[CISPES-Upcoming Actions] call the State Department today: Honduran Resistance leader Carlos H. Reyes receiving death threats

[CISPES National Office]

This Action Alert comes to you from our partners at the Quixote
<http://quixote.org/>  Center. Please call these contacts at State
Department and at the U.S. Embassy as soon as possible. They will try to
deny that the U.S. has anything to do with it so take this opportunity to
remind them that it is the murderous regime of Pepe Lobo would never have
been possible without the support of the U.S. and that the U.S. continues to
train the Honduran military at the School of the Americas. 

The U.S. State Department has repeatedly stated that human rights are at the
"top of their agenda" in Honduras. Why then have over 40 activists,
journalists, environmentalists, feminists and LGBTQI activists been murdered
since the coup? Read more here
<http://www.cofadeh.org/html/muertos_golpe/index.html>  and here
<http://www.quotha.net/> . The U.S. must act immediately and strongly
against the Lobo regime, rather than reinstating military aid and
strong-arming other countries in Latin American to reinstate Honduras into
the Organization of American States (OAS). 

Dear Friends,


Last night at 6:00pm Carlos H. Reyes, leader of the Honduran Resistance
Movement and former Independent Presidential candidate, received a death
threat on his cell phone.  He was able verify that the call came from a land
telephone in Tegucigalpa.  The number was 226-9965.  

 

The caller issued the following threat in a gruff voice:  "We are going to
take your head off (expletive), you have a very few days left to live."
This message was repeated three times.  Carlos has long been an outspoken
voice for justice in Honduras.  Earlier in the day, he had been on the radio
denouncing the role of the United States in the coup and its continuing
interference in Honduras.  It is likely that the death threats and his
statements on the radio are connected.

 

Quixote Center staff in Honduras had just met with Carlos earlier in the
day.  When we asked him about the selective assassinations which continue
unabated in Honduras, he said that they were going to continue. 

 

Often our action alerts are a response to deaths which have already
happened.  Today we are asking you to all now, to help save a life.  We ask
you to demand that the number Carlos was called from be traced, and that
actions be taken against whoever made the call.  

  

Please call  the U.S. State Department, Gabriela Zambrano- Honduras desk at
202-647-3482 or Chris Webster at 202-647-4087 or the U.S. Ambassador in
Tegucigalpa at 011-504-236-9320 ext #4268 and demand an investigation into
the source of this call. 

 

We are activating Emergency Response networks for both English and Spanish
speakers, some calling U.S. offices and others calling Honduran government
authorities.  

 

We can do our part in dissuading violence and the murders which continue to
be planned daily if we are vigilant and at quickly in response to Human
Rights violations in Honduras.

 

Thank you for your willingness to act.

 

Tom 

Quixote Center

 

 


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