conducto llegó, pero para ella sola, sin su familia, sin sus simpatizantes. Ella se negó, no me puedo confiar de ellos, dijo y obligó al ejército reforzar el cerco militar en la zona. Me impresionó mucho ver en la madrugada los vehículos civiles, llenos de hombres armados, paramilitares herederos directos de la contra nicaragüense, gritando por altoparlantes que querían que todos se fueran, ella y os jucos que la acompañan, porque según ellos la culpa de todo la tienen los manifestantes y no el gobierno que los mantiene sitiados.
Hoy jueves nos sumamos a la marcha de la resistencia en el norte de la ciudad, sabíamos que estaban siendo reprimidos, de hecho los alcanzamos unos diez kilómetros del lugar en donde dio inicio la represión y aun venían huyendo de la policía. A la altura del Seguro Social en el mercado zonal Belén, comenzamos a grabar la forma brutal como reprimían a los manifestantes. Los tenían en los camiones y aun sometidos las seguían golpeando, con los toletes, con las culatas ce los fusiles, con los pies. La gente trataba de protegerse pero es imposible lograrlo cuando son tantos.
Luego escuchamos la orden desde la tanqueta de la policía que daba la advertencia a los policías que los estábamos grabando. Eso causó la alarma entre los policías, quienes después de las últimas dos muertes ocasionadas y negadas por ellos, aparecieron varios videos que demostraron su responsabilidad en los hechos. Inmediatamente una decena de policías se vino en mi contra y de otro periodista, llegaron con toda la rabia acumulada luego de un mes de resistencia,. Primero me pidieron el cassette, mientras me golpeaban con los toletes se los di. Me amenazaban diciéndome que si yo era nicaragüense me iban a matar (afortunadamente no los soy), pero no se conformaron con el cassette y comenzaron a golpearme y a golpear la cámara, la tiraron al suelo y la matearon destrozándola completamente. Luego la desaparecieron. Me dijeron que era “malos hondureños” como nosotros que el mundo tenía a Honduras de rodillas, que no éramos “objetivos” en la forma de presentar la información y que en nuestro país no había represión para nadie. Eso lo decían mientras me golpeaban, me revisaron y se llevaron mi celular para que no pudiera comunicarme con nadie. Luego se fueron. La cámara me la entregaron tres horas después en la delegación policial y tuve que discutir el parte del oficial que intentaba poner que la cámara estaba en “mal estado” y no destruida.
Caminé por unas cuadras para ver a mi compañero con la cabeza rota, a él también le quitaron la cámara, pero a diferencia de la mía, no la destruyeron y por lo mismo no apareció. Seguramente hoy se graban felices del botín del día.
En la posta de belén llevaron unas doscientas personas detenidas, iban golpeados y agotados luego de la tenas persecución de la que fueron objeto. Entre ellos iba Juan Barahona, dirigente popular y Carlos H Reyes, candidato presidencia por el movimiento independiente, a quien lo golpearon tanto que le partieron el brazo en dos partes.
Hay un profesor de secundaria hospitalizado por un disparo en la cabeza, está en estado de coma y lo más probable es que muera, unos diez heridos más internos por heridas de bala. Inmediatamente la policía salió manifestando que los disparos fueron hechos desde los manifestantes, una técnica que ya se usó en Venezuela con un saldo de 60 muertos.
El gobierno de Micheletti anuncia que llegó la hora de “poner orden” en el país. El mismo hombre que admitió que fue Dios quien lo nombró presidente y no el pueblo. Dios, Orden, Paz, Democracia. El fascismo ha salido de las al cantarías con todos sus dientes afilados.
¡NO PASARÁN!
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