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23 de febrero de 2011 | |

The regime’s habits

Trade union leader under attack and radio closed down in Honduras

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Honduran trade union leader Pedro Vicente Elvir was attacked last week for the third time in three months. This time they unscrewed the wheel of his car and he managed to get out alive by miracle, after his car skidded in a street of Tegucigalpa, the country’s capital.

The chair of the Workers Trade Union of the National Children’s Patronage had already been shot by a motorcyclist outside his home.

The leader is one of the visible faces of the fight against the attempts to privatize the Children’s Patronage, promoted by Porfirio Lobo’s dictatorial regime and is one of the many persecutions and attacks suffered by the grassroots Honduran organizations on a daily basis.

The assault against Elvir was already reported before the Commission of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH). The COFADEH contacted international human rights organizations, reported the website of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP)

Meanwhile, the community radio station La Voz de Zacate Grande was closed down again, this time as part of a broad military operation that was looking for leaders accused of land usurpation, CLOC- Via Campesina reported on the show La Voz de los Movimientos.

This was the result of a court ruling that ordered the arrest of Pedro Canales, Danilo Osorio, Rafael Osorio, Wilmer Rivera and Santos Benito Pérez, known community leaders that have opposed the interests of Miguel Facussé, a palm oil businessmen, Pulsar news agency reported.

The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters of Latin America and the Caribbean (AMARC LAC) expressed its “concern over the excessive use of the public force” and warned about the criminalization as a way to silence the media “working for the community, such as Radio la Voz de Zacate Grande”, which had already been closed down last year.

Unfortunately, these incidents are very frequent in Honduras under Lobo’s regime. The National Front of Popular Resistance reported that two young people from the New Democracy organization, member of the Front, were victims of “information theft”, after unknown people broke into their homes to steal their computers.

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