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Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Speaks From the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa Monday, October 5, 2009 :The deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya remains within the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he has been staying, surrounded by soldiers and riot police, since returning to his country two weeks ago. It has been nearly 100 days since President Zelaya was ousted by the Honduran military. On Friday the Organization of American States told reporters that representatives of the deposed President and the coup government led by Roberto Micheletti will likely begi...
Posted: Mon, Oct 5, 2009 7:49am PDT
Zelaya: Coup Regime's Terms Being Offered "Aren't Sincere" Tegucigalpa, Honduras – “It’s like being trapped in some kind of Neo-Nazi concentration camp,” said ousted Honduran President Mel Zelaya, during a cell phone interview on Friday afternoon. Mr. Zelaya was referring to conditions inside the Brazilian Embassy, where he’s been holed up for almost two weeks, after sneaking back into the country on foot. The president, known for his trademark cowboy hat and flamboyant mustache, said that the hundreds of soldiers surrounding the Embassy are very str...
Posted: Sun, Oct 4, 2009 4:46pm PDT
Se calló la voz de America Latina.. (por Latuff) Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Sun, Oct 4, 2009 5:32am PDT
Honduras Supreme Electoral Tribunal Comes Out Against Coup Decree The layers keep peeling away from "president" Roberto Micheletti's coup d'etat, which began with a consensus of most of upper class Honduras and its political institutions but in recent days has seen Congressional and business leaders begin looking for the EXIT sign....
Posted: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 6:04pm PDT
Entrevista con Tatiana Rojas Entrevista con Tatiana Rojas / la autonomía de derecha en Bolivia / los medios en Venezuela...
Posted: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 12:15am PDT
WNU #1005: Brazil, US Push Haitian Maquilas The focus that the coup has brought on Honduras might help revive the US-based student anti-sweatshop movement of the 1990s. In a Sept. 25 op-ed, two University of Washington professors, Angelina Godoy and James Gregory, called on the school to “re-examine [its] apparel relationship with Nike,” the US sports garment giant, because of the company’s failure to compensate workers in Honduras....
Posted: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 9:44am PDT
Honduras: Restore Press Freedom Immediately (New York) - Honduras's de facto government should immediately rescind an emergency decree that severely restricts press freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today. Honduran security forces seized the offices of Radio Globo and Cholusat Sur television early today and shut down their broadcasting, two days after the decree was issued. Both broadcasters have been openly supportive of deposed president Manuel Zelaya....
Posted: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 6:31am PDT
US State Department's Merida Initiative Human Rights Report: Unconvincing Whitewash US Likely to Release Millions in Training and Military Hardware to Mexico Despite Failure to Comply with Human Rights Conditions...
Posted: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 6:30am PDT
Honduran Coup Regime Mocks UN Security Council with Embassy Attacks After today’s emergency session of the United Nations Security Council in New York, US Ambassador Susan Rice emerged to read a warning to the Honduras coup regime:
"We condemn acts of intimidation against the Brazilian embassy and call upon the de facto government of Honduras to cease harassing the Brazilian embassy.”...
Posted: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 6:48am PDT
Perú Official Threatens “Legal Action” Over Honduran Tear Gas Story On the website of today’s daily La República – an important newspaper in Perú – a YouTube video by Honduras’ Gremio de Cineastas (a filmmaker’s association) that we published on Narco News on Wednesday - and something we reported from that video - has now launched a national polemic in that Andean country, including a threat of “legal action” by the country’s Government Minister against those of us that reported it....
Posted: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 6:42am PDT
Honduras Coup Leader Decrees 45-Day Suspension of Constitution Saturday, September 26, 2009 Now they've really done it. On the same day that the Honduran coup regime detained six foreign diplomats from the Organization of American States (OAS) - two US officials, two Canadian, one Colombian and Chilean OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza - for six hours in the Toncontin International Airport, barring their entrance into Honduras, it has made public the following decree, which bans freedom of assembly, transit, the press and orders National Police and the Arme...
Posted: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 6:40am PDT
Honduras: OAS Should Press for End to Abuses The Organization of American States should press the Honduran de facto government to halt the excessive use of force against protesters and to guarantee other fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 6:39am PDT
What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis When Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva addressed this morning's UN General Assembly in New York, he said: "Without political will, we will see more coups such as the one that toppled Manuel Zelaya in Honduras."...
Posted: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 4:27pm PDT
The One-Sided War on the Streets of Honduras TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS, SEPTEMBER 22, 2009: Government forces attacked a peaceful crowd outside the Brazilian Embassy Tuesday morning, in an apparent attempt to dispel support for deposed President Mel Zelaya. Mr. Zelaya had returned to the country on Monday after almost three months in exile....
Posted: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 6:45am PDT
Honduras: New Reports of Abuses Honduras's de facto government should refrain from using excessive force against supporters of the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should also refrain from abusing emergency powers to undermine the basic rights of protesters, journalists, and others in Honduras....
Posted: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 6:44am PDT
Seven Million Hondurans Under House Arrest as Micheletti Writes of "Democracy" The Honduran coup regime’s 26-hour martial curfew upon the entire country effectively places 7.5 million Honduran citizens – men, women, children and elders – under house arrest. They are prohibited from going to work, to the store, or to walk down the street to visit a neighbor. Anybody on the street is subject to arrest, for violation of the curfew....
Posted: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 4:23pm PDT
Report From Honduras: Ousted President Manuel Zelaya Returns to Honduras In Defiance of Coup Government Tuesday, September 22, 2009 :We go live to the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa where Manuel Zelaya has sought refuge. After Zelaya's dramatic return, the coup government ordered a curfew but thousands of Zelaya supporters defied the ban and rallied outside the Brazilian embassy. Earlier this morning police fired tear gas outside the embassy to disburse the crowd. We hear Zelaya speak from inside from the embassy and speak to Andres Conteris and Mark Weisbrot....
Posted: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 7:14am PDT
Ousted leader returns to Honduras Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has returned to his country, nearly three months after being deposed....
Posted: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 3:09pm PDT
Honduras Resistance Warns of Provocateurs on the Internet A sure sign that the Honduran people’s resistance against the June 28 coup d’etat continues to enjoy massive public support comes from the continued disinformation campaigns against it. After all, if the coup regime really had, as its defenders claim, won the battle for Honduran hearts and minds, it wouldn’t need to persist in its overstated PR and disinfo campaigns against coup opponents....
Posted: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 7:36am PDT
Glenn Cove Spiritual Walk, A Journey for the Ancestors Glen Cove Spiritual Walk, A Journey for the Ancestors to save the Sacred Shell Mound at Glen Cove Waterfront Park along the shoreline of Vallejo, CA....
Posted: Sat, Sep 19, 2009 9:05pm PDT
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