Missing from USA Media: HONDURAS: Anti-Coup Resistance Movement

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TEGUCIGALPA, Oct 2 (IPS) - The National Resistance Front Against the Coup d'Etat (FRN) in Honduras is carrying out a nationwide consultation among its members to establish its position with respect to the expected talks between ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the de facto government, the movement's leaders said. Although face to face talks between Zelaya and de facto President Roberto Micheletti have been ruled out for now, a dialogue to come up with a solution to the political crisis will begin next week, John Biehl, an adviser to Organisation of American States (OAS) secretary general José Miguel Insulza, said Friday.

Marvín Ponce, a lawmaker of the left-wing Democratic Unification (UD) party, said the FNR is ”firmly united,” despite the diversity of social, labour and political sectors represented by the movement that began to take shape and hold protests immediately after Zelaya was removed from his house at gunpoint by the military and put on a plane to Costa Rica on Jun. 28.

”We are carrying out a consultation process to decide how and with what position we will participate, with regard to the different proposals to solve the conflict,” Ponce told IPS Thursday, under the close watch of a squad of policemen who just a few minutes earlier had violently broken up a protest by some 300 members of the FNR outside the U.S. embassy.

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some 20 Women's Rights Centre activists showed up dressed in black and holding white carnations, formed two lines and began to sing the national anthem. But they were immediately surrounded by police. In response to the shoving by the police, they sang ”they're afraid of us, because we're not afraid.” However, they eventually yielded to the police pressure and left.

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A former Zelaya administration minister, Francisco Sibrián, said a division in the FNR was not likely to arise.

”The movement's social foundation is made up of around 60,000 primary and high school teachers, most of whom are Liberals, and they all agree there was a coup (which is denied by the Micheletti government and its supporters) and that it is urgent to overturn the coup by reestablishing Zelaya in his post,” he said.

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in their coverage of the scale of the protests.

You're right, there's a news blackout in the US and it's unconscionable.

Suspending the Constitutional rights, human rights violations, and the act of dismantling radio and T-V stations impacted the media attention level.

The coup became unmasked because Zelaya returned. Zelaya's return was a stroke of genius!!