RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The tourist city of Tela, located on the Honduran Caribbean coast, on Thursday (29) joined the movement to repeal the implementation of Employment and Economic Development Zones (ZEDEs) which the government has been promoting since 2013, arguing that it aims to curtail national sovereignty . We oppose and reject that actions under the Law of Employment and Economic Development Zones should be implemented in the department of Atlántida, particularly in Tela, inasmuch as it represents a reduction of the national territory, surrender of sovereignty and violates the Constitution, Law of Municipalities, among others, the city s . . .
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Liberty and Refoundation Party (Libre, left) commemorated Tuesday the 12th anniversary of the June 28, 2009 coup d’état to the then president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, with a protest against the Employment and Development Zones (Zede) promoted by the ruling party.
On a boulevard in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, dozens of supporters of the Libre party gathered to express their rejection of the Zede and their support for Xiomara Castro, Zelaya’s wife and presidential candidate of that party.
Hondurans march against Employment Zones on anniversary of the coup d’état
“Today we started the social mobilization in Tegucigalpa, soon there will be a nationwide mobilization” against the Zede, said to journalists Rafael Alegría, former deputy of Libre, first opposition force in the Honduran Parliament.
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“It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 years old. “She was the one who fought for us to have the road, the school, water, all of the basic projects… the government has never given us anything that we didn’t fight for. She gave everything for this community. She’s the reason me and my family are so firm.”