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In Honduras, Cuban Resistance Demands Recognition by OAS Permanent Council
By Assembly of the Resistance

San Pedro Sula, Honduras. June 1, 2009. Asamblea de la Resistencia. During a press conference this morning in San Pedro Sula, the site of the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly, a Cuban delegation from the pro-democracy Assembly of the Resistance demanded recognition of the Cuban Resistance from the OAS Permanent Council and urged the organization not to recognize the Castro regime, but rather to aid the Cuban people with the process of democratizing the country.

 

“The Cuban Resistance urges that the fulfillment of the essential elements of democracy, according to the Inter-American Democratic Charter, be a prerequisite for the readmission of the Cuban state,” stated Sylvia Iriondo, president of Mothers and Women against Repression (M.A.R. por Cuba).

 

“We call upon the Permanent Council of the OAS tp recognize the Cuban Resistance  and to launch with it a process to aid the Cuban people to recover their civil rights, and consequently, their right to self-determination,” stated Dr. Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, National Secretary of the Cuban Democratic Directorate.

 

Despite attempts to interrupt the conference by individuals who shouted insults at the victims of the Castro regime’s repression who were present, the delegation presented an open letter to the OAS signed by 694 Cuban human rights activists and ordinary citizens calling on the institution to give Cuban civil society a place at the table and to reject the possible readmission of the Castro regime.

 

“Embrace the Cuban people. Condemn its dictatorship. Do not reinstate the Castro regime in the Latin American democratic community; open the doors of the OAS to the Cuban civil society that non-violently struggles for democratic transformation,” states the letter.

 

Following the press conference, the Assembly of the Resistance delegation will hold a “Forum on the Democratic Integrity of the Americas at 10:30 a.m. (Honduras time) at the Gran Hotel Sula, in the same city to expose the true human rights situation in Cuba and the democratic aspirations of the Cuban people. Relatives of current Cuban political prisoners, former political prisoners, leaders of pro-democracy Resistance organizations will take part in the forum. They will also be joined by Latin American legislators who support the Assembly’s task in Honduras. Accredited journalists, and diplomats will also be present.

 

At the time of this writing, an anti-democracy mob gathered outside the Gran Hotel Sula is demanding the delegates be deported from Honduras.

 

Latin American Legislators:

Deputy José Manuel Echandi Mesa (Costa Rica)

Deputy Eduardo E. Barrientos (El Salvador)

Deputy Javier Vallejo (Nicaragua)

Deputy Eliseo Núñez (Nicaragua)

 

Assembly of the Resistance Delegation:

Bertha Antúnez Pernet (sister of former political prisoner and Resistance activist Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez”)

Maria Eugenia Consculluela (M.A.R. por Cuba)

Mariana Coto (M.A.R. por Cuba)

Ernesto Díaz Rodríguez (Plantados until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba)

Ofelia Echemendía Selva (M.A.R. por Cuba)

Sylvia Iriondo (M.A.R. por Cuba)

Blanca González (mother of Cuban political prisoner Normando Hernández González)

Eileen Goudie (M.A.R. por Cuba)

Orlando Gutiérrez (Cuban Democratic Directorate)

Húber Matos (Independent and Democratic Cuba)

Calixto Navarro (Cuban Democratic Directorate)

Nancy Pérez-Crespo (New Cuban Press)

Anolan Ponce (M.A.R. por Cuba)

 

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