AJLPP Update

July 6, 2009

CONDEMN THE US-BACKED MILITARY REGIME IN HONDURAS-AJLPP

Los Angeles-- The Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP) based in the United States, adds its voice to the world’s condemnation of the military coup in Honduras that forcibly removed its democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya,

Despite people’s protest, the military blocked the return of Zelaya and pounced on the more than 500,000 Hondurenos who rallied for his return. The military blocked the airport and forced Zelaya’s plane to Nicaragua last Sunday, July 5.

This is another concrete proof of direct US intervention, which is on the rise in Latin America where US-inspired military adventures have recently targeted governments that are dramatically critical of or opposed to US hegemony.

The Honduran generals who have ousted and ejected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya were all trained in the US-run School of the Americas (now named WHINSEC) have followed basically the same script used by the generals who attempted to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002 and the soldiers who kidnapped and ejected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti in 2004.

While the US has been forced to distance itself from the coup plotters in Honduras after the entire Organization of American States roundly condemned the coup. But no amount of Obama lame rhetoric’s can absolve the US of its intervention in Latin America and in Honduras.

Elsewhere in the region, US military intervention masquerades as operations against narcotics producers, traffickers or transnational organized crime syndicates and continues it military campaign in Colombia where FARC is active.

The AJLPP will continue to protest the illegal take-over in Honduras and will work with Hondurenos against the US-trained military backed regime in Honduras until they are completely free.

Viva Honduras Libre!

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