As clarified by the aforementioned ministerial portfolio in a statement, released today by various media, the work is part of the national Education Plan in Historical Memory, whose purpose is to promote critical, civic teaching and based on verifiable facts.
He emphasized that the content of the material addresses the facts of the coup d’etat of June 28, 2009, internationally recognized as a rupture of the constitutional order, and whose conviction was supported by multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and the Inter -American Court of human Rights.
“Given the circulation of malicious information, we categorically clarify that this book does not constitute a mandatory reading in the national education system,” said the official note.
The Secretariat (Ministry) of Education of the Central American Nation said that as an institution “respects and guarantees the freedom of chair, an essential principle for the development of a critical, inclusive and democratic education.”
Educating about the past should not be interpreted as an act of revenge, but as an exercise of responsibility with the present and commitment to the future, said the statement.
The Honduran people, and especially our youth, have the right to know what happened in the coup d’etat of 2009, said Minister of Education, Daniel Sponda.
“The mandatory is not the book, it is to know the story so that it is not repeated,” Sponda claimed.
The Secretariat also recalled that the illegal take of power caused a deep institutional crisis, more than 167 deaths, between students, teachers and human rights defenders, as well as multiple complaints of torture, persecutions and forced disappearances.
Many of these crimes, the text added, remain unpunished.
“Only an informed, conscious and critical citizenship can ensure that Honduras never falls back into the darkness of the dictatorship and repression,” concluded the official pronouncement.
The Book The 28J, transnational conspiracy: a crime in impunity, was written by the ex -president Zelaya and Rixi Moncada, presidential candidate of the official Freedom and Refoundation Party for the general elections of November 30.
“There is terror in the elites of Honduras and in which they perpetrated the coup d’etat, they are terrified that the Honduran people can remember, because the mechanisms of forgetting are the norm in this country,” the Minister of Social Development, José Cardona, denounced last Friday.
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