Tegucigalpa smells of blood, smoke and dictatorship
Friday, August 20
(my translation)

Friends, compañeros brothers and sisters of the world, this afternoon we were subjected to a brutal repression by the agents of State security, despite the fact that we are supposedly in a "government of reconciliation and unity." Teachers who had been on strike for 15 days, the majority of whom accompanied by their children, were resting in the open areas inside the Pedagogical University when they were surprised by a helicopter being used to throw tear gas canisters, police shooting so-called "rubber bullets" and attacking with their batons and clubs, armored cars, and all the repressive force of the State against a people who were peacefully protesting, a people who do not want to see their nation destroyed, ransacked by the oligarchy of this country, while Hugo Llorens (the U.S. ambassador) watches as his orders are carried out by politicians who are nothing more than sheep. This makes clear that the situation created by the coup [el golpismo] is intact and the institutions of justice are watching safely within their towers.

If there is anything you can do to help us, it is time to raise your voice to the world to let them know about the savage regime we are living under.

Wilfredo Cardona Peñalva

Amigos compañeros hermanos del mundo, esta tarde hemos sido objeto de una brutal represión por parte de los órganos de seguridad del Estado y esto que estamos en “reconciliación y gobierno de unidad,” maestros en huelga desde hace 15 dias, que la mayoría se hacen acompañar de sus hijos, descansado en los predios de la Universidad Pedagógica, cuando fueron sorprendidos por helicóptero utilizados lanzar bombas lacrimógenas, haciendo disparos "bala de goma", toletes garrotes, la tanqueta, todos las fuerzas represivas contra un pueblo que se manifiesta pacíficamente, pueblo que no desea ver a su patria destruida, saqueada por los grupos oligárquicos de este país, Hugo Loren (embajador USA) observando cómo sus ordenes la cumple sus políticos que casi son unos borregos. Esto es evidente que el golpismo esta intacto y los órganos de justicia observando desde sus jaulas.

Si pueden hacer algo por nosotros es hora de levantar la voz ante el mundo mas civilizado que los nuestros

Wilfredo Cardona Peñalva