Honduran pro-Zelaya protester dies after shooting

Source: Reuters

Honduran pro-Zelaya protester dies after shooting
Sat Aug 1, 2009 12:07pm EDT

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - A man shot during a protest in Honduras this week in support of ousted President Manuel Zelaya died of his injuries on Saturday, the second fatality in the aftermath of last month's coup.

Roger Vallejo, a teacher participating in a rally blocking a road leading out of the capital Tegucigalpa, died of a bullet wound to the head after two days in a hospital's intensive-care unit, two nurses at the hospital where he died said.

Soldiers and police in riot gear broke up Thursday's rally by hundreds of demonstrators calling for the return of Zelaya, ousted in a military coup last month.

A Reuters cameraman at the protest saw police using tear gas and bullets to disperse the protesters but the police involved said in a statement they did not fire the bullet that hit Vallejo.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5701J420090801?rpc=401&

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From another article:

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Roger Abraham Vallejo, a 38-year-old teacher who was shot in the head by a policeman during Thursday’s violence in the capital, remains in a coma after undergoing emergency surgery, teachers union official Sergio Rivera told Efe.

Rivera said an army patrol burst into the hospital where Vallejo was taken, threatened a score of teachers who accompanied him there and even entered the operating room where surgeons were tending to the wounded man.

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=340535&CategoryId=10718

Roger Abraham Vallejo Soriano (1971-2009)
Posted by Al Giordano - August 1, 2009 at 8:44 am
By Al Giordano

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AUGUST 1, 2009, TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS: At 3:30 a.m. this morning the officials at the capital city morgue pronounced Roger Abraham Vallejo Soriano, 38, dead from the bullet wound he sustained to the head while peacefully protesting against the coup regime on Thursday.

His brother, Salomon Vallejo Soriano - one of ten siblings - told Radio Globo this morning, "I ask that the death of my brother not be in vain. He was in a just cause." He worried aloud about their mother: "You can imagine if Roger was your youngest son. She had lived with him for so much time. We are worried for our mother's health, too."

Roger also leaves behind a wife and a 19-year-old son.

Salomon said that he wasn't present when his brother was shot. "All we know is what we saw on television and from the people who were there who said he was shot by police."

Funeral and burial will be delayed "for a couple days" while other brothers and sisters arrive home to the Vallejo family neighborhood in Tegucigalpa.

That Roger Abraham Vallejo Soriano was a schoolteacher at the San Martin high school, and a member of the teachers' union, will have an immediate impact on the civil resistance, as schoolteachers are a nationwide organized force with members in every city, town and hamlet throughout the country. One of their own has been been slain in the struggle.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/roger-abraham-vallejo-soriano-1971-2009

The pro-golpista newspaper El Heraldo of Tegucigalpa is running a story today that Zelaya supporters are forming a guerrilla movement in Nicaragua.

El Heraldo ran this photo to prove it.



Tegucigalpa, Honduras "Firmes!, media vuelta!, tres pasos a la izquierda, cuatro al frente," gritaba el jefe de pelotón a los "soldados" que se adiestran descalzos en un campo de la fronteriza y montañosa región de Nueva Segovia, en Nicaragua.

("Attention! Half turn! Three steps to the left, four steps forward," shouted the squad leader to the 'soldiers' who are training barefoot (sic) in a field on the mountainous border region of Nueva Segovia in Nicaragua.

(Posting because thought it would elicit a chuckle or two.)

Full story for readers of Spanish

http://www.elheraldo.hn/Especiales/Honduras%20en%20contra%20de%20la%20ilegalidad%20del%2024%20de%20junio%20de%202009/Ediciones/2009/08/01/Noticias/Soldados-de-Mel-entrenan-en-la-frontera

Thank goodness an "El Heraldo" news photographer just happened to be on the scene to catch this explosive image!

The coup plotters should consider doubling the number of heavily armed soldiers they've chosen from the nation's soldiers they have comandeered, standing guard to protect them from these terrifying democracy-loving citizens.

You never know when another teacher just might walk into view and need to get shot on sight.

:sarcasm: