Latin America
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Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution – 17 July, 2009 – Part 1
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visits Nicaragua and speaks with former combatants and leaders in the country’s civil conflict and to ordfinary citizens about how their lives have been impacted by 30 years of broken promises from across the political spectrum. Part One Continue reading
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Felipe Stuart Cournoyer, "Honduras: The Hour of the Grassroots "
For Washington and the coup high command, Zelaya’s return to Honduras may represent the only way to avoid an armed popular uprising. But, for the Honduran masses, his return, even under onerous conditions, would mean that the illegality and disastrous impact of the military takeover had been admitted. Zelaya’s return could thus fuel mass resistance… Continue reading
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Video: The Honduran Battle for Washington
Video: As talks for a peaceful resolution fail, a fierce battle is on to win over the US government Continue reading
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Honduras: Anti-Chavez ‘free speech’ warriors linked to coup By Federico Fuentes
18 July, 2009 — Green Left Caracas – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is well-known for its mission to expose the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez as a threat to free speech ‘all over the continent’. These brave free speech warriors made a big deal this year about how they ‘dared’ to hold Continue reading
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COUP REGIME REJECTS PROPOSED SOLUTION TO CRISIS IN HONDURAS; ARIAS CALLS FOR 72 MORE HOURS TO RESOLVE OR FACE CIVIL WAR By Eva Golinger
The talks are finished for now, with no resolution. The coup regime in Honduras, which ousted President Zelaya exactly 3 weeks ago, has rejected the 7-point proposal put forth by designated mediator Oscar Arias, president of Costa Rica. Zelaya’s delegation in Costa Rica had earlier stated they had accepted the proposal, but later said they… Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Nicaragua: An unfinished revolution
Many of the revolution’s promises remain unfulfilled? On July 19, 1979, the Sandinista revolution removed what many considered to be one of Latin America’s most brutal dictatorships. Thirty years later, and with the Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega once again in power, Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman visited Nicaragua and found that many of the revolution’s promises… Continue reading
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Honduras coupsters’ big fat Cuban exile family By Dr. Néstor García Iturbe
According to the criteria of these people, who acted in coordination with the extreme U.S. right wing in the Pentagon and the CIA, it was necessary to impede at all costs any further movement by Zelaya’s government toward the left, since that represented a danger to the ‘National Security of the United States.’ The fastest… Continue reading
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Honduras: Coup Leaders Hire Top Democrat Lobbyists to Justify Their De Facto Government By Eva Golinger
The coup government has hired top-notch Democrat lobbyists in Washington to make their case before Congress and the White House and convince the US people to recognize them as a legitimate government. The New York Times has confirmed that Clinton lobbyist Lanny Davis, former Special Counsel for President Bill Clinton from 1996-1998, and close advisor… Continue reading
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The Honduran Coup, the Media and Obama The African World By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
While the response to the coup by the Obama administration was at first glance admirable, i.e., a condemnation of the coup and a failure to recognize the usurpers, there remain some very strange aspects to the events. First, the US government knew that the coup was being plotted. Various sources report that the US did… Continue reading
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Eva Golinger: Washington and the Coup in Honduras: Here’s the evidence!
From the first day the coup occurred, Washington has referred to “both parties” involved and the necessity for “dialogue” to restore constitutional order, legitimizing the coup leaders by regarding them as equal players instead of criminal violators of human rights and democratic principles. The US Department of State has refused to legally classify the events… Continue reading
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Video: Bolivia in Transition
In January 2009, Bolivians held a national Referendum to approve a peoples constitution under Evo Morales. The country, historically polarized by the strength of the wealthy landowners and the struggles of the indigenous masses, suffered vicious opposition to the proposed changes. In this documentary, the impact of the new Constitution is shown through two very… Continue reading
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The Counter-Revolution Will Not be Tweeted By George Ciccariello-Maher
Zelaya, a former centrist who has recently made leftward moves, raised the ire of the entrenched Honduran oligarchy by, among other things, joining the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), a radical counterpoint to U.S.-promoted free trade agreements. His overthrow has been followed by a press blackout, military curfew, and repression in the streets, as… Continue reading
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Honduran Oligarchy: “The War is Against Chavez” By Ricardo Daher – Aporrea
The Honduran de facto government and private media insist on denying the coup d’etat and say that they accept the mediation of Costa Rican president Oscar Arias, but exclude any conversation over the return of Zelaya to the presidency. At the same time they sustain that they are the spearhead of a ‘war’ against the… Continue reading
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Honduran Oligarchy: “The War is Against Chavez” By Ricardo Daher – Aporrea
The Honduran de facto government and private media insist on denying the coup d’etat and say that they accept the mediation of Costa Rican president Oscar Arias, but exclude any conversation over the return of Zelaya to the presidency. At the same time they sustain that they are the spearhead of a ‘war’ against the… Continue reading
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Honduras Could be Limping Towards its Gotterdammerung
There is widespread belief that the interim government is stalling in a bid to hold out until the November elections, and the dissatisfaction with the results to date manifested in Zelaya’s perhaps rash announcement yesterday that if he is not reinstated by the end of the next round of talks, scheduled to begin Saturday, he… Continue reading
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2 HONDURAS ACTIVISTS KILLED; VENEZUELAN JOURNALISTS EXPELLED; COUP LEADERS HIRE TOP DEMOCRAT LOBBYISTS TO JUSTIFY THEIR DE FACTO GOVERNMENT
The coup government has hired top notch democrat lobbyists in Washington to make their case before Congress and the White House and convince the US people to recognize them as a legitimate government. The New York Times has confirmed that Clinton lobbyist Lanny Davis, former Special Counsel for President Bill Clinton from 1996-1998, and close… Continue reading
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U.S. Press Falsely Claims Honduran Plurality for Coup By Robert Naiman
Did a CID-Gallup poll last week indicate that a plurality of Hondurans support the military coup against democratically elected President Zelaya? Yes, according to the Washington Post (July 9), the Wall Street Journal (July 10), the Christian Science Monitor (July 11), and Reuters (July 9), which all reported that the poll showed 41% in favor… Continue reading
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The Mass Resistance in Honduras: Its Own Voice By Phil Stuart Cournoyer
The great fear, from the point of view of imperialism and of the oligarchic ruling classes in Latin America is that the Zelaya current will become embedded and tied to the mass movement and its class interests, unleashing a Bolivarian-Morazanian upsurge from which they will never recover. That is the objective and subjective source of… Continue reading
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Simón Farabundo Ríos, "Anatomy of the Golpe in Honduras: Interview with Manuel Antonio Villa"
On my last day in Tegucigalpa, I conducted an interview with writer/documentarian Manuel Antonio Villa, 37, who for the last seven years has traveled through his country studying the economic circumstances of the peasantry and the workers. For Villa, Honduras has entered a new, revolutionary era, while the golpe against Mel Zelaya has commenced a… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 