No to violence.

• Author: Cattivelli, Adrian
• Position: OAS - Brief article

"No TO VIOLENCE. Yes to Democracy and Participation," is the theme that the Honduran government is proposing to the OAS Permanent Council for the Thirty-ninth Regular Session of the General Assembly, which will be held in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula between May 31 and June 2, 2009.

"Our people are suffering from a feeling of insecurity, that vague sense of unease and resentment that clouds life and turns people into prisoners of their fears," warned Honduran Foreign Minister Angel Edmundo Orellana Mercado in his presentation to the Permanent Council. "Houses are protected behind bars as ff they were prisons, cities are divided into areas according to their levels of danger, and no one feels safe on the streets. Drug...