Human rights

The following organizations are sponsoring the Vigil for Honduras below: Casa El Salvador, CISPES, Frente en Resistencia Contra el Golpe en Honduras de Los Ángeles, Comités de Bases FMLN, FSLN Los Ángeles, ANSWERLA, Comité Pro-Democracia en México, Partido Socialismo y Liberación, Danzas Azteca Cuauhtémoc, Coalition for Peace and Democracy in Honduras of Los Angeles and many more.

CODEP-APPO (Committee in Defense of the Rights of the People), with which we held an international women’s conference in March 2008, is again being targeted for repression. Taxi driver Sergio Martínez Vasquez, was murdered on 7 June, and odontologist Agustin Rios Cruz was beaten almost to death and is now in exile – both were members of CODEP’s state council. Others have been threatened, including exiled teachers Jaquelina López Almazán and Samuel Hernandez Morales.