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| Honduran soldiers take over state hospitals |
| 2009-08-07 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Soldiers have occupied state hospitals in Honduras as health workers declared an indefinite strike calling for the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. As the political stalemate dragged on more than one month after the military coup, foreign diplomats met with the defiant interim leaders in a bid to seek a negotiated end to the crisis. A day after police fired tear gas and water cannons at some 3,000 student Zelaya supporters, hospital workers told AFP they were on an indefinite strike. "All the hospitals are militarized but the stoppage will continue," said Elvin Canales, a union leader at a hospital in the east of the capital Tegucigalpa. Around 8,000 health workers went on strike this week, in a move affecting 28 hospitals and more than 1,000 health centers across the impoverished Central American nation. Most of the country's 50,000 teachers have maintained strikes since the June 28 ouster of Zelaya, which followed a dispute with courts, Congress and the military over his plans to change the constitution. Demonstrations both for and against Zelaya continued in the capital and in the northern economic hub of San Pedro Sula Thursday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 That or it's Latin American Coffee ina Teapot. No wate...... Is it awesome how Hugo is even smarter that Castro? I mean damn! |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-08-07 13:22 |
| #5 Not so, you'd better believe Oblahblahblah is taking detailed notes on how to takeover a country, he plans to use the learned tactics against US soon. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-08-07 13:17 |
| #4 Honduran SEIU? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-08-07 12:48 |
| #3 Former president Zelaya is most certainly not another Fidel Castro, nor even a Hugo Chavez, merely a laughingstock wannabee. He'll spend the rest of his life as a hanger on at the courts of the successful caudillos, like the French nobles in England after the Revolution. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-07 12:41 |
| #2 Sounds like it is time for the Honduran government to do some union busting. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-08-07 10:28 |
| #1 Curse Obama for backing this a-hole Zelaya. He is another castro, and so is obama. You both are uaseless to all of humaity scum seeking destroyers of Liberty, Life and Happiness. YOU OBAMA are no different from that scumbucket CHE. I have no respect for you asshole anymore - nor ever. You remember that Mr President. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-08-07 04:56 |