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The United States is purposefully sending mixed signals on the
Honduran crisis. On the one hand, a high official in the State
Department sent a letter to a senator saying that the U.S. government
does not directly support president Zelaya and that it will not place
economic sanctions against the coup government, while at the same
time, another official says they continue to support the Arias accord
(which calls for the reinstatement of Zelaya). These mixed signals are
meant to give the coup government assurances that the United States
will not take any firm action against them and will continue to pay
only lip service to the restoration of democracy in Honduras.

Please ask President Obama, Hillary Clinton and your representatives
in congress to:

Legally define the coup in Honduras as a military coup and stop all
foreign aid to Honduras
Publicly condemn human right violations occurring in Honduras at the
hands of the military
Impose trade sanctions against the Honduran coup government
Recall the American ambassador in Honduras
Freeze the bank accounts of the coup leaders
Revoke the diplomatic and tourist visas of all the coup leaders
including Micheletti and Gral. Vasquez
Contact information:
http://www.senate.gov/
http://www.house.gov/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

The State Department can be contacted at Secretary Clinton's Counselor
and Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills office at 202-647-5548


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Day 41, August 7th, 2009 from Oscar (my translation)
Sat, 08/08/2009 - 13:18 =97 AP
The mobilizations have gone forth without further setbacks in the past
few days. Yesterday they came out of the Pedag=F3gica University moving
through the luxurious residential areas of the coup leaders, marking
their walls with messages of condemnation. For a moment things became
tense when the riot police came to prevent the march from reaching the
houses of [Cardinal] Rodriguez Maradiaga and [former president] Flores
Facuss=E9, who are neighbors, but nothing happened because the people
made a turn and headed to the central park, making a brief stop at El
Heraldo, changing its slogan to "The truth is up your ass."

Today the march began at the road out of Danl=ED, at the Villas del Sol
commercial center, some three hundred meters from a contingent of five
hundred soldiers that awaited orders to dissolve them, an order that
never came despite the government's warning that it would not tolerate
the marches or the blockades for even one more day. The march ended at
the UNAH parking lot, in recognition of what is now seen as a student
victory over the dictatorship. It appears that after the political
cost to the government of the repression of students at the National
Autonomous University they are keeping a certain distance to avoid
further risks.

The attorney general's office has promised that it will file charges
against the students who led last Wednesday's street occupation,
assuring that they are "foreign mercenaries" who have infiltrated
Hondurans to create chaos, because clearly for them it's not
conceivable that this nation could be resisting so strongly if not for
the infiltration of foreign mercenaries.

At the political level several high-level and ongoing meetings are
taking place. Yesterday it was confirmed to me that ex-ambassador
Crescencio Arcos was in Honduras (far from the media), and had arrived
to meet in secret with the millionaire architects of the coup. His
presence in the country is no coincidence, it demonstrates that the
dark sectors of the country still maintain strong ties with
personalities like Negroponte, who seems to be Otto Reich's boss. It
is still difficult to unravel the plotting of the coup, but there is
no doubt that it extends beyond the gardens of the bourgeois
residential districts of Tegucigalpa. What is important to note is a
certain change in the business leadership of the country, which is
beginning to speak of the necessity to seek a quick way out of the
crisis and have now begin to blame the Armed Forces for having acted
improperly in the case of Mel Zelaya. We wanted them to prevent
socialism, said Adolfo Facusse, but it was a mistake to take him out
in that way.

The government of Micheletti seeks new strategies to demobilize the
resistance. Yesterday a proclamation was issued from the Secretary of
Health, announcing the cancellation of public school classes given the
danger of contagion of AH1N1, and recommending to the population that
they abstain from participating in any activity involving crowds.
Weeks before the coup the media announced an unprecedented influenza
epidemic in the country that would cause many deaths if people were
not careful about attending rallies or marches, but it didn't work;
people kept going to them and I am sure that they will continue
marching now, too.

The great pilgrimage is coming from different parts of the country,
and advancing toward the principal cities. They will arrive on Tuesday
and will unite in a huge march to show that the resistance will not
surrender. The press, in an editing slip, said that the march was for
peace and democracy, and they're right, the concepts are the same but
with entirely different meanings.

=A1NO PASAR=C1N!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresencio_S._Arcos,_Jr.



Cris Arcos was born in San Antonio, Texas on 10 November 1943, and
served as United States Ambassador to Honduras from 1989 to 1993. He
also served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the
Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, and as
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs. Arcos left
Honduras in 1993 with an impressive record of human rights advocacy,
due in large part to his pressuring the investigation of the 1991 rape
and murder of student Riccy Mabel Martinez. Arcos demanded justice be
served and facilitated FBI services for forensic analysis which proved
critical to the case. Arcos received the Honduran government's highest
award, the Order of Francisco Morazan.

Arcos also served on the United States Department of State's North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Task Force. From 1985-86, Arcos
served as the State Department's Deputy Director of the Nicaraguan
Humanitarian Assistance Office. From 1986-88, he served as The White
House Coordinator for Public Diplomacy on Central America and was the
Deputy Coordinator in the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America
at the Department of State.

Following his retirement from the United States Foreign Service in
1994, Ambassador Arcos served as a vice president at AT&T, working on
Latin America and Canada. Ambassador Arcos has served on the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) during the
presidential administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Ambassador Arcos is the first and, as of December 2008, the only
Latino to have been named to the prestigious PFIAB. His most recent
position in federal government was that of Assistant Secretary of
Homeland Security for International Affairs under the Department of
Homeland Security, from which he retired in 2006.

His other Foreign Service postings abroad include: Portugal, Brazil,
Belgium, and Soviet Union (Russia).

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