Honduras

• One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong Despite US-Supported Coup

  by Bill Quigley, Laura Raymond

  29 June 2010

  One year ago, on June 28, 2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was awakened by gunfire. A coup was carried out by US-trained military officers, including graduates of the infamous US Army School of the Americas (WHINSEC) in Georgia. President Zelaya was illegally taken to Costa Rica. Democracy in Honduras ended as a de facto government of the rich and powerful seized control. A sham election backed by the US confirmed the leadership of the coup powers. The US and powerful lobbyists (...)

• Pepe Lobo, Imperialism and the Resistance

  Consolidating the Coup in Honduras

  by Tom Gordon, Jeffery R. Webber

  13 February 2010

  A country of sharp inequality and class polarization, Honduras recently returned to the frontlines in the battle for Latin America’s soul. The terrain of struggle has shifted on multiple occasions over the last seven months, following the military coup against the democratically-elected President, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya. The battle entered its latest phase last week with the ascension to power of Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo. Lobo was inaugurated on January 27, following his victory in the fraudulent (...)

• Honduras. National Resistance Front: Elections were a farce, new regime will not be recognized, struggle for constitutional assembly continues

  1 December 2009

  Communiqué Number 41 of the National Front of Resistance against the Coup d’etat The National Front of Resistance against the Coup d’etat, to the Honduran people and the international community communicates: 1. The complete failure of the electoral farce set up by the oligarchy the 29th of November in dictatorial conditions confirms our proposal of declaring the elections and their results illegal and illegitimate, in addition to re-enforcing our position of not recognizing the regime to be (...)

• Media Coup in Honduras

  
  by Jérome Duval

  29 November 2009

  The media claim the defence of democracy as their battle cry. But it is clear that for some, there are two types of democracy. In this case democracy means the representation of capitalists. The media prefer to discredit a definition of democracy as power to the people: the only valid definition is neoliberal democracy, i.e., freedom of action for the happy few and a majority that is prevented from deciding on the country’s future. What Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras, had proposed (...)

• Honduras: An Improbable Solution

  by Atilio Boron

  3 November 2009

  Has the political crisis in Honduras been resolved? Although a window of opportunity has opened, every indicator suggests that there is not a lot of room for optimism. It’s worth recalling what we said here before when the coup d’etat took place: that Micheletti would only remain in power as long as he could count on the support, whether active or passive, of Washington. It took four months for the White House to understand the high cost that a coup regime would exact in the region. Beset (...)

• Honduras. Spoiling Manuel Zelaya’s homecoming

  by Mark Weisbrot

  1 October 2009

  Now that Manuel Zelaya has returned to Honduras, the coup government – after first denying that he was there – has unleashed a wave of repression to prevent people from gathering support for their elected president. This is how US secretary of state Hillary Clinton described the first phase of this new repression Monday night in a press conference: "I think that the government imposed a curfew, we just learned, to try to get people off the streets so that there couldn’t be unforeseen (...)

• October 2 : International Day of Solidarity with the Honduran people

  29 September 2009

  International Day of Solidarity with the Honduran people: against the State Coup, for the restitution of democracy and the Constituent Assembly Outraged by the State coup in Honduras and the repression of the Honduran people carried out by the de facto dictatorship, we – organizations and social movements, members of regional and global campaigns and networks – are calling for *an International Day of Solidarity with the Honduran people, to be held simultaneously on the 2nd October*, (...)

• Honduras : Political persecutions and detentions and state of emergency after 42 hour of curfew

  by Patty Adams

  25 September 2009

  POLITICAL PERSECUTIONS AND DETENTION * EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE BY POLICE AND MILITARY * STATE OF EMERGENCY: PEOPLE LACKING FOOD AND WATER AFTER 42 HOUR CURFEW * POLICE STATE September 23, 2009 Democratically-elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, deposed by a military coup on June 28, returned clandestinely to Tegucigalpa, appearing at the Brazilian Embassy around mid-day on Monday, September 21. As word of his arrival spread, thousands of Hondurans who’ve been calling for his return (...)

• Interview with Honduras resistance leader: `The US is sustaining the coup’

  14 September 2009

  During an August 17-19, 2009, international seminar on the economic crisis hosted by the Party of Liberty and Socialism in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal journalists Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes, together with journalists from Marea Socialista (Venezuela) and Alternativa Socialista (Argentina), were able to interview Gilberto Rios from the international relations commission of the National Popular Resistance Front against the (...)

• Perhaps this is why nothing is being done in Honduras…

  by Bill Conroy, Al Giordano

  17 August 2009

  A taxpayer funded US foreign aid agency, chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, earlier this year inked a multi-million dollar contract with a company controlled by one of the ringleaders of the recent coup d’état against the democratically elected president of Honduras, according to documents obtained by Narco News. Despite representations to the contrary by the State Department, that foreign-aid agency, called the Millennium Challenge Corp., has continued to funnel money — some (...)

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