Green Party Condemns Honduran Coup
The International Committee of the Green Party of the United States has issued the following statement in support of the Federación de Partidos Verdes de las Américas (Federation of Green Parties of the Americas), condemning the coup in Honduras:
1. We categorically condemn the attack on democracy and public institutions of the Republic of Honduras.
2. We demand restoration of constitutional order and democratic institutions.
3. We demand the return of the Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya.
4. We demand full respect for the human and political rights of the people of Honduras.
5. We encourage the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, the Central American Integration System, the Group of Rio, the European Union, the United States of America, Canada and Mexico, the Global Greens and other sister nations and international bodies, to maintain their firm rejection of the coup in Honduras.
The International Committee is also preparing a more extensive statement about this crisis, which we will post when available.
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On June 28th, the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was overthrown in a military coup.
General Romeo Velasquez, leader of the coup, is the latest in a long list of dictators, assassins, torturers, terrorists, and coup plotters trained by the U.S. Army School of the Americas, also known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
The U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) in Fort Benning, Georgia, trains soldiers from Latin America to use kidnapping, torture, and assassination as weapons of political terror against their own people. For decades, SOA graduates across Latin America have used these techniques, as well as rape, against hundreds of thousands of victims.
At least 11 SOA graduates have gone on to careers as military dictators. As long as the SOA remains open, the United States cannot claim to be a friend of Latin American democracy.
It is past time for the U.S. to stop supporting dictators and death squads in Latin America. Tell President Obama and your Members of Congress to close the School of the Americas once and for all:
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