The Honduran resistance claims that it was a political murder carried out by three hired assassins in plain sight of teachers and students at the Instituto San Jose de El Pedregal.

The Human Rights Platform issued a communiqué saying that “when analyzing the brutal repression by the police, military and paramilitary forces, which plotted to break democracy in Honduras, it is clear that the coup continues under the current regime. They implement a fear and extermination strategy that seeks to immobilize the citizens”.

The organizations that make up the Platform emphasize that Flores’ murder had nothing to do with a common crime, as some media controlled by the Honduran oligarchy wanted to portray so that the crime remains unpunished.

The general coordinator of the Committee of Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), Bertha Oliva, said that Flores’ death is the direct consequence of a state policy of repression and elimination of the free speech in the country.

“Although the newspapers may explain the murder as a result of the wave of crimes and insecurity affecting Honduras, it was the paramilitary. This death shows the implementation of an extermination plan”, said Oliva, as reported by the blog Honduras en Lucha.

Professor Durian Chavez, of the Union of Teachers of Secondary Education of Honduras, told the website defensoresenlinea.com that Flores’ murder is a political crime “precisely because of the role we play as teachers, because of the pressure we can exert, the changes we can make at a political level, the reforms we can implement and the strong criticism against the coup regime”.

President Profirio Lobo Sosa is facing strong resistance both at a national and international level. Outside Honduras, tens of social networks from around the world have sent a letter to Spanish President, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, to express their concern over the invitation made by his government to the Honduran President to attend the 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held in Madrid in May.

The social networks say in the letter “The Spanish President of the European Union and the European member states should not send a message legitimizing a coup d’etat through an electoral process, without the prior reestablishment of democracy, especially when the elected authorities have been the promoters or accomplices of breaking said democracy”.

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