Honduras
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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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Season of Travesties: Freedom and Democracy in mid-2009 By Noam Chomsky
The Hezbollah-based March 8 coalition won handily, by approximately the same figure as Obama vs. McCain in November 2008, about 54% of the popular vote, according Ministry of Interior figures. Hence by the Friedman-Abrams argument, we should be lamenting Ahmadinejad’s defeat of President Obama, and the “moral authority” won by Hezbollah, as “the majority of… 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
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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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"Honduran Popular Movements Wait for Insulza outside OAS in Tegucigalpa"
Bolivarian News Agency (ABN) correspondent Freddy Fernández reported that members of Honduran popular movements, numbering 100,000 today, will persevere outside the OAS facilities in Tegucigalpa till they can petition Insulza for the unconditional return of President Manuel Zelaya to presidency. 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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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 71 'Much ado about nothing'
In his world-prominent speech to the Middle East on June 4, Obama mentioned that ‘In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.’ So we have the president of the United States admitting to a previous overthrow of the Iranian government while… 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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