We accept the dialogue which the President of the Republic proposes, because we the organizers of the National March for Life are men and women of dialogue.

But we want President Ricardo Maduro to remember that this dialogue is the same that he rejected last year, on the same days.

His acceptance of the dialogue this year has to be analyzed in the way that we will outline.

It is important to say to the people that this National March for Life was announced last March.

We emphasize that it would be a peaceful act to condemn the death threats about natural resources.

We the defenders of life have never acted with force or violence against the state.

We have received a deluge of reasons not to hold the March, which are pure expressions of fear.

We would like to ask President Ricardo Maduro, Mr. Mario Rivera López, Bishop Luis Alfonso Santos, and others to calm their fear.

We are looked upon nervously by the governing elite in general, and we do not like this, being citizens. Why are you nervous? Why so much fear?

At no time have we, organizers of the National March for Life, said that this is a movement to ask for the removal of the president. We have never said this or even insinuated it. There is no reason to do this.

We believe that in response to fear one should look around the political class which surrounds the head of state, in his own party, not in another place.

The President needs to look towards the inside, not the outside.

Why take seriously the declaration of a bishop who sometimes is yes and sometimes is no?

In relation to the suspension of the March, it would be a disrespect to do that; a disrespect to the people.

What would happen in the country if outside the government someone decided when the people should mobilize and when not? Are we stronger or weaker as a democratic state?

We ask President Maduro to please tell us who is conspiring to use our civic mobilization to destabilize his rule, since his government claims to know this. We also ask that they be responsible and serious about public opinion.

We have asked the people to show respect for life, not to ask for the President's removal. * The March for Life is a social platform in defense of our natural resources. * A meeting point in the decision to apply the brakes to the exploitation, on a national level. * The continuation of the march realized in Olancho in June, 2003. * It is not an activity which ends the 30th of June in Tegucigalpa, instead it begins this day. * It is not the arrival, without the return. * It is not an act to coincide with the government nor to dissolve its already battered credibility. * It is the national civic resistance movement to the destruction of life in the place we inhabit.

MAO - COFADEH - Comisión "Marcha Nacional por la Vida" Commission for the National March for Life