coup d’etat
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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
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Cuba Enemies Advised Honduras Coup
A report in Granma newspaper Thursday, taken from Radio Miami station, states that a secret report sent to an embassy from a European country very allied to the US government convincingly reveals in detail those actions. According to this report, Montaner and Reich have been in permanent contact with the coupists, through direct or phone… Continue reading
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Video: Feminists in Resistance: For the Defense of Democracy in Honduras by Cattrachas
7 July, 2009 — Red Lésbica Cattrachas 7 July 2009 6 July 2009 5 July 2009 4 July 2009 1 July 2009 1 July 2009 30 June 2009 30 June 2009 29 June 2009 28 June 2009 Red Lésbica Cattrachas is a lesbian feminist group. For more information, contact Cattrachas general coordinator Indyra M. Aguilar: Continue reading
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“‘In Honduras, Nothing Is Happening, All Is Calm’”
This video, set to the song ‘Adagio en mi país’ (written and composed by Alfredo Zitarrosa, an Uruguayan singer and composer as well as poet and journalist, in 1973, the year of the military coup in Uruguay), was brought online on 5 July 2009. Continue reading
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"'In Honduras, Nothing Is Happening, All Is Calm'"
This video, set to the song ‘Adagio en mi país’ (written and composed by Alfredo Zitarrosa, an Uruguayan singer and composer as well as poet and journalist, in 1973, the year of the military coup in Uruguay), was brought online on 5 July 2009. Continue reading
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James Cockcroft, "Honduras: The Moment of Truth for the Obama Administration"
Behind the coup in Honduras are diverse social, economic, and political forces, of which the most important is the administration of President Barack Obama. No important change can happen in Honduras without Washington’s approval. The Honduran oligarchy and transnational corporations (banana growers, pharmaceutical manufacturers) are defending their interests, as they always have, with a military… Continue reading
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President Zelaya: De Facto Government's Military Repression Is a Criminal Act
Caracas — The legitimate president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, said this Sunday from El Salvador that the repression that the de facto government of Honduras carried out against demonstrators, who were peacefully calling for the return of the constitutional president, is a criminal act. Continue reading
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Canada and Honduras By Yves Engler
Along with three Latin American heads of states, Zelaya tried to return to Honduras on Sunday. But the military blocked his plane from landing and kept a 100,000 plus crowd of supporters at bay. In doing so the military killed two protesters and wounded at least 30. On CTV Kent blamed Zelaya for the violence. Continue reading
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Video: Honduran coup resistance growing By Sandra Cuffe
Military resorts to killing protesters as increasing numbers take to the streets http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2897816 more about “Honduran coup resistance growing“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Honduran clashes turn deadly
The Honduran military has thwarted an attempt by Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president, to fly back to the country, as clashes between his supporters and security forces turned deadly. A young boy has become the first to die in the wake of the coup after security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of Zelaya… Continue reading
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No Press Freedom in Post-Coup Honduras By Medea Benjamin
The owner of the radio station Radio Globo, Alejandro Villatoro, was thrown to the ground by soldiers who put their guns to his head and demanded to know where the transmitter was. Villatoro also happens to be a deputy in the National Assembly from the governing Liberal Party, but that didn’t afford him special treatment. Continue reading
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Honduras: It's Not about Zelaya By David L. Wilson
U.S. journalists generally present world events as the actions of a few important individuals, a sort of Greek drama without the chorus. Latin American politics especially are viewed as a parade of good guys and bad guys — Fidel Castro, August Pinochet, Hugo Chávez, Alvaro Uribe. Which is good and which is bad depends on… Continue reading
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Video: The Real News Network – Honduras under siege
Video: The military coup government of Roberto Micheletti is coming under increasing economic pressure to concede power, whether from holds on US humanitarian aid and World Bank loan money or the sealing of the borders by all three neighbors. On the political front, it has yet to be recognized by a single foreign government. And… Continue reading
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Video: Angel Palacios, "Honduras Resists"
3 July, 2009 – MRZine – Monthly Review Honduran women and men were called upon by President Manuel Zelaya Rosales to participate in a popular referendum on 28 June 2009 in order to convene a National Constituent Assembly. In the morning of the day of the referendum, the president was abducted and removed from the Continue reading
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"Mobilization against the Coup d'État Overflowed Plaza Morazán, Tegucigalpa"
Since last Sunday, popular movements have been demanding the restoration of the government headed by Manuel Zelaya, the legitimate president of Honduras, and they vow to advance the call for a Constituent Assembly to reorganize the various branches and institutions of the country which have been devastated following the coup d’état. Continue reading
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"The Indigenous in Honduras Denounce Humiliating Treatment of Honduran Women"
Antonio Martínez, an indigenous leader, via TeleSur, reported on Wednesday that the international agencies that talk so much about gender freedom have the responsibility to speak out against this coup d’état. Continue reading
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Giving Honduras the Haiti Treatment By Glen Ford
With the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya, Honduras has fallen under military rule of the kind that dominated the Central American nation from 1963 to 1981. The man named by Honduras’s Congress to serve out the remainder of Zelaya’s term, Robert Micheletti, will of course claim that civilians are still in charge. But when soldiers… Continue reading
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Obama's REAL message to Latin America … the coup d'etat in Honduras By Nikolas Kozloff
Officially, the military removed Zelaya from power on the grounds that the Honduran President had abused his authority. On Sunday, Zelaya hoped to hold a constitutional referendum which could have allowed him to run for re-election for another four year term, a move which Honduras’ Supreme Court and Congress declared illegal. But while the controversy… Continue reading
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Coup in Honduras … mass mobilization in the streets and general strike! By Jorge Martin
Early in the morning on Sunday, June 28, a group of 200 soldiers surrounded the residence of the Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, and after a 20-minute gun battle with his 10-man personal guard he was arrested. He was then taken by plane to neighbouring Costa Rica where he gave a press conference denouncing a military… Continue reading
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Eva Golinger, "US Govt. Confirms It Knew Coup Was Coming in Honduras"
A New York Times article has just confirmed that the US Government has been ‘working for several days’ with the coup planners in Honduras to halt the illegal overthrow of President Zelaya. While this may indicate nobility on behalf of the Obama Administration, had they merely told the coupsters that the US Government would CUT… Continue reading
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