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Weekly Report - 30 June 2011 (WR-11-26)
HONDURAS: Readying for Revolution
Che Guevara, José Martí, Augusto César Sandino, Schafik Handal, Óscar Romero, "Pancho" Villa. They all adorned banners fluttering around in an auditorium in Tegucigalpa on 26 June as Manuel Zelaya won support for the launch of a new left-wing party to fight for power in Honduras in 2013. Zelaya was addressing 1,500 delegates of the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular (FNRP), an umbrella political and social movement that sprang up to support him after he was ousted in a coup in June 2009. The majority of these icons of the Left are symbols of armed struggle to bring about revolution but, in a speech replete with déjà vu, Zelaya stressed that the Honduran revolution would come about via a constituent assembly.
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