Police quell student protest in Honduras
By Xinhua - xinhuanet.com : August 05, 2009
Several people were injured on Wednesday when Honduran police suppressed a demonstration by college students in support of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. / The police broke into the National Autonomous University of Honduras and its dean, Julieta Castellanos, was beaten, Alejandra Cruz, a student, told the local Radio Globo.
In Mexico, Zelaya Criticizes "Weakness" of the International Community
By Laura Carlsen - americasmexico.blogspot.com : August 05, 2009
President Zelaya spoke to hundreds of Mexican supporters in Mexico City today to affirm his commitment to restore democracy in his country and underline the importance of the Mexican and U.S. governments in ending the coup. / The Mexico City government, which earlier presented Zelaya with the keys to the city, organized the event with members of grassroots organizations.
Comparing the Haitian and Honduran Coups
By Kim Ives - dominionpaper.ca : August 05, 2009
Anyone who has closely watched Washington's mischief and dirty wars around the globe over the past few decades cannot have missed the uncanny similarity between the June 28, 2009 coup d'état against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and that of February 29, 2004 against Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Obama and Honduras
By Bill Fletcher, Jr - seattlemedium.com : August 05, 2009
Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, describes how the Honduran people have been "risking their lives, confronting the army's bullets, beatings, and arbitrary arrests and detentions". And yet the US media has reported this repression "only minimally, with the major print media sometimes failing even to mention the censorship there."
Honduras: Where does Washington stand?
By TheRealNews - YouTube.com : August 05, 2009
Siding With The Generals: The Independent On Honduras
By Media Lens - dissidentvoice.org : August 05, 2009
Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, describes how the Honduran people have been "risking their lives, confronting the army's bullets, beatings, and arbitrary arrests and detentions". And yet the US media has reported this repression "only minimally, with the major print media sometimes failing even to mention the censorship there."
Obama and Latin America: Will policy go beyond small changes?
By Emile Schepers - pww.org : August 05, 2009
The Obama administration has canceled some aid to Honduras, but as far as we know the U.S. military is still coordinating with the Honduran armed forces via the Soto Cano military base and the training of Honduran officers at the School of the Americas. And the cancellation of visas of coup leader Micheletti and others is mostly symbolic, as those were special diplomatic visas; evidently at least some of these individuals also have regular visas with which they can still visit the U.S.A.
Honduras' Zelaya blames U.S. far-right "hawks" for coup
By Xinhua - xinhuanet.com : August 05, 2009
Honduras' deposed President Manuel Zelaya told a public event in Mexico City that he believes far-right U.S. politicians had helped bring about the June 28 coup that ousted him.
While State Department Waffles, Honduran University Members are Beaten
By RAJ - hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com : August 05, 2009
As news comes that the State Department has assured Senator Richard Lugar that they do not actually support President Zelaya (confirming the opinions of most of my Honduran correspondents), that they blame him for "provoking" the coup (recalling other forms of blaming the victim whose actions draw violent responses), and that they have no intention to use their economic leverage (reassuring the Micheletti regime that they can dig in and wait and eventually they will get away with their coup), the regime's threatened escalation of violence comes to fruition, unfolding as I write in the National University campus in Tegucigalpa.
U.S. appears to soften support for Honduras's Zelaya
By Susan Cornwell - reuters.com : August 05, 2009
U.S. policy on Honduras' political crisis is not aimed at supporting any particular individual, the State Department said in a new letter that implied softening support for ousted President Manuel Zelaya. / The letter to Republican Senator Richard Lugar contained criticism of Zelaya, saying the left-leaning former leader had taken "provocative" actions ahead of his removal by the Honduran military on June 28.
U.S. can end Honduras crisis in seconds: Zelaya
By Miguel Angel Gutierrez - reuters.com : August 05, 2009
The United States can end the political crisis in Honduras in a few seconds and kick out politicians who led a coup in June, deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Tuesday. / "Honduras, despite what the coup leaders say, does not depend on Caracas. Honduras depends on Washington," Zelaya told CNN en Espanol in an interview.
Zelaya says he never thought of reelection
By people.com.cn : August 05, 2009
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said at a press conference here on Tuesday afternoon that he had never thought of running for reelection.
Interview with Honduran indigenous leader Salvador Zuniga
By Toni Solo - scoop.co.nz : August 05, 2009
On July 29th Tortilla con Sal managed to talk to Salvador Zuniga, veteran leader of the indigenous peoples' movement in Honduras. Zuniga talked about what is currently happening in Honduras. At the time of the interview, Zuniga and other leaders like Bertha Caceres and the garifuna Miriam Miranda were in temporary encampments In Nicaragua set up to give some respite to Hondurans from the fierce military repression in Honduras, especially along the frontier with Nicaragua.
Post-Ouster Toll Hits Five; Honduran General Denies Coup
By democracynow.org : August 05, 2009
In Honduras, demonstrations continued Tuesday for the return of the ousted president Manuel Zelaya. Hundreds marched in the capital Tegucigalpa, flanked by riot police. The coup regime, meanwhile, said armed forces shot and killed a driver who had failed to stop at a military checkpoint. It was at least the fifth coup-related death since Zelaya's ouster in June. Meanwhile, the head of the Honduran armed forces and leader of the military overthrow, General Romeo Vasquez, appeared on television to appeal for public support. Vasquez denied a coup had taken place.
Why we're going to Honduras
By socialistworker.org : August 05, 2009
On August 8, Providence City Council member Miguel Luna and antiwar activist Shaun Joseph will travel to Honduras as part of a week-long International Mission for Solidarity, Accompaniment and Observation. The U.S.-based part of the delegation is being organized by Quest for Peace, a project of the Quixote Center.
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