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(June 29) The Honduran people’s actions in rejection of the coup d'état perpetrated against their constitutional president Manuel Zelaya early Sunday are on the rise with a general strike called to begin this Monday.
Angel Alvarado, representative of the Popular Union Block in Honduras told the press that since midnight some 20,000 Hondurans have been gathering outside the residential house protesting against the coup, reported Granma newspaper.
The president of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH), Andres Pavon, told EFE news agency that workers of the public sector and the members of the General Labor Union (CGT), and other worker’s organizations across the country will go on strike.
All State organisms and institutions in Honduras have been seized by the Army while sworn-in president de facto Roberto Micheletti imposed a 48-hour curfew in the country.
The leader of Honduras’s Via Campesina international movement Rafael Alegria said the Honduran people will stay in the streets in spite of the curfew.
We are with our heads up, said Alegría, who appreciated the solidarity of the international community that has condemned the coup against the Honduran president, says Granma.
The agrarian leader stressed that the popular mobilization will continue throughout the country until democracy is reinstated and the country returns to normality.
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