In one group were the forces of the Right, including the far right. If a Constituent Assembly was the banner of Zelaya and his followers, if the coup occurred because Zelaya called for a Constituent Assembly, and if the Resistance’s main demand is for a Constituent Assembly, then the political class that rules the country must take the wind out of the movement’s sails and make this demand their own.Ī step forward for President Lobo “Dialogue” was the political word of the month during all of October, with two main positions predominating. What looked like a card the President pulled out of his sleeve turned out to be a political game consistent with politicians’ cynicism and opportunism.
This seems to have happened with the dialogue called by Lobo. Crucial for the viability of the proposal he’s promoting is the grassroots movement’s ability to make the established powers negotiate the content and process of such an assembly in a way that would lead to the building of a New Social Pact and define new political, legal and institutional rules of the game.īut in politics, improvisations surprise those who don’t take precautions. In fact, he is proposing a parallel government. He sees it as an alternative power to what exists and has even drawn up a calendar to pull it off at the end of 2011. The movement’s sailsThe call for a dialogue and the fact that it really happened is unthinkable without the pressure that ousted former President Mel Zelaya exerts on his followers to keep up the demand for a National Constituent Assembly.
And the FNRP took a wrong step in the process of attaining civic involvement in the search for responses to the governability crisis in which the country and the State continues to be sunk. After that would be the turn of the Liberals in resistance, and immediately following them the FNRP.īy calling for a national dialogue with all these sectors, President Porfirio Lobo took one more step on the shaky political terrain surrounding him. He set the date for the first session, which would involve the representatives of the political parties, for October 4. The President invited the political parties, business associations, churches, Liberals in resistance to the government and the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), the organized expression of the grassroots resistance movement. Or present a coherent, alternative dialogue plan.įirst thing in the morning of October 1, President Lobo Sosa issued an invitation to various sectors of Honduran society to discuss the idea of a Constituent Assembly as a possible way out of the country’s crisis, heightened by last year’s coup d’état and its aftermath but far from created by it. They refused to participate so had no way to state their positions It was a well-calculated step by Lobo in the quicksand he moves in,īut caused a misstep by the Resistance Front: The dialogue called by President Lobo stirred up a political hornets’ nestīut left intact the polarization that has trapped Honduras since the coup. Honduras Dialogue to Change Things So Everything Remains the Same Revista Envío - Dialogue to Change Things So Everything Remains the Same
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