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From the left: Victor Zelaya, Merlyn Garcia, Marine
Osorio, Domingo Arzu,
Felicito Nuñez, Edgarto Ortiz, Raul Witty, Isela Menendez, Magno
David, Milton Nuñez. |
A Secret Swearing In:
A New Illegal Patronato for Sambo Creek, 17/2/2020
The swearing in of
the
second illegal Patronato of Sambo Creek allegedly occurred on February
17, the same day it was published on Facebook. It was done in total
secrecy, with only the members of the slate illegally chosen, together
with Mayor
Dr. Jerry Sabio as the maximum
representative of the municipality of La Ceiba and representatives of the
Patronage Registration Department.
It is notable that until today, February 22, this swearing in has not been
published anywhere else other than the Facebook page of the
Comite de Deporte de Sambo Creek, an organization sponsored by a local
Jutiapa entrepreneur, Victor
Zelaya, who has supported the two illegal Patronato and fed the
Military Police when they came to repress
he town with live shot in 2017. An early version of the photos of the swearing
in includes Victor Zelaya in the Patronato but they deleted him in the
final versions of the photos. They say that he took the place of Yamilet
Escobar in the position of secretary of relations and is part of the
Patronato.
From the Department of Inscription of Patronatos, Luz Marina Rodriguez was
present, she works for
Carlos Aguilar Ponce, nationalist
ex-mayor of La Ceiba hated by most of the population for having driven the
city to bankruptcy. He has interests with the nationalist deputy
Fito
Irias in the thermoelectric
plant La Ensenada,, a disaster in its construction and in its
environmental planning, which will destroy Corozal and Sambo Creek without
producing the energy required by Atlantida, Yoro, and Colón. Carlos
Aguilar continues as the alderman of La Ceiba, and his responsibilities
include the Department of Inscription of Patronatos.
Luz
Marina Rodriguez met on January 22, 2020 with a lawyer from the Board of
Enrollment Department and with the Sambo Creek legal slate,
elected in a legal assembly.
She and the lawyer promised that the Patronato elections would be held
again after making a community assembly and that they would be the
mediators so that this could be resolved with transparency. It should be
noted that on this same day, January 22, the lawyer of the municipality
who is supposed to know the rules of the law, spoke about this verbally.
The aforementioned lawyer categorically stated that we will forget about
the ILO Convention 169, to which Honduras is a signatory and from which it
has received funds. This is something we do not accept; we are disturbed
by the intrusion of the municipality for not doing the work as they
should. This fraud came about from the beginning because their interests
are to continue being financed by the La Ensenada
thermoelectric park. interests that are permanent as are their interests
in the waters of the Cuyamel River in Sambo, and our commitment as natives
of the community is to preserve the ancestral legacy.
It should be noted that
the predecessor
Patronato was also fraudulently registered, and the same actors from
the past scene were also those who are recognized by the municipality now.
They forgot to listen to the assembly, because due to the hidden and
unapproved negotiations, they did not proceed to do what was agreed, they
falsified documents both times to justify the false registration.
Already in this second fraud the municipality had access to this group at
its disposal to be able to justify its repeated fraud. It should be noted
that when we requested the determination by the municipal observers, they
repeatedly denied it and responded that the report should be requested in
writing. But as we already knew from the changes given at each visit, we
were sure that the disemblance was because they already they had been
chosen by the municipality, to register them ina surpise move as a group
that the predecessor fraudulent patronage had appointed to continue
controlling the community and not present any kind of opposition. This is
not new, nor are the scams of the first alderman Carlos Alejandro Aguilar
and the honorable Deputy Rodolfo Irias Navas.
A report was given to Mr. Mayor Jerry Sabio, who explained that he was
only administering an oath, that the determination was in community
development, which is controlled by the predators Carlos Aguilar and Fito
Irias Navas.
Everyone looks on with a funeral face, not a smile. It was a tragic moment
for La Ceiba and for the Garinagu communities, now promised to
destruction. The 8,000 inhabitants of Sambo and the 10,000 of Corozal will
have to flee, most likely to the US. It is an act of genocide in
development.
We can recall the
massacre of San Juan where various garifuna people participated in
killing other garifuna alongside the National Party:
LA MASACRE DE GARÍFUNAS EN SAN JUAN EN TELA, 1937 10/20/2018 El
Pulso
-- Mike Perez,
22/2/2020
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