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…
You’re a continuous sword
under the mud.
Our honor and destiny
that watch the seas.
Let the youth learn it
and let the bread and
fish miracle reappear.
You come back everywhere from your dignity.
You are among us.
Under the same night.
Sharing out light everyday.
From the poem Morazán Vive, by the great Honduran poet Roberto Sosa, I wanted to remember these verses in order to say that this June 25 we have seen that Morazán came back transformed into people. Thousands of women and men as sea swell of dignity and patriot proud come out to take light where the darkness wanted to blow out the ALBA; which is the shape that Honduras has adopted.
Let’s try to remember in order to understand where we come from and where we go; which is the source of the Honduran people’s heroism and why they decided to start getting rid of the scoria through which they were supposed to be tied up to the ignominy.
The bridge that the Honduran homeland represents to our America has been a permanent aim for all Yankee administrations; since the times of criminal William Walker, the fateful US adventurer who, together with the complicity of the Nicaraguan oligarchy, even reached the presidency of Nicaragua up to 1857, when he was overthrown. Walker is the active leading man, the clearest expression of the Monroe doctrine; and it is important to remember his deathbed. He was executed in the coasts of Trujillo, Honduras in 1860. This historic symbol resounds today more than ever.
Honduras, homeland of Lempira and Morazán, has suffered the severity of the Yankee imperialism from the beginning. The agriculture homeland that they tried to reduce to a vulgar banana republic; which has a desirable mineral richness and is especially inhabited by a fighter and worthy people. By tyranny the have pretended to set it up as beachhead of the imperial claw against our America. The oligarchic province of a satrap always achieved to eliminate people’s participation and lay it under the unbending dictatorships of Center America; since the economic crisis of 1929, last century. Names like Tiburcio Carías Andino and Oswaldo López Arellano, against any dignity effort, crowd with blood the Honduran people. In addition, we must add another dictatorship, of a different nature, but violent and persecutory as well. Honduras has suffered the most cynical experiments of neoliberalism, the last tyrant who, supported by death rattle and peopleless colonels, tries to survive to his natural death. How can we doubt that the April-2002 file is in motion in the growing social process the fraternal Honduras has carried out’ How not to expect the ill-fated reaction, when the great restitution of Cuba was precisely achieved in San Pedro Sula, conducted by our friend Mel (Manuel) Zelaya and the fighter Patricia Rodas’
Honduras and its people are doing their utmost, moving towards future and are giving birth to dawns. They want to ignore President Zelaya’s decision of proposing a Constituent. They want to stop the new constitutional doctrine that crosses our big homeland. Obviously, the sons and daughters of Morazán, together with their president and their great Honduran Foreign Minister, Patricia Rodas, will come at them.
Honduras is expressing a clear reject to the presence of the chief of death John Negroponte, Otto Reich and the networks of Posada Carriles. Honduras is saying that there will not be any more Yankee base dedicated to the military meddling in the region. Honduras is saying no more bases of Palmerola and El Aguacate. Honduras says no to the oligarchic parasites and yes to the direct and definite participation of the people in their conquests. “Posterity will do justice,” said the Bolivarian and eternal leader Francisco Morazán. With the clearness inherited by its people, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) respond as follows: “With the power of our ancestors, Iselaca, Lempira, and Etempica, we raise our voices for life, justice, dignity, liberty, and peace.” Honduras posterity is now or it will not be; and it counts on the soulful spirit of support of the sons and daughters of Bolívar and his brothers.
What would have happened if the always timely and brave presence of Telesur TV station had not been in Tegucigalpa on June 25′
There is a silence that hides and another one that reveals – poet Gustavo Pereira reminds it to us -. Silence that hides embodies the ignorant, the smart, the arrogant and the false wise man. The silence that reveals lies in the humble hearts and most of them are real wise men.
Our Telesur, without the ostentatious equipment that the great media translational holds, revealed to the entire world the heroic success that thousands and thousands of humble men and women achieved to safeguard their liberty and the system of government they have given to themselves.
Before such events occurred, the media oligarchy enchained ranted on the people and president. But when the people and the president decided to set fears aside to save the homeland, the wicked formula applied in Venezuela on April 11, 12 and 13, 2002, was applied again: the silence that hides was criminally imposed.
“The ALBA governments, after knowing the destabilization denunciations in Honduras, declare that we will move together with the Honduran people,” said to Telesur our Ambassador to the OAS, Roy Chaderton, with the high dignity that has distinguished him. Undoubtedly, the ALBA has succeeded in the defense of Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela and other countries where the imperialism tries to meddle together with the local oligarchies; and it will defend Honduras and its decision of moving towards the necessary transformations. We cannot forget that Francisco Morazán’s cause is the same one of Simón Bolivar. They are both united by the same ideal of Nation of Republics, a great political body. They both clearly saw that if they do not achieve unity, every one of our republics would be subjugated, dominated. This is why the entry of Honduras into the ALBA represented one more step towards unity; as well as the incorporation, on June 24, of Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda. We have to recognize the political will of President Zelaya’s government has demonstrated that it is at the height of the change of époque that our America lives today. And this is what hurts the most the imperialists and their bourgeois sepoys.
Night is high and Morazán watches over. Invaders crowded your house and cut you like a dead fruit, and others sealed on their backs the teeth of a bloodroot lineage; and some others pillaged in the ports carrying blood over your pains. It’s today, yesterday, tomorrow’ You know it. Brothers, it dawns. (And Morazán watches over)
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 general singing, it’s time for surveillance of the peoples of our America and the world; the surveillance time together with Morazán so the Honduran people can enjoy the glorious liberty they have always deserved: let them be the ones who decide their destiny.
ALBA comes…¡Yes, and Morazán watches over!
