We have received this statement from the Socialist Party of Malaysia. They condemn the coup and demand that the government of Honduras get reinstated.

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Caracas, June 29^th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for all Latin American governments to organize demonstrations in solidarity with the people of Honduras at an emergency meeting of the nine member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas (ALBA) in Mangaua, Nicaragua, Sunday night.

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Supporters of Hands Off Venezuela in the British Parliament have tabled an EDM calling for the immediate reinstatment of the government of Honduras. We welcome this initiative and ask that our supporters in Britain encourage their MPs to sign it.

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In the early hours of Sunday June 28, a group of soldiers took the democratically elected president of Honduras, Mel Zelaya at gun point and transported him by plane to Costa Rica. Zelaya's government had carried out a whole series of progressive reforms in the fields of education, health care, etc. The masses have come out on the streets and called for a general strike on Monday 29 to reject this coup. We give them out full support. Come to the emergency picket of the embassy of Honduras in London on Tuesday, June 30 at 5pm.

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San Francisco, CA - The Hands Off Venezuela campaign, along with other Latin America solidarity organizations, have called for a emergency rally and press conference to denounce the recent military coup against democratically elected president Honduran Manuel Zelaya.  The coup came on the day in which Hondurans were to go to the polls to vote on a constitutional referendum that would have laid the basis for dramatically changing the political landscape of the country.

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"This morning military personal kidnapped Honduran president Manuel Zelaya. According to one witness, 200 soldiers arrived at the president's house at 6am this morning, 4 shots were fired and later they left in vehicles towards the air base. The soldiers also took over the government television station, Channel 8, and took it off air. Zelaya is currently speaking live on Telsur TV, from Costa Rica."

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Caracas, Venezuela -  The text message that beeped on my cell phone this morning read "Alert, Zelaya has been kidnapped, coup d'etat underway in Honduras, spread the word." It's a rude awakening for a Sunday morning, especially for the millions of Hondurans that were preparing to exercise their sacred right to vote today for the first time on a consultative referendum concerning the future convening of a constitutional assembly to reform the constitution.

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In Montreal, the Hands Off Venezuela/Bolivarian Society of Quebec helped organize a rally on Friday, June 12^th, with fellow solidarity organizations, Action Creative and the Mohawk Traditional Council of Kahnawake. In front of the Peruvian consulate, more than 50 people were present to show their solidarity with the struggle of Amazonian indigenous people and condemn Alan Garcia and his government for their brutal massacre.

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