Argentina’s President to join Zelaya in his return to Honduras

Caracas, Jun 30 ABN.- Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez is to join her Honduran counterpart, Manuel Zelaya, as member of the commission that will go next Thursday to this Central American country, after the coup d’état perpetrated against him last Sunday and the establishment of a de facto government.

According to Telam agency, the Argentinean President communicated on Monday night with Zelaya in order to express her support.

Extraordinary declaration by the presidential council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America

Managua, Nicaragua. Jun 29, ABN.- In the early morning hours of Sunday, June 28th, when the Honduran people were ready to exercise their right to vote in a democratic manner in relation to a survey promoted by the President of the Republic Manuel Zelaya Rosales to deepen participatory democracy, a group of uniformed masked men that declared they were following orders of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces waged an assault on the Presidential Residence in order to kidnap President Zelaya, and later violently throw him out of his country.

From Bolivia to Honduras-Coups and Constitutions

Even in the best of times a coup in Honduras wouldn’t get much coverage in the U.S. since most North Americans couldn’t find the country on a map and, moreover, would have no reason to do so. Nevertheless, those in the U.S. who have been alert to the changes in Latin America over the past decade and almost everyone south of the border know that the coup d’etat (or “golpe de estado”) against President Manuel Zelaya has profound implications for the region and, in fact, all of Latin America. While the US press will glance from their intent gaze at reruns and specials on Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett only long enough to report on President Obama’s reaction to the coup, Latin Americans will keep their eyes on the governments of the region as well as the social movements in Honduras as they search for a key to how the whole affair will turn out.

Alba ready to support insurrection against coup d’État in Honduras

Caracas, Jun 29. ABN.- The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alba) is ready to support the rebellion that the Honduran people could carry out against the coup d’État executed by a group of military officers in joint with a political elite of Honduras.

The information was made known by the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, after an extraordinary meeting of the Alba that took place in Managua, Nicaragua’s capital city. The Alba countries issued an official statement condemning the coup d’État and making a call to social movements to rebel against the Government de facto in Honduras.

The people in Honduras expect soon arrival of Zelaya at the country

Tegucigalpa, Jun 29 ABN.- The demonstrators in favor of democracy and the restitution of the constitutionality who are in the surroundings of th Presidential Palace expect the soon arrival of the legitimate president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, joined by the presidents member of the Bolivarian Alliance by the People of our America (ALBA).

The information was reported by the chairperson of the Bolivarian News Agency, Freddy Fernandez, who is at the Honduran capital city.

Fernandez expressed that despite the threat of military attack to the Honduran people who demonstrate peacefully, people continue joining to the mass meeting in the surroundings of the Government Palace, in order to demand the respect to the constitutional right and the immediately restitution of Zelaya.

Hundreds of Honduran people continue on the streets on Monday in order to demand the comeback of the constitutional president of the Central American nation, Manuel Zelaya, and it was also activated a general strike called by several social sectors of the country.

The above information was issued by the Telesur collaborator in Tegucigalpa, Adriana Sivori, and she stated that demonstrators who support the constitutional president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, have carried out a whole-night vigil despite the curfew imposed by the de facto government leaded by the entrepreneur Roberto Micheleti.

Likewise, Sivori informed that the group -every time bigger- try to have a dialog with the soldiers who are in the outsides of the Presidential House, who are armed and taking aim to them, in order to ask them to not betray their homeland.

Despite the rain, soldiers continue armed in the military tanks in front of a people who fight for the democracy of their country and the return of a democratically elected president.

Sivori expressed that it is evident a series of military movements, with soldiers who have besieged the place with cars and tanks.

Chávez’s Lines # 27-ALBA comes…¡ And Morazán watches over!

Caracas, Jun 29 ABN (Hugo Chavez Frias).- Yes, it downs; but today Sunday June 28th is the day of the great plebiscite in Honduras. As Pablo Neruda said in his poem Morazán, his Canto General, it’s time for the peoples of our America and the world to stay awake all night long…

Alba, Sica and Rio Group ratify defense of the democracy in Honduras

Caracas, Jun 29- An Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (Alba) starts this Monday in Nicaragua aimed at defending the Honduran democracy, after the coup d’État against the constitutional President Manuel Zelaya and the establishment of a de facto Government in that Central American country. It is also expected meetings of the member countries of the Central American Integration System (Sica, Spanish abbreviation) and from the Rio Group.

We will not tolerate the return to the era of cavemen, Chavez says about Honduras

Caracas, Jun 29- “We have seen the capacity of fast answer of all the mechanisms of international integration against the coup d’état in Honduras (…) Let’s fight, no matter the differences; we cannot allow the return to the era of cavemen,” affirmed on Monday the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias.

From Managua, Nicaraguan capital city, to which he attends to an extraordinary summit of the Bolivarian Alliance of the People of our America (ALBA), the Venezuelan President expressed that the integration bloc demands the immediate restitution of Honduras’ President Manuel Zelaya and the rights of the Honduran people.

“There is a set of meetings, discussions and debates to fix stances; that is why we have to do against the barbarism we are seeing: soldiers against demonstrators. There is a media besiege. We do not know what is going on. It is a return to the caverns, we will not tolerate it.”

Chavez added that “It is n event (the coup against Zelaya) that attacks all of us, no matter our ideologies; it is a barefacedly abuse of a bourgeois elite against a nation.”

Also, he said that the capacity of answer given almost immediately by the Organization of American States, the ALBA, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Rio Group, the Caricom, the Central American Integration System (SICA), among others, shows the positive steps given in Latin America.

President Chavez reaffirmed that “There is no possible bargaining. We demand the immediate return of President Manuel Zelaya.”

Military repression increases against demonstrators in Honduras

Caracas, Jun 29 The military forces that support the coup d’état in Honduras have strengthened their actions against the demonstrators who are in the surroundings of the Government Palace demanding the return of Jose Manuel Zelaya to the Presidency of the Republic.

With the collaboration of the police, soldiers of a team of the Honduran Armed Forces are taking positions in the streets and avenues where people continue protesting.

The special correspondent of the Bolivarian News Agency (ABN, Spanish abbreviation), Freddy Fernandez, informed that these military and police actions have caused a number of 23 injured people.

Moreover, he expressed that there have been carried out raids in the residences of officials from the Administration of Manuel Zelaya during the whole day.

Through the images broadcast by the continental television station Telesur, it can be observed the fly-over of helicopters, as well as the arrest of several protesters carried out by police officers who joined to the coup d’état perpetrated by a group of soldiers on Sunday early morning.

Up to the moment, Telesur correspondent in Honduras, Adriana Sivori, reported that there have been arrested seven people during this repressive action, and she mentioned three union leaders of the nation’s electrical energy service, among others.

Furthermore, Sivori expressed that the police officers are using water tankers against people and that the water on those units contain chemical agents.

The Real Crisis is Beginning to Unfold… and It’s Not Financial Part2

To rehash, we’ve added roughly three billion people to the earth’s population since the ‘60s. We accommodated this growth by using fertilizers, irrigation, and other systems that have deleterious effects on land overtime. As a consequence, worldwide arable land per person has essentially halved from 0.42 hectares per person in 1961 to 0.23 hectares per person in 2002.

Because of this, stocks-to-use ratios are now at their lowest levels since the ‘70s (a time that saw food prices spike dramatically). Thus we have growing demand, lower productivity and lower inventories. It’s not difficult to see where this is going.