 Miguel Angel, ¿Tú estás? Oh, yeah, sí, sí. Ah, muy bien. Emily. So we're, okay. So right now, mira, tú y yo vamos a, tú vas a hablar, yo voy a traducir y vamos a enseñar las fotos, okay? Está bien, Miguel Angel. Okay. Okay. Emily, if you want to, if we're able to do this, I hope, the pictures are very powerful. So as Emily is getting up a short, oh, it's not Emily, it's me. Okay. Okay. Okay. Emily, can I share? Okay. Boy. I didn't see that coming. Okay. Hold on just a second, people. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to do this. It really is worth it. I'm going to go like this. Oh my goodness gracious. Okay. I think, no, this isn't it. Hey, John. Oh, can, can you all see sort of? Can Frank, can you see the picture? I see sales, sales team. Darn. Okay. That's in 207. Click to call. New share. Okay. I got it. I'm a high school teacher. I've been doing this for a year. You got this. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So. So at the top of the hour hours ago, I mentioned I'm with witness for peace Southwest and I want to give a shout out to Gail Ferris who I hope was with us for a little bit. She was the founder in 1982, one of the first Latin America solidarity organizations and Miguel Angel. Um, uh, you will hear, um, is we work with him. He's an organized, he's we're helping him coordinate. Uh, Miguel Angel was a Honduran student organizer with the Libre party in opposition to the U S backed coup against president Manuel Zelaya in 2009. Miguel was forced to flee desk squads in his country three years ago, led one of the caravans to the U S border. The caravan number two and lived in a U S detention center for nine long months. As a matter of fact, three different detention centers. He is, uh, coordinating with us, witness or peace Southwest. I want to tell you, we have a couple of tough photos, um, that he has submitted for the record. Um, and what we want to come out of this, and he will mention it, but I just want to put it at the top of his talk is that, um, there are elections in November in Honduras and anyone on this call right now, we are looking to work with all of the people who do this, but to get a delegation. Um, we hope to be election observers, um, down in November. That is his passion right now to make this happen. Miguel Angel. Tu hablas y otra usco. Okay. Okay. Mi nombre es Miguel Angel. Tengo 25 años de la soy un asilado político aquí en este país. My name is Miguel Angel. I'm 25 years old and I am a political exile here in this country. Soy un joven desplazado por la política de Estados Unidos en Honduras. I am, um, a young person who is displaced by the politics of the United States. Desde el dos, cuando yo tenía 13 años empecé mi activismo por las injusticias que vivía el país. Since I was 13, since I've been 13 years old, I've done activism for the injustices in my country. Me metí en todo esto porque Honduras nunca, desde que he estado pequeño, no ha sido ni libre, ni soberano, no independiente. I've been this way because my country, Honduras, since I was a little kid, has never been free, has never been sovereign, have never been independent. Ya que mi país ha sido golpeado muy duro durante décadas sometidos primero por los españoles y después por la intervención de Estados Unidos en Honduras, ya que ellos ponen y quitan presidente. Um, we have had coups and overthrows and control ever since the Spanish, but then after that by the United States that keeps bringing people in and out of power in my country. You, Miguel Angel, tú, tú ves las fotos? Sí. Okay, bye pues. En Honduras tuvimos un presidente que se llamó Manuel Celaya Rosales, que en el 2005, 2004, 2006, el prometió que si llegaba a la presidencia, él iba a ir a ayudar a la gente pobre y iba a ser un presidente para los pobres. Okay. Thank you. And so we had a president, Manuel Celaya, who, um, from 2004, 2005, he came into, he was elected president and he promised to be a president for the poor people. Cuando él ingresó a la contienda con un partido de derecha llamado el Partido Liberal, él fue el candidato. Uh, he was a candidate with the liberal party. Él llegó a la presidencia porque la gente lo apoyó porque prometió muchas cosas en el 2006. So in 2006, he promised a lot of things and the people voted for him and he came to power. Cuando él fue presidente, él ayudó y dio todo lo que él prometió ayudar a la gente pobre, darle caza a la gente pobre, darle semillas a los campesinos para que sembraran. Okay. And so when he was president, he actually followed through with all of his campaign promises, giving housing to the poor, seeds for the farmers. Qué más políticas. Él hizo muchas, muchas cosas que la embajada americana y la empresa privada con los ricos le dieron un golpe de Estado. Y mencionas más de la, de las políticas que él hizo también. Ya. Su política, su política era más medicina, más libros, no armas, no violencia. No arms, more medicine. Um, um, help for single women, madres solteras. Las madres solteras. So one of his policies was to help single women with money to help their children. Kind of like a universal basic income for single women. And. So one of his policies was to help single women with money to help their children. Kind of like a universal basic income for single women. And. El fue el mejor presidente de Honduras. Por eso le dieron un golpe de Estado porque a los ricos no le gusta que un presidente. Que tenga un puesto tan grande le de comida a los pobres que pongan comida en el plato del pobre. Yeah. So, um, he was the best president we've ever had, but the wealthy don't like that the someone in such a position of power gives a plate of food to the poor. In 2009, they gave him a golpe de Estado, lo cual el tuvo que irse a refugiarse a la embajada de Brasil. And so in 2009, um, there was a coup d'etat. Against him and he had to flee into the Brazilian embassy. Después de eso, él se fue para un país de República Dominicana para. Uír de la persecución que le estaban dando los mismos compañeros y la élite en Honduras. And afterwards he had to flee to the Dominican Republic because of the persecution. El relesón on duras en el dos mil. He returned in 2011 to found a new political party in Honduras called the Libre Party. And he returned in 2011 to found a new political party in Honduras called the Libre Party. Y como él tenía otros pensamientos buenos, la gente lo apoyó y hablaba un partido que en el dos mil dos se ganaron las elecciones y en el dos mil diecisiete ganaron las elecciones, pero como él no es derechista, él no lo dejan llegar al poder. So in 2012 they won elections. In 2017 they won elections and they were fraudulently taken away because we're not allowed to win elections. Y todo eso las elecciones que se han robado quitan el sistema para el sistema hackean el sistema para que todos los números ellos los están fabricando de sus propias computadoras pero no es la voluntad del pueblo. I just want to say quickly we are not allowed to talk about fraudulent elections in this country. In Honduras they had a blackout, they stopped the counting for several days and we didn't know for 12 days who was the president in 2017 and that doesn't happen in our country. It was fraudulent. Okay, so I'm trying to get all this. And so we leave our country in mourning and there are many mothers killed, many children killed, many young people and we have many people in the young people especially who have had to flee in all parts of the country in different countries even. Estados Unidos siempre envía mucho dinero en Honduras pero todo ese dinero que envía solo llegan a las carteras de los ricos y también a que el gobierno con las fuerzas armadas a financiar las fuerzas armadas para darles armas equiparlos para qué para que maten al pueblo. A como Bertha Cáceres, periodistas buenos, estudiantes buenos una persecución y Estados Unidos. So a lot of American money comes down to Honduras, a lot of money but it all goes to the rich, it all goes to the military, it all goes to buy arms and kill good people like Bertha Cáceres and harm students like us. Una ideología de Escuadrones de la Muerte que se el 316 en Honduras y esos militares fueron entrenados en las Escuelas de las Américas en York. So they come with death squads with a mentality the 316 which is a death squad in my country. All these people are trained by school of the Americas. El 99% de los derechos humanos me estuvieron ayudando para que no me asesinaran ya que Escuadrones de la Muerte cerca de arrebatarme mi vida y yo soy una de las pocas personas que pudo salir del país y contarnos lo que viví y los que mis compañeros siguen viviendo en Honduras. So this is what I was living and I was a lead student organizer in the country. I was very well known and then I became a target also and so I had to leave and 99%. This is I'm just going to show we do this presentation together often and I just want to say this we we offer this a longer presentation to he and I could do this together or anyone who can translate but he has a longer presentation to this is a picture of young people being taken out and so this is what Miguel Angel knew that he was facing and he had to flee in his own country. He lived for one year hiding from the death squads and 99% of the human rights workers in Honduras were were helping him to hide him and eventually get him out of the country. Ya en el 2018 tuve que salir en una caravana y huir desplazado de nuestros países por una política que viene desde aquí desde Estados Unidos un neoliberalismo que está asesinando el mundo con su ideología de guerra de armas querer contra controlar el mundo y nosotros pagando las consecuencias de una guerra fría que nosotros como pueblo no tenemos culpa solo por beneficios de los ricos y arrastrando eso desde la guerra fría que hoy en día la guerra fría sigue en el mundo y lo estamos viendo con el ejemplo de Mercella de Rosales. He says you know he says I had to leave my country because of the politics of this country because of the politics a war mongering politics a politics for the rich a politics that takes over other countries he says and the cold war is continuing it's continuing in a country like mine and it's affecting the people of nothing to do with it and so my life was completely changed from the cold war that's still continuing because I had to come on this caravan to come here. Cuando llegué a Tijuana con las caravans cuando vendían caravanas con muchas personas de organizaciones y estudiantes de este país y de México pudo abrir un albergue en Tijuana antes de entregarme a detención. And so I just want to say is he was about 22 at the time he led the second caravan like I said it had about 2000 people there was no one to lead it and he just took charge and when he got to the border of Tijuana he says many Mexican organizations US organizations this is when we met him my friend and comrade Tanya Harding hardly met him and he was able to open up a shelter for all of the people and a kitchen and everything. Fue muy doloroso ver tantas personas llorar triste dejando su país cuando no queremos abandonar el país pero por la persecución que en día tenían Honduras tuve que salir me entregue a detención y cuando yo... Mira voy a traer esa parte he says it's so sad to see so many people didn't want to leave their country but they had to they were forced to by very you know violence or poverty and so then I turned myself into the authorities I went into detention, ahora detención Ya que en Honduras no los estamos enfrentando contra un partido político sino contra un narco estado que está 100% con prueba de que vivimos en un país donde narcotráfico es el que reina en Honduras Ya, so he's talking about we live under a narco dictatorship right now this is Juan Orlando Hernandez they say fuera jo, get out jo and that's what we're living under right now Ya y... Entonces que tu, que estas haciendo? Fuera cuando yo salgo de detención que estuve como 9 meses preso por algo que no tenían delito entrar sin papeles y me vinieron a meter preso pero ahora lo que hago es hablar con muchos congresistas para que apoyen la ley Berta Cáceres para que le quiten la ayuda militarmente a Honduras ya que Honduras no es un país democrático and so I was 9 months in 3 different detention centers he has a whole story of that very brave young man he sued ICE Milan has sued ICE because he was supposed to get parole and he was never given parole so he sued them and he now has political asylum he's a grantee which isn't done so what he does now is he goes around to different congressional offices and we are asking anyone on the call here he's willing to speak to show up virtually of course and this is him you can't see him now but this is him and this is us and Net Bergen's anyone in the harbor area we have our representative here so this is his mission for this year especially before the November elections Ya and pues lo que estamos viendo ahorita es la embajadora Heidi Fulton que cuando ella estaba en el 2017 ella fue a cuando estaban contando los votos en las transmisiones y todo eso cuando ella no tenía nada que hacer en ese lugar y ella estaba dando validez al fraude Honduras so she will take her off but ya, she in 2017 she was the ambassador to Honduras and when they were doing counting of the election she was kind of all over it and he says she had nothing to do with being down there she's like she shouldn't have been in anybody's business and what she was doing was giving credence to the fraudulent elections y ahora la delegación amor en noviembre van a ver elecciones generales para cambiar de presidente pero nosotros somos en Honduras ya que están publicizados los poderes del estado y no contamos con el apoyo de este país está en contra de los del pueblo ellos quieren seguir haciendo las cosas malas que hacen todos los países necesitamos que una delegación vaya a Honduras en noviembre para que estén denunciando lo que pasa en Honduras y que ven con sus ojos lo que hace el dinero de ustedes los militares que financia el gobierno ya, so this country the United States is not in support of you know what's best for my country and so we really really need election observers down there because you help make us safe and you know we need to put pressure and I'm just saying this there's two if anyone could put in the chat I can have maybe the links to the two there are two acts right now one in the house and one in the senate one is the Bertha Cáceres act and that is active right now in the house it's been there for a couple years but they re kind of activated it and also there's the Honduras anti-corruption senate bill and that was just introduced by Ed Markley so you know his name is well known known now so we're looking for a citizen delegation but you know anyone who's maybe a staffer or even an elected person to go down in November and let's all work together for that Miguel Angel thank you very much and we know that something very important is coming from your talk today because we have a lot of people aware of this call and we're going to help the world and your country thank you so I just said that we're in solidarity with him and there we go got that? Thank you very much