Corpse found on roadside after police publicly arrest and beat political leader

[L. Coyote]

Honduras Resistance Leader Luis Gradis Espinal's corpse found, after public arrest and beating

Does anyone even care in the USA, that this is happening in the Americas today? Does Obama care? What is being done about it?

This is what Obama and Clinton are supporting by aligning with the Honduras Junta and supporting a sham election,
the public arrest and beating of an opposition political leader followed by an assassination and body dumping beside a road.

Meanwhile in Honduras, the Fascist junta authorities are bragging that they have the names of every "leftist"!
Meanwhile in the USA, if you want developing news from Latin America, go to Cuba or Iran online!!!

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Honduran People Leader Assassination Worsens Crisis
http://www.periodico26.cu/english/news_world/november2009/honduras-assasination112509.html


Tegucigalpa, Nov 25, (PL).- ..... National Front against the Coup d'état leader Luis Gradis Espinal's corpse was found on Tuesday after he was arrested by the police, human rights authorities denounced.

Reports by the Front said 56-year-old Espinal, retired teacher, had left on Sunday southern Valle department for the capital ... A witness said the vehicle in which she was traveling with Espinal was stopped at the city's Beltway by a police patrol and the teacher was arrested and also beaten with a pistol in his head.

The Detainees and Missing People's Relatives' Committee (CAFADEH) reported that Espinal's corpse was found in Las Casitas sector, in the capital's western area.

In a communique, the National Front warned that the repressive corpses have increased security and persecution of the resistance members..........

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Asesinato de dirigente popular agudiza aún más la crisis en Honduras
Jueves, 26 de Noviembre de 2009 08:33 - http://www.triplem.icrt.cu/index.php/noticias-internacionales/504-asesinato-de-dirigente-popular-agudiza-aun-mas-la-crisis-en-honduras-.html

TEGUCIGALPA, 25 de noviembre.— El asesinato del líder de la resistencia antigolpista en el sur de Honduras ensombrece aún más el tenso clima político del país, en vísperas de las cuestionadas elecciones del próximo domingo.
El cadáver de Luis Gradis Espinal fue hallado en el oeste de Tegucigalpa.


El cadáver del coordinador del Frente Nacional contra el golpe de Estado en esa región, Luis Gradis Espinal, fue hallado el martes en el oeste de la capital, luego de su arresto por la policía, según denunciaron organismos defensores de los derechos humanos.

Informes del Frente indican que Espinal, de 56 años de edad y profesor jubilado, había salido el pasado domingo hacia la capital y desde entonces se desconocía su paradero. Una testigo relató que el vehículo donde viajaban juntos fue interceptado por una patrulla policial y el profesor fue arrestado, incluso golpeado en la cabeza.

En un comunicado, el Frente Nacional alertó que los cuerpos represivos han aumentado la vigilancia y persecución de los militantes de la resistencia, y destaca que han llegado "hasta el punto de declarar un Estado de Emergencia, que podría ser el preámbulo de una ofensiva militar contra el pueblo desarmado".

La alianza de fuerzas populares reiteró su llamado a desconocer los comicios del día 29. Mientras, unos 60 candidatos han presentado el retiro de su inscripción ante el Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) en repudio a "la farsa organizada por el régimen de facto", con la que pretenden legitimar el golpe militar, que derrocó al presidente constitucional Manuel Zelaya. (Telesur)

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[Taverner]

1. Just waiting for HFPS to come in and announce this as a suicide

[Flaneur]

2. Oh, he was just some Latin American leftist.

He deserved it.

He probably made them kill him.

The coup was all nice and legal-like, see?

Zelaya is a leftist authoritarian who wanted to seize power.

The military and the coup leaders are liberals like us.

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You can call this a preemptive bullshit post. That way the usual suspects don't have to spend their time supporting the coup.

[L. Coyote]

3. Next time they will kill the passenger too. Pesky witnesses, you know.

The problem is not that people are getting killed for being liberals (that's old news),
the problem is that no one seems to give a crap that the USA supports the killers.
Maybe this witnessed event will have a few repercussions,
like awakening the "usual suspects" to current political reality ...

First they came for the extreme leftists ..... and I was silent ........ now I'm dead beside the road.

[L. Coyote]

4. Honduran military dictatorship arms itself with weapons and munitions of death ......

Honduran military dictatorship arms itself with weapons and munitions of death and declares war on the National Front of Non-Violent Resistance
Wed, 11/25/2009 - http://quixote.org/honduran-military-dictatorship-arms-itself-weapons-and-munitions-death-and-declares-war-national-fro


COFADEH Alert: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 ............ Yesterday November 23, we learned of the kidnapping by paramilitaries of Professor Luis Gradis Espinal (56 years of age), Coordinator of the Resistance in the southern zone, and today his lifeless body was found feet and hands tied on a dirt road in the hamlet Las Casitas, southwest of the capital, near an area where various military units are located.

Professor Gradis Espinal left his house last Sunday, November 22 for the capital with the objective of meeting with one of his sons. Confirmed versions have it that Gradis Espinal was driving his vehicle when he was intercepted by a motorized patrol in the periphery loop road of the capital. The teacher was captured and taken to an unknown place.

The teachers are being persecuted; some of them have been obliged to leave the country temporarily.

In the same way our concern is needed in the case of professor Marco Tulio Valdez, leader of the Resistance in San Lorenzo, Valle, since he is being strongly threatened by the military authorities who have taken absolute control of the department; from this moment we hold responsible this body, especially Commander Mendoza, for any attempts on the life of Valdez.

COFADEH energetically condemns the assassination of Luis Gradis Espinal, whose death is added to that of Roger Vallejo, Mario Contreras and Felix Murillo.Bertha Oliva

We exhort the national and international community to condemn these attacks to which the Honduran people are falling victim by the military dictatorship .............

[Ghost Dog]

5. "repressive corpses" should read "repressive forces" in the PL translation above.

"cuerpo" in this context is used in the same sense as in a eg. "body of soldiers".

[EFerrari]

6. And just in time for the election. What great timing.

Where are you, Hillary Clinton?

Where are you, Barack Obama?

[L. Coyote]

7. A first. US recognizes election before it happens! Then, the election is militarized

and we see no comment from the US about the ongoing changes in the already recognized election.

So what if the military now has possession of all the ballots, this one is already recognized. Ridiculous move, giving them a preemptive excuse to do whatever.