TEGUCIGALPA, March 16 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Honduran resistance organisations ratified their willingness to call for a referendum on the National Assembly on June 28 the 1st anniversary of the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The issue was highlighted in the 2nd Meeting for Honduras Re-Foundation held during the weekend in the city of La Esperanza with 1,000 participants.

“Our objectives these days are ambitious. We will have to work seriously and strenuously,” said Carlos H. Reyes, union leader and member of the National People’s Resistance Front (FNRP) leadership.

Reyes said it is necessary to start a process of change that allows putting an end to the “current domination that plunder, exploit and oppress the country”.

He recalled that a call to a poll about a future constitutional reform was one of the causes of the coup planned by the military against Zelaya on June 28.

He said they have since intensified persecution and campaigns to divide the FNRP since the organisation declared itself as a political power, the union leader said.

Reyes accused U.S Ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens of interfering openly in the country’s internal affairs and carrying out maneuvers to divide the resistance.

Several orators in the meeting denounced that the United States i trying to legitimise President Porfirio Lobo’s government.

Participants in the meeting ratified their non-recognition of President Lobo who took power after an electoral process.

Farmers, unionists, students, teachers, Afro-Caribbean and indigenous organisations, women, representatives of political parties attended the three-day meeting.

Meanwhile the number of murdered journalists in Honduras reached three after gunmen shot director of a TV news channel in the city of Tocoa.

Nahun Palacios, 36, returned on Sun March 14 night to his home in the neighbourhood of Tocoa, Los Pinos, about 400 kilometers north of Tegucigalpa, when strangers shot him with AK-47 automatic rifles and killed him, police said in a statement released.

The body of the journalist, who was news director of a television channel in Tocoa, was lying in the street and the murderers fled the scene. A man with him was seriously wounded and hospitalised.

Last week two gunmen killed journalist David Meza in similar circumstances in La Ceiba, a town near Tocoa.

Meza, 51, was a reporter in Radio El Patio in La Ceiba and correspondent in his hometown of Radio America and Channels 7 and 10 television Tegucigalpa..

On March 1 Joseph Ochoa of channel 51 was murdered.

A report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published on Mon March 15 denounces the violations of citizens prerogatives in Honduras since the coup. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA

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