Solidarity Action Against the Rightist Coup in Honduras

Submitted by Karl Ramirez on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 10:27.
The brazen takeover of the government by the top brass of the Honduran Armed Forces and Honduras' traditional oligarchs has outraged the Honduran people who have taken to the streets to reject the rightist coup. Unions, students, women and other social sectors have launched a general strike, setting up barricades and defying the curfew imposed by the Micheletti government. The army, headed by US-trained General Romeo Vasquez, has responded with increasing violence which has so far resulted in at least two deaths, over a hundred injured and hundreds more imprisoned.
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