rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (06/15/91)
HONDUNET NEWS BULLETIN -- JUN 07 TO JUN 11, 1991
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Key: LT - La Tribuna T - Tiempo H - Heraldo
HTW - Honduras This Week (government-approved).
Jun 07 The Head of the Armed Forces, General Luis Alonso Discua,
said today that he is confident of President Callejas'
economic adjustment policies. He also warned of an
increase in drug trafficking in Honduras, and denied any
conflict between the Honduran and Salvadorean military.
(LT)
- The National Association of Honduran Campesinos (ANACH)
issued a statement declaring that the Armed Forces are
protecting Col. Leonel Galindo, the alleged instigator of
the Agua Caliente massacre on May 3rd, and are not
interested in pursuing justice in the case. (LT)
- The Rector of the National Autonomous University of
Honduras (UNAH), Jorge Omar Casco, has condemned the
intervention of the International Monetary Fund in
education, which has forced reduction of post-secondary
funding to permit adequate funding of elementary schools.
(LT)
- Adherents of the Platform of Struggle to Democratize
Honduras (Plataforma de Lucha) mounted a massive protest
yesterday in San Pedro Sula in solidarity with striking
Beverage Workers Union (STIBYS). They demanded respect for
human rights and condemned the high cost of living.
(LT)
- President Callejas said that the new agreement signed
between Honduras and the International Monetary Fund will
guarantee a favourable future for Honduras. The agreement
will attract up to 1,800 million dollars in foreign
financing over the next three years. (T)
Jun 08 Honduras may lose hundreds of millions of dollars in
export products as a result of import-tax reductions
agreed to by the European Economic Community and Columbia,
Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. (T)
Jun 10 Luis Antonio Loyala, a representative from the
Panamerican Health Organization (O.P.S.), says that a
third of all infant deaths in Honduras are due to
diahrrea. (T)
- Six unions in the free zone of the port of Cortes
announced plans for solidarity actions in support of Trans
Pacific Garment Workers. (T)
- The STIBYS beverage workers strike ended today with an
agreement for no lay-offs, retraction of the declaration
that the strike was illegal, no wage-reductions, and
guarantees of compliance with the law. (LT)
- The National Association of Industrialists of Honduras
(ANDI) accused the government of provoking the "deliberate
death of production" with the reduction of customs duties.
(LT)
Jun 11 The Ministry of Labour budget has been reduced by 600
thousand Lempiras, and within days 400 workers will have
to be laid off. (LT)
- The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras
(CODEH) has issued its first trimester report of '9l,
covering January to April. It indicates that human rights
violations have increased, and documents 3 political
murders, 20 homicides due to abuse of power (16 of which
were committed by the military), 863 attempts against
people the majority of whom were campesionos, 42 cases of
torture, and 222 illegal detentions. (T)
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