"no" To The Installation Of U.s. Military Bases By The Committee Of Families Of The Disappeared In Honduras

During this most critical period in our nation's foreign policy, the government of President Azcona has recently conducted negotiations with the U. S., known as the Third Protocol of the Bilateral Convention of Military Aid of 1954. Once the agreement is signed it will officially convert our country into a permanent U.S. military base, bringing with t all the implications of unconditional surrender of a territory to a superpower.

This agreement was reached in a clandestine manner, in defiance of a constitutional mandate under which all such pacts must be approved by Congress. High-ranking government officials feared a logical, negative reaction by a Honduran citizenry which has seen the Honduran state gradually cede the territory f rom which Reagan wages war in Central America.

This pact will permit the U.S. to construct and use military bases and radar systems. It will also allow U.S. authorities to board Honduran ships in any part of the world, under the pretext of looking for drugs. These are only a few of the points addressed in the pact.

Those who so disgracefully govern us have put our national sovereignty up for sale. The Committee of Families of the Disappeared in Honduras urges all Hondurans to strongly protest this pact.