[NYTr] Honduran Indigenous Mobilization Deferred
 
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:17:24 -0600 (CST)

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Honduran Indigenous Mobilization Deferred

Tegucigalpa, Jan 27 (PL)-- The Honduran Civic Council for Popular and
Indigenous Organizations (COPINH) postponed a mobilization to avoid
interfering in President Manuel Zelaya's inauguration Friday.

"The protest was postponed, but we will not give up making protests if the
government refuses to free three COPINH leaders imprisoned for land
problems," a COPINH document asserted.

The organization said it would wait for Zelaya's administration to respond
to the demand to free Luciano Pineda, and Marcelino and Leonardo Miranda,
indigenous leaders in prison since 2003.

Nearly 100,000 Honduran Lenca people live in extreme poverty, as do another
400,000 blacks, mostly Garifuna indigenous, on the southern Atlantic coast.
Many of these people are not included in national demographics, so they
subsist without jobs or work informally and little or no access to basic
services.

Illiteracy and school drop outs are the main causes of unemployment, which
contributes to raise poverty levels, and AIDS is taking growing proportions
of the population.

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