Honduran People Used as a Shield – Mario Ardón Mejía

Por: Mario Ardón Mejía (8-6-2010) Translation: Rosemary Joyce

This writing is motivated by the untruthful arguments of Honduran Chancellor Mario
Canahuati and the many times correct judgments of the Director of the OAS
Don Miguel Insulza and of some untruthful arguments for example intending to
maintain that the present government, successor of the coup d“Etat, has taken firm
steps for the constitution of a government of unity and we all know at the national
and international level that thisgovernment is a government partitioned among those
thathave lent themselves to cleanse or try to cleanse and forget the coup d“etat and
its crimes.
With the aggravation that within this successor government of the coup d“etat
there have been forthrightly enthroned in public posts of importance recognized
golpistas and disavowing the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Contra el Golpe de
Estado, which has been constituted as the principle national political force that
brings together ample and diverse sectors of the country.

Moreover, the official communication despatched by Chancellor Mario Canahuati to
his counterpart in Peru, Sr. José Antonio García Belaunde, makes claims in defense
that have no great substance in the reality that the Honduran people presently
experience altogether. We want to say to the Honduran Chancellor that the people
did not turn out for the ballot boxes in the overwhelming form that he seeks to
assert and that he should take into account that the same international community
refused to observe the implementation of the elections to which all the world can
testify and with abundant evidence. It is known by everyone that peace will not be
achieved with the amnesty of the golpistas and their followers enthroned in power.

It appears strange to us that now Mr. Canahuati should be declaring that the process
was observed by the OAS and supposes also by the United Nations and it is known by
everyone that these organizations did not participate and he wants to emphasize that
the process was legal, since it was convened in the time when President Manuel
Zelaya Rosales served as legitimate president and that the coup d“etat had nothing
to do with the normal democratic process. Then how would this person explain to us
disturbances of legality such as, for example, the fact that in Honduras since the
29th of November we have lived with chaos, in which there were three presidents:
one legitimate one confined in the Embassy of Brazil in Honduras; one illegitimate
and a president-elect.
So that only in the head of someone who is not capable of possessing the most
minimum and appropriate vision of the context, could it be dared to defend such ravings.

Since their election it was known by everyone that the naming of the Tribunal Supremo
Electoral was illegal, and to place emphasis on the legality of the internal primary
elections, denying the illegality of the general elections carried out in the context
of the coup d“etat and of curfews. Besides having succeeded in the candidates of all
the large and small parties converting themselves into cleansers of the coup d“etat
and that theyconstitute almost a single party favoring the coup in the widest sense of
the word in return for the division of public offices, even without possessing the
intellectual capacities forthe discharge of the same and in other cases, without the
support of their respective social foundations.

In the writing of the arguments of the Honduran chancellor, he continues repeating a
big lie that these were the most voted-in elections and from the first moments of
the initial official data on voting, provided by the same entities contracted by the
Tribunal Supremo Electoral, the wide abstention by more than 60% of the electors
was brought to public light, data that afterward could not be hidden and the varied
conflicts were known by everyone, after what can with propriety be called an Electoral
Somoza and Gomorra.

By means of the preceding arguments and by those that I have not detailed we want to
ask Chancellor Canahuati that at the very least, he stops trying to continue converting
the poor Honduran people into a shield, in order to seek international recognition.
Since the minority of personages involved in the Honduran coup d“etat and their
successors,never have been, nor will be preoccupied by the search to improve the levels
of poverty of theample poor minorities of the Honduran people. Their crass desperate
error, of perpetrating a criminal coup d“etat, is only the product of their eagerness
to perpetrate the actions of pillage traditional throughout Honduran history and that
only have a peerin what occurred in France in the year 1789 and that occasioned the
French Revolution, except that the Honduran golpistas and their successors committed
this villainy in the midst of the 21st century. For which they easily are situated as
some personages that are out of time and that intend to continue making idiots of the
people giving official holidays to attend the almost certain defeat of our national soccer

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