Honduras: Former President Manuel Zelaya Calls to Overthrow Juan Orlando
Hernandez
By teleSUR
10 August 19
On August 4, Honduran President Hernandez was implicated in a drug
trafficking and money laundering case.
Honduras former President Manuel Zelaya summoned political parties and
social organizations on Friday to join for overthrowing President Juan
Orlando Hernandez (JOH), a far-right politician who has been accused of
using drug money to fund his 2017 presidential campaign.
The leader of the Party for Liberty and Refoundation Party (Free) made this
call during a speech at the Central Square in Tegucigalpa, the capital of
Honduras, where a massive demonstration arrived from Francisco Morazan
University.
Waving their country's white-and-light blue flag, as well as the Free
party's red-and-black flag, thousands shouted "get out dictator", "get out
usurper" and "get out drug trafficker."
Olivia Zuñiga, the daughter of Berta Caceres, an environmental activist who
was killed in 2016, said the march demonstrated the people's rejection of
the far right-wing administration and its murders and corruption.
This new wave of popular protests coincided with the arrival in Tegucigalpa
of the U.S. House of Representatives president Nancy Pelosi, who will meet
with President JOH on Saturday to address issues related to migration,
security and employment.
"Mrs. Pelosi, if you come to support dictatorship, corruption, drug
trafficking, looting and murder, go home Mrs. Pelosi!," Zelaya said.
"But if you come to join the people to overthrow the dictatorship, then be
welcome to Honduras... if you want the Hondurans to have democracy and our
country to move forward, simply order the capture of Juan Orlando
Hernandez," he added.
Honduras. Protests continue. Free Party summons to demonstration before the
arrival of Nancy Pelosi.
On June 28, 2009, Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by a U.S.-backed coup d'etat
when he was trying to introduce land redistribution reforms and a referendum
to call for a constituent assembly to change the countrys constitution.
Since then, Honduras has been on a social, political and economic downward
spiral.
Juan Orlando Hernandez assumed the Presidency for the first time on January
2014. Later he was re-elected in Nov. 2017 after elections which were held
with many "irregularities," according to international observers.
On August 4, however, the current Honduran president became implicated as a
co-conspirator in a drug trafficking and money laundering case which is
being processed at a New York court.
Coinciding with Pelosi's visit on Friday, Honduran judges provisionally
released two political prisoners, Edwin Espinal and Raul Alvarez, who were
illegally detained for two years without being allowed an adequate trial.
The Free Party, ten years in resistance and nobody here gives up, Zelaya
said referring to two citizens who were accused of damages to property
during the riots which took place after the 2017 electoral fraud.
Since then, Honduran citizens have been demanding the release of the
left-wing political prisoners.
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