English Translation - Statement from the National Front Against the State Coup

Wednesday, September 23rd @ 2:00 a.m. EST

The National Front Against the State Coup has organized peaceful demonstrations in almost all the neighborhoods of the Capital to demand the return of Constitutional Order and the establishment of a National Constitutional Assembly.  The police and the army have proceeded to move frenetically all over the city trying to control the demonstrations.  The police and military violently enter into neighborhoods attacking protestors with sprays of live bullets and tear gas bombs.

The repressive forces aren’t satisfied with displacing the protests and they forcibly, illegally enter private houses looking for protestors, specifically young people.  The detained persons are brutally beaten with night sticks, sticks, kicks and punches.  The result of this violent, nocturnal persecution is dozens of persons injured, hundreds detained and various people killed by bullets.  In spite of the repression, the organized resistance continues in the residential zones. 

The National Front Against the State Coup repudiates the violent repression carried out the by the police and the army, condemns the assassinations effected by the coup regime.

Marlon Portillo