Honduras Oye!

Recommended by both commies and capitalist tools, HONDURAS OYE! is providing up to date coverage of the coup, and resistance to the coup, in English.

As of Wednesday (when I actually wrote this), Honduras Oye! was reporting that protests were growing, as was repression.  There were unconfirmed reports of live rounds being fired at demonstrators, and talk of death squads are making the rounds in Tegacigalpa and elsewhere.

Hemano Juancito says there was less violence than reported, and brings an update on the irrepressible (and very brave) Padre Fausto:

He is a very gentle and affectionate man, who has a history of opposition to injustice. He also has an organization that promotes natural medicine, organic agriculture and healthy diets. He at times preaches against Coca Cola and chips – which too many people eat here, ignoring the great fruits and vegetables.

Padre Fausto suffered in the 1980s for his prophetic stances; he was jailed and after released he went into exile in Mexico for a few years.

He’s also, at 81, absolutely fearless, ending a sermon given Tuesday  (and reported in the newspapers) thusly:

Where there is inequality, freedom does not exist. This people is not fighting a fratricidal war between two sympathizers from two political parties. This people is struggling to achieve that equality, brought about by those oppressors who have now stolen that which we has the most right to have: sovereignty. They are the criminals and I don’t say this; Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution say this: The people is the sovereign; whoever steals this sovereignty is a traitor to the country, a criminal!

Some who worked on the writing of the Constitution have now told me that they regret (repent) having written article 3, because article 3 calls for insurrection, brothers and sisters, to return to the people the sovereignty which has been stolen from them here in Honduras.