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Honduran freedom fighter seeks American allies Monday, October 26, 2009 : DALLAS -- Dr. Luther Castillo, Communications Secretary for the Committee to Oppose the Coup d'etat in Honduras, spoke recently at a meeting held in the Honduran immigrant community in Plano, Texas, on October 17. Castillo responded to a call from the Dallas Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in Honduras....
Posted: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 6:41am PDT
100 Days of Resistance: Al Jazeera's Avi Lewis Reports from Honduras Monday, October 26, 2009 :In Honduras, the conflict between the coup regime and supporters of the ousted president Manuel Zelaya remains at a standstill. Talks broke down last week after the coup regime refused to drop its objection to Zelaya's return to office. Zelaya has accused the regime of trying to drag out negotiations until the presidential elections it plans to hold next month. Zelaya's supporters are boycotting the elections, and the international community has refused to recognize ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 3:04pm PDT
¡SME somos todos! México alzado Poco antes de las 23:00 horas (hora de la Ciudad de México) del día sábado 10 de octubre fuerzas federales armadas asaltaron y ocuparon metralleta en mano las instalaciones y centros de trabajo de Luz y Fuerza del Centro....
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 8:48am PDT
Golpistas Set Sights on El Libertador Director After One of His Journalists is Kidnapped and Burned with Cigarette TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS, OCTOBER 26, 2009: On the morning of October 21, Jhonny Lagos – founder and director of El Libertador, the sole anti-coup newspaper in Honduras – received a phone call from a military acquaintance sympathetic to the Resistance. The official reported a meeting between coup president Roberto Micheletti and assistant foreign minister Martha Lorena Alvarado in which the two had begun preparations for Lagos’ demise and Alvarado – evidently irked by her appearance on the list ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 6:20am PDT
Casualties of the ‘Bloodless’ Coup No matter what prominent U.S. apologists say, the military takeover of Honduras was—and is—violent and unjust....
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 6:18am PDT
Boicot Pellas y la IRC: Nicaragua Sugar entrega ayuda humanitaria a enfermos renales El Diálogo entre Nicaragua Sugar y ASOCHIVIDA rinde primeros frutos...
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 8:47pm PDT
Boicot a Flor de Caña: la desinformación de ANAIRC sobre la IRC en Nicaragua ANAIRC busca compensaciones monetarias desinformando sobre el Grupo Pellas y la Insuficiencia Renal Crónica (IRC) en Nicaragua....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 8:42pm PDT
WNU #1008: Indigenous People Mark Oct. 12 With Protests “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” office worker Yadira de León said as more than 100,000 people demonstrated against layoffs in Puerto Rico. At least 150,000 people marched the same day to oppose layoffs and union busting in Mexico, while tens of thousands of indigenous people protested throughout Latin America on Oct. 12....
Posted: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 10:07am PDT
Privatization Behind Calderon's Attack on Electricians Union Saturday, October 17, 2009 A Spanish Company and National Action Party Members Hope to Exploit Luz y Fuerza's Fiber Optic Network...
Posted: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 7:05am PDT
Coup Government Blames United States for Honduran Economic Woes but Continues to Pay US Lobbying Firms Friday, October 16, 2009
Asked in a recent meeting in the press room at the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa about the accuracy of the New York Times claim that the coup government has spent at least $400,000 USD thus far on a “high-profile lobbying campaign” in the US, coup president Roberto Micheletti is reported in La Tribuna as responding that “the calculations have already been made and we know perfectly well how much is being charged,” before confirming that the estimated sum sou...
Posted: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 7:05am PDT
Journalist Ann Louise Bardach on How Cuban Exile Luis Posada Carriles Remains a Free Man in Miami Friday, October 16, 2009 :Luis Posada Carriles is accused of masterminding the 1976 bombing of Cuban airliner that killed all 73 people on board and he has publicly admitted ties to a series of hotel bombings in Cuba in 1997. In 2000, he was arrested in Panama City for plotting to blow up an auditorium where Fidel Castro would be speaking. Despite his record, Luis Posada Carriles is currently living freely in Miami. He is awaiting trial in Texas early next year on charges of immigration fraud...
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 7:42am PDT
BTL:Violation of Law Seen in GOP Legislators' Support of Honduran Coup BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine...
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 6:57am PDT
Oneida Hernandez: El Porvenir's Sustainable Water Projects in Nicaragua As Sacramento-base El Porvenir brings potable water to poor communities in Nicaragua at a minimum cost by utilizing the talent of volunteers and local communities, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing for a budget busting peripheral canal to provide California Delta water to subsidized corporate agribusiness while the drinking water supplies of farmworkers in many rural communities of the San Joaquin Valley are contaminated with pesticides, herbicides and other pollutants. The contrast b...
Posted: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 4:53pm PDT
WNU #1007: Mexican Government Fires 41,000 Electrical Workers “This is a turning point,” labor analyst Dan La Botz wrote. “The Mexican government's attack on the Mexican Electrical Workers Union--a union central to resisting government policies and building labor and social movement coalitions, and located in Mexico City, which is the center of political opposition to the government--may well turn out to be a watershed event in the country's recent history.”...
Posted: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 6:06am PDT
Mexico "Anarcho-Bombings" Spark Student Witch Hunt Saturday, October 10, 2009
Throughout the month of September, over ten bombs were placed in banks, a car dealership, a luxury clothing store, a small police station, and an animal testing laboratory in Mexico City and the states of Guanajuato, Nayarit, and Jalisco. Most exploded; no injuries were reported....
Posted: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 6:41am PDT
Honduran coup leaders offer "dialogue"... (by Latuff) Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 12:00pm PDT
Luis Posada Carriles was CIA informant on Canosa Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009 - On the 33rd anniversary of the bombing of Cubana flight 455, the National Security Archive today posted recently obtained CIA records on Luis Posada Carriles, his ties to "the Company" and role as an informant on other violent exile groups. The documents provide extensive details on a collaboration between Cuban-American militant Jorge Mas Canosa, who rose to become the most powerful leader of the hardline exile community in Miami, and Posada—codenamed AMCL...
Posted: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 10:06am PDT
Surveillance Camera Footage of the Honduras Coup Invasion of Channel 36 Wednesday, October 7, 2009 The coup that can't shoot straight has done it again, as journalist Belén Fernández reports today on Narco News: when military and police troops invaded the studios of Channel 36 on September 28, stealing its transmitters, antennas and other equipment, they forgot to remove the surveillance cameras....
Posted: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 4:11pm PDT
WNU #1006: Puerto Rican Unions Plan Strike Activists charge that the conservative governor is using the layoffs as a step towards privatizing government services. On June 5 the movement against the cutbacks mobilized tens of thousands of people in one of the largest demonstrations in recent Puerto Rican history....
Posted: Tue, Oct 6, 2009 9:28am PDT
Action on Hounduran Coup Urged in Letters to Secretary of State Clinton Following is the text of 3 letters sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the June 28 military takeover in Honduras. Meanwhile, 4 Republican congressman have paid a visit to coup leader Micheletti, ignoring the elected president of Honduras who remains sequestered in the Brazilian embassy, pinned down by various high technology weapons....
Posted: Mon, Oct 5, 2009 1:45pm PDT
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