Central America News

Presidente de CODEH denuncia posible masacre durante las elecciones de Noviembre  11/12/2009 El Libertador: "La denuncia expresa que el día 29 de Noviembre, fecha en la que se celebraran las elecciones generales, el ejército procederá a efectuar una operación militar de asesinato en masa en contra de miembros de la Unión Cívica Democrática, con el fin de provocar repulsión violenta en Honduras y pérdida de apoyo al Frente Nacional de Resistencia Contra el Golpe de Estado a nivel internacional. Según Pavón, fuentes militares fidedignas le han hecho llegar de forma confidencial la información correspondiente a la operación, tras señalarle que el mismo “es dirigido por fuerzas oscuras dentro de las facciones golpistas que se niegan a aceptar instancia alguna, en la cual tengan que dar explicaciones y enfrentar las consecuencias de la ruptura del orden constitucional y la vigencia de las protecciones legales a los derechos humanos en el país”.

240+ Latin America Experts Pressure Obama on Honduras  11/12/2009 Quotha

Honduras' attorney general escapes unharmed after gunmen open fire on his convoy  11/8/2009 AP: "Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi was riding on a northern highway when assailants opened fire Saturday night. Cerrato said no one was hurt. One car was damaged. He did not give a motive for the attack or say whether it was related to Honduras' four-month political crisis. But he speculated the attack could be an attempt to "provoke unease in the country." After the June coup, it was Rubi who filed criminal charges against ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Honduras is also home to violent, well-armed street gangs."

Italia: jefe de los 23 agentes CIA condenados “traficó” en Honduras, con la red de Posada  11/7/2009 Habla Honduras: "“Bob” Seldon Lady, el ex jefe de la estación de la CIA en Milán, quien dirigía a los 23 agentes de la CIA condenados en Italia por secuestrar, torturar y luego ‘desaparecer’ al clérigo musulmán Abu Omar en la ciudad italiana de Milán en el 2003 era un elemento clave de la red que desde Honduras y El Salvador, con John Negroponte, Félix Rodríguez Mendigutía y Luis Posada Carriles traficó armas contra cocaina a favor de la Contra nicaraguense, cuando se encontraba en América Central en los años 80."

Zelaya: US-brokered pact for Honduran crisis fails  11/6/2009 AP

National Resistance Against the Coup d’Etat Announces Boycott of November 29 Honduras Elections  11/6/2009 NarcoNews: "So we resolve: 1.If today, Thursday, November 5, no later than midnight President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales is not reinstated to his position, the National Resistance Front against the Coup d’Etat will not recognize the electoral process and its results. 2.We alert all the organizations in the resistance on a national level so that in case President Zelaya is not reinstated in the established period to be ready to execute the actions of negating the farse elections."

As Honduran Deal Failed, Split Behind Crisis Grew  11/6/2009 NYT

And the Winner in Honduras is ... the United States?  11/5/2009 Counterpunch

Ros-Lehtinen, máxima representante del lobby israelí contra un informe de la ONU  11/5/2009 Honduras en Resistencia: "Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, la politiquera yanqui de origen cubano que salió a defender el dictador hondureño Roberto Micheletti y que se hizo una carrera denigrando a Cuba, se convirtió en máxima representante del lobby israeli en el Congreso al obtener la condena del Informe Goldstone presentado en la ONU que reconoce el carácter genocida de de los crímenes de Israel."

CEPR Press Release: Berta Oliva says it's too late to hold elections  11/5/2009 Quotha: "Bertha Oliva, the head of Honduras' most well-known and respected human rights organization, called on the Obama administration to denounce the "grave human right violations" in Honduras. "How can it be that the United States government is silent while Hondurans are subjected to arbitrary arrest, the closure of independent media, police beatings, torture and even killings by security forces?" asked Oliva. Oliva is the General Coordinator of COFADEH, the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared and Detained in Honduras. She is currently in Washington, D.C., to brief Members of Congress, their staff, and other policy makers on the situation in Honduras."

Honduras: la Corte Suprema limpia el general Vásquez de su pasado criminal  11/5/2009 Tercera Informacion: "El general golpista Romeo Vásquez, ha logrado limpiarse jurídicamente de su pasado criminal con la complicidad de la Corte Suprema de Justicia que dictaminó el "sobreseimiento definitivo por falta de pruebas" de los expedientes del actual jefe de las fuerzas armadas, de su primo Marvin y de doce otros socios implicados en el trafico de carros robados, que se les mantenía congelados desde 1993. Lo confirmó el diario golpista La Prensa de San Pedro Sula que entierró recientemente, en un par de párrafos, el caso Vásquez al final de un texto donde se anunció que su cómplice Wilfredo Leva Cabrera, un ex coronel narcotraficante del ejercito, tendrá que cumplir 85 años de prisón."

Honduras: the popular resistance is close to victory  11/5/2009 Voltaire Net: "While the Honduran people were not seen as being particularly politicized, and US experts had not anticipated a lasting reaction against the coup, the direct opposite has taken place. The population has suddenly arisen, joining activist organisations in a united stance against the putchists. According to Arnold August, this phenomenon is evocative of the popular movements that rattled other states in the region in recent years bringing, without exception, revolutionary leaders to power. In his view, and barring an event that could thwart the mobilization, the retreat of the Honduran putchists is inexorable. But, in any event, US interventionism is once again backfiring against Washington."

Dr. Luther Castillo, voice of the voiceless in Honduras, gets rousing reception in San Francisco  11/3/2009 SF Bay View

The imperial mandate arrives in Honduras  11/1/2009 Machetera: "But Zelaya is far from being the only actor in this drama: How may the heroic militants who risked their lives and their physical integrity to defend their legitimate government react, especially once the possibility of calling a popular referendum to reform the constitution has also been completely ruled out? There are many dead and wounded, much imprisonment and humiliation along the way. Will these men and women who won the streets in Honduras accept the forgetting of so many crimes and the pardon of their victimizers? Also, the one lesson taken by the efforts of the people and social movements over the past four months of resistance is that if they organize themselves and mobilize their influence in the political juncture they can be decisive, much more than they realized before. The crisis taught them, brutally, that they can stop being history’s objects and turn themselves into its protagonists."

Al Jazeera: Honduras deal thrown into doubt  10/31/2009 Quotha: "A deal to end the political standoff in Honduras has been thrown into doubt after a negotiator for the de facto government suggested that Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president, will not be returned to power. The comments by Arturo Corrales prompted confusion on Saturday as it had been thought Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, Honduras's de facto leader, had reached a deal."

Nicaragua protesters chase off US ambassador  10/30/2009 AP

Reports of a Deal in Honduras Are Premature  10/30/2009 NarcoNews: "But Micheletti’s claim that a Congressional vote to restore Zelaya would require Supreme Court authorization is a flat out lie, according to a source with Zelaya inside his Brazilian Embassy refuge in Tegucigalpa: “That is what the golpistas have put out, but that is NOT the accord… The Supreme Court gives its non-binding opinion to the Congress, but the key is that all of this takes time, time that the golpistas want to keep taking.”

From Guantanamo to Honduras: Psychological Wars Then and Now  10/29/2009 Pulse Media: "Following orders by coup government officials, the army has been frequently directing harsh noises at the embassy occupants. The most recent example took place early in the morning of October 21, when the broadcast included military anthems, rock music, and animal noises (pig grunts, in an apparent attempt to add insult to injury) at an excessive volume, and on a constant loop from around 1:30 am to 7 am. This was the latest in a series of increasingly dramatic acts of harassment against embassy occupants, including flashing blinding lights at the windows during the night, designed to cause sleep deprivation. Little has been mentioned in the international press of these sonic and visual assaults on the embassy which began upon the President’s return. Sources from inside the embassy confirm that the harassment has been almost constant."

Scary armed forces developments  10/29/2009 Quotha: "These letters have been sent to all the mayors in Honduras from the armed forces, asking them to serve as spies for the regime. The police and armed forces have also warned that anyone promoting a boycott of the elections will be considered a terrorist."

The Electoral Theater of the Military-Political Coup, by Juan Almendáres  10/29/2009 Quotha

El agente Micheletti  10/29/2009 Rebelion: de Jean Guy Allard

Honduras leader's nephew killed  10/27/2009 BBC

De facto Honduran president's nephew killed  10/27/2009 Xinhua: "Micheletti's nephew was found in the Choloma municipality in the Cortes department (province) together with another dead male, who has not been identified yet."

Colonel and Micheletti's nephew assassinated in separate incidents  10/26/2009 Quotha

Centro Carter: No observaremos elecciones sin restitución  10/25/2009 El Libertador

Crece rechazo en Honduras a elecciones bajo dictadura  10/25/2009 El Libertador: "El rechazo de vastos sectores de la sociedad hondureña a la celebración de las elecciones bajo la dictadura cívico-militar, continúa hoy expandiéndose y los candidatos anti golpistas anunciaron su retiro del proceso. Los opositores al golpe de Estado acordaron desconocer los comicios si no es restablecido el orden constitucional y el presidente electo por el pueblo, Manuel Zelaya y señalaron que no es posible participar en unas elecciones bajo la dictadura militar, de igual forma coincidieron los aspirantes presidenciales Carlos H. Reyes, independiente, y César Ham, del Partido Unificación Democrática (UD)."

Golpistas Set Sights on El Libertador Director After One of His Journalists is Kidnapped and Burned with Cigarettes  10/25/2009 NarcoNews

Habla Honduras interview on Tuky Bendaña, in translation  10/25/2009 Quotha: "Golpistas have a useless memory, one that they operate by means of a logical process that seems to have been trained at the same spots where hens go to pee."

OEA no reconocerá elecciones generales de noviembre si no se restituye a Presidente Zelaya  10/23/2009 El Libertador

Honduran President Mel Zelaya Retains Public Support  10/23/2009 Greenberg Quinlan Rosner

Next: A Popular Referendum for a New Honduras Constitution?  10/23/2009 NarcoNews

The Impact of Dictatorship on Tourism  10/23/2009 Quotha: "Ricardo Martinez, minister of tourism under Zelaya, said tourist arrivals had fallen by 70%. Tourism is the country’s biggest earner, employing 155,000 people and an important sector for 7,000 small businesses. Much-needed investment in infrastructure, such as a new airport at Copan and a new highway link to El Salvador, has been withdrawn. “The Economic Commission for Latin America estimates we will take around 10 years to recover from the damage,” Martinez told delegates."

CONDEMNATION OF THE ACTS OF INTIMIDATION AGAINST THE EMBASSY OF BRAZIL IN HONDURAS  10/22/2009 Honduras Embassy, Washington

Leva Cabrera Libre: Romeo Vásquez  10/21/2009 Habla Honduras!: "El Golpista Romeo Vásquez ha ordenado al gobierno de facto de Roberto Goriletti, por medio de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, que ponga en libertad a varios reclusos amigos suyos que tendrían que purgar penas perpetúas en cárceles de Honduras… En febrero de 1993 la Dirección Nacional de Investigación (DNI) capturó a Leva Cabrera y a Romeo Vásquez Valásquez por dirigir la “Banda de los Trece” y bajo los cargos de robo de automóviles en El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras. A la semana de ser capturados por los agentes de investigación, Vásquez Velásquez salió libre de la Penitenciaría Nacional. En tanto, Leva Cabrera se escapó de la cárcel. El huyó a El Salvador y más tarde a Nicaragua. En 1999, efectivos de la policía de ese país lo detuvieron en un hotel de Granada, Nicaragua, cuando participaba en una reunión familiar. Más tarde, autoridades de ese país lo extraditaron a Honduras… Los juzgados hondureños lo condenaron a 80 años de prisión por una serie delitos, entre los cuales destacan, robo de carros, tráficos de armas, narcotráfico y falsificación de documentos."

Policía Asesina Profesor!  10/20/2009 Habla Honduras!: "Ayer, ultimo día de suspensión de derechos, en Macuelizo, Departamento de Santa Bárbara, cuando se conducía de su casa de habitación a su escuela, fue acribillado a balazos por un policía del destacamento local, el Prof. EUCEBIO FERNÁNDEZ SUAREZ, dirigente local del COLPROSUMAH, quien pertenecía a la Resistencia Nacional Contra el Golpe de Estado. Los transeúntes escucharon al asesino policía gritarle al profesor ‘ESTA ES TU RESISTENCIA, HIJO DE PUTAAAA!’"

Asesinatos en serie de dirigentes de la Resistencia provocan profunda indignacion  10/20/2009 Honduras Solidarity

Zelaya Backers Vow More Protests on Acting Government  10/19/2009 Bloomberg: "Protests seeking Zelaya’s return to office have been undercut by the acting government’s suspension of constitutional rights and closings of two media outlets since Zelaya’s unexpected Sept. 21 return from exile, Barahona said. One of the media outlets, Radio Globo, returned to air today. The acting government should restore rights and stop blocking prosecutors’ investigations of alleged human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in an Oct. 16 report. The report alleged killings, excessive use of force by authorities and “illegal and arbitrary detentions.”

Un testigo y filmación clave en la investigación contra el asesino del líder sindicalista Jairo Sánchez  10/18/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: "José Antonio Yánez, amigo a Jairo Sánchez filmaba los suecos cuando los policías asesinaron a Jairo Sánchez, presidente nacional del sindicato SITRAINFOP, en la mañana el 23 de septiembre de 2009 en Tegucigalpa. Su testimonio y video puede ser clave en la investigación contra los policías que llegaron esa mañana cuando el dirigente popular organizaba la Resistencia en su barrio, la Colonia La Quesada en Tegucigalpa. Sin medir una palabra bajaron dos policías y en una distancia de 30 metros dispararon con sus fusiles FAL, fabricación belga, a quemarropa a Jairo Sánchez."

Deal may return Zelaya  10/15/2009 The Age, Australia: "Honduran negotiators have reached agreement on ending a political crisis triggered by President Manuel Zelaya's ouster in a June coup. ''We have agreed in a document on point No. 6, which relates to the restitution of the powers of state to where they were before June 28, 2009,'' Mr Zelaya's representative said."

Ros-Lehtinen invites golpistas to U.S. Congress  10/14/2009 Quotha

Entrevista a Agustina Flores: "No me callan los barrotes la prisión no ha disminuido mi ideología"  10/13/2009 ANMCLA

Celeo Alvarez Casildo: The Moment Has Come for a New Constitution in Honduras  10/12/2009 NarcoNews: “Those in power, accustomed to loot and to control the powers of the State, do not sleep. They engage in speculation, lie and raise false expectations whenever they think that their interests might be affected.” He said it is urgent to guarantee freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly and the personal safety of all citizens, without repression and violations of human rights. It is time to join forces to prevent that the terrible retrograde decade of the 80s does not return by guaranteeing the rights and liberties written in the Constitution and in international treaties. That’s why Celeo Alvarez Casildo believes the moment has come to write a new Constitution through the election of a National Constituent Assembly that takes into account what the great majority of Hondurans want."

Headstrong Honduran ruler resists world pressure  10/12/2009 Reuters

Militares apuntan al interior de la embajada de Brasil, gobierno golpista reitera amenazas  10/9/2009 ANMCLA

Honduran Coup Regime in Crisis  10/9/2009 The Nation: "In retrospect, it is hard to understand what Micheletti and his allies had hoped to achieve with Zelaya's overthrow, which took place just five months before regularly scheduled presidential elections, still set for November 29. Before the coup, it was expected that a candidate from either the Liberal or National Party--both conservative--would win the vote, dousing whatever popular restlessness was unleashed by Zelaya's turn left. But the coup--along with Zelaya's surprise return--has created a lose-lose situation for Honduran elites. If they yield to international pressure and negotiate Zelaya's symbolic restoration, it would legitimize the November elections but would also embolden the left and discredit the coup plotters--that is, nearly all of Honduras' governing class. If they force Zelaya back into exile, arrest him or keep him holed up in the Brazilian Embassy, then the popular movement that has gained momentum over the past three months will demand a constitutional convention as the only solution to re-establish legitimacy. In other words, the very issue that served as the spark of the crisis--Zelaya's attempt to build support for a constituent assembly to reform Honduras' notoriously undemocratic charter--may be the only way to settle it. Even Costa Rican President Ocar Arias has suggested as much. He recently called the Honduran constitution the "worst in the entire world," an "invitation to coups." "This is something that will have to be resolved," he said, "and the best way to do this is, if we can't have a constitutional election, is to have certain reforms so this Honduran constitution ceases to be the worst in the entire world." "

Leader Ousted, Honduras Hires U.S. Lobbyists  10/7/2009 NYT: "It has also drawn support from several former high-ranking officials who were responsible for setting United States policy in Central America in the 1980s and ’90s, when the region was struggling to break with the military dictatorships and guerrilla insurgencies that defined the cold war. Two decades later, those former officials — including Otto Reich, Roger Noriega and Daniel W. Fisk — view Honduras as the principal battleground in a proxy fight with Cuba and Venezuela, which they characterize as threats to stability in the region in language similar to that once used to describe the designs of the Soviet Union. “The current battle for political control of Honduras is not only about that small nation,” Mr. Reich testified in July before Congress. “What happens in Honduras may one day be seen as either the high-water mark of Hugo Chávez’s attempt to undermine democracy in this hemisphere or as a green light to the spread of Chavista authoritarianism,” he said, referring to the Venezuelan president."

VERDAD, JUSTICIA Y REPARACION - Asaltado el hospital Garífuna por elementos de la Fuerza Armada  10/7/2009 OFRANEH: "La ayuda de la comunidad internacional hermana han aportado una mano amiga para construir un sistema de salud propio del Pueblo garifuna (Hospital Garífuna de Mañali) y que en este momento está siendo amenazado por este gobierno de facto, dado el día 6 de octubre fue asaltado el hospital Garífuna por elementos de la fuerza Armada rompiendo puertas y ventanas. Este atentado ha sido considerado por la comunidad Afrohondureña como un crimen en contra de la salubridad y la educación de Pueblo Garífuna, que sufren el arraigado del abandono miserable por varios siglos por parte del sistema de Salud del Gobierno de Honduras."

Ros-Lehtinen Discovers Antidote to Honduran Tourism Crisis in Visiting US Congress Members  10/6/2009 NarcoNews

Anti-Jewish statements raise concern on Honduras  10/5/2009 AP: "The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League cited statements made by ousted President Manuel Zelaya as well as the news director of a radio station that was closed by the interim government in Honduras and by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, among others." [ADL granted an award in 1985 to Purple Gang leader Moe Dalitz for his substantial contributions to ADL.]

Supporters of coup: 3 Florida GOP members of Congress visit interim Honduras president  10/5/2009 AP

Open Letter from President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales in Relation to the Jewish Community in Honduras  10/5/2009 NarcoNews: "It would be worthwhile to consult the Government Secretaries of my cabinet about the accusations that I have anti-Semitic positions. When the Honduran people elected me President, I received criticism from some anti-Semites, because I named, among other religions, some very talented and qualified Hondurans who practice Judaism, as members of the Government Cabinet. I named as Government Secretary in the Offices of the Presidency, the one who would be my right hand in the government, Yani Benjamin Rosenthal; who gave me strong support in managing the Economic sector, this close collaborator invited me to the Bat Mitzvah ceremony of his daughter. I also named Mr. Leo Starkman as Minister of Foreign Investment and on another occasion, Minister of Energy. I also named Engineer Moises Starkman as Minister in charge of Bio-Fuels. He reminded me on one occasion of the suffering of the Jewish people in the Nazi concentration camps. This close collaborator also informed me of the significance of the expression Shabat Shalom, a greeting used by Jews to honor their sacred day of the week. Also in my government I named Mr. Jacobo Regalado Weitzembluth General Manager of the telecommunications company."

Fascism, (counter-)fascism, lobbyists, anti-semitism and the State  10/5/2009 Quotha: "So on the one hand, there is anti-Semitism (though primarily in the old-school sense of anti-Levantism, not tied solely to Jewishness) among the resistance. And that is Bad. Members of the resistance are actively struggling to figure out how to create a unifying narrative and practice that does not replicate the racist rhetoric and practices of the de facto government. Although the physical, structural and everyday violence in Honduras today is overwhelmingly directed toward the racialized poor, the coup financiers' newly-hired Zionist lobbying firm, Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter and Associates (Lanny Davis is also from a big Zionist firm) has decided to go Horowitz on Zelaya because a)he has denounced the golpistas use (which, as you saw above, they themselves celebrate) of Israeli mercenaries in the violent crackdowns on peaceful Honduran protesters and on himself and his family, and b)some of the people who are wrongly labeled as his "followers" are anti-Semitic."

Against Anti-Semitism: Right, Left, or Media-Induced  10/4/2009 NarcoNews: The normally informative Al Giordano vents against reprehensible anti-semitic comments by Radio Globo station manager Romero, who himself has a Jewish grandfather. However, he ignores the documentation on Israeli activities in Honduras and even articles on his own site delineating the Israeli role in creating, training, and arming the viciously genocidal Colombian paramilitaries, including the AUC. See "Doing the US's Dirty Work - The Colombian Paramilitaries and Israel" on NarcoNews, April, 2003.

"Real Time" lawmaker Ros-Lehtinen taking Honduran coup show on the road  10/3/2009 NarcoNews: "So, let’s get this straight. Ros-Lehtinen is headed to Honduras next week to help preen the feathers of the leaders of the Honduran coup while at the same time her former press secretary is working under contract with an inside-the-Beltway PR firm to advance the despotic interests of those same coup leaders — all in open defiance of the Obama Administration’s stated policy on Honduras. Maybe after she returns, Ros-Lehtinen can get HBO to once again pay her way to Los Angeles to appear on the “Real Time with Bill Maher” show — a gig she’s done at least four times since 2005, with the last such trip racking up nearly $2,300 in travel and lodging expenses (including a $750 town car ride), according to Congressional travel records. And once on the show, maybe Ros-Lehtinen can give CSLA an assist with their coup contract by putting a positive spin (cloaked in humor, of course) on all the golpista-sanctioned democracy she discovered while fact-finding in Honduras."

DECLARATION - THREAT TO AND SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF THE BLACK GARIFUNA PEOPLES—DECLARED BY UNESCO A CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HUMANITY  10/3/2009 Quotha: "The change in the clause also is intended to destroy the health system of the Afro-Honduran people, which is protected under the ILO Convention 169. People have the distinct ability, through the Convention, to direct their own policies according to their own interests and cosmological perspectives and develop the positive aspects, strengths and significant contributions of the Afro-Honduran Community to human development. Currently, the Black person is being treated as folkloric object, exposed to ridicule and denigration through pejorative images and the use of journalistic language with racist and xenophobic connotations. The de facto government of Honduras in particular has undertaken a political and racial prosecution of Afro-Honduran, organized civil society."

Threat to and Systematic Destruction of Garifuna Peoples  10/3/2009 Quotha: "Drafted by Representatives of the Association of Garifuna Municipalities, Iriona Municipality (Colon Department), Luagu Hatuadi Waduheñu Foundation, the First Public Garifuna Hospital in Honduras, and OFRANEH (National Black Fraternal Organization)"

Israel entrega a Micheletti su "arma secreta para revoltosos”  10/2/2009 Aporrea: "Era nada menos que este Screamer cuyos sonidos, efectivamente, provocaron un grave malestar, entonces inexplicable, a todas las personas presentes en la representación diplomática de Brasil, una violación evidente de todos los convenios internacionales en materia del respeto y de la protección que deben otorgar las naciones a las embajadas en su territorio. El propio presidente Zelaya acusó en varias entrevistas las tropas de la dictadura de usar tales instrumentos de represión. La prensa internacional, en mayor parte propiedad de grandes monopolios, dio poca difusión a estas informaciones…. Elemento nuevo: el contrabandista Latchinian fue liberado en el 2002 por la justicia de Bush, después de cumplir solo 18 años de la sentencia de 30 a la cual había sido condenado una gigantesca operación de narcotráfico a favor de la Contra nicaragüense."

Noticias Urgentes - twitter  10/2/2009 Frente Nacional: "# Un boicot contra empresas de Honduras fue convocado por una organización ciudadana de defensa al consumidor de México y de América Latina. about 8 hours ago # A las 5:30 a.m. fueron desalojados manifestantes que tenian tomado el INA. Gobierno golpista no ha derogado decreto ejecutivo de represión. 1 day ago # En estos momentos Radio Globo esta amenazado por 200 militares en sus oficinas ya que siguen transmitiendo por el internet. 1 day ago # Resistencia se congrega nuevamente frente a la UNPFM desafiado los decretos dictatoriales del régimen fascista. 1 day ago"

More Tax Dollars At Work  10/2/2009 Honduras Coup 2009: "Grant highlights for 2008, the latest information available on the NED website, indicate a grant of $550,000 to the International Republican Institute to promote and enhance think tanks in Mexico and Honduras as "pressure groups" to force the political parties to develop concrete positions on key issues. "IRI will place special emphasis on Honduras...." In addition the IRI received a $400,000 grant to provide elected officials with management skills in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala , and Honduras. Finally, the Trust for the Americas received a $95,338 grant to strengthen the capacity of member organizations to promote Freedom of Expression and access to information, and to encourage the implementation of information acces laws in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragaua, and Panama. Trust for the Americas is a non profit associated with the OAS. The IRI lists a program on municipal good government as its sole project in Honduras this year. It uses polls and focus groups conducted by the IRI to identify gaps in services and where citizens are asking for greater transparency and accountability. The program partners with the Fundación para el Desarrollo Municipal. This program is funded at levels above $1 million."

US Congress Takes a Stand: Open Letter to Honduran Congress  10/2/2009 Honduras Coup 2009: click on letter image to read

¡Estos son los golpistas, el soberano juzgará!  9/30/2009 EL Libertador: "La galería de los golpistas está conformada por conocidos empresarios que consideraron a Zelaya como una amenaza que decidió apostar por las clases populares. Ellos son los apátridas que se esconden tras un rostro de “honorabilidad”."

Honduras Supreme Electoral Tribunal Comes Out Against Coup Decree  9/30/2009 NarcoNews

Day 95, September 30th 2009 from Oscar  9/30/2009 Quotha: "Finally the order was given to evict the compañeros from the INA (National Agrarian Institute). More than a thousand police and military agents arrived this morning to break down the doors of the building and capture the 70 men and women who for the last 3 months had taken over the the Institute´s offices throughout the country. They will likely be accused of sedition, the same as other compañeros currently detained in different prisons all over Honduras."

Salvadorans Demonstrate Solidarity with Honduras  9/30/2009 Quotha: "Another coordinator from the women's commission, Margarita Rodriguez, said that the people of Perquin have a special relationship to injustice in Honduras because the Salvadoran resistance of the 1980s originated in Perquin. People there endured much suffering and repression during the war, and many sought refuge across the border in Honduras. This history, Rodriguez said, creates a strong sense of solidarity and consciousness about organizing: “Here the community is ready for anything.”"

Cartas desde Tegucigalpas  9/29/2009 AfroCubaWeb: "Mataron a un número indeterminado de compañeros de la primera barricada al final del Puente Guancaste."

Romeo Vásquez responsabiliza a la Policía por uso de equipo bélico en embajada de Brasil  9/29/2009 EL Libertador: "Sin tantos miramientos, el oficial en cuestión miente al hacer estas aseveraciones puesto que el Dispositivo Acústico de Largo Alcance (LRAD, siglas en inglés) se utilizó en horas de la tarde del martes (22 de septiembre), cuando el Frente de Resistencia contra el golpe de Estado ya había sido desalojado con bombas lacrimógenas por la policía, cuando el gobierno de facto ordenó el toque de queda durante más de 24 horas seguidas."

The sordid history of Lewis Amselem, Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS  9/29/2009 Machetera: "The Guatemalan Defense Minister, Hector Gramajo, said publicly that Dianna Ortiz had made up her story, adding insults and slanderous insinuations of a sexual nature. Researching the subject, reporters from ABC News identified the source of these degrading rumors. They came from the Office of Human Rights’ Lewis Amselem, who upon being asked about them, vehemently denied any involvement. The Reverend Joseph Nangle of the Assisi Community, said later that Amselem had spoken on the subject in his presence, with an outrageous vulgarity. Other people confirmed Nangle’s comment and added that Amselem multiplied his insulting references to the presence of religious volunteers in Guatemala’s indigenous communities."

TODAY: event at Congress with Dr. Luther Castillo  9/29/2009 Quotha

Soldiers raid Honduran media outlets  9/28/2009 AP: "The government's suspension of civil liberties limits rights guaranteed in the Honduran Constitution: The decree prohibits unauthorized gatherings and allows police to arrest without a warrant "any person who poses a danger to his own life or those of others." It also allows officials to shut down media outlets for "statements that attack peace and the public order, or which offend the human dignity of public officials, or attack the law." The Honduran Constitution forbids arrests without warrants except when a criminal is caught in the act. In a nationally broadcast announcement, the government explained it took the steps it did "due to the calls for insurrection that Mr. Zelaya has publicly made.""

Acoustic and Chemical Attacks on the Brazilian Embassy - The Sound and Fury of the Honduran Coup  9/28/2009 Counterpunch: "Numerous reports, including Honduran News Network sources, also mentioned radioactive cesium. If the use of radioactive cesium is confirmed, the consequences are very serious. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry finds that the effects of high levels include the symptoms listed above and even coma and death. This is the notorious "day-after" effect of nuclear bombs. The agency adds that "it is reasonable to expect that individuals exposed to high levels of radiation from a source of radioactive cesium will develop the same types of cancer observed in survivors of the atomic bombs in Japan." Embassies are protected under the Vienna Convention and any violation of this is an international issue. With the notable exceptions of Colombia and the United States, all nations of the region expressed concern about the Honduran situation at the 64th UN General Assembly meeting."

The Dictatorship Unmasked  9/28/2009 NarcoNews: "It is obvious, therefore, that with the 45-day curfew--that is, for the duration of the election campaigns--the real goal is to torpedo November's electoral process through a plan to consolidate the dictatorship's power, unmasking the de facto regime's faked determination to support the general elections at the end of the year."

Capo de la prensa golpista patrocinó un Premio 'Derechos Humanos' de la SIP  9/28/2009 Patria Grande: "Increiblemente, apenas un mes despues de haber conspirado y participado en el secuestro y la expulsión de Honduras del Presidente Manuel Zelaya, uno de los dos más recalcitrantes magnates de prensa de Honduras, Jorge Canahuati Larach, cuyos diarios son los voceros más fanáticos del régimen Micheletti, ha sido copatrocinador, del “Premio Derechos Humanos” 2009 de la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP), la asociación de los magnates de la prensa comercial del continente. La SIP es este cartel de comerciantes de la información que predica constantemente su version de la libertad de prensa en campañas de difamación dirigidas de manera sistemática en contra de los líderes progresistas de América Latina."

U.S. blasts ousted Honduran for "foolish" return  9/28/2009 Reuters: "Anselem also criticized Zelaya for fueling violence by slipping back into Honduras last week and holing up in the Brazilian Embassy, from where he has called on his supporters to take to the streets. "The return of Zelaya absent an agreement is irresponsible and foolish ... He should cease and desist from making wild allegations and from acting as though he were starring in an old movie," Anselm said." ["Lewis Amselem takes side of Honduran fascist junta. Note: Amselem is a post graduate of Brandeis University, a former political officer at the US Southern Command, and was vice consul in Georgetown, Guyana during the Jonestown massacre, meaning Amselem is an official cover CIA officer." -- Wayne Madsen Report]

Newsbytes and comments  9/28/2009 Wayne Madsen Report: "The Israeli weapons firm that funneled the weapons for Leitner was International Security and Defence Systems (ISDS), started in 1982 by Leo Gleser, an Israel Defense Force and Mossad veteran. ISDS specialized in interrogations and supervision of prisoners in Latin America, that is torture and illegal detention. ISDS also, curiously, provided security services to Venezuelan oil companies shortly before the 2002 abortive coup against President Hugo Chavez. The CIA and U.S. Special Operations Forces fomented anti-Chavez labor strikes and protests among the oil workers' unions prior to the coup. ISDS benefited greatly from security contracts with U.S. firms in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks… The cell phone jammers used by the Honduran military on the Brazilian embassy are C-Guard units made by NetLine Communications Inc. of Tel Aviv. One was found on the roof of a home next to the Brazilian embassy and confiscated by Zelaya supporters and taken into the Brazilian embassy as proof of Israeli involvement with the Honduran junta."

Lula no acepta ultimátum de los golpistas  9/27/2009 EFE

FRENTE NACIONAL DE RESISTENCIA CONTRA EL GOLPE DE ESTADO  9/27/2009 Frente Nacional: Twitter del Frente Nacional en vivo otra vez - "# Enviados de la OEA que aterrizaron hoy en Tegucigalpa fueron regresados por órdenes del fascista Micheletti. Muestra que no quiere diálogo. 3 minutes ago # Marcia Facusse, la diputada de las comidas rapidas que no pagan impuestos, mociona en el congreso para quitar niños a padres en Resistencia. 7 minutes ago # Hija del Dictador; Bianca MIcheletti ha sido deportada de USA hoy domingo en horas de la tarde. 10 minutes ago # Gobierno de facto crea decreto presidencial para cerrar medios de comunicación que no esten afines al gobierno usurpador. 11 minutes ago"

Isolation  9/27/2009 Honduras Coup 2009: "The United States is the only country that still has an ambassador in Tegucigalpa. All of the Latin American countries, and the European Union countries recalled their ambassadors after the coup. In recent days, both the EU and many Latin American countries have agreed to restore their ambassadors at the request of the OAS to help mediate a solution to the Honduran political crisis."

OAS Representatives Deported  9/27/2009 Honduras Coup 2009

Israeli Firms Sell Toxins to Honduras Putschists  9/27/2009 Inside Costa Rica: "Honduran Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas denounced that two Israeli companies supplied putschists with the toxic gases thrown inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where President Manuel Zelaya is staying. "We have received information that the chemicals and arms have been supplied by Alfacom and Intercom companies, owned by Israeli Yehuda Leitner," Rodas said in press conference in thit city. After putschists soldiers threw gases inside the embassy, nearly 80 people have had headaches, vomiting, diarrhoeas, and nose bleeding over the last hours."

Lula rechaza emplazamiento de Micheletti y lo llama "usurpador"  9/27/2009 Terra/AP: "El presidente brasileño Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rechazó el domingo los 10 días que el gobierno de facto de Honduras le dio para definir la situación del derrocado presidente Manuel Zelaya, refugiado en la embajada de ese país en Tegucigalpa, o de lo contrario adoptará "medidas adicionales", que no especificó. En un comunicado de la Cancillería de Honduras, el gobierno de facto amenazó con adoptar "medidas adicionales" que no especificó si Brasil no cumple con el periodo establecido y también condicionó el retorno de embajadores extranjeros a Honduras."

Honduras: el proveedor de gases israelíes, un viejo socio de la conexión Bush-Posada  9/26/2009 Cuba Debate: "Yehuda Leitner radicado en Honduras, denunciado como proveedor de armas y gases tóxicos a la dictadura hondureña de Roberto Micheletti, es un ex oficial del ejercito israelí quién perteneció en los años 80 a la red de contrabando del multimillonario Gerard Latchinian, que abastecía en armas a los cubanoamericanos Felix Rodriguez y Luis Posada Carriles en sus operaciones luego conocidas cómo escandalo Iran-Contra. Rodriguez y Posada manejaban entonces la escandalosa operación de venta de droga contra armas, encubierta por Bush George padre, vicepresidente de la administración ultraderechista de Ronald Reagan. La Canciller del gobierno constitucional de Honduras Patricia Rodas, denunció este viernes 25 de septiembre en Wastington como “fuentes de la inteligencia militar leales a Zelaya” informaron que “los químicos y armas del asedio (de Brasil en Tegucigalpa) han sido proporcionadas por las empresas Alfacom e Intercom”, propiedad del ciudadano israelí Yehuda Leitner, que “sirvió de intermediario con Israel”."

FRENTE NACIONAL DE RESISTENCIA CONTRA EL GOLPE DE ESTADO  9/26/2009 Frente Nacional: el twitter del sitio sigue interrumpido otra vez - "# Continua el toque de queda para reprimir la resistencia en todo el país excepto algunas comunidades desde las 8:00 pm a 5:00 am. 2 days ago # Ante la presencia de médicos en la embajada de Brasil, desaparecen aparatos y humidificador para enviar tóxicos colocados por golpistas. 2 days ago # El ejército ha cortado todas las comunicaciones con la embajada, se teme por la vida de las personas que están adentro. 2 days ago # El ejército está atacando con un neurotóxico a la embajada de Brasil en Tegucigalpa, hay varias personas sangrando y con nauseas. 2 days ago # El Frente Nacional Contra el Golpe de Estado convoca a que la resistencia se manifieste en sus barrios para evitar la confrontación"

Accelerated Environmental Licenses  9/26/2009 Honduras Coup 2009: "Vice Minister of Natural Resources, Mauricio Reconco, said "We hope by December 31 of this year to activate a great many of projects which permit the generation of 200 Megawatts of clean energy...we are looking at projects from 150 megawatts to 10 megawatts." Congress, we are told, is working on enabling legislation to loosen the environmental regulations that hold up these projects and streamline their approval. Recently Congress issued its legislation approving some $1200 million for renewable energy projects within the country, and the Banco Central transferred the corresponding funds to the Honduran bank that then funds the projects. Today, less than a month later, SERNA handed over 320 environmental licenses for projects valued at $368 million, projects such as piers for cruise ships to dock on the Bay Islands, housing, pharmaceutical companies, chemical companies, hotels, restaurants. Not a single one of the renewable energy projects promised. SERNA promises they will have issued over half the backlog of licenses by the end of this month! None of these projects seems to raise any environmental issues. Literally incredible."

The president is in the trunk By Pepe Escobar  9/25/2009 Asia Times: "Deposed, rightful Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has been to Washington no less than six times since the coup. Not once was he allowed to meet Obama. Then, this past Monday morning, Zelaya showed up at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras' capital, after a spectacular run that started in Nicaragua, involved a flight to El Salvador on a plane offered by Venezuela, and a 15-hour odyssey across the border to Honduras on foot and by car, evading myriad checkpoints manned by local intelligence - which is, crucially, funded, trained and maintained by the Pentagon. Zelaya was smuggled into the Brazilian Embassy in the trunk of car. Zelaya may have had help from Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, under the umbrella of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA). But now the strategic game-changer has been to shift the attention towards Brazil - and that means under the UNASUR."

Con lanzamiento de químicos atentan contra la vida del presidente  9/25/2009 Defensores en Linea: "La circulación de químicos en el ambiente lanzados desde el exterior de la Embajada de Brasil en Honduras, provocó serios problemas de salud a las personas que se encuentran junto al presidente Manuel Zelaya Rosales, este viernes en la mañana. nicialmente el Padre Tamayo relató que un helicóptero y una tanqueta habrían lanzado un químico y unos minutos después la Primera Dama, Xiomara Castro se subió en una escalera que da a la casa atrás de la embajada para comprobar y observó el equipo utilizado por los agente de la Dirección Nacional de Investigación Criminal, DNIC,militares de las Fuerzas Armadas y miembros de la Policía Nacional… Pero esas acciones ya subieron el nivel, este viernes a eso de las nueve de la mañana un helicóptero sobrevoló el lugar y al frente pasó un tanque regando químico “la gente está sangrando, tenemos mucho mareo, dolor de estómago, yo tengo la garganta apretada”, dijo casi al borde de la inconsciencia Tamayo al ser abordado por el teléfono. Mientras Xiomara Castro, primera dama de la nación relató que las personas que se mantienen con el mandatario tienen resequedad en su boca, taquicardia, picazón en todo el cuerpo, escupen y defecan sangre… Según los médicos del Frente Nacional de Resistencia el químico que se han utilizado para reprimir al pueblo hondureño es el Cecio 132 que es un neurotóxico que provoca aflojamiento de los músculos y por ende decaimiento en las personas."

Conatel intenta intervenir la RDS en Honduras  9/25/2009 Defensores en Linea

"Sonic gun" used by police in Honduras now used against G-20 protesters?  9/25/2009 Democratic Underground: "WHY are the Israelis interferring in Honduras? Are they from the Israeli government or hired mercs? Does anybody know?"

Gremio de cineastas saca a la luz la colaboración del gobierno peruano y el gobierno golpista hondureño  9/25/2009 Hibueras

Deposed Honduran president accuses ‘Israeli mercenaries’  9/25/2009 Jewish Telegraph Agency: "Deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said he is being tortured by "Israeli mercenaries." The politician, who currently is holed up in the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, said the "mercenaries" had used a device emitting high-frequency radiation, which affected his mental and physical health. He also said they were likely to storm the building and kill him, the Miami Herald reported. Witnesses earlier had reportedly said that they saw police, who are surrounding the compound, use a satellite dish-like device nearby to emit a shrill noise, according to the Herald. A Honduran police spokesman denied any kind of radition device was being used."

Micheletti’s newest U.S./Israeli toy  9/25/2009 Machetera: "Photo Confirms the Use of Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) by Micheletti’s Troops, Against Zelaya. By Jean-Guy Allard"

Honduran Coup Regime Mocks UN Security Council with Embassy Attacks  9/25/2009 NarcoNews: "In light of those international laws, the device you see in the photograph up top, deployed by Honduran coup regime security forces at the gates of the Brazilian Embassy, offers a smoking gun of proof that the regime is violating the Vienna Convention. Narco News and its team of technical engineers and counter-surveillance consultants has identified the apparatus as the LRAD-X Remote Long Range Acoustic Device, manufactured by the American Technologies Corporation."

"Sanitation Operation"  9/25/2009 Quotha: "Abusing again the national emergency radio system, the de facto government unbelievably claims that the severe symptoms of chemical and audio attacks among the people trapped with President Zelaya in the Brazilian Embassy were the result of a routine cleaning operation using regular cleaning chemicals and loud machinery. In a completely militarized zone, blocked off to traffic."

Day 90, September 25, 2009 from Oscar  9/25/2009 Quotha: "The great fear of the resistance now revolves around those closed door meetings. Would Mel Zelaya betray us? is a legitimate question coming from a people who have many times been betrayed by their leaders. That possibility is lessened in the degree that the regime continues to harass him."

Ejército de Honduras usa armas electrónicas de última generación  9/24/2009 ADITAL: "Uno de ellos es el llamado "cañón de dolor" o "rayo de dolor" fabricado por la corporación ‘Raytheon’, una de las principales contratistas militares de varios ejércitos del mundo, especialmente del estadounidense, es solo un ejemplo. Cito de un sitio en Internet que nos explica mejor lo que es y cómo funciona este dispositivo. "Este es un VMADS (Sistema Activo de Negación Montado sobre Vehículo, según sus siglas en ingles) no es un arma letal, pero sí muy eficaz. Su munición consiste en haces de radiación electromagnética de 95 gigaherzios, frente a los 2.45 de un horno domestico de microondas, la persona que recibe el trallazo de energía nota una quemazón similar a la que sentiría si se aplicara una bombita sobre la piel, ya que las moléculas de agua de la epidermis impactada alcanzan una temperatura de 55ºC". "Desarrollado por el ejercicio estadounidense, el cañón sirve en teoría para dispersar multitudes, aunque las voces críticas denuncias que todavía no se conocen del todo bien sus efectos secundarios""

La SIP pretende ignorar que sus propios miembros iniciaron el golpe en Honduras  9/24/2009 Bol Press: "La Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (SIP) que tanto lamenta las "limitaciones" a la libertad de prensa que sufren los medios de comunicación opuestos al golpe de Estado, evita recordar que dos de los principales conspiradores del cuartelazo que llevo a la expulsión del Presidente Zelaya son también sus principales (y casi únicos) miembros hondureños. Asociada desde décadas a la CIA y radicada en Miami, USA, la SIP publica "denuncias" de las interrupciones de la energía eléctrica al Canal 36 y de la señal de Radio Globo, con las cuales pretende darse una imagen de legitimidad."

En Honduras se impone la violencia estatal generalizada  9/24/2009 Dick Emanuelsson

“No vamos a aceptar un golpe antidemocrático”: Presidente de España  9/24/2009 El Libertador: "El mandatario español, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, se ha referido en esos términos al régimen de facto que desde el 28 de junio anterior tomó por asalto la Presidencia de Honduras. Asimismo, Zapatero insistió en que “vamos a ganar este desafío”.

Noiticias Urgente  9/24/2009 Frente Nacional Contra el Golpe: "# El Frente Nacional Contra el Golpe de Estado convoca a que la resistencia se manifieste en sus barrios para evitar la confrontación about 16 hours ago # Ministros de facto obligan a los empleados públicos a marchar a favor del golpe de estado, amenazándolos con despedirlos si desobedecen. about 16 hours ago # Régimen golpista utiliza vehículos del Estado para transportar personas a la marcha de las camisas blancas a favor del golpe de estado. about 16 hours ago # La marcha de camisas blancas está pagando 300 lps para que las personas de los barrios para que participen. about 17 hours ago # La Corte Penal Interncional aceptó los juicios en contra de los violadores de los derechos humanos en Honduras. 1 day ago # Están reprimiendo manifestaciones en varios barrios de Tegucigalpa 1 day ago"

Alto a la guerra irregular en Honduras - Actos terroristas por cobras y militares  9/24/2009 Hibueras: "Batallones de cobras, militares han violentado las viviendas, de las comunidades pobres disparando balas vivas contra las familias, han lanzando bombas lacrimógenas y picantes dentro de las habitaciones contra niños niñas, mujeres embarazadas, ancianos en las colonias Altos del Viera, Manchen y el Barrio el Bosque, Hato, Suyapa, Las Vegas, San Francisco, colonia Kennedy ,Bendeck, Travesía y residencial Morazán, Colonia Divanna , Altos de la Divanna, Pedregal, Centroamérica, Altos de los Milagros en Tegucigalpa y en otras barrios pobres de la capital, en igual forma han capturado y torturado al Joven José Luis Rodas, los defensores de los derechos humanos Francisco Mencía y Walter Tróchez, Mauricio Mendoza torturado por la Dirección de Investigación Criminal detenido en la posta policial de la colonia Víctor F. Ardón quienes corren extremo peligro y se teme por sus vidas. En igual forma en la Colonia Juan Ramón Molina y otras colonias de San Pedro Sula y diferentes áreas del país han sido objeto de semejante brutalidad."

Giving Constitutional Research a Bad Name  9/24/2009 Honduras Coup 2009: "US congressman Aaron Schock (Republican from Illinois) commissioned a research report that has excited immense interest in the pro-coup Honduran media. So far, in English mainstream media, it appears to have been given the cold shoulder it deserves. But make no mistake, bad research is consequential, and the right-wing blogs are alive with the story as well. Written by someone identified only as a "Senior Foreign Law Specialist" at the Library of Congress, Norma C. Gutierrez, the report makes an argument that the removal of President Zelaya was constitutional. In this, her report would contradict numerous constitutional law professors in Honduras, Spain, and the United States. The references cited in the report consist almost entirely of citations of the Honduran constitution, or of documents posted online by the Honduran Supreme Court."

IMF offers $163.3 million to Zelaya government  9/24/2009 Honduras Coup 2009

“Cañón sónico” para revoltosos  9/24/2009 La Tribuna, Honduras: "Pocos segundos después emite un sonido que corta el aire: La multitud agitada, cae en pánico, se tapa los oídos y se contuerce del dolor. Es la última arma secreta en dotación desde hace tiempo por el ejército de Israel, usada públicamente sólo ahora después de muchos años de experimentación."

The boundless hypocrisy of the Inter-American Press Association  9/24/2009 Machetera: "The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) that bemoans the “limitations” on press freedom suffered by media opposed to the coup d’etat, avoids recalling that two of the main conspirators behind the coup which led to the expulsion of President Zelaya from Honduras are also its main (and practically only) Honduran members. Associated for decades with the CIA and located in Miami, USA, the IAPA has issued “denunciations” of the electricity cutoffs to Channel 36 and Radio Globo, through which they are trying to give themselves a legitimate image… Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé, the former president of Honduras (1998-2001) and the owner of the La Tribuna newspaper, and Jorge Canahuati Larach, the billionaire owner of the La Prensa and El Heraldo newspapers are among the conspirators who brought about the coup."

Enviados del régimen golpista visitan a Zelaya Rosales  9/24/2009 Publico: "Después de cuatro días de tensiones e incertidumbre, finalmente, enviados por el régimen golpista comienzan a visitar la Embajada de Brasil en Tegucigalpa para romper el hielo e iniciar el diálogo con el presidente constitucional, Manuel Zelaya Rosales. El arzobispo auxiliar de la diócesis de Tegucigalpa, Juan José Pineda, el suplente del cardenal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez, se convirtió en el segundo personaje que en las últimas 24 horas ha visitado a Zelaya Rosales con el ánimo de encontrar una solución a la crisis política. Pineda, acusado de "golpista" por el Frente de Resistencia Contra el Golpe de Estado, salió alrededor de las 15 horas de la embajada de Brasil luego de sostener una breve conversación con el presidente legítimo. "Nadie se ha atrevido a dar el primer paso."

UN suspends support to Honduran electoral court  9/23/2009 AP: "U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has suspended technical assistance to Honduras' electoral court, saying turmoil there means presidential elections scheduled for November will not be credible."

Honduras Curfew Costs Economy $50 Million Daily, Canahuati Says  9/23/2009 Bloomberg

How Much Repression Will Hillary Clinton Support in Honduras?  9/23/2009 Counterpunch: "One important actor, the only major country to maintain an ambassador in Honduras throughout the dictatorship, has maintained a deafening silence about this repression: that is the United States government. The Obama administration has not uttered one word about the massive human rights violations in Honduras. This silence by itself tells you all that you need to know about what this administration has really been trying to accomplish in the 87 days since the Honduran military squelched democracy. The Obama team understands exactly how the coup government is maintaining its grip on power through violence and repression. And President Obama, along with his Secretary of State, has shown no intention to undermine this strategy. In fact, President Zelaya has been to Washington six times since he was overthrown, but not once did he get a meeting with President Obama. Why is that? Most likely because Obama does not want to send the “wrong” signal to the dictatorship, i.e. that the lip service that he has paid to Zelaya’s restoration should be taken seriously. These signals are important because the Honduran dictatorship is digging in its heels on the bet that they don’t have to take any pressure from Washington seriously. They have billions of dollars of assets in the United States, which could be frozen or seized. But the dictatorship, for now, trusts that the Obama team is not going to do anything to hurt their allies."

¡150 000 hondureños en la calle en la capital!  9/23/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: "Pese al toque de queda (lunes 16.00 horas-miércoles 10.00 horas) que fue suspendido a las 10 de la mañana el martes por siete horas, la Resistencia contra el golpe de estado logró a juntar 150.000 hondureños en la capital hondureña. En esta misma noche esta llegando reportes sobre fuerte represión en los barrios populares de Tegucigalpa en donde la Resistencia se ha consolidado su presencia."

Barrios y colonias de la capital enfrentan al régimen  9/23/2009 El Libertador: "La población se ha decretado en contra del gobierno usurpador y defiende cada posición, el dictador Roberto Micheletti ha desatado una guerra civil que de Tegucigalpa se extendió a todo el país… “Protestábamos pacíficamente cuando vinieron los policías y empezaron a disparar, piensan que así nos van a callar, nosotros desconocemos este gobierno de facto y vamos a luchar hasta que se restituya al Presidente Manuel Zelaya en su cargo”, aseveraba un habitante de la capitalina colonia El Pedregal, que por razones de seguridad se omite su nombre."

Brasil advierte: "No toleraremos ninguna acción contra nuestra embajada en Honduras"  9/23/2009 El Libertador

Estados Unidos y Brasil dan ultimátum a golpistas  9/23/2009 El Libertador: "La embajada estadounidense acreditada en Honduras, ha dicho que cualquier agresión al cuerpo diplomático brasileño, donde se encuentra el Presidente Zelaya, será asumida como un ataque a Estados Unidos… En el caso de Honduras, podría representar el envío de tropas para restablecer el orden constitucional, en vista que el usurpador Micheletti ha llevado al país a una guerra civil al romper las garantías constitucionales."

Frente Nacional Contra el Golpe - twitter funcione, muchas noticias desde la calle  9/23/2009 Frente Nacional Contra el Golpe: "# Constantemente están llegando reportes de violaciones de derechos humanos: torturas, detenciones ilegales y hasta muertos.about 2 hours ago from web # Se activó una dirección alterna para monitorear radioglobo en la red: contraelgolpedeestadohn.blogspot.comabout 2 hours ago from web # Hay una amenaza latente de represión generalizada y sistemática que comenzaría con el apagón de electricidad.about 2 hours ago from web # Varios cortes de energía eléctrica, tienen oscura varias parte de Tegucigalpa y San Pedro sula. Se teme por un corte generalizado.about 3 hours ago from web # La dictadura delira, leen un absurdo comunicado en inglés en lugar de Español.about 5 hours ago from web # Fuerte represión contra manifestantes en la colonia Kennedy de Tegucigalpa. Se está disparando con bala viva y bombas lacrimógenas.about 5 hours ago from web # Se informa que hay varias subestaciones policiales que han sido tomadas por La Resistencia.about 5 hours ago from web # La policía ataca con armas de fuego al menos dos tomas de calles en Tegucigalpa.about 5 hours ago from web "

Honduras Updates: “There is a people’s insurrection”  9/23/2009 Green Left

Alzamiento, Revuelta… Insurección popular en Tegucigalpa  9/23/2009 Habla Honduras: El gobierno ya no puede contar con el apoyo de las maras: "Audios en las colonias Honduras, la Bellavista (donde nos reportan 6 muertos de la resistencia – no tenemos nombres-) y la Ramón Amaya Amador, que reporta un acuerdo entre las maras para defender al pueblo, y avisa al ejercito que no intente entrar, ahi la gente ha bajado, desde los centros depauperizados, desde los cerros de la pobreza, desde el hambre, desde la dura vida del desempleo y el asedio…"

Spinning resistance as vandalism  9/23/2009 Honduras Coup 2009

The One-Sided War on the Streets of Honduras - “They’re the Only Ones Using Violence,” Human Rights Leader Bertha Oliva Observes of the Coup Regime on Day Two of Zelaya’s Return  9/23/2009 NarcoNews: "Eye-witness testimony indicated that the soldiers and police fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and live rounds into the crowd. “It was brutal,” said resistance organizer Juan Barahona, director of El Bloque Popular. “I was outside the embassy when the police began their dispersal. Afterwards we reorganized, and marched through some of the poor barrios. But the police attacked us there as well.” The day before, thousands had gathered in front of the Brazilian Consulate in the Colonia Palmira, to welcome home Mr. Zelaya with chanting and songs. The de facto government imposed a curfew starting at four p.m., and cut power to the Embassy; but Zelaya’s supporters stayed on in the streets all night long, defying orders to disperse… Leaving the hotel this morning on my way to the Brazilian Embassy, I encountered several young men fleeing a squadron of baton-wielding police. As I watched, the officers caught up to two of them and commenced beating them viciously, even after they had fallen to the ground. “We were just walking to work,” said Aron Antonio, bleeding profusely from multiple head wounds. “I can’t understand why they attacked us.” I called an ambulance on my cell phone, but by the time it had arrived, Antonio’s companion had lost consciousness. The youth’s eyes refused to dilate, and he began to vomit where he lay in the gutter."

What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis  9/23/2009 NarcoNews

In pictures: Zelaya's dramatic return  9/22/2009 BBC

Para la Loba Feroz, el regreso de Zelaya es “amenazante”  9/22/2009 CubaDebate: "En la misma lógica ultraderechista que defiende Ros-Lehtinen, las elecciones que realizaría en noviembre la junta golpista dispondría como “observadores” a enviados del grupo neonazi UnoAmérica y de la “Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe para la Libertad”, un apéndice de la Fundación Libertad, financiada por la NED y al Faes de José María Aznar, según la prensa oficialista hondureña Los magistrados del Tribunal Supremo Electoral, TSE, han anunciado que “recibieron el ofrecimiento oficial de participación como observadores” de estos grupos cuya filiación con la CIA y la derecha latinoamericana más recalcitrante está bien documentada. En los últimos meses, UnoAmérica (Unión de Organizaciones Democráticas de América) ha realizado campañas de propaganda contra Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Paraguay y Nicaragua. UnoAmerica es diriga por el venezolano Alejandro Peña Esclusa, un opositor golpista a Hugo Chávez."

¡Emergencia!: Dictadura reprime a balazos a la Resistencia  9/22/2009 El Libertador: "Desde horas de la madrugada, millares y policías disparan contra los miles de compatriotas que respaldan al Presidente Manuel Zelaya, que se encuentra en la embajada de Brasil en Tegucigalpa. En este momento los helicópteros sobrevuelan la capital, el ejército persigue y dispara contra la población y se reportan ya tres muertos… Los uniformados dan muestras claras de estar bajo la influencia de alucinógenos, pues profieren palabras soeces e incoherentes."

Gobierno de facto ataca embajada de Brasil  9/22/2009 El Libertador: "El régimen de facto ha ordenado atacar mediante bombas lacrimógenas y balas de verdad la embajada de Brasil en Honduras, ubicada en la colonia Palmira de la capital, donde se encuentra el legítimo Presidente Manuel Zelaya Rosales, a fin de capturarlo. Para eso, fueron desplazados agentes “Cobras” y de la Policía Preventiva a las 4:00 de la mañana de este martes (22 de septiembre de 2009), quienes sin mediar palabras abrieron fuego contra el Frente Nacional de Resistencia contra el golpe de Estado, que se encontraba frente a la sede diplomática en respaldo al mandatario. “Están atacando la embajada de Brasil con sonidos estridentes para enloquecer a la gente que está aquí, están atacando con bombas la embajada de Brasil”, dijo el Presidente Zelaya en declaraciones a medios locales."

Frente Nacional site under cyberattack  9/22/2009 Frente Nacional Contra el Golpe: Twitter feed coopted by spam, Blogspot asleep at the switch. Most recent legit twitters: "# EL GOBIERAJANO GOLPISTA ORDENO A LA POLICIA QUE RODEEN LA EMBAJADA DE BRASIL PARA REPRIMIRLA FAVOR LLAMAR A TODAS LAS EMBAJADAS INFORMANDO -- # El gobierno GOLPISTA ha dado instrucciones a las compañias de Celulares para que bloqueen todas las llamadas e incomunicar a la Resistencia -- # El Gobierno GOLPISTA en cadena Nacional declara Toque de Queda a partir de las 4:00 p.m. del Lunes 21 de sept hasta las 07:00 am del Martes"

Honduras Update (9/22, 11PM edt): Insurrection, UN Security Council, One More Dead  9/22/2009 Honduras Oye

No es país sino una CARCEL!!!  9/22/2009 Honduras Resistencia: Fotos de la resistencia y la represion.

El Presidente Zelaya ha regresado a Honduras - En Tegucigalpa el Régimen golpista Ilegítimo ha bloqueado el Acceso a Internet y la Telefonía Celular  9/22/2009 NarcoNews: irse abajo en la pagina para el blog en vivo - 21/9/09 - 5:42 p.m.: Los líderes del bloque del Partido Liberal que se pronunciaron contra el golpe firman una carta pública en la que llaman a los miembros del partido “de todos los barrios populares” de Tegucigalpa y de todo el país para que se congreguen en la embajada brasileña para proteger al presidente Zelaya. Radio Globo acaba de leer la carta al aire.

Live Blog: President Zelaya Has Returned to Honduras  9/22/2009 NarcoNews: scroll down for live blog: 9/21/09 - 5:42 p.m.: Leaders of the Liberal Party bloc that turned against the coup have now signed a public letter calling on party members "in all the popular barrios" of Tegucigalpa and throughout the country to converge on the Brazilian Embassy to protect President Zelaya. Radio Globo just read the letter live on the air.

Neighborhoods in resistance  9/22/2009 Quotha: "The de facto government, through its violence and denial of constitutional and human rights, has managed what Zelaya alone had not fully succeeded in doing: uniting the entire country in the struggle for freedom. Today, they resistance underwent an important shift: it went local. The following Tegucigalpa neighborhoods are defying the curfew and protesting against the coup d'etat:"

Red Cross buses taking kidnapped protesters to open-air prison at Villa Olímpica  9/22/2009 Quotha

Zelaya 'will rebuild democracy'  9/21/2009 BBC: "The ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, has returned to his country after nearly three months in exile following a political coup. Below is the transcript of an interview he gave to the BBC's Latin American service from inside the Brazilian embassy in the capital Tegucigalpa."

Honduras Tilts Toward Revolution  9/21/2009 Consortium News: Honduran Filmmaker Óscar Estrada describes the split in Honduras' ruling class and discusses the hard right religious bent of the coup regime.

¡Presidente Zelaya ya está en Honduras!  9/21/2009 El Libertador: "El legítimo Presidente de Honduras, Manuel Zelaya Rosales, ya se encuentra en territorio nacional, 85 días después de que fuera derrocado por la dictadura impuesta por Roberto Micheletti. Esto fue confirmado por el mandatario a un canal de televisión nacional: “Estoy en Tegucigalpa”, fueron las primeras palabras que vertió, ante el grito de entusiasmo por parte de la resistencia."

Noticias Urgente - las mas recientes noticias con Twitter  9/21/2009 Frente Nacional Contra el Golpe: "# EL GOBIERAJANO GOLPISTA ORDENO A LA POLICIA QUE RODEEN LA EMBAJADA DE BRASIL PARA REPRIMIRLA FAVOR LLAMAR A TODAS LAS EMBAJADAS INFORMANDO -- # El gobierno GOLPISTA ha dado instrucciones a las compañias de Celulares para que bloqueen todas las llamadas e incomunicar a la Resistencia -- # El Gobierno GOLPISTA en cadena Nacional declara Toque de Queda a partir de las 4:00 p.m. del Lunes 21 de sept hasta las 07:00 am del Martes"

COMUNICADO COFADEH: Retorno del Presidente Zelaya  9/21/2009 Habla Honduras - El Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras COFADEH: "El pueblo hondureño tiene el derecho a expresarse libremente, circular por todo el país sin menoscabo a sus garantías individuales. Invocamos el artículo 3 de la Constitución de la República “nadie debe obediencia a un gobierno usurpador ni a quienes asuman funciones con empleos públicos por la fuerza de las armas o usando medios o procedimientos que quebranten o desconozcan lo que esta Constitución y la leyes establecen. Los actos verificados por tales autoridades son nulos”... Denunciamos la suspensión abrupta de los servicios de la telefonía celular de la empresa TIGO que desde las 3:40 pm, ha dejado sin comunicación a miles de hondureños, violentando el derecho a la comunicación y la libertad de expresión, consignados en la Constitución de la República. Nos alarma la movilización de convoyes militares y policiales en las cercanías de la avenida La Paz, zona en donde se encuentra el Presidente Constitucional de la República, Don Manuel Zelaya Rosales, en la Embajada del Brasil."

Llamado a la población: todos a la Embajada de Brasil  9/21/2009 Hibueras: "Se hace un llamado a la población para que de manera ordenada vayan a la capital a reunirse con el presidente Zelaya, él está en la embajada de Brasil. Pueden también presentarse a las reuniones del frente de resistencia. En San Pedro Sula ya la gente está lista para partir y llegarán mañana martes. Mientras tanto miles y miles de personas están ya en los alrededores de la embajada de Brasil. Se pide a la población que contacte al frente de resistencia para mayor información, La embajada de Brasil está en la Avenida los Próceres cerca de la embajada de Estados Unidos. La consigna del frente de resistencia es el llamado a la Constituyente. Mujeres, hombres, jóvenes, ancianos, niños, todos, todos a la embajada de Brasil. Están transmitiendo la llegada de Zelaya: Telesur, radio Globo, Cholusat"

President Zelaya Has Returned to Honduras  9/21/2009 Honduras Oye: "State Department spokesman Ian Kelly says in Washington that U.S. officials have confirmed that Zelaya is in Honduras. But Kelly adds: “Where exactly he is, I don’t know, and we’re just trying to find out more details.” Officials of the interim government that ousted Zelaya earlier denied his claims that he had returned to Tegucigalpa. And a U.N. official denied that he was at the United Nations office he said he was speaking from in an interview with a local television station."

Manuel Zelaya's Nightime Return to Honduras  9/21/2009 Huffington Post: "That Zelaya traveled at night, crossing "rivers and mountains," as he put it, all the while managing to evade Honduran intelligence - largely funded, trained, and provisioned by the US military - is quite a feat - and also a hint that Zelaya still commands the loyalty of some sectors of the military and police… It has become increasingly clear that Micheletti's strategy of trying to hold out until scheduled presidential elections in late November was not working, with a movement within Honduras for a boycott of the vote gaining steam and most Latin American nations saying they would not recognize its results. Since the prospect of holding elections with Zelaya in prison - or perhaps still rallying supporters from his Brazilian refuge -- would only underscore the illegitimacy of the coup government, it seems that it will have no choice but to negotiate directly with Zelaya his return to power. Those backing the coup perhaps sense that their game is up; a communiqué issued by the National Front Against the Coup reports that some businessmen and military leaders who supported Zelaya's overthrow are leaving the country. If this is a moment of truth for Honduras, it is also one for Washington. Since his ouster, Washington has sent mixed messages, refusing to condemn the coup with the same force as the Organization of American States and the European Union, and refusing to apply as much pressure as it could - freezing the foreign bank accounts, for instance, of those behind the overthrow - that could force the restoration of democracy."

El Presidente Zelaya ha regresado a Honduras - En Tegucigalpa el Régimen golpista Ilegítimo ha bloqueado el Acceso a Internet y la Telefonía Celular  9/21/2009 NarcoNews: "Desarrollando…Seguiremos actualizando aquí cuando estemos en condiciones de informar y confirmar más…"

Live Blog: President Zelaya Has Returned to Honduras  9/21/2009 NarcoNews: "As occurred during the first hours of the June 28 coup d'etat, the Internet signals of Channel 36 and Radio Globo are blocked, as is cell phone service in the capital (I've yet to confirm that there is any Internet or cell phone access in Tegucigalpa at all right now - it all appears to be jammed - but we do have reporter Belén Fernández reporting right this moment from that city and the information blockade will be broken soon enough.) We can take that extreme of censorship as additional confirmation that the President has indeed returned and the illegitimate coup regime is panicking. Developing... We'll update here as we're able to report and confirm more…"

Radio Globo en vivo desde Tegucigalpa, Honduras  9/21/2009 Radio Globo

EJERCITO REVOLUCIONARIO DEL PUEBLO HONDUREÑO  9/19/2009 ERPH.org: alleged false flag site

Honduras Resistance Warns of Provocateurs on the Internet  9/19/2009 NarcoNews: "And what drives the coup mongers battiest is that after 84 days of constant and massive dissent against the illegitimate coup regime – even after more than 3,500 arbitrary arrests of coup opponents, brutal beatings, torture and even some assassinations by the regime, its police and its military – the resistance remains nonviolent. Coup defenders have thus tried to seize upon isolated images of youths tossing tear gas canisters back at police, or the early August incident in which three unidentified men, a few blocks away from a protest march, set fire to a Popeye’s Chicken restaurant with a Molotov, as somehow representative of the resistance. They’ve tossed in a few photos of graffiti on the walls of Honduran cities as further supposed evidence of the unruly nature of the resistance. But that dog hasn’t hunted and so now the deceit and trickery has sunk to a new low: the invention, out of thin cyberspace, of a supposed guerrilla army and its website which claims the armed organization (one that doesn’t exist) is sponsored by the National Resistance Front Against the Coup d’Etat, the umbrella organization for many organizations and individuals that oppose the coup."

WHOIS results for erph.org  9/19/2009 Network Solutions: "Registrant Name:Georges Godoy Registrant Street1:106 avenue Roger Salengro Registrant City:Chaville Registrant State/Province: Registrant Postal Code:92370 Registrant Country:FR Registrant Phone:+33.147500943"

Golpistas racistas: cierre del Hospital Comunitario garífuna de Ciriboya  9/18/2009 Honduras Resists: "En los útlimos días se viene haciendo efectiva la amenaza de la conversión del Hospital Comunitario de Ciriboya en un simple centro de salud, descalificando la enorme labor de apoyo efectuada por los médicos garífunas graduado en la ELAM y las brigadas cubanas. Las razones que motivan al régimen de facto a tomar la determinación de destruir el trabajo efectuado por el Hospital Comunitario de Ciriboya, radica en el racismo de los funcionarios estatales que se han incorporado a la pesadilla orquestada por Micheletti, y al desprecio por la visión social de los médicos educados en Cuba, versus a la mentalidad capitalista de la mayoría de los médicos egresados de las escuelas locales."

Racist coup government: Shut down the Garífuna Community Hospital of Ciriboya  9/18/2009 Honduras Resists: "This report was written by the National Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), the largest organization of Afro-Hondurans and an important force within the resistance to the coup d'etat. The Garífuna doctor who spearheaded the creation of the hospital, Dr. Luther Castillo has been faced with ongoing threats to his life and freedom as a result of the coup."

Honduras and Iran: Essay Requirement for the School of Authentic Journalism  9/17/2009 Narco News: "In June of 2009 Civil Resistance Movements Emerged in Two Countries, but Much of the Media Coverage Treated Each Differently"

Rights Action SPEAKING TOURS - FALL 2009 - “RESISTANCE TO MILITARY COUPS & GOLD MINING DEVASTATION IN HONDURAS & GUATEMALA”  9/17/2009 Rights Action: "In October, activists with Rights Action will be on speaking tours in Ontario, Quebec, eastern Canada, and parts of north-east USA, showing slides and short documentaries and speaking about the on-going pro-democracy, anti-coup movement in Honduras and about indigenous and community resistance to Goldcorp Inc.’s open-pit, cyanide leach mines in Guatemala and Honduras."

The Honduran Coup: Was it a Matter of Behind-the-Scenes Finagling by State Department Stonewallers?  9/16/2009 COHA: "Evidence points to Senator John McCain, Otto Reich, the heavily ideological policy advisor on Latin America for the McCain campaign, and Robert Carmona-Borjas, a Venezuelan lawyer, columnist and academic, all of whom may have had significant financial and politicized ties to the U.S. telecommunications industry. Senator McCain and the International Republican Institute (IRI), of which he is chairman, have both received significant funding from AT&T. In return, the IRI has fought tirelessly against Latin American democracies that refuse to privatize their telecommunication companies. By chance, Zelaya has been one of the chief opponents to privatization. Additionally, connections between this corporate agenda and Carmona-Borjas, who fled to the U.S. in 2002 after Chávez had been briefly ousted, have since been discovered. Carmona-Borjas is now a co-founder of the Arcadia foundation, an institute that has launched fierce attacks against Zelaya, accusing him of alleged fraud and corruption involving Hondutel, the Honduran state telecommunications company that he has refused to privatize. A fierce opponent of Zelaya and an acquaintance of Carmona-Borjas, rightwing ideologue Otto Reich has contested any reinstallment of the Zelaya administration. Perhaps this is because his firm, Otto Reich Associates, is the paid agent of a number of clients promoting the free trade ideology in Latin America, which has closely coincided with the push for privatization of the Honduran telecommunications industry."

De Facto Regime Terrorizes Father of Slain Youth  9/16/2009 Earth Island Institute

Honduran presidential hopefuls to meet mediator  9/14/2009 AP: "Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said he will meet Wednesday with at least four of the six candidates, including the top two contenders, in an effort to gain their support for restoring ousted President Manuel Zelaya before the Nov. 29 ballot. Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who has been leading U.S.-backed efforts to restore Zelaya, said he will make clear that the world will not recognize the outcome of the election unless Zelaya is reinstated before then. "The idea is to speak with them frankly," Arias said at a news conference in Costa Rica's capital, San Jose, where the meeting will take place. "What good is there for a presidential hopeful in Honduras to win the elections if his future government will not be recognized by the international community and the sanctions will continue or even increase?"

History Repeats Itself in Honduras - Banana Workers Unions Apply Lessons of 1954 General Strike to Coup Resistance  9/14/2009 NarcoNews: "As for other kinds of replacement, Nuñez announced that many of the banana plantations in the vicinity of La Lima had been replanted with African palms, which produce palm oil and biodiesel. University of California professor Dana Frank, well – known by all at COSIBAH, offers one explanation for the proliferation of the African palm in her book Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. According to Frank, banana corporations like Chiquita took advantage of the destruction of the majority of the Honduran banana plantations by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 to withdraw from plantations that had workers’ unions or else replant them with African palms, which require less of a work force and thus presumably generate fewer workers’ demands. Other objectives of African palm proliferation were suggested by Nuñez, one of them being the expropriation of land from small farmers who had been encouraged to convert to the crop and then gone bankrupt due to increased Asian production of palms and their diminishing market price. Nuñez listed Honduran politician and businessman Jaime Rosenthal as an example of someone who might end up in possession of the expropriated land and proceeded to list other things already in the Rosenthal family’s possession, such as banks, crocodiles, the newspaper El Tiempo, and the Marathon soccer team – which, he added mischievously, workplace safety coordinator Gloria García avidly supported."

Resistencia antigolpista vuelve a las calles de Honduras  9/14/2009 PL

Honduras envoy says "ordered out" of U.N. rights body  9/14/2009 Reuters

Official: U.S. revokes visas of Honduran president, 15 others  9/13/2009 CNN

Honduras: Narcotráfico e imperio converge  9/11/2009 CubaDebate: "En Honduras la actividad de los carteles de la droga, el lavado de dinero, el surgimiento de numerosas fortunas sin explicación, intensa actividad en la construcción, infraestructuras innecesarias, no son actividades nuevas. De hecho ya durante esta década incluso un diputado del derechista Partido Nacional fue capturado mientras peleaba por recuperar un cargamento d droga de una avioneta que aterrizo clandestinamente en una carretera sin pavimentar en el despoblado departamento de Olancho (http://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/2003/07/08/internacionales/inter2.html) . Este diputado fue puesto en la cárcel, y antes de que se esclareciera nada fue ejecutado en la penitenciaria. El caso se cerró pero la conexión entre los fondos de la droga y los políticos hizo aparición por primera vez. Resulta sorprendente la efectividad policial desde entonces para ignorar evidencias, pistas o indicios racionales sobre este tipo de casos."

EU to warn Honduras of further sanctions over coup  9/10/2009 Reuters: ""Until a peaceful settlement is found, the EU will stand ready to take further restrictive measures, including targeting those members of the de facto government who are seen to be blocking progress on a negotiated solution," the statement, seen by Reuters, said."

Micheletti vs la “Bestia”  9/8/2009 AfroCubaWeb: "Al condenar desde el Parlamento hondureño al “lépero” Miranda, el hoy golpista Michiletti retomaba religiosamente las maldiciones proferidas por la jerarquía católica en contra de los seguidores de Miranda por tatuarse el diabólico signo 666 en el cuerpo. El arzobispo de Tegucigalpa, cardenal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez, hoy partidario del golpe de estado, había denunciado al líder satánico que encabeza la secta Creciendo en Gracia, por promover manifestaciones callejeras."

Bajo un golpe de Estado no puede haber elecciones libres  9/8/2009 Hibueras

FUND-RAISING APPEAL - RESISTING & ROLLING BACK THE COUP-REGIME IN HONDURAS  9/7/2009 Rights Action

They fear us because we are not afraid: Honduran women resist the coup  9/7/2009 Stabroek News, Guyana: "In their preliminary report, the Observatorio de la Transgresión Feminista (Feminist Transformation Watch) noted the central role of women in daily street marches and demonstrations rejecting the de facto regime of Roberto Micheletti and calling for the return of President Manuel Zelaya. They noted the increasing use of violence by the military and police against demonstrators, and that women were being targeted in specific and all too predictable ways. One news report described acts of sexual aggression against women, “ranging from verbal obscenities and threats to women being grabbed or beaten with batons in their buttocks, to torture and rape in detention”. In one reported incident, women who were demonstrating outside the Institute of Women against the policies of the newly installed Minister of Women (who has refused to hear any complaints of the violations of women’s human rights following the coup), found themselves on the receiving end of the baton wielding military who she called in to dismantle the protest. Given the fact that so many of the testimonies have implicated the military and police as perpetrators, women have been understandably reluctant to file reports. In a situation that Guyanese can surely sympathise with at present, what do you do when those entrusted with the ‘legitimate use of force’ and with people’s security and safety are among those that you fear?"

Creciendo en Gracia, una secta en campaña agresiva en Iberoamérica  9/7/2009 Zenit, Rome: Zenit es un periodico catolico en Roma - "En estos últimos años se ha puesto de actualidad una secta de origen cristiano denominada "Creciendo en Gracia", que se caracteriza por un proselitismo agresivo y sus ataques a la Iglesia católica y a otras confesiones religiosas. Fundada por un puertorriqueño que se hace llamar "Jesucristo hombre" y el Anticristo, está extendida por todos los países de habla hispana. Por eso publicamos este estudio, realizado por Luis Santamaría del Río, sacerdote de la diócesis de Zamora y miembro de la Red Iberoamericana de Estudio de las Sectas (RIES)."

Honduras targets deposed leader over expenses  9/6/2009 AFP: "Honduras' de facto government attacked deposed President Manual Zelaya on Saturday for wasting six million dollars of public funds on horses, vacations and Harley Davidson motorcycles. Government officials distributed a lengthy list of what they claimed were Zelaya's pet luxury items, including cash for the upkeep of his horses as well as airline tickets, jewelry, the use of a private helicopter, and his own top-of-the-range motorbike, local media reported."

Centrales obreras hondureñas acuerdan nuevo paro nacional  9/4/2009 Aporrea: "Hoy amanecieron en paro de labores las empresas estatales como: la empresa Nacional de energía eléctrica (ENEE), El Servicio Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (SANAA), la Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (HONDUTEL) y otras empresas más del Estado, cuyos empleados están afiliados a las tres centrales obreras que hay en el país, para participar en las protestas de la resistencia."

Honduran Garifuna Culture Threatened by Coup  9/4/2009 New American Media: by Willie Thompson - "The Honduran de facto coup government under Roberto Micheletti plans to eliminate the Honduran Garifuna people and culture. Micheletti has rescinded the Manuel Zelaya authorization to teach in the Garifuna language in school and to teach the language itself. All scholarships to Garifuna students have been eliminated. Now, Micheletti, with no opposition from the U.S. State Department, has set Sept. 1, 2009, to take over the Garifuna built and operated hospital and fire its Latin American Medical School (ELAM) trained Garifuna physicians, including Dr. Luther Castillo Harry, its founder. Dr. Castillo Harry has been targeted for assassination in order to decapitate the Garifuna leadership. The original open assassination strategy has been revised to arrest and imprison Castillo Harry and have him killed in jail as a way of covering his assassination."

U.S. Warns Honduras on New Vote  9/4/2009 WSJ: "U.S. officials also said they would revoke some visas of members and supporters of Honduras's interim government. Potentially more significant were the U.S. comments on the elections set for November. The interim Honduran government hopes that the inauguration of a new president will provide a path out of the country's current isolation. "At this moment, we would not be able to support the outcome of the scheduled elections," a statement by State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said. U.S. officials declined to comment further on the implied election threat."

Los hechos hablan  9/3/2009 ALAI Net: "Ese es el gran ejemplo que nos da la comunidad garífuna de Iriona que demanda, en forma urgente, la solidaridad del pueblo hondureño para que el hospital que fue construido con los esfuerzos de todos sus miembros, no les sea arrebatado para encadenarlo a un sistema estatal que no garantiza la permanencia de los beneficios médicos con que actualmente cuenta, especialmente los que ofrecen los profesionales garífunas, compatriotas graduados en Cuba."

Zelaya: Honduras election 'a fraud'  9/2/2009 Al Jazeera: "Manuel Zelaya, the ousted Honduran president, has said elections is his country due to be held on November 29 will be viewed as a fraud by the international community. Speaking to reporters in Washington, where he has been meeting with representatives from the Organisation of American States (OAS), Zelaya said he had been assured the result of the poll would not be recognised."

Chávez tiró la toalla  9/2/2009 Cuba Entre Rejas: "Hoy hemos recibido dos buenas noticias. La Unión Europea aprobó el desembolso de $150 millones que estaban pendientes de entrega al gobierno de Honduras y que habían manifestado que no lo harían. La segunda buena noticia es que en el día de ayer una delegación de empresarios del San Salvador y Panamá se reunieron con el presidente Roberto Micheletti."

EL LIBERTADOR aporta pruebas: El Heraldo mintió: Secretario de Seguridad hizo el retiro de cincuenta millones del Banco Central  9/2/2009 El Libertador

La resistencia se profundiza con el boicot electoral: Vamos por la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente  9/1/2009 El Libertador: “Vamos a despreciar y rechazar a todos los políticos y las políticas golpistas que hoy están avalando la farsa electoral, vamos a elegir una Asamblea Constituyente para una nueva Constitución, un nuevo acuerdo para refundar a Honduras”.

Clinton to meet Zelaya, US mulls cutting off aid  9/1/2009 Reuters: "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to meet ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Thursday, the State Department said as Washington debates formally cutting off aid to the Honduran government… Clinton's Washington talks with Zelaya, a wealthy landowner who moved toward the left after taking office, take place against the backdrop of an extended U.S. government debate on whether he was deposed by the military."

Honduran Zelaya post coup return unlikely: Chavez  9/1/2009 Reuters: "Regardless of whether Zelaya returns or not, and really, at this point, that's hard to imagine, Honduras will keep up the fight," Chavez said in a phone call to Venezuelan television from Libya."

Takeover imminent of Honduras’ Garifuna Community Hospital  9/1/2009 SF Bay View: by Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)

Pese a la presión, Micheletti inicia campaña para elecciones generales  8/31/2009 ADITAL

Scenes of Resistance in Honduras  8/31/2009 Counterpunch

Position of National Front Againt the Coup on Elections  8/31/2009 Honduras Resists: "NEITHER CAMPAIGN NOR LEGITIMATE ELECTIONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE COUP."

OFRANEH: Golpistas racistas cierran Hospital Comunitario Garifuna de Ciriboya  8/31/2009 Honduras Solidarity: "En los útlimos días se viene haciendo efectiva la amenaza de la conversión del Hospital Comunitario de Ciriboya en un simple centro de salud, descalificando la enorme labor de apoyo efectuada por los médicos garífunas graduado en la ELAM y las brigadas cubanas. Las razones que motivan al régimen de facto a tomar la determinación de destruir el trabajo efectuado por el Hospital Comunitario de Ciriboya, radica en el racismo de los funcionarios estatales que se han incorporado a la pesadilla orquestada por Micheletti, y al desprecio por la visión social de los médicos educados en Cuba, versus a la mentalidad capitalista de la mayoría de los médicos egresados de las escuelas locales. La labor efectuada tanto por las brigadas cubanas como por los médicos garífunas, ha servido de paradigma al igual que la construcción con recursos propios de un hospital modelo, único en Honduras y ejemplo para los demás pueblos indígenas."

The Parable of the Honduran Congresswoman and the Gringa Blogger  8/31/2009 Narco News: "Congresswoman Silvia Ayala Multi-Tasks to Restore Democracy as Self-Pitying Expat Blogger Attempts to Smear Her While Updating Amazon Wish List"

Toppling a Coup, Part VII: A School of Leaders in Honduras  8/31/2009 NarcoNews: "75 young Afro-Honduran community organizers gathered this weekend in La Ceiba and issued a call for a November 2010 referendum for a new Constitution. D.R. 2009 Samuel Molina… The July comment by its make-believe “foreign minister” that referred to US President Barack Obama as “that little nigger” was not an isolated gaffe: Coup “president” Roberto Micheletti has additionally installed the country’s most infamously bigoted politician, Rafael Pineda Ponce, as his very own chief of staff. As the de facto regime’s “minister of government,” Pineda Ponce has suddenly found new relevance in Honduran political life. Before the coup plotters rescued him from obscurity, Pineda Ponce was a disgraced and largely forgotten 2001 presidential candidate on the Liberal Party line who lost to President Ricardo Maduro largely due to the total rejection Pineda Ponce faced from the Afro-Honduran population after he referred to those citizens sneeringly as “monkeys” that hang from trees."

U.S. must get tough to help restore democratic order in Honduras  8/30/2009 Seattle Times: By Elvia Valle - "ROBERTO Micheletti, the man who, on June 28, supported a military coup against the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and then assumed control of the country, was until recently a close friend and political ally. For years, I had admired his strong commitment to democracy. But then when I first realized, in early June of this year, that Micheletti was prepared to betray his principles in his effort to force President Zelaya out of power, I felt a deep sense of disgust and fear… Moreover, on top of being unconstitutional, the vote to approve the destitution of Zelaya was not transparent. I am a member of our Congress' Executive Committee, yet I was not summoned to participate in the vote to approve the president's removal, nor were another 20 fellow Liberal Party members of Congress. The regime then tried to fool the world by claiming there was a unanimous congressional decision supporting the coup, even though some 27 congress members publicly voiced their opposition…. The U.S. should freeze the de facto regime leaders' U.S.-based assets, and revoke their visas, as the U.S. State Department has already started to do. The U.S. should also join the Union of South American Nations and Mexico in refusing to recognize the outcome of November's elections. Since the electoral process would be held under a de facto regime that has suppressed all constitutional liberties, civil guarantees and the freedom of expression, conditions for free and fair elections will be impossible, and some politicians who have publicly denounced the coup now face reprisals and retaliation for their ties to President Zelaya."

“Los cubanos médicos llegan a cualquier sitio y atienden a la gente como lo que es”  8/29/2009 Dick Emanuelsson

“Los médicos cubanos curamos, prevenimos, y no hablamos de dinero, así nos formamos”  8/29/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: "Hace 16 meses llegó la primera Brigada Médica Cubana a Ciriboya, una aldea del municipio de Iriona. Ganó inmediatamente el cariño y el amor de la población garifuna. Trabajaron los cubanos un año y fueron reemplazados por un nuevo contingente. Con ellos conversé cuando solo faltaba un mes antes de que inaugurara un hermoso hospital de dos pisos el 8 de diciembre. Los tres cubanos con que conversamos son la Licenciada en Enfermería LOYNA CARIDAD MILANES ALDAZABAL, la especialista en Medicina Integral (MGI) KENYA FERNÁNDEZ MORA y el Estomatólogo, JORGE LUÍS CHIVAS."

GARIFUNAS: “El capitalismo que existe en Honduras nos ha destruido”  8/29/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: "Diálogo con Arnulfo Mejias Zelaya, el Alcalde del muncipio de Iriona y de la Comunidad Garífuna que subraya que “antes que llegaran los médicos cubanos en Iriona sólo había un médico”"

Garifunas: La lucha por el derecho a salud para el pueblo garifuna  8/29/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: "El 27 de febrero del 1999 llegaron los primeros estudiantes latinoamericanos para comenzar sus estudios en la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina, ELAM, una institución que fue inaugurada por Fidel Castro el 15 de noviembre del mismo año cuando se celebraba la Cumbre de los Jefes de los paises Iberoamericanos. Desde el inicio estuvo al frente Eladio Valcárcel, vicerrector de la ELAM con lo cual conversamos en esta entrevista exclusiva."

HOSPITAL GARIFUNA: Cuba y Estados Unidos trabajan juntos en Honduras  8/29/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: "Entrevista a John Garamendi, Vicegobernador del Estado de California en Estados Unidos durante la inauguración de una clínica en Ciraboya."

HOSPITAL GARIFUNA: Diálogo con el Dr. Luther Castillo Harry, motor de la lucha del pueblo garifuna  8/29/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: "LUTHER: Primero que nada agradecer profundamente a ti, compañero Dick, por esta oportunidad. Vale aclarar que los verdaderos motores de este proyecto son Fidel, el pueblo cubano y el pueblo garífuna, que creemos son engranajes muy importantes. Fidel por la concepción de este proyecto que es la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina, que nos permite a nosotros los pobres, los afrodescendientes de Honduras, e hijos de campesinos, de obreros y diferentes grupos étnicos, formarnos en esta noble carrera que es la de Medicina. El pueblo cubano por el apoyo y ese soporte que ha dado a estos ideales. Y el pueblo garífuna por el compromiso que hemos tenido en la lucha por muchos años y es la que nos mantiene ahí firmes para crear este proyecto, que es la idea con la que fue concebida la ELAM."

HOSPITAL GARIFUNA: LA LUCHA POR LA SALUD DEL PUEBLO GARIFUNA EN HONDURAS  8/29/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: Expresión de la solidaridad internacionalista de la Revolución Cubana - Reportaje, audio y fotos de Dick Emanuelsson - Trascripción Adriana D'Ambrosio, la Juventud (Montevideo) - "Transcurrieron 116 años, entre que se fundó la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Honduras hasta que se pudo graduar el primer médico garifuna en esa Facultad. Sin embargo, entre 2005 y 2007 ya han sido graduados en la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicinas (ELAM), en Cuba, 32 médicos garifunas y están por graduarse varias decenas más de esta etnia hondureña. Es con este panorama comenzamos este reportaje divididos en cinco partes."

El golpe de estado en Honduras y los aparatos clericales  8/28/2009 ADITAL: por Helio Gallardo Martínez, Teólogo del DEI (Departamento Ecuménico de Investigación). Profesor de la Universidad de Costa Rica -- "Por el contrario, la ruindad ventajista de las palabras del Cardenal no hizo sino confirmar que al menos él sí sabía que se había producido un golpe de Estado y que políticamente un eventual retorno de Zelaya tornaría más vigorosa la resistencia interna de la población que se oponía a los golpistas. Puesto que tuvo a la mano una mejor y coherente opción para debilitar la posición de Zelaya (a quien probablemente odia por razones personales) su aporte personal, además de ruin, puede considerarse estúpido. Que se haya reparado poco en ello se deriva exclusivamente de que, como cardenal, la gente ve en él y escucha en sus palabras, algo sagrado."

Dictador Roberto Micheletti reta a Estados Unidos y la OEA: "No tenemos miedo al embargo de nadie"  8/27/2009 El Libertador

Catalyzing a New Movement - The Coup and Honduran Women  8/26/2009 Counterpunch: "One of the things that provoked the coup d'etat was that the president accepted a petition from the feminist movement regarding the day-after pill. Opus Dei mobilized, the fundamentalist evangelical churches mobilized, along with all the reactionary groups," he explained."

BALTASAR GARZÓN: “Para la defensa de derechos humanos no existe frontera”  8/26/2009 El Libertador: "Asimismo, respecto al caso de Billy Joya, señalado de violación de derechos humanos en la década de 1980, el miembro de la Federación Internacional de Derechos Humanos, Guillermo Pérez, afirmó: “Si el aparato judicial hondureño no ha hecho nada en este caso, de nuevo el ejercicio de la jurisdicción universal de España se puede plantear con el señor Billy Joya y él lo debe tener muy claro”."

Dictador hondureño desafía a Estados Unidos  8/26/2009 El Libertador

Honduran resistance goes it alone  8/26/2009 NarcoNews: "60 days of anti-coup protests show persistence in civil disobedience and little faith in int'l community."

Friedrich Naumann Foundation  8/25/2009 Deep Politics Forum: "The work of the Nauman-Foundation in Latin America is currently drawing attention, because the FDP affiliated organization has conspicuously been supporting the Honduran putschists. Their party, the Partido Liberal de Honduras (PLH), is closely cooperating with this German foundation, and several of the foundation's IAF alumni had already been named ministers and vice ministers before the putsch (german-foreign-policy.com reported [4])."

Fundación alemana que apoya golpe en Honduras patrocina a Carlos Alberto Montaner  8/25/2009 Mundial, Caracas: por Jean Guy Allard - "La fundación alemana Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (FNS), denunciada ante el Parlamento alemán por su apoyo al régimen fascista de Roberto Michiletti, también da cobertura al terrorista de origen cubano Carlos Alberto Montaner y desarrolla operaciones propagandísticas en contra de los gobiernos progresistas de Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua y Venezuela. Esta organización acaba de ser objeto de acusaciones de injerencia y de interpelaciones al gobierno federal alemán por el grupo parlamentario del partido socialista Die Linke (La Izquierda), quién atacó el carácter ilegitimo de las operaciones de esta fundación ultraderechista vinculada al FDP (Partido Demócrata Liberal)."

Toppling a Coup, Part VI: Electoral, Armed, or Something Else  8/25/2009 NarcoNews: "For seventeen years, ODECO and the man the organization calls its principal strategist, Celeo Alvarez Casildo, have built what is evidently the largest and most advanced project of community organizing anywhere in (and one that reaches across a wide geographical swathe of) Honduras. As Afro-Hondurans they have self-organized to defend and expand their civil rights and those of indigenous peoples and other minorities, to win proportional representation in Congress and other governmental bodies, to overturn NAFTA-style initiatives that would have opened the door wider to foreign ownership of Honduran property and resources and, among other conquests, to legalize 32,000 hectares of communal lands. “We had always been invisible,” Alvarez, fifty-years-young, explained to your reporters. A recent reminder of the unapologetic racism rampant in the mindset of the Honduran oligarchy came in the early days after the June 28 coup d’etat when the regime’s make-believe foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, expressed his views about US President Barack Obama: “Ese negrito no sabe nada de Honduras,” or “That little nigger doesn’t know anything about Honduras.” Alvarez and ODECO launched an all-out media offensive that forced the regime’s first defeat: Ortez’s resignation (the regime transferred him to a less visible sinecure in its bureaucracy)."

Prohíbido disentir  8/23/2009 Hibueras: "El Noticiero Radio noticias Chic, que dirigía acertadamente el compañero Mario Peralta, a través de la radio Chic Estéreo de San Esteban, Olancho fue cerrado por los propietarios de la radio, encabezados por la diputada suplente Mirian Paz, en represalia por haber transmitido en el noticiero un pronunciamiento del Frente De Resistencia Popular de San Esteban, Olancho y una entrevista del coordinador general del frente Ing. Mario Méndez."

Escalating Sexual Aggression Against Women Protesting Military Coup  8/23/2009 Honduras Oye: "Women’s and human rights groups are receiving reports of escalating sexual aggression against women both in the demonstrations and in detentions, ranging from verbal obscenities and threats, to women being grabbed or beaten with batons on their buttocks, to torture and rape in detentions, noted Adela Coria of the Center for Women’s Studies (CEM). In today’s Forum in Tegucigalpa, Yadida Minero reported that she had just taken a young woman to a radio station to denounce her torture and rape with a rifle while in detention at a police station. Likewise, in the United States, the diminishing number of media reports on Honduras reflect how Pres. Obama led by Secretary State Hillary Clinton is backing away from his originally strong condemnation of the coup which ousted the legally elected President Zelaya, according to Breny Mendoza, a Honduran living in the US, and professor at California State University in Northridge."

HONDURAS’ Cuban Connection: Coup AND Assassination Attempts?  8/23/2009 Honduras Oye: "In an article he wrote (translated by Machetera) in early July, Dr. Nestor Garcia Iturbe, identified a network of Cuban terrorists that was involved in the coup against President Zelaya. Among them was Ralph Nodarse, owner of Channel 6 TV in San Pedro Sula and good buddy of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. The following article written by Miguel Angel Ferrer suggests that not only was Nodarse involved in the coup, but was an active participant in assassination attempts against President Zelaya. And. as if this is not enough, let’s remember that the next stop for Cuban terrorist, Armando Valladares, the darling of the Reganites, is supposed to be Honduras."

Honduras Reports Lack of Towns Named for Oliver North  8/23/2009 NarcoNews: "Last Thursday night in the northeastern Honduran port of Trujillo, Al Giordano and I visited the Bahia Bar, past clients of which had allegedly included Marine Corps officer Oliver North in the 1980s. North’s patronage was presumably an effect of the bar’s proximity to the Trujillo airfield, which functioned as a transit point for Colombian cocaine en route to the United States."

The Learning Curve of the Teachers vs. the Honduras Coup  8/23/2009 NarcoNews: "In this tropical banana producing region, the highway blockades of July were of longer duration – some for as long as 60 or 70 consecutive hours – than in other parts of the country (see also Belén Fernández’s related report from the region, Honduras Reports Lack of Towns Named for Oliver North) and faced less interference from repressive forces. “There is more respect here from the police and the Army,” Paz explained, and by respect it’s clear that he means a healthy fear of provoking this population. Colón – like Olancho to the south, and much of eastern Honduras – has a farming and ranching populace many of whom possess weapons for hunting and protection. And while the resistance here, too, is nonviolent, the locals do have a nationwide reputation for self-defense. One of the first and biggest stores one sees upon entering Tocoa, population 53,000, is called “La Armería” – “The Gunshop” - and displays large hand painted images of the weapons and bullets on sale inside. As in the rural regions of the United States, sportsmen are a big part of the culture, as are omnipresent cowboy hats men wear. That this region’s civil resistance has remained pacific is evidence of the self-discipline maintained so far by its movement’s most important sectors."

CIDH confirmó existencia de patrón de uso desproporcionado de la fuerza pública en Honduras  8/22/2009 Defensores en Linea

Despidos ordenados por ministra de facto, ponen en peligro la memoria histórica de Honduras  8/22/2009 Defensores en Linea

CIDH comprueba violaciones a los derechos humanos en Honduras  8/22/2009 El Libertador

Feministas en resistencia: “S i Zelaya no retorna, se dará otra lucha histórica”  8/22/2009 El Libertador

Los golpistas se hacel el hara kiri: en 80% se redujo el flujo turístico en Honduras  8/22/2009 Hibueras: "Tan grave es la crisis que la Federación de Cámaras de Turismo (FEDECATUR) están haciendo hasta lo imposible para unir esfuerzos para que las pérdidas sean menores que las habidas hasta ahora, y es que dar un golpe de Estado en plena temporada puede ocurrírsele unicamente a la débil y desraizada empresa privada hondureña, que siempre ha visto a corto término y jamás ha podido superar el cortoplacismo. Esa debilidad e inmadurez fue habilmente explotada por los tiburones venezolanos golpistas y ahora por los aventureros cubanos que, tranquilamente, llegan a ofrecerse al gobierno de facto para reprimir a los hondureños que protestan contra el golpe de Estado."

Open Letter to Kenneth Roth - Why has Human Rights Watch Fallen Silent on Honduras?  8/21/2009 Counterpunch: "We are deeply concerned by the absence of statements and reports from your organization over the serious and systematic human rights abuses that have been committed under the Honduran coup regime over the past six weeks. It is disappointing to see that in the weeks since July 8, when Human Rights Watch issued its most recent press release on Honduras, that it has not raised the alarm over the extra-judicial killings, arbitrary detentions, physical assaults, and attacks on the press – many of which have been thoroughly documented - that have occurred in Honduras, in most cases by the coup regime against the supporters of the democratic and constitutional government of Manuel Zelaya… We know that there are, sadly, innumerable urgent human rights crises around the world, all of which require your attention. Addressing the deteriorating situation in Honduras, however, is of paramount importance given its potential to serve as a precedent for other coups and the rise of other dictatorships, not just in Honduras, but throughout the region."

La figura de las manifestaciones ilícitas amenaza a la Resistencia contra el Golpe  8/21/2009 Defensores en Linea: "Los acusados y acusadas por el Ministerio Público que se convirtieron en perseguidos políticos del gobierno de facto de Roberto Micheletti, fueron capturados, torturados y detenidos ilegalmente por efectivos policiales, durante un brutal desalojo a una manifestación pacífica, ejercido por las fuerzas represivas del Estado, el pasado miércoles 12 de agosto en el centro de la capital."

Amnesty: Honduran Forces Using Arrests, Beatings to Punish Zelaya Supporters  8/20/2009 Democracy Now: "Yes, we visited the country at the end of July, and we had the opportunity while we were there to visit a police station just after a demonstration had taken place. We interviewed some of the seventy-five people who were detained in that police station. For example, we interviewed a nineteen-year-old girl who had injuries to her back, to her arms, to her legs, from where she’d been beaten repeatedly by police using their batons. This was during the breakup of a peaceful demonstration that day. That’s just one example of many during that day when we interviewed those people at the police station."

"Más tarde o temprano vamos a tener una guerrilla en Honduras”  8/20/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: “Si se sigue reprimiendo el pueblo y provocando a la juventud, que no se extrañen las clases golpistas, que más tarde o temprano vamos a tener una guerrilla en Honduras”

Honduras regime breaks ties with Argentina  8/19/2009 AFP: "The de facto leaders said they were breaking off relations on the basis of "strict reciprocity" after Argentina last week expelled the Honduran ambassador over her support for the military coup. Diplomatic relations would now pass through the Israeli embassy in Argentina, they said in a statement."

Honduras government takes over the only Garifuna hospital in the country  8/19/2009 Caribbean Net News: "This unrest in Honduras, if it continues, could lead to many of these Garifuna people leaving Honduras to go and join their relatives in Belize and the United States. This action on the part of the current Honduran government could be considered a gross violation of the Garifuna people’s human rights. The act of forcefully closing down a hospital that takes care of the sick and needy by the military is not one that falls into good behavior with any humanitarian government or agency throughout this world. As a Garifuna from Belize who has relatives all over Honduras, like many other Garifuna people from Nicaragua, Guatemala and Belize, I call on all Garifuna people throughout Central America and the world to file a complaint with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, the United States, other countries and international agencies to condemn this outrageous act. The Garifuna people who are seeking treatment for their diseases and are currently on medication may not be able to survive while this unrest is ongoing."

Honduras post-coup mediation moves to Washington  8/19/2009 UPI: "State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters the talks had taken place and included acting Assistant Secretary of State Craig Kelly. "But it in no way -- I'd like to emphasize -- this in no way is meant to imply any kind of acceptance of the de facto regime in Tegucigalpa," he said." [wink, wink]

Cracks in the Honduran Coup Regime Grow Wider  8/18/2009 NarcoNews

“The Only Crime” in Honduras  8/16/2009 Upside Down World: "Soon after the highway blockade began, there was a negotiation between resistance leaders and police officials, supposedly in order to avoid yet another violent eviction. According to witnesses, a verbal agreement was made between the two parties to allow the protest to continue for another hour and peacefully disperse. However, approximately twenty minutes after the agreement was reached, a large police presence gathered, along with some elements of the army. The police then proceeded to violently quell the protest, using tear gas and a water cannon. The demonstrators dispersed, but police ran after resistance participants running towards downtown Choloma, using brutal violence during their arrest of protesters and others, and during their transfer to the nearby police station in Choloma. Twenty-seven people were detained. Among them were minors, elderly people, women, and journalists. The majority of the 27 detained were violently beaten."

Honduras Charges Zelaya Supporters With Sedition  8/14/2009 ABC: "Some 24 demonstrators were charged with sedition and damaging private property, said Melvin Duarte, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office. Another four were charged with aggravated arson and terrorism in the burning of a bus and a restaurant. Interim President Roberto Micheletti condemned the clashes as "violent and terrorist" and vowed his government would no longer tolerate street blockades and other disruptions."

Honduras Coup: The Labor Angle  8/14/2009 In These Times: "Maria Luisa Borjas, a Congressional candidate in the upcoming November elections with the leftist UD party, said organized labor has been key in mobilizing the population and gaining solidarity from U.S. and European unions. International unions including the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and International Textile Workers Federation have made statements against the coup and called for a boycott of Honduran exports; and AFL-CIO officials have spoken in support of Zelaya. “The strongest arm of the resistance was the unions,” said Borjas, a former police officer fired for exposing corruption. She noted that U.S. and European union workers are refusing to unload or handle Honduran products, including fruits and vegetables, in protest against the coup. “That’s a big blow to business, and it hits them right where it hurts most, the pocket book,” she said."

Pedro Magdiel Muñoz Salvador’s via dolorosa  8/14/2009 Machetera: "El Heraldo, the Honduran newspaper that goes so far as to use Photoshop to erase the blood of Honduran victims in its photos in order to conceal the consequences of the coup d’etat, reported with record speed that at 12:22 p.m. – just 22 minutes after the removal of the body had begun from the eastern part of the country, while the process to determine the causes of Mr. Muñoz’s death had not even finished – that the national police had nothing to do with his arrest, according to their spokesman, Javier Cerrato."

¿Qué es un golpe de Estado?, sinfonia de una masacre  8/13/2009 Honduras Resistencia

Interview with Fanni Castillo, young Garifuna leader  8/13/2009 Honduras Resists: "I am Fanni Eliszabeth Solarzano Castillo and I represent the Garifuna community Triunfo de la Cruz."

Israeli commandos in Honduras  8/13/2009 Machetera: "We’re facing the COPEMH building, which is the professional association for middle education, and we also are speaking with Dr. René Andrés Pavón, who is the President of the Honduran Human Rights Commission (CODEH). Dick Emanuelsson (DE): Yesterday CODEH put out a news release denouncing a variety of things, among them that Micheletti’s de facto government has contracted with Israeli commandos or people to train the Honduran military/police forces. What we know from the civil war in Colombia is that these commandos have also been advising the Colombian military forces. What are the Israelis doing here?"

Update on Honduran physician Luther Ware & Garifuna Hospital  8/13/2009 Social Medicine: "Last week, says Dr. Castillo, the defacto ministry of health notified hospital staff that the facility was being downgraded to a health center “under new management”. “They told us that the Garifuna staff-both doctors and locally-trained nurses aides-will be fired,” he told MEDICC. “These measures would condemn to death many of our old and seriously ill people, and stop all outreach and prevention services.” However, he said the staff is staying put, and vows to continue working, even without the small stipend the government had provided in the past and with no guarantee of medicines or vital supplies. “We will not abandon our people,” said Dr. Castillo. “These are the poorest of the poor, the invisible poor.. They are the real victims of the coup,” he told MEDICC.”And they are the reason so many of our young people decided to become doctors in the first place.”"

Honduras reimposes night-time curfew in capital  8/12/2009 AFP: ""They are afraid of us because we are not afraid," said Zelaya's daughter, Hortensia, referring to the interim government led by Roberto Micheletti and quoting a popular chant among Zelaya supporters. The National Resistance Front, which opposes the bloodless coup that sent Zelaya into exile, has held marches in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to step up the pressure for his return."

Heridos de la represión policial del 12 de agosto  8/12/2009 COFADEH: fotos

Muertes ligadas al GOLPE DE ESTADO  8/12/2009 COFADEH: fotos

Anti-Coup Marchers Merge on the Capital of Honduras  8/12/2009 NarcoNews

Attack Against Offices of Vía Campesina in Honduras  8/12/2009 Upside Down World: "The act was a clear attack against our social organizations and leaders who are part of the National Front Against the Coup. In addition to the recent attack on Vía Campesina, a bomb capable of killing 15 people went off in the building of the Beverage Workers Union (STIBYS, by its Spanish initials) on July 26th 2009. Both organizations are part of the National Front Against the Coup. We condemn this incident given that the activities of Vía Campesina and the National Front Against the Coup are completely peaceful. It is important to mention that during curfew only police are permitted to be in the street."

Honduras: unions start open-ended strike  8/12/2009 WW4 Report: "As of Aug. 7 the de facto government was dismissing the general strike as only partial. In fact, teachers, healthcare workers, employees of the National Electrical Energy Enterprise and two unions of university students were on all on strike. Strike supporters said few businesses were open and schools were closed around the country. In Francisco Morazán department, which includes Tegucigalpa, the de facto government itself suspended classes, claiming fears that a swine flu epidemic would spread—although the Health Ministry didn't consider the epidemic serious enough to suspend an upcoming soccer match. Soldiers guarded some hospitals in the capital to keep striking medical workers from occupying them. The Mexican daily La Jornada reported that restaurants were empty in Tegucigalpa in the evenings, even though the authorities ended a curfew they maintained for much of the previous month. All four of the country's airports were closed, because 95 technicians had joined the strike. On Aug. 7 the taxi drivers unions decided to side with the strikers. Drivers said that in any case they'd had so little business since the coup that they couldn't make enough in fares to pay the rent for the cabs."

Honduras: Decenas de miles de hondureños entran en Tegucigalpa y San Pedro Sula  8/11/2009 Aporrea

US Secretary of State Clinton’s Micro-Management of the Corporation that Funds the Honduras Coup Regime  8/11/2009 NarcoNews: "In recent days, Narco News has reported that, in the three months prior to the June 28 coup d’etat in Honduras, the US-funded Millennium Change Corporation (MCC) gave at least $11 million US dollars to private-sector contractors in Honduras and also that since the coup it has doled out another $6.5 million. The latter revelation – that the money spigot has been left on even after the coup – comes in spite of claims by the State Department that it has placed non-humanitarian funding “on pause” pending a yet-unfinished review."

A U.S. Connection - The Honduran Coup  8/10/2009 Counterpunch: "According to Greg Grandin, a history professor at New York University, the coup makers also included the extremely right-wing Catholic organization, Opus Dei, whose roots go back to the fascist regime of Spanish caudillo Francisco Franco. In the old days, when the U.S. routinely overthrew governments that displeased it, the Marines would have gone in, as they did in Guatemala and Nicaragua, or the CIA would have engineered a coup by the local elites. No one has accused U.S. intelligence of being involved in the Honduran coup, and American troops in the country are keeping a low profile. But the fingerprints of U.S. institutions like the NED, USAID and School for the Americas—plus bipartisan lobbyists, powerful corporations, and dedicated Cold War warriors—are all over the June takeover."

Revelan registros del Senado: Jorge Canahuati, Camilo Atala y Jesús Canahuati pagaron la campaña en EE. UU. para consolidar el golpe de Estado  8/10/2009 El Libertador: "El propietario de El Heraldo y La Prensa, Jorge Canahuati Larach (der.); el socio principal de Ficohsa, Camilo Atala (izq.), y el presidente de los maquiladores, Jesús Canahuati (centro), aportaron 28,000 dólares para la campaña en Estados Unidos, a fin de consolidar el golpe de Estado, según rastreo de información de EL LIBERTADOR en la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado de EE.UU."

Honduras Coup: Template for a Hemispheric Assault on Democracy  8/10/2009 Global Research: "Costa Rican President Oscar Arias’s plan for ending the coup and restoring “stability” to Honduras should be called the “Obama-Clinton-Lula Plan.” Santiago O’Donnell, regular journalist for the Argentine Pagina 12, wrote on July 26 that the Arias Plan was traced out in a Moscow meeting between Lula and Obama. According to O’Donnell, “Lula wanted Zelaya to return and Obama wanted him not to remain in power. So they came to agreement: Zelaya would return but would not remain in power.” The plan’s evident, but unstated intent was to keep Zelaya from exercising any real power and block any possible return to office in the future. And, above all, to weaken the mass resistance movement. The two presidents met again at the G-8 summit in Italy… In a press conference in Mexico during his state visit this week, Zelaya sent a message to Washington and other hemispheric governments – either golpismo (coup making) by the extreme right will be contained, or Latin America’s left-wing guerrillas will be reborn. He again asserted the people’s right to insurrection under conditions of military dictatorship."

On the Road to Tegucigalpa with Father Andrés Tamayo  8/10/2009 NarcoNews

Toppling a Coup, Part III: Discipline Solves the Big Problems  8/10/2009 NarcoNews: "Marovich explained to Honduran organizers on the night of July 31 that when his movement in Serbia moved toward tactics that included informing the police agencies in advance of its plans for each action or demonstration, they succeeded in removing the uncertainty and fear among individual cops sent to contain those protests. “The officer might still receive an order to attack you,” Marovich explained. “But if he’s not personally afraid or nervous – something that happens more when he doesn’t know in advance what the multitude marching toward him is going to do or not - he can think more clearly about how to comply with that order.” Uncertainty, paranoia and fear almost always generate a much more brutal and violent response from individual police or soldiers: Even with those ordered to attack protesters, there are degrees in how savagely that can happen."

Toppling a Coup, Part II: The Honduras Regime Is Like an Onion  8/8/2009 NarcoNews: "In three decades of organizing or reporting on social movements, one develops a very good memory of which of them won their battles, which were defeated, and what made the difference between those that won and those that lost. If it could be boiled down to a single factor it would be this: In victorious struggles, a critical mass of the organizers arm themselves to think strategically and act tactically to isolate and defeat their opponent. They learn from experience that the power structure that props up the enemy – be it a government, a particular corporation or an entire political-economic system – is shaped like an onion, and they set about methodically to identify, target and peel away the rings of protection around its core."

Honduran Coup Government Continues Attack on the Poor with Plan to Seize Indigenous Hospital  8/7/2009 Huffington Post: "As MEDICC explains, the Garifuna Community Hospital opened in December of 2007 under an agreement with the government of President Zelaya and in accordance with an International Labor Organization covenant that supports locally-managed health services for indigenous and tribal peoples. According to Dr. Castillo, the hospital has treated 175,000 cases since that time, providing such services as birthing, surgeries, hospitalization, dental care, laboratory tests and other outreach and prevention services. Now, the de facto Honduran government is threatening the lives of the poor in the Ionia coastal department and surrounding area by its move to oust the staff of this hospital."

L 700 millones en pérdidas por tomas de carretera  8/7/2009 La Prensa: $37 million in dollars, a likely undercount

Toppling a Coup, Part I: Dilemmas for the Honduras Regime  8/7/2009 NarcoNews: "One thing that became crystal clear from my reporting from Comayaqua, Tegucigalpa, Catacamas, San Pedro Sula and points in between, through talks with members of the civil resistance, is that the best organizers among them are beginning to wake up each morning with that same question: How do we create a headache for the regime today? These headaches, growing in number and from decentralized locations begin to deliver “the death of a thousand cuts” to the regime, whose only hope to remain in control is to keep the national and international community convinced that, whether legitimate or illegitimate, it at least is in control. But the fast growth of these “dilemma actions” are painting a more compelling picture of a coup regime that very much is not in control, that it is unable to govern."

Senator Fears Letter Sends Wrong Signal on Honduras  8/7/2009 NYT: "The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is concerned that the Obama administration’s efforts to placate Republican critics of its policy on Honduras were giving the impression that American support for the restoration of the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, had begun to weaken. Frederick Jones, a spokesman for the committee chairman, Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, said Friday that the senator was worried that a State Department letter to Republican legislators “risks sending a confusing signal” about the United States’ support for negotiations aimed at restoring Mr. Zelaya to power… However, in the letter to Senator Lugar on Wednesday, the State Department seemed to distance itself from Mr. Zelaya, criticizing his “insistence on taking provocative actions” that contributed to the crisis and saying that the administration’s policy “is not based on supporting any politician or individual.” The letter angered Latin American leaders, who were already critical of what they considered a weak response by the United States. The United States has not withdrawn its ambassador and has avoided stronger economic sanctions, saying it was concerned about destabilizing the third poorest country in the hemisphere."

Honduran Coup Shows Business Elite Still in Charge  8/6/2009 AP: ''You can't go against the businessmen,'' said seamstress Gladys Gomez, 48. ''They're the ones that give us work.''

Policías hondureños propinan salvaje golpiza a reportero gráfico del diario TIEMPO  8/6/2009 Aporrea

Sinceramiento del imperio: EEUU reconoce que en Honduras no respalda a nadie en particular  8/6/2009 Aporrea: "La carta, dirigida al senador Richard Lugar, contiene críticas a Zelaya entre las que señala que ha incurrido en acciones "provocadoras" después del golpe de Estado del 28 de junio, cuando fue sacado del país por militares armados."

11 de Agosto de 2009: DIA DE ACCION GLOBAL POR HONDURAS  8/6/2009 COPINH

Ametrallan sede del PANI en franca amenaza contra sindicalistas  8/6/2009 Defensores en Linea

Ante la brutalidad policial en la UNAH  8/6/2009 Defensores en Linea

¡Conozca las diez familias que financiaron el golpe de Estado en Honduras!  8/6/2009 El Libertador

Preliminary Report by Int’l. Observation Mission on Human Rights in Honduras Issued Today  8/6/2009 HCV Analysis: "The fundamental rights violations reported to the Mission included a significant number of extrajudicial executions, hundreds of arbitrary detentions, multiple threats, curtailment of freedom of expression and information, as well as undue restrictions on the freedom of movement, altogether signaling a clear context of political persecution that especially affects political and union leaders, human rights defenders, social activists, journalists, foreign citizens, and others."

Honduras Coup Generals Break Silence in Hopes that World Will Understand Them  8/6/2009 NarcoNews

Coup regime steps up repression in Honduras  8/6/2009 World Socialist Web Site: "CODEH further charges that the Micheletti regime is receiving advice from an Israeli private security company on what level of violence to use against the demonstrators. It is also evident that Micheletti is surrounding himself with people who were associated with the dictatorship including the infamous Billy Joya, who is now an advisor to the de facto regime. Joya, an architect of the death squads of the 1970s, was trained by the American CIA and the Chilean fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, Another human rights group, the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), has reported that the regime has assembled a death squad of 120 individuals, which trains on private ranches and includes elements associated with the Pinochet dictatorship."

Disminuye consenso en cuanto a expulsión de Zelaya  8/5/2009 AP: " Un candidato importante a la presidencia de Honduras se distanció el miércoles del derrocamiento de Manuel Zelaya y calificó como un error el haberlo expulsado del país. Los comentarios de Elvin Santos exponen fisuras en el frente monolítico que la estructura de poder había mostrado respecto al derrocamiento de Zelaya el 28 de junio, aunque las autoridades hasta el momento han rechazado las demandas internacionales para que se le permita regresar."

Speaking of Democracy, Honduras, and President Obama. . .  8/5/2009 Global Research: "Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy. Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food Co had severely criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of 60% in Honduras’s minimum wage, claiming that the policy would cut into corporate profits. They were joined by a coalition of textile manufacturers and exporters, companies that rely on cheap labor to work in their sweatshops. Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America. I kept hearing people who claimed that it was a matter of record that Chiquita (United Fruit) and the CIA had toppled Guatemala’s democratically-elected president Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 and that International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), Henry Kissinger, and the CIA had brought down Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973. These people were certain that Haiti’s president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been ousted by the CIA in 2004 because he proposed a minimum wage increase, like Zelaya’s."

Adhesión al golpe descalifica a candidatos presidenciales hondureños  8/4/2009 CubaDebate: "Los candidatos presidenciales de los dos principales partidos políticos en Honduras están hoy prácticamente descalificados ante el pueblo por su adhesión al golpismo, observa la prensa local. Previstos para el próximo 29 de noviembre, los comicios tienen en estos momentos un futuro incierto y aunque prosperara la propuesta de adelantar su celebración, resultarían inaceptables para la mayoría de los ciudadanos si ocurren bajo la égida de quienes quebrantaron el orden constitucional."

Comandos israelitas con experiencias de Palestina y Colombia capacitan a las FF.AA. de Honduras  8/4/2009 CubaDebate: “Hasta ahora lo que nosotros tenemos nos indica que la misión que ellos tienen es preparar a la Fuerzas Armadas y la policía para disuadir manifestaciones de manera agresiva y violenta, tratando de cometer crímenes de naturaleza selectiva con el fin de construir miedo, construir escenarios de terror y lograr la desmovilización de la resistencia. Otras acciones que están haciendo es lograr que algunos empleados de la empresa de seguridad privada se pongan el uniforme de la policía y cometan actos de agresión directa contra los manifestantes. Ya que el policía de alguna manera ha tenido formación para disuadir movilizaciones y es un poco temeroso al momento de agredir a los manifestantes de alguna manera algo se le ha quedado en materia de formación en derechos humanos. En cambio los guardias de seguridad son doblemente pagados y se les garantiza la impunidad. Estas son prácticas que están desarrollando utilizando la experiencia del conflicto palestino y haber puesto en práctica algunas de estas acciones en Colombia”.

Represión, brutalidad y muerte: La orden del día del gobierno de facto  8/4/2009 Defensores en Linea

Pudimos reconocer un cambio en la estrategia de la represión  8/4/2009 Habla Honduras: "La misma persecución y brutal golpiza que se dio a los manifestantes en Tegucigalpa, se dio en Comayagua al día siguiente, Copán y ayer en San Pedro Sula con saldos más o menos similares. Muestra esto un aumento en la represión masiva que vive el pueblo hondureño, pero en especial, y explicaré esto con más detalle, muestra también un cambio en el foco de los ataques, su blanco ahora son los medios independientes. No es casualidad que en las 3 ocasiones en donde se atacó con disparos a los manifestantes, dos de ellas con saldos fatales, en todas había una cámara a pocos metros de las víctimas. En todas, y nuestras imágenes muestran, que si bien no podemos asegurar que se disparó contra nosotros, si se hizo con el ánimo de intimidarnos y dejar claro el mensaje: podrías ser vos. En la golpiza que la policía me dio, junto a cuatro camarógrafos más de forma casi simultánea, uno de los oficiales repetía lo que parece ser la justificación de estos ataques: es por culpa de ustedes, que no son objetivos en la información, que este país está de rodillas."

Ficoha, La Prensa, y los maquiladores pagan lobby golpista en EEUU. En el país pagan al ejercito para que reprima al pueblo  8/4/2009 Hibueras

Coup General: "We're Going After the Protest Leaders"  8/4/2009 NarcoNews

Radio Globo Defies New Military Tribunal Order to Close Its 15 Stations  8/4/2009 NarcoNews: "The order was printed on the hijacked stationary of the National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL, in its Spanish initials), executed by a military judge, and delivered to Radio Globo’s flagship station on 88.7 FM in Tegucigalpa at noon today: charged with “sedition,” the people’s radio station will be closed by decree, it proclaimed. But the station continues to broadcast here in San Pedro Sula at 104.5 FM and also from 14 other cities throughout the country, in defiance of the order, which had been solicited by the Armed Forces of Honduras clandestinely on July 31 and granted today by the illegitimate coup regime. This highly illegal situation – in which Armed Forces that claim to obey the orders of civilian authorities are the ones giving the orders to the regime over which media may broadcast and which may not – makes a lie, again, of the legaloid claims to be a civilian coup. But it’s the military – the same one that invaded and closed Radio Globo in the early hours of June 28 – that is calling the shots in Honduras today."

Israel, Honduras and Costa Rica  8/4/2009 Third World Traveler: "Honduras was one of Israel's first arms customers in Central America. Between 1975 and 1977, this second poorest of all countries in the Western Hemisphere bought 20 French super-Mystere fighter planes from Israel. Delivered at a time when it was U.S. policy to discourage the acquisition of sophisticated weaponry in Central America, these were the first supersonic aircraft in the region; some were equipped with Israeli-made Shafrir heat-seeking missiles. The Hondurans bought a range of other Israeli arms: Arava STOL aircraft, a fleet of armored vehicles mounted with recoilless rifles, and Galil rifles and Uzi submachine guns. For all its poverty, when Ariel Sharon visited Honduras, he was calling on one of Israel's three biggest clients. In the wake of Sharon's visit came more arms and training-both in Israel and Honduras for officers, pilots and troops."

Soros's pro-junta "colored revolution" in Honduras  8/4/2009 Wayne Madsen Report: "...the country's military-backed junta is supported by throngs of wealthy elites in the streets who have adopted the color white in support of the junta and its acting president Roberto Micheletti. The selection of the color white is perhaps fitting for a nation where the capitalist elite that supported the coup is practically 100 percent white and of European ancestry. The "white" nature of the coup leaders was best spelled out by the junta's first "Foreign Minister" Enrique Ortez Colindres who said of President Barack Obama: "that little black boy who knows nothing about anything . . . a little black man who doesn’t know where Tegucigalpa is." The use of white flags in pro-junta demonstrations and the wearing of white shirts by junta supporters is reminiscent of the themed "color revolutions" fomented and financed by global troublemaker and crisis financial speculator George Soros. At the same time white flags and shirts appeared on the streets of Honduras, green flags and clothing were being worn by anti-government demonstrators in Iran. The involvement of the Soros-linked National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which has worked with Soros's Open Society Institute (OSI) in organizing opposition movements and demonstrations in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Tibet, Serbia, and Sinkiang province in China, in the street demonstrations in both Honduras and Iran is clear."

Paramilitares formados por dictadura de Micheletti ya estarían actuando en Honduras  8/4/2009 YVKE: "Según las informaciones que posee la resistencia popular hondureña, los grupos de exterminio ya estarían actuando en todo territorio hondureño, y sólo en la ciudad de San Pedro Sula estarían apostados 23 de esos individuos. COFADDEH denuncia que esas bandas paramilitares fueron formadas en haciendas propiedad de empresarios y de militares ligados al golpe de estado. Bertha Olivo también denunció que hace aproximadamente una semana ingresaron a Honduras, dos terroristas chilenos con el propósito de asesorar al gobierno golpista. Al parecer, uno de estos individuos tendría el grado de general y arribaron a Tegucigalpa, utilizando credenciales de periodistas. También se encuentra en Honduras, desde antes del golpe de estado, el conocido agente desestabilizador venezolano Robert Carmona, a quien la resistencia hondureña lo señala como planificador de la asonada militar contra el presidente Manuel Zelaya. Carmona ya habría participado en el golpe de estado del 11 de abril de 2002 en Venezuela."

Militares hondureños asesinaron este lunes a campesino en El Paraíso  8/3/2009 Aporrea: "Fuerzas policiales que apoyan al régimen de Roberto Mocheletti, asesinaron al ciudadano, Pedro Hernández, luego de abrir fuego contra un vehículo que transportaba a varias personas en un retén cerca de la frontera con Nicaragua. Según el vocero de las Fuerzas Armadas, Ramiro Archaga, dispararon contra las ruedas del auto por negarse a hacer el alto, sin embargo, una vecina de la víctima denunció que los militares arremetieron indiscriminadamente contra todos los pasajeros."

Detrás de la “democracia” de Micheletti, el esbirro CIA Billy Joya y sus “Cobras”  8/3/2009 CubaDebate: "España solicitó sin éxito la extradición de Joya Améndola Pese por sus crímenes. Siempre recibió cobertura del aparato judicial que hoy pretende obstaculizar el regreso del presidente constitucional. Las actividades criminales de Los Cobras nunca se interrumpieron hasta la llegada la poder de Manuel Zelaya. En el 2004, se denunció ante un Relator Especial de Naciones Unidas cómo el 15 de julio de este mismo año, Los Cobras arrestaron a Daniel Ortiz Menjivar, un menor de 16 años de la Colonia Municipal de San Pedro Sula, sospechado por la policía de haber robado dos armas. Interceptado por el comando especial Ortiz Menjivar ha sido golpeado y le cortaron ambas manos. Poco después, el joven falleció de una hemorragia debida a la amputación salvaje. Un amigo que lo acompañaba Juan Manuel Aguilar, de 17 años, fue golpeado y violado antes de ser disparado mortalmente."

Comandos israelitas con experiencias de Palestina y Colombia capacitan a las FF.AA. de Honduras  8/3/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: “Hasta ahora lo que nosotros tenemos nos indica que la misión que ellos tienen es preparar a la Fuerzas Armadas y la policía para disuadir manifestaciones de manera agresiva y violenta, tratando de cometer crímenes de naturaleza selectiva con el fin de construir miedo, construir escenarios de terror y lograr la desmovilización de la resistencia. Otras acciones que están haciendo es lograr que algunos empleados de la empresa de seguridad privada se pongan el uniforme de la policía y cometan actos de agresión directa contra los manifestantes. Ya que el policía de alguna manera ha tenido formación para disuadir movilizaciones y es un poco temeroso al momento de agredir a los manifestantes de alguna manera algo se le ha quedado en materia de formación en derechos humanos. En cambio los guardias de seguridad son doblemente pagados y se les garantiza la impunidad. Estas son prácticas que están desarrollando utilizando la experiencia del conflicto palestino y haber puesto en práctica algunas de estas acciones en Colombia”.

España no avalaría elecciones  8/3/2009 El Tiempo, Honduras: "España no avalará elecciones en Honduras que se lleven a cabo bajo el gobierno instalado tras el golpe de Estado que a fines de junio depuso al presidente Manuel Zelaya, afirmó el canciller español, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, en declaraciones publicadas el domingo por el diario El País."

Un Llamado a Eliminar el Ejército Hondureño  8/3/2009 Habla Honduras

Zionists "Israelis" advise the Honduran dictatorship  8/3/2009 Palestine Telegraph: "In a prense conference, Pavon accused the de facto government of hiring an Israeli private security group to advise Police about the agressive attitude that they need to have against the protesters. Pavon announced that all these illegal and violent actions are being documented by CODEH in order to denounce them in an international level."

Israel: The Hijack State  8/3/2009 Reds - Die Roten: [published prior to 2001] - "The new Israeli-Honduras agreement involved sophisticated jet fighters, tanks, and Galil assault rifles (a specifically anti-guerrilla weapon). Sharon’s entourage during his visit included the head of the Israeli Air Force and the Director-General of the Defence Ministry. A Honduras government spokesman said that Sharon’s visit was more positive than an earlier one from President Reagan since Sharon “sold US arms” while “Reagan only uttered platitudes, explaining that Congress was preventing him doing more.” [20] In neighbouring Guatemala an even more bloody dictator, General Rios Montt, actually boasted to an ABC television reporter that the coup which brought him to power had been so successful, “because many of our soldiers were trained by the Israelis.” [21] In the summer of 1982, as Sharon was slaughtering Palestinians in Lebanon, Montt was slaughtering 5,000 Indians in the Guatemalan countryside as part of a “counter-insurgency” campaign – aided and abetted with Israeli weaponry and Israeli-trained expertise. [22]"

HONDURAS COUP RESISTANCE – SPEAKING TOUR IN U.S.A. HONDURAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND IMMIGRANT LEADERS TO VISIT WASHINGTON DC, NEW YORK, BOSTON, CHICAGO  8/3/2009 Rights Action: "One month after the interruption of constitutional order in Honduras through a military coup d'etat and in the wake of widespread reports of human rights violations harkening back to events of the 1980s, the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) is bringing a delegation of civil society representatives from that country to the U.S. to participate in a speaking tour and to advocate for the restoration of constitutional order and respect for human rights."

Military Coup Engineered By Two US Companies?  8/2/2009 Dprogram: "I was told by a Panamanian bank vice president, “Every multinational knows that if Honduras raises its hourly rate, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean will have to follow. Haiti and Honduras have always set the bottom line for minimum wages. The big companies are determined to stop what they call a ‘leftist revolt’ in this hemisphere. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.” ...Chiquita, Dole and all your representatives need to hear from you. Zelaya must be reinstated."

Después del golpe llega la tormenta  8/2/2009 Hibueras: "Repite hasta la saciedad "nosotros no aceptamos que nadie nos imponga nada" como para autoconvencerse, como queriendo olvidar quienes han sido los autores intelectuales del golpe: los cubanos de Miami junto con el apoyo de algunos senadores republicanos."

Otto Reich and the Honduran Coup D’Etat: The Provocateur, his Protege, and the Toppling of a President – Part Two  8/2/2009 Machetera

Honduras coup is more bloody than bloodless  8/2/2009 NY Daily News: "But Vallejo Soriano wasn't the first victim of "golpista" violence according to Dr. Luther Castillo, 33, director of the Luaga Hatuadi Waduheñu Foundation, a group that brings vital health services to isolated indigenous coastal communities. He left Honduras eight days ago with five other community leaders to "educate the world about 'el golpe.'" "We have denounced many extrajudicial executions," said Castillo. According to Castillo, in addition to Isis Murillo, a teenager killed July 5 at the airport waiting for Zelaya's return, there have been other deaths that can be directly attributed to the Micheletti regime. "On July 2, Gabriel Pino Noriega, from San Juan Puebla, was murdered; on Saturday, July 11, Roger Iván Báez, was shot while entering his home in San Pedro Sula; July 12, Ramón García, a 'campesino' leader, was also killed. And there are many more," he said. Castillo says it is ironic that Micheletti claims Zelaya's return would cause a bloodbath. "The bloodbath is already going on courtesy of the military," he said."

Matanza de hondureños obliga a la desaparición de las FF. AA.  8/1/2009 El Libertador

Former U.S. Ambassador Roger Noriega hired to push Honduran putsch agenda  8/1/2009 NarcoNews: "But in the case of Noriega, as has often been the case with Bush-era players, it appears some corners might have been cut in his Honduran lobbying assignment that may run counter to the letter of the U.S. statute governing that activity. Unfortunately, the U.S. law governing lobbying activity might itself fall short of addressing the realities on the ground in Honduras. That law, the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA), requires all agents, or lobbyists, representing “foreign entities” to declare as such on forms they are required to file with the Clerk of the U.S. House and the Secretary of the U.S. Senate."

Aseguran que brazo derecho de Posada se refugió en Honduras  7/31/2009 Aporrea: "A finales de septiembre del 2005, Chávez y 21 miembros de su banda fueron arrestados bajo cargos de robo de automóviles y estafa. Las autoridades aseguraron entonces que se trataba de "una de las principales estructuras del crimen organizado dedicadas al robo y hurto de vehículos a nivel nacional y centroamericano". Según la prensa salvadoreña, la investigación reveló que el brazo derecho de Posada había desarrollado “conexiones” con empleados de aduanas, agencias de trámites de documentos de tránsito e instituciones públicas y privadas. La operación realizada por la policía salvadoreña, denominada Tormenta, incluía una serie de allanamientos en San Salvador, Soyapango, Ciudad Delgado, Santa Tecla y hasta… Ilopango, el refugio de Posada durante años."

Is a Wider Right Wing Counter-Attack Looming? The Honduran Coup as Overture  7/31/2009 Counterpunch: "The coup plotters have some powerful friends in Washington. According to the New York Times from Sunday, July 12, “Mr. Micheletti has embarked on a public relations offensive, with his supporters hiring high-profile lawyers with strong Washington connections” to lobby against sanctions. Among them is Clinton-adviser, Bennett Ratcliff, and Lanny J. Davis, who was a personal lawyer for President Clinton and who campaigned for Hilary Clinton. On Friday, July 10, Davis testified on Capitol Hill in support of the Micheletti de facto government. While the perpetrators of the biggest threat to regional democracy in years were allowed to keep their US visas, bank accounts and even lobby on behalf of a former Clinton lawyer in Washington, the democratically elected leader of Honduras was warned that he should be patient, and that his actions could lead to violence."

La dictadura empresarial es ciega y ordena a su ejercito la represión de "la chusma"  7/31/2009 Hibueras: "Acostumbrados como estaban, a ver la actitud permisiva del pueblo hondureños, a lo aguantadores que hemos sido y perfectamente convencidos de que nos habían arrebatado el espíritu de solidaridad que nos ha sido característico, se echaron encima del único presidente que nos ofrecía la esperanza de ser consultados. Jamás esperaron estas respuestas. Hoy no les queda más que reprimirnos; todos los pasos de la dictadura son coercitivos, pero "Cualquier coerción puede desembocar en el caos: quien la practica es culpable de violencia. La coerción es inhumana", Ha dicho Gandhi, de allí viene nuestra respuesta. Sin embargo hay que analizar el discurso que deviene de los últimos aconcimientos."

Nuestros hermanos de Colón siguen sufriendo, siguen amenazados con el desalojo violento  7/31/2009 Hibueras: "Hace unos minutos se ha confirmado información que indica que las fuerzas militares del Ejercito y la Naval de Honduras, en unión con elementos de la Policía Nacional, se preparan para desalojar violentamente a los campesinos de la comunidad “Guadalupe Carney” que mantienen tomada la carretera que comunica las ciudades de Trujillo y Tocoa. Los militares del XV Batallón de Fuerzas Especiales con sede la Río Claro, Trujillo, departamento de Colón, y de la Base Naval de Puerto Castilla, han empezado a tomar posiciones desde las primeras horas de la noche de hoy con la intención de actuar violentamente contra los campesinos en horas tempranas del día de mañana viernes.La carretera que se mantiene tomada en apoyo al paro general contra el golpe de estado es la usada por las rastras que transportan contenedores con productos de la transnacional estadounidense “Standard Fruit Company”."

OCCIDENTE SE ENMONTAÑA  7/31/2009 Hibueras: NOS ESTAMOS ENMONTAÑANDO Y NO RESPONDEMOS. CONOCEMOS MUY BIEN NUESTRO TERRENO EN QUE NOS ESTAMOS MOVILIZANDO. SABEMOS MUY BIEN QUE EN LAS FFAA SOLO HAY 7500 ELEMENTOS. SOMOS MAS NOSOTROS. Coordinadora Popular de Occidente

Honduras: Detenido el candidato presidencial Carlos H. Reyes durante salvaje e indiscriminada represión a protestas cívicas  7/30/2009 Aporrea

Denuncian actitud xenofóbica de la policía hacia los garífunas detenidos en la costa atlántica  7/30/2009 Defensores en Linea

Policía detiene y discrimina a Garífunas porque luchan contra régimen de facto  7/30/2009 El Libertador: "La Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (OFRANEH) denuncia enfáticamente la actitud asumida por los policías acantonados en la posta de Danlí, por sus actitudes racistas que no son muy diferentes de las del excanciller golpista Enrique Ortez Colindres y sus señalamientos raciales contra Barack Obama."

Comerciantes de Ocotal se solidarizan con hondureños y desmienten publicación de CNN  7/30/2009 Habla Honduras

Represión en el Durazno, carretera salida al norte de Honduras  7/30/2009 Habla Honduras: "La manifestación en repudio contra el golpe de estado en El Durazno Tegucigalpa, sobre la carretera salida al norte comenzaron a ser reprimidos hace unos minutos por la policía con bombas lacromígenas, muchos son golpeados."

Reprimen y detienen manifestantes en la carretera salida a Olancho  7/30/2009 Habla Honduras: "Aproximadamente unas 250 personas fueron apresados a eso de las once de la mañana por la policía y militares en la carretera salida a Olancho durante una toma de carretera en protesta contra el régimen golpista y la exigencia por la restauración del orden democrático en el país."

Los militares comienzan a sacar la podredumbre  7/30/2009 Hibueras: "Nosotros, un Grupo de Oficiales Superiores y Subalternos(no damos nombres por razones obvias y no por cobardía) ante la situación en que los políticos en contubernio con la junta de comandantes han involucrado a las Fuerzas Armadas y que han deteriorado la buena imagen que teníamos ante el pueblo hondureño nos pronunciamos y denunciamos lo siguiente:"

Otto Reich and the Honduran Coup D’Etat: The Provocateur, his Protege, and the Toppling of a President – Part One  7/30/2009 Machetera: "The story that emerged outside Honduras about Zelaya’s insistence on holding a public opinion poll being the trigger for the coup is only a partial one, because the effort to undermine Zelaya was proceeding on several tracks in the years leading up to the coup. A whispering campaign about corruption was one of them. Juiced with Reich’s contacts at the highest levels of the U.S. government, the Arcadia Foundation put the Honduran telephone company under a microscope that was meant to create the public perception, similar to the accusations against Aristide, that Zelaya’s government was hopelessly corrupt from the top on down, and that Zelaya was unfit for the presidency."

Thursday, Bloody Thursday in Honduras  7/30/2009 NarcoNews: "Meanwhile, up above, the illegitimate “president” Roberto Micheletti, continued to mock the neutered "peace process" championed in San José and Washington. With the left hand, he flashed a peace sign, while with the right hand, according to multiple press reports, he today ordered the police and military forces to “put a stop” to the peaceful blockades. And in the next-door country’s capital of Managua, Nicaragua, the legitimate President Manuel Zelaya met with US Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens, who led a delegation of US officials there for talks of which the details are not yet publicly known. The full toll of Thursday, Bloody Thursday in Honduras has not yet been counted. “They treated us like animals,” Baranhona told Prensa Latina, while under arrest. The “forces of order” pursued and brutally beat the multitude in many locations across the land that had, for the fifth time in three weeks, successfully blockaded the key points of the country’s major arteries for most of the business day."

Hasta las grandes marcas empiezan a ejercer presión sobre el gobierno estadounidense por el caso Honduras  7/29/2009 Aporrea: "Lo cierto es que a estos grupos de las "grandes marcas" no pretenden solidarizarse con el pueblo hondureño ni los mueven "razones democráticas", sino que en el marco de la crisis económica mundial temen perder uno de los lugares de latinoamérica donde ejercen su explotación desmedida a través de las maquilas que tienen en el hermano país hondureño. En este sentido, para estos capitalistas el panorama en el que los gobiernos del mundo no reconocen a los golpistas y, por ende, los debilita económicamente, no les resulta nada rentable."

The Authentic Journalism Renaissance Reports from Honduras  7/29/2009 NarcoNews

Honduran Leader Backs Return of President  7/29/2009 NYT: "But on Wednesday, the officials said, Mr. Micheletti called President Óscar Arias of Costa Rica, who has tried to mediate a diplomatic solution to the Honduran political crisis, to express his support for a plan Mr. Arias presented. The 12-point plan, known as the San José Accord, would allow Mr. Zelaya to return as president, although with significantly limited powers."

Golpistas impiden divulgación de un informe sobre DD.HH. que los compromete, Telesur in Honduras  7/28/2009 CubaDebate

Ricardo Maduro, “héroe” de la ultra derecha, y protector de Posada Carriles  7/28/2009 CubaDebate: "Ricardo Maduro, el ex presidente de Honduras que participó en el criminal golpe de Estado contra el presidente constitucional, Manuel Zelaya, y que acaba de ser acogido en Washington por los congresistas de la ultra derecha cubanoamericana, fue quien presidía el país centroamericano cuando Luis Posada Carriles se refugió ahí en el 2004 para quedarse durante más de seis meses, con la tolerancia evidente de su gobierno. Maduro está realizando una gira en Estados Unidos, adonde lo invitaron los miembros de la pandilla cubanoamericana del Congreso. El ex candidato presidencial John McCain, viejo socio de la mafia miamense, y la representante republicana, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen le organizaron una reunión en el Capitolio con una decena de sus colegas."

Comisión Internacional de A.L. y Europa verificará violaciones a derechos humanos en Honduras  7/28/2009 Defensores en Linea: "Representantes de la Red Biregional Europa- América Latina y el Caribe han conformado una Comisión Internacional de Solidaridad, Observación y Acompañamiento que tratará de sortear los retenes militares en la carretera que de Tegucigalpa conduce a la frontera con Nicaragua, para verificar las múltiples denuncias de violaciones a derechos humanos cometidas por el gobierno de facto, al cumplirse un mes del golpe de Estado en Honduras. En conferencia de prensa la Coordinadora General del Comité de Familiares de Detenidos en Honduras (Cofadeh), Bertha Oliva, anunció sobre la presencia de la misión internacional de derechos humanos que está preocupada por las graves violaciones a los derechos humanos que se han presentado en nuestro país."

¿ENTONCES QUIEN DETUVO EL JOVEN?  7/28/2009 El Libertador: "El joven Magdiel, activista del Frente Nacional de Resistencia contra el golpe de Estado, encontró una terrible muerte, víctima de unos sádicos que lo torturaron seguramente durante mucho tiempo, tomando en cuenta que fue detenido alrededor a las 17.00 horas (5 p.m.) de la tarde el viernes y la muerte la encontró entre las 02.00-04.00 (2-4 a.m.) del sábado."

HONDURAS (videos): The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly  7/28/2009 Haiti Cuba Venezuela Analysis: [includes video of police shooting at soccer fans]

US Revokes Diplomatic Visas of Honduran Coup Members  7/28/2009 NarcoNews: "State Department spokesman, Ian Kelly, declined to identify the officials but Honduran officials identified two of them as Tomás Arita, a Supreme Court justice who signed the detention order that led to Mr. Zelaya’s removal by the military, and José Alfredo Saavedra, president of Congress."

Mack decries pulling visas of Honduran officials  7/28/2009 News Press: "The State Department is wrong to revoke the diplomatic visas of several Honduran officials. Why is the Obama Administration punishing them for following their constitution and the rule of law? And more importantly, why won’t the Administration recognize Honduras’ legitimate, legal government and support the people of Honduras? “Having returned from a trip to Honduras this past weekend where I met with President Micheletti, Members of the National Congress, the Supreme Court President, Honduran and American businessmen, and human rights organizations, it is clear that the Honduran people want a peaceful, lawful resolution to the upheaval. They don’t want the United States to cut off aid to their country. They don’t want our country to pull diplomatic visas. And they don’t want us to stand with the “thugocrats” of the Western Hemisphere like Hugo Chavez."

Chávez Bashing  7/28/2009 Venezuela Analysis: "The most recent examples appear in the July 21st editions of the New York Times and Washington Post, which document allegations that Chávez is responsible for the rise in crime in Venezuela and the destablilization of Colombia. Of major concern for the Washington Post is a recently released report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that outlines supposed "corruption at high levels of President Hugo Chávez's government and state aid to Colombia's drug-trafficking guerillas [which] have made Venezuela a major launching pad for cocaine bound for the United States and Europe."

The Honduran Coup and the Clinton Connection  7/27/2009 AntiWar: "When Zelaya announced that he would cross the border between Honduras and Nicaragua on foot and called on his supporters to gather, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced him as "reckless." Which led Zelaya to ask, in effect, which side is she on? Good question, and the answer is she’s on Lanny Davis’ side. Davis, you’ll recall, was her chief attack dog during the presidential primary campaign, and now he’s sold his services to the Honduran branch of CEAL, the Central American business alliance, which supports the coup. He has always been very close to Hillary, and he was her priapic husband’s defense counsel during the impeachment hearings. This time he’s taken on a similarly indefensible client and is working his public relations skills prettifying a brazen coup d’etat as a valiant attempt to "preserve" the Honduran constitution and "the rule of law." "

Hillary and Obama Nix Change in Honduras  7/27/2009 Counterpunch

ACUERDO DE DUELO  7/27/2009 El FRENTE NACIONAL CONTRA EL GOLPE DE ESTADO: "El FRENTE NACIONAL CONTRA EL GOLPE DE ESTADO por este medio expresa sus más profundas muestras de pesar y solidaridad con la familia de PEDRO MAGDIEL MUÑOZ SALVADOR, por el brutal asesinato de que fue objeto por los aparatos represores del régimen golpista el día 25 de julio de 2009."

Un oficial del ejército capturó a joven torturado y asesinado revelan fotos publicadas  7/27/2009 Habla Honduras: "Una foto publicada en la pagina 52 del diario La Tribuna que se edita en Tegucigalpa muestra al militar que arrastra con su mano izquierda a Magdiel, viste uniforme verde de camuflaje y casco militar. Un detalle importante es el fusil que porta en su mano derecha el cual es similar al M16 pero más pequeño. Este tipo de fusil es únicamente utilizado por los oficiales de las Fuerzas Armadas, específicamente del ejército."

Obama and the Cunning Micheletti  7/27/2009 La Jornada: "The backward strategy of the Clinton clan and the institutional apparatus at the service of the energy military industrial complex, that ends up with a policy of events that would be endorsed by Obama, owes much to the key role played by the actual ambassador in Tegucigalpa, the Cuban-US citizen Hugo Llorens. Connected to the ex intelligence czar John Dimitri Negroponte and the ultra conservative Otto Reich, protector of the Cuban-US mafia in Miami, Llorens coordinated the expulsion of Manuel Zeylaya. He is part of a network of diplomats named in the last days of the Bush Administration, all of whom are experts in undercover operations and psychological warfare against Cuba and Venezuela: Robert Blau in the El Salvador Embassy: Stephen McFarland in Guatemala and Robert Callahan in Managua, Nicaragua."

Obama y el sátrapa Micheletti  7/27/2009 La Jornada: "La estrategia de reversión del clan Clinton y grupos del aparato institucional al servicio del complejo energético militar industrial, que presentan una política de hechos consumados para el aval de Obama, tuvo una pieza clave en el actual embajador en Tegucigalpa, el cubano-estadunidense Hugo Llorens. Vinculado al ex zar de la inteligencia John Dimitri Negroponte, y al ultraconservador Otto Reich, protector de la mafia cubano-estadunidense de Miami, Llorens coordinó la expulsión de Manuel Zelaya. Él mismo integra una red de diplomáticos nombrados en las postrimerías de la administración Bush, todos expertos en operaciones encubiertas y guerra sicológica contra Cuba y Venezuela: Robert Blau en la embajada en San Salvador; Stephen McFarland en Guatemala y Robert Callahan en Managua, Nicaragua."

Billy Joya cranks up the killing machine in Honduras  7/27/2009 Machetera: "Before Alegría and Tomé brought the two agents to the police station barely 200 meters away, the agents were disarmed and their badges and documents were registered. The police truck was set afire by indignant family members, neighbors, friends and companions who said “The can’t even leave us in peace for the burial, even though they are the ones who murdered him. We should have set fire to the murderers inside the car.” It was an expression of indignation that is a common feeling among the Honduran people right now."

Otto Reich’s propaganda factory still churning out the goods  7/27/2009 Machetera

Honduras Unity to Lead Peace and Democracy Demonstration in Washington, DC  7/26/2009 Honduras This Week: "Honduras Unity in Miami, FL announced today that it will sponsor a demonstration on Monday, July 27 in support of peace and democracy in Honduras… “The rally is meant as a show of solidarity with the people of Honduras who are fighting to maintain their democracy in the face of mounting international pressure to reinstate former Manuel Zelaya,” says event organizer Karen Bush-Neuspiel." [Another German Honduran?]

Honduras Coup: the US Connection  7/25/2009 Global Research: "Hypothetically, Zelaya can expect to find some support among the mid- and low-ranking officers. They are the target audience of his radio-addresses from abroad in which he continues to say that the authority in the country has been usurped and that they have the right to resist. Officially, Washington is actively advocating reconciliation in Honduras, but in reality it is helping Micheletti by impeding Zelaya’s return. The US would rather see Micheletti gain ground and Zelaya lose irreversibly. Theoretically, there exists a possibility of a compromise between the two, but in this case Washington will be pushing for a radical limitation of Zelaya’s authority."

Honduras General Live on Radio Globo, Wants San José Accord Signed  7/25/2009 NarcoNews: "The general keeps saying over and over again that the coup regime should sign the San José Accords - restoring President Zelaya to power but with weakened powers - and that the military will comply with them. (But neither the coup regime nor the legitimate elected government have signed said accord... the whole context of the interview is strange, as if the general is racing toward the EXIT sign in the coup building.) And this is on the same radio station that the military shut down in the first days of the coup."

Zelaya organiza «columnas» cívicas para su reingreso  7/25/2009 Primerisima: "Zelaya instó a que en forma ordenada los centenares de hondureños que le llegaron a esperar este viernes, después de largas jornadas a pie para burlar los retenes militares, se organizarán "en columnas" civiles y desarmadas para ingresar nuevamente a su país, columnas a las que dio nombres de próceres de Honduras, como José Cecilio del Valle."

Ambulancia de Cruz Roja fue detenida con bombas lacrimógenas  7/25/2009 Revistazo, Honduras: "En contradicción a lo que establece la Convención de Ginebra y el Protocolo Adicional, las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras hicieron uso de una ambulancia de la Cruz Roja para transportar bombas lacrimógenas hasta la frontera de Honduras-Nicaragua. Mientras un grupo de manifestantes se dirigían a la frontera Las Manos, donde llegó el presidente Manuel Zelaya, logró interceptar la ambulancia número 112 de la Cruz Roja de El Paraiso y constataron que en su interior no había heridos, ni material para dar asistencia, lo que llevaban era un fuerte cargamento de bombas lacrimógenas."

Canciller hondureña Patricia Rodas: Clinton debe hacer una seria diferencia entre pacíficos y violentos  7/25/2009 Telesur: "En entrevista exclusiva a teleSUR, Rodas se refirió a las declaraciones de la Secretaria de Estado estadounidense, que calificó de "imprudente" el acercamiento de Zelaya a la frontera del país que lo eligió democráticamente. "Debe haber un reconocimiento por parte de Clinton de que a lo largo de estas tres semanas lo único que ha hecho Zelaya son esfuerzos pacíficos para poder hacer que los criminales caigan en razón", aclaró."

profeta jaime chavez  7/25/2009 YouTube: "El General romeo Orlando Vazquez Velazquez actual comandante en jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras estuvo en nuetro II Congreso MIGApartners en Praris Francia en Octubre del 2008 y ahora estara en nuestro IV Congreso de MIGApartners en Miami, FL junto con el Profeta Jaime Chavez de Honduras"

Viernes 24 de julio, 1:30 pm  7/24/2009 COPINH: "Según los reportes dos manifestantes que se encaminaban a las fronteras de Nicaragua a recibir al presidente Manuel Zelaya resultaron heridos de bala, uno en el brazo y otro perdió una oreja, los que fueron trasladados de forma inmediata para asistencia médica a un hospital de Danlí. Uno de los heridos que recibio el disparo en la oreja es identificado como Moisés Hernández, procedente de Tocoa, Colón, perteneciente a la Coordinadora de Organizaciones Populares del Aguán, COPA."

Agentes encapuchados y fiscales amedrentan a misión diplomática de Venezuela en Honduras  7/24/2009 Defensores en linea: "La policia se retiró cuando un grupo de manifestantes que se apostaron desde horas de la mañana en la sede diplomática, comenzaron a tomarles fotos a los encapuchados y cuando las cámaras de Venezolana de Televisión comenzaron a grabar las escenas de la presencia policial, informó el diplomático."

Pueblo hondureño desbordado rompe el cerco policial y avanza a la frontera  7/24/2009 Primerisima

Presidente Zelaya cruzó la frontera e ingresó a Honduras  7/24/2009 Telesur: "El presidente legítimo hondureño, Manuel Zelaya, ingresó hace instantes a Honduras, luego de esperar por varios minutos en el puesto fronterizo con Nicaragua. El mandatario constitucional está acompañado por sus seguidores y por su canciller, Patricia Rodas, mientras tanto, en la ciudad de El Paraíso, miles de manifestantes son retenidos por los militares golpistas que no los dejan trasladarse a recibir a Zelaya."

En Honduras con ocasión del golpe de Estado - Constatan violaciones sistemáticas a los derechos humanos  7/23/2009 ALI

Detrás de la “democracia” de Micheletti, el esbirro CIA Billy Joya y sus “Cobras”  7/23/2009 Aporrea: "El siniestro "Doctor Arrazola" – versión hondureña de Luis Posada Carriles y de Klaus Barbie – está limpiando la policía nacional de sus altos oficiales“blandos” para situar en cada puesto estratégico a elementos fascistas Para evitar el derrumbe de su régimen golpista, Micheletti y sus cómplices están ahora jugando su última carta: los escuadrones del “ministro-consejero” Billy Joya, creador con sus asesores yanquis de “Los Cobras”, comandos de élite entrenados para matar, y veterano miembro del siniestro batallón 316 creado por la CIA que persiguió, torturó y desapareció a cientos de hondureños en la guerra sucia de los años 80. Nombrado ministro del gobierno ilegitimo por Micheletti, Billy Fernando Joya Améndola, puro producto de la “preparación” de oficiales de cuerpos de represión hondureños prodigada por la inteligencia fascista argentina bajo orientación de la CIA, está recomponiendo su maquinaria de terror para acabar con la rebelión popular."

Grupo "evangelico" anuncia presencia del general golpista Vásquez en Miami  7/23/2009 Aporrea: "El General golpista Romeo Vásquez, quien secuestró y expulsó de Honduras al Presidente Constitucional Manuel Zelaya, estaría en Miami este de 22 de julio para participar en un encuentro convocado por un tal "profeta" Jaime Chávez en el Centro de Convenciones de esa ciudad norteamericana. La presencia en territorio de Estados Unidos del jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras fue anunciada por los organizadores del "IV Congreso MIGApartners" que tendría lugar bajo el tema "El Gobierno del Reino en Miami"." Jean Guy Allard

Honduran Coup Leader joins Prophets & Apostles in Miami Saturday; He Should Be Arrested  7/23/2009 Daily Kos

Honduran Coup Leader joins Prophets & Apostles in Miami Saturday; He Should Be Arrested  7/23/2009 Daily Kos

Fracasa Acuerdo de San José  7/23/2009 EL Libertador: "El presidente de Costa Rica y mediador, Oscar Arias propuso un gobierno de reconciliación nacional, amnistía para delitos políticos, el adelanto de las elecciones para octubre de 2009 y el retorno del Presidente Zelaya para el 24 de julio. Este último punto no fue aceptado por los representantes del gobierno de facto de Roberto Micheletti, quienes no aceptan bajo ningún punto el retorno de Zelaya, por lo que se dio por terminada la negociación."

Honduras … Left behind?  7/23/2009 Mex Files: "I keep wanting to spell “Prophet” as “Profit”… and maybe for good reason. Setting up the Kingdom Government costs money. Profeta Chavez’ group… MIGA Partners seeks “partners” willing to pony up a thousand to five thousand U.S. Dollars in return for which Profeta Chavez will bless your region, nation or economic zone… or something like that. Outside the Kingdom are the Garifuna, the afro-indigenous people of Honduras. If you’ll remember, the “rationale” still being used to justify the coup was to prevent a referendum on a constitutional convention that might (not would) lead to a new consitution, that would probably have incorporated new trends in Latin American political theory that don’t bode well for the old power elite … who apparently, being already blessed on this earth, are the logical heirs to the Kingdom."

Preparan magnicidio de Zelaya y masacre del pueblo con la venia de Washington  7/23/2009 Primerisima: "Fuentes de entero crédito que por razones de seguridad no son reveladas, aseguran que en los próximos días se pondrá en marcha un plan del gobierno golpista para incrementar la represión al movimiento popular. Parte de la estrategia de la ultraderecha de este país consiste en el entrenamiento de 120 sicarios, a quienes se les adiestra todos los días a partir de las tres de la madrugada en la casa del coronel retirado Amílcar Zelaya, situada en la aldea de Amarateca a unos 25 minutos de Tegucigalpa. La residencia de este ex militar fue conocida en la década de los ochentas por ser un centro de tortura."

"Martinetti apoya a Micheletti": Panamá alaba al Ejército de Honduras por el manejo "responsable" de la crisis  7/22/2009 Aporrea

Diplomáticos venezolanos afirmaron que no abandonarán Honduras  7/22/2009 Aporrea: "El encargado de negocios venezolano en Tegucigalpa, Uriel Vargas, aseguró este martes que los diplomáticos de su país no se irán de Honduras, ya que la orden de que abandonen el país fue dictada por un gobierno golpista, el de Roberto Micheletti, al cual Caracas no reconoce. El gobierno de facto dio este martes 72 horas al personal de la embajada de Venezuela para abandonar el país centroamericano."

Embajadora de Honduras retoma control de sede en México  7/22/2009 Aporrea: "Acompañada por los embajadores de Costa Rica, Haití, Bolivia y la encargada de negocios de Venezuela en México, Rosalinda Bueso agradeció la solidaridad y destacó el permanente apoyo de los gobiernos federal y capitalino para retomar sus funciones."

Presidente Zelaya se trasladará el jueves a la frontera con Honduras  7/22/2009 Aporrea: "El presidente legítimo de Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, adelantó este miércoles a teleSUR que el próximo jueves se trasladará desde Managua hacia dos municipios fronterizos con Honduras, desde donde intentará pasar la frontera."

Zelaya hace responsable de su vida a jefe militar cuando vuelva a Honduras  7/22/2009 Aporrea: ""Si a mí me pasa algo, a mi familia o a mis hijos, el único responsable será el jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras. El único responsable será Romeo Vázquez", dijo Zelaya en una conferencia de prensa en la embajada de Honduras en Managua."

Honduras Gets "Left Behind"™ as Top Coup Leader Bails for Miami Weirdo Conference  7/22/2009 BoRev.net

HONDURAS AT STANDSTILL; ARIAS PROPOSAL OF "SAN JOSE AGREEMENT" REJECTED BY BOTH PARTIES  7/22/2009 Chavez Code: "Another point incredibly called on the Zelaya government and supporters to refrain from convening a constitutional assembly, directly or indirectly, and in fact also ordered a refrain from even holding any kind of consultation, survey or opinion poll on any issue remotely related to constitutional form. This is absolutely outrageous because no government has the right to usurp the people's sovereign right to choose their form and model of government. This is not a right that can be transferred or taken away, it is inalienable… By the way, the leading military figure in the coup, School of the Americas graduate General Romeo Vasquez, is in Miami today, invited to speak at some evangelical conference funded by the Cuban mafia. So, the State Department hasn't revoked his visa, obviously, despite his clear role in kidnapping - at gun point - and forcing into exile the democratically elected president of Honduras. Yet another clear indication of Washington backing the coup."

No toda la comunidad evangélica está de acuerdo con el golpe de Estado  7/22/2009 EL Libertador

Honduras: Anti-Chavez ‘free speech’ warriors linked to coup  7/22/2009 Global Research: "The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is well-known for its mission to expose the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez as a threat to free speech “all over the continent”. These brave free speech warriors made a big deal this year about how they “dared” to hold a meeting in the Venezuelan capital, “defying” the repression of Chavez’s dictatorial regime. It turns out that the IAPA has found little to condemn in regards to the dictatorship that has installed itself by military force in Honduras… So why are these free speech crusaders so soft on the coup regime in Honduras? Probably because IAPA representatives in Honduras have been central to the coup. For instance, Roberto Micheletti, who was installed by the coup as de facto president, is the owner of various companies, including the newspaper La Tribuna. One of his associates at the newspaper is Edgardo Dumas Rodriguez, a Honduran representative to the IAPA. Then there is Jorge Canahuati. Two of the most pro-coup newspapers are La Prensa and El Heraldo. Together, they control 80% of newspaper circulation. Both are majority owned by Canahuati, also president of the IAPA international commission."

Amid crisis, minorities find a voice  7/22/2009 Miami Herald: ``We have no political visibility in this country and that makes us extremely vulnerable,'' said Alfredo López, 56, a community activist and one of about 400,000 ethnic Garifunas in Honduras. ``The constitutional assembly would have given us a chance to change that.''

Honduras orders Venezuelan diplomats expelled  7/21/2009 AP: "Vargas dismissed the allegations and — holed up in the embassy along with a consular officer also affected by the order — vowed to defy it. "We only have relations with the government of President Manuel Zelaya," Vargas told reporters outside the building. He said the expulsion order "does not exist for us, because the Micheletti government does not exist. It is a usurper government, a coup government, a government that is not recognized by anyone on an international level." The Micheletti government did not say if it would take any measures to force the Venezuelans to leave."

Hillary Clinton moves State Department to the right of Condoleezza Rice  7/21/2009 OnLine Journal: "It was then announced that Clinton’s presidential campaign adviser Lanny Davis, a consummate Washington, DC, slime merchant and ardent Zionist, became a paid shill for the pro-Honduran junta Honduran Chamber of Commerce, CEAL. Davis is reportedly coordinating his activities with Republican members of the Congress who support the junta, including Cuban-American reactionary Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL), as well as Otto Reich, George W. Bush’s Cuban-American Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs who worked overtime to overthrow Chavez in Venezuela and Morales in Bolivia… Mrs. Clinton has always seemed to have an affinity for fascists and their fellow travelers. She has written of “The Family” Christian cult leader Doug Coe, who provides housing on C Street on Capitol Hill for a number of conservative Republican and a few Democratic congressmen and senators, as “a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God.” However, Coe’s record shows that the only people he wants to “deepen his relationship” with are a number of tinhorn dictators around the world, including past military junta leaders in Honduras, Guatemala, and other Latin American countries."

Resistencia de Honduras ratifica convocatoria a una asamblea constituyente  7/20/2009 Aporrea: "El Frente Nacional contra el Golpe de Estado en Honduras ratificó en una carta abierta al presidente de Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, que no abandonarán la propuesta de convocar lo antes posible una asamblea nacional para modificar la Constitución de ese país."

Obama's Bullish Behavior in Latin America - Honduras and the Big Stick  7/20/2009 Counterpunch: "In the media, the Honduran imbroglio has been depicted as a struggle over presidential power and term limits. But while any new constitution might have extended presidential term limits, such a reform could have also led to new progressive amendments to the law and further radicalization on the ground. In recent years Honduras has seen the emergence of a vibrant social and political scene including labor, Garifuna (Afro-Honduran people) and Indians. If Zelaya had been successful at pushing through his constitutional reform he would have been able to mobilize such groups. What is the connection between U.S. interests and constitutional reform? If you had any doubt about Washington’s true intentions in Honduras consider the following AP Report for July 8 about diplomatic negotiations between the coup regime and ousted president Zelaya: “Clinton would not discuss specifics of the mediation process, which she said would begin soon, but a senior U.S. official said one option being considered would be to forge a compromise under which Zelaya would be allowed to return and serve out his remaining six months in office with limited powers. Zelaya, in return, would pledge to drop his aspirations for a constitutional change.”

Denuncian que el batallón 3-16 está detrás de dirigentes del movimiento social  7/20/2009 Defensores en Linea: "El ex capitán de policía Billy Joya Améndola, siniestro personaje miembro del batallón 3-16 que persiguió, torturó y desapareció a cientos de compatriotas en la década de los ochenta, vuelve a ser denunciado por perseguir a dirigentes del movimiento social. La denuncia del presidente del Colegio de Profesores de Educación Media de Honduras (Copemh), Eulogio Chávez de que es sujeto de seguimiento por paramilitares dirigidos por el ex capitán de policía Billy Joya Améndola confirma la grave situación que experimentan dirigentes y dirigentas del movimiento social hondureño que se han manifestado contra el golpe de Estado en Honduras."

Interview with Teresa Reyes, Garifuna leader from Triunfo de la Cruz  7/20/2009 Honduras Resists: "What has been the reaction of the Garifuna community to the coup d'etat? What they have wanted is for people to stay calm in their houses because anything can happen in the streets, but we have a movement in the community which has come out because we can't continue to sit in our homes with our arms crossed. We have to do something to participate because we have a right to the participation even if it's limited. We have looked for ways to protest because we can't stay silent about a situation as horrible as what we are living through in this country. We are representing the Garifuna people currently even though there's few of us but we are doing it and we are showing the face of our people because we are also against what is happening."

Honduras: Llaman al pueblo a organizarse para recibir a Zelaya  7/20/2009 La Nacion, Chile: "El próximo viernes está programado el regreso del depuesto Presidente a su país, tras confirmarse ayer que las negociaciones con el gobierno de facto de Roberto Micheletti finalizaron sin acuerdo."

Racist, white supremacist military rule in Honduras  7/20/2009 SF Bay View: by Professor Willie Thompson

The implications of the coup in Honduras on Afro-descendants  7/20/2009 SF Bay View: by TransAfrica Forum

Fuerzas populares de Honduras acuerdan reforzar lucha antigolpista  7/19/2009 CubaDebate: "Las decisiones incluyen preparar una huelga general para el jueves y viernes próximos, cuyos preparativos las tres centrales sindicales comenzarán a puntualizar desde mañana, apuntó uno de los líderes del Frente, Juan Barahona. El presidente de la Federación Unitaria de Trabajadores (FUTH) precisó en un acto público que con el paro se proponen dar un fuerte golpe a la economía del gobierno de facto y a los empresarios que lo apoyan."

Las relaciones de los militares hondureños con el narcotráfico  7/19/2009 El Liberador: "El hondureño defensor de los Derechos Humanos, Andrés Pavón, afirmó que el general Vázquez Velázquez, jefe del Estado Mayor hondureño, tiene conocidos lazos con el narcotráfico. "Él es un hombre de la comunidad de inteligencia de América Latina, cercana a las estructuras de la DEA y la CIA", explica."

Honduras: The Nonviolent Battle for the Zelaya Home in Catacamas  7/19/2009 NarcoNews

¡Estos son los golpistas, el soberano juzgará!  7/18/2009 El Libertador

Historia calculada del golpe de Estado contra la democracia  7/18/2009 El Libertador

HONDUREÑOS DE OCCIDENTE RESISTIRÁN HASTA LA MUERTE: ¡FUERA DICTADORES!  7/18/2009 El Libertador: "Los Movimientos Sociales y Organizaciones Populares del Occidente de Honduras y en la antesala de los acuerdos de mediación de San José Costa Rica en relación a la crisis política que está viviendo nuestro país MANIFIESTA lo siguiente:"

The Closing of the Southern Highway from Tegucigalpa: An Eye Witness Report  7/18/2009 NarcoNews: "Several tense minutes slowly pass. Reina then turns away from the police and walks back across the bridge to speak to leaders there. Soon they are speaking to the crowd over the loudspeakers, asking for a show of hands of who is willing to leave the site, and go to support the protestors who’ve taken the northern entrance to the city. Amid shouts and cheers, a sea of hands reaches for the air. “We have done here what we came to do. We don’t want violence. We don’t want problems with the police. We have said what we came here to say,” shouted one leader. “Now let’s leave—single file and in small groups, for security. And we have more to do tomorrow!” People begin walking back in groups across the bridge, amid shouts, songs and chants. There is a collective sigh of relief. Police step aside. One flashes a quick smile and offers a furtive “thumbs-up”."

Honduras Zelaya won't accept coup leaders in unity gov: aide  7/18/2009 Reuters

Asesinan a dirigente sindical en Honduras  7/17/2009 Aporrea

!!!LA LUCHA SIGUE!!!  7/17/2009 COPINNH: "La carretera que conduce hacia el puerto principal de Honduras, Puerto Cortés, la carretera panamericana CA-5 en Comayagua, y las tres salidas de Tegucigalpa están bloqueadas por miles de hondureños de la Coordinadora Nacional de Resistencia Popular (CNRP), el Bloque Popular y el Frente Nacional contra el Golpe de Estado. En Choloma, Cortés, en el puente Blanco en el Barrio el Kilómetro miles de ciudadanos en contra del Golpe de Estado se tomaron desde las 9:00 AM de manera indefinida, la carretera que conduce al puerto más importantes de Honduras, por donde se entra gran parte de la mercancía de la región centroamericana."

Micheletti, vinculado al cartel de Cali, en una lista de narcos del ministerio de la Defensa  7/17/2009 CubaDebate: "El nombre del cabecilla golpista hondureño Roberto Micheletti aparece en una larga lista de narcotraficantes redactada, en una fecha no precisada, por un alto oficial del Ministerio de la Defensa y Seguridad Pública de Honduras que lo relaciona con el Cartel de Cali, la red colombiana de narcotráfico. El documento firmado por el Coronel de infantería René Adalberto Paz Alfaro y llevando el membrete del ministerio, señala en el número SN-FF. AA. 060, a ROBERTO MICHELLETI BAIN – con el error de ortógrafo en Micheletti – con la “CONEXIÓN” Cartel de Cali y bajo la mención “LUGAR” la palabra “Yoro”. Las notas biográficas de Micheletti precisan que empezó su carrera política en los años 80, cuando ocupaba el cargo de presidente del Consejo Local en Yoro donde siempre se hizo elegir de diputado al Congreso Nacional… Llama la atención que, hace unos días, un grupo de congresistas norteamericanos de extrema derecha encabezados por los representantes de la Florida, Mario y Lincoln Díaz-Balart, intentaron ensuciar el nombre del presidente constitucional Manuel Zelaya al solicitar del presidente Barack Obama que investigue su supuesta “vinculación con el narcotráfico”, a través de la DEA. Obama ni constestó. Los Díaz-Balart tienen un viejo expediente de relaciones turbias con los círculos colombianos afiliados al narcotráfico."

Honduras ship action declared (También en version española)  7/17/2009 International Transport Workers' Federation: "The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) today called for all its union members to oppose the coup in Honduras by focusing protests on the Honduran merchant fleet. The global union organisation, which represents 656 unions worldwide with four and a half million members, has made the call as its latest move to defend democracy in the coup-stricken Central American nation, and in support of the Organization of American States’ (OAS) condemnation of the military takeover. The action call is likely to affect the loading and unloading of the 650 ships flying the Honduran flag, which the ITF considers a flag of convenience – a low cost cosmetic ship registration by companies with no link to the country and no intention of employing its citizens onboard."

Israeli art students show up at interesting times  7/17/2009 Wayne Madsen Report: "The reported involvement of Israeli security advisers in the coup d’état in Honduras also puts into another perspective the following report from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on the espionage activities involving Israeli art students in the months prior to 9/11."

U.S. policy of political assassination follows Obama into office  7/17/2009 Wayne Madsen Report: "WMR has also learned from Honduran sources that U.S. ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens closely coordinated his activities with the coup leaders. Llorens' car was seen by the public traveling between the U.S. embassy and the government buildings where the coup leaders were consolidating their hold on power. Llorens, a Cuban-born U.S. citizen, was reportedly heavily involved in the 2002 coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while serving in the National Security Council at the White House… WMR has also learned that support for Zelaya is strong among the Honduran police and the lower ranks of the Honduran military. There have been a number of cases where police and military personnel have refused to carry out their orders and aided opponents of the coup. Support for Zelaya is particularly strong in San Pedro Sula, Honduras's second largest city, and along the border with El Salvador. WMR has learned that the El Salvadorean Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front government is providing quiet assistance to Zelaya supporters along the border."

UPDATES: ZELAYA ON ROUTE TO HONDURAS; US PUMPING UP MILITARY BASES IN COLOMBIA  7/16/2009 Chavez Code: "Meanwhile, Washington is busy moving its military installations from Manta, Ecuador, where it has maintained a Forward Operating Location (FOL) since 1999, to neighboring Colombia, pumping up its presence next to Venezuela. The base in Manta was established per a ten-year contract created in 1999, when the Pentagon formally closed its big air force base in Panamá (Howard Air Force Base) and proceeded to set up several Forward Operation Locations (FOLs) in the region - in Manta, Ecuador; Aruba and Curaçao, and Comalapa, El Salvador. At the same time, the Pentagon substantially increased its capacity in the Soto Cano air base in Honduras, which is at the center of the recent coup d'etat against President Zelaya (see my blog entries below). President Rafael Correa of Ecuador refused to renew the Pentagon's contract to maintain its presence at the Manta base, forcing its ouster this year. The US began its move today. Despite the persistent denials by US Ambassador in Colombia, William Brownfield, regarding the Manta base's relocation to Colombia, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe confirmed the relocation today, stating, "obtaining agreements with countries like the United States, so that, with all due respect to the Colombian constitution, and Colombian autonomy, they help us in the war against terrorism, against drug trafficking, is in the best interests of our country.""

Who's in charge of US foreign policy  7/16/2009 Guardian: "When the coup occurred on 28 June, the first statement that came out of the White House was a major blunder. Although the US and international press gave Obama a pass, the diplomatic community could hardly help noticing that the White House issued the only official statement in the world that didn't have a bad word to say about the coup when it happened. This position shifted as events moved forward, and Obama himself even went so far as to say: "We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the president of Honduras." But then his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, seemed to contradict him. Twice she was asked by the press whether restoring the democratic order in Honduras meant restoring the elected president, and twice she declined to answer."

Day 19: Peaceful Blockades vs. Coup Paralyze Honduras  7/16/2009 NarcoNews: "Narco News can confirm, together with reports in other media, that at least three of those four routes - the three most important - have been successfully shut down by peaceful occupations by a citizenry opposed to the coup d'etat regime, as well as vital arteries in the country's northern coastal regions. The most important - which links Tegucigalpa to the second largest city, San Pedro Sula to the Northwest - is blocked five kilometers outside of the capital, in the town of El Durazno, reports the French Press Agency (AFP)."

Rigoberta Menchú advierte sobre posible golpe de Estado en Guatemala  7/15/2009 Aporrea: "Por su parte, el presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, también señaló el pasado viernes que "la oligarquía" habría impulsado planes para derrocar a su homólogo guatemalteco tras el escándalo del crimen del abogado."

Un día despues del llamado de Zelaya a la Insurrección, sus seguidores llaman a ocupar puntos estratégicos en Honduras  7/15/2009 Aporrea: "En Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula (norte) y otras localidades donde hayan condiciones para ejecutar esas tomas en puntos estratégicos se van a hacer", afirmó Israel Salinas, de la Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras (CUTH), en una rueda de prensa. Aseguró que la medida de presión "tiene que estar combinada con la acción absoluta y total de todos los trabajadores". "Habrá tomas de los edificios, tomas de las carreteras y no trabajará nadie", sostuvo Salinas, quien señaló que esperan coordinar con los sindicatos del sector privado para que se sumen a esta protesta. Anticipó que organizaciones de países vecinos, entre ellas de El Salvador y Nicaragua, han manifestado su disposición a sumarse en los próximos días a bloqueos en las fronteras."

Washington and the Coup in Honduras: Here is the Evidence - by Eva Golinger  7/15/2009 Chavez Code: - presents evidence of US and Cuban American involvement.

Comunicado No 12  7/15/2009 El Frente Nacional contra el Golpe de Estado en Honduras: "Denunciamos el uso de los medios de comunicación masiva en manos de la oligarquía, que intentan mostrar un país en normalidad y paz, mientras se asesina y persigue a líderes populares."

Ex-Clinton aides advising Honduran coup regime  7/15/2009 Global Research: "Ginger Thompson of the New York Times reported from San Jose, Costa Rica Sunday that in organizing the first sessions of a US-brokered mediation exercise between the ousted President Zelaya and the leader of those who overthrew him, Micheletti, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias instructed both men to appear at his residence with just four advisers. “On Thursday morning, Mr. Micheletti showed up with six, adding an American public relations specialist who has done work for former President Bill Clinton and the American’s interpreter, and an official close to the talks said the team rarely made a move without consulting him,” Thompson reported. The PR man was identified as Bennett Ratcliff of San Diego. Thompson quoted an official close to the talks as saying that “Every proposal that Micheletti’s group presented was written or approved by the American [Ratcliff].”

Zelaya llama a la insurrección popular contra régimen golpista de Honduras  7/15/2009 VTV

WHAT JOHN ENSIGN, HILLARY CLINTON & THE HONDURAN RIGHT WING HAVE IN COMMON  7/15/2009 Wayne Madsen Report: "It is not only the Fellowship's involvement with the Ensign and Sanford sex scandals that has raised eyebrows but also Secretary of State Clinton's milquetoast response to the military coup in Honduras that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a progressive. The National Prayer Breakfast, sponsored by the Fellowship, has, in the past, attracted the right-wing elite of Honduras, including Zelaya's predecessor, Ricardo Maduro, who was backed by the same Christian evangelical forces that forced Zelaya from power. WMR also previously reported on another link between the Fellowship and Honduras's right wing through the DeMoss Foundation, which is linked to Fellowship ministry operations: The DeMoss Foundation is anti-gay, anti-abortion, and favors close links between church and state. Arthur [DeMoss] dropped dead of a heart attack at age 53 while playing tennis at his ritzy Main Line estate in Bryn Mawr, outside of Philadelphia. In addition to supporting [Charles] Colson's [Prison Fellowship] group, the foundation gives generously to the American Center for Law and Justice, the legal group run by Pat Robertson. DeMoss also supports the Plymouth Rock Foundation, an extreme right-wing Christian Reconstructionist movement that advocates the imposition of Biblical law in the United States and the death penalty for adulterers, homosexuals, heterosexual sodomists, non-Christians, and witches."

The CIA's Ghosts of Tegucigalpa  7/14/2009 Consortium News: "The DEA agent in charge of its recently opened Tegucigalpa office, Thomas Zepeda, had documented the complicity of Col. Torres Arias and other high-ranking Honduran officers in Matta Ballesteros’s drug operations. But DEA needed the Honduran military’s assistance to arrest Torres and his cronies, and the CIA needed them to support the contras. To avoid a showdown with the CIA, the DEA’s Zepeda proposed that a grand jury be empanelled to investigate corruption in the Honduran armed forces. But the CIA nixed the idea, no doubt to protect its collaborators. As one high-level diplomat later noted: “Without the support of the Honduran military there would have been no such thing as the contras. It’s that simple … So they got rid of the DEA station.”"

The Politics of Destabilization - McCain and Honduras  7/14/2009 Counterpunch: "According to the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, it was Venezuelan lawyer Robert-Carmona Borjas who helped to draft some of the infamous anti-constitutional “Carmona decrees” after Hugo Chávez was overthrown in the April, 2002 military coup. After Chávez was returned to power Carmona Borjas fled to the United States where he found his calling as a leading anti-Chávez figure and, more recently, as a fierce critic of the Zelaya regime in Honduras."

Canada Supports the Military Coup in Honduras  7/14/2009 Global Research: "On Saturday, July 4, at the impromptu meeting of the Organization of the American States, Canadian Minister of State of Foreign Affairs for the Americas Peter Kent suggested President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya not return to Honduras. It's an interesting stance for Canada to assume, considering that most of the international community has condemned the coup in Honduras. ...As the man at the end of the road tried to explain to me, mining is not development for people who live around these mines. He speaks for thousands of others -- a base of support aligned with the ousted President Zelaya. In 2006, Zelaya decided to cancel all future mining concessions in Honduras. Which would appear to explain, at least in large part, why Canada stands virtually alone in the hemisphere in supporting the Honduran military's ousting of Zelaya. The Canadian government, and its friends in the mining industry, are using the coup as an opportunity to plant their feet deeper into the Honduran ground."

Who's behind Lanny Davis' putsch paycheck?  7/14/2009 NarcoNews: Following the money trail in the Honduran coup - "Today’s junta-enablers no longer have to work in secret. In fact, illegal usurpers can now shop openly in Washington for a hired gun of their choosing to grease the wheels of Congress and commerce to assure their coup d'état remains a fait accompli. Enter Lanny Davis — a long-time friend and Yale Law School chum of Hillary Clinton and former White House Counsel to Bill Clinton [as well as a consummate shill for their agendas]."

US Press Falsely Claims Honduran Plurality for Coup  7/14/2009 Truth Out: "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 percent in favor of the coup, with only 28 percent opposed. But in fact the poll showed that 46 percent - a plurality - were opposed to the coup, according to The New York Times [July 10], The Associated Press [July 11] - and the president of CID-Gallup, in an interview with Voice of America on July 9. "

UPDATES: 2 HONDURAS ACTIVISTS KILLED; VENEZUELAN JOURNALISTS EXPELLED; COUP LEADERS HIRE TOP DEMOCRAT LOBBYISTS TO JUSTIFY THEIR DE FACTO GOVERNMENT  7/13/2009 Chavez Code

The Honduras coup is the Caribbean’s business; Norman Girvan, Andaiye and Alissa Trotz  7/13/2009 Norman Girvan

Chavez: US Government Giving Oxygen to Honduran Coup  7/13/2009 Venezuela Analysis: ""Obama withdraw your soldiers from Honduras, withdraw all support for the coup plotters, freeze their bank accounts, withdraw their visas so that this government falls immediately," the Venezuelan head of state said. "If the US government truly doesn't support the coup, it would withdraw all of its troops from the military base at Palmerola," he added."

Under Threat is the Life of Honduran Activist Luther Castillo  7/12/2009 CAN: "If Luther is captured and resists the arrest, the military have orders to shoot him, the last we heard from him was a phone call to his sister Tania, who he requested, in her garifuna language, not to tell names since phone communications were being intercepted by coup perpetrators, she assured."

General golpista Vásquez fue detenido por robo de carros en 1993  7/12/2009 Cuba Debate

Honduras' political conflict pushes youth activism  7/12/2009 Miami Herald

It’s Still a Military Coup in Honduras  7/12/2009 NarcoNews

Honduran Students in Cuba Festival  7/12/2009 Radio Cadena Agramonte: "Ten Honduran medical students [many of whom are Garifuna] in Cuba participate in the Caribbean Festival here in spaces programmed for a delegation from their country who cannot attend."

Telesur and Venezuelan TV Journalists Arrested in Honduras  7/12/2009 Venezuela Analysis: "Get out of here, you all have to go, you don't have anything to do in this country," one of the police reportedly said."

Motivaciones del Cardenal golpista: Presidente Zelaya le suspendió salario mensual gratuito de 100,000 lempiras  7/10/2009 El Libertador

Interview with Vice-President of National Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras  7/10/2009 Honduras Resists: "I am a Garifuna Honduran citizen. My name is Alfredo López, Vice-President of the National Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH). Well, we are here inTegucigalpa, immersed in the process of re-establishment of the constitutional order of the country."

Interview with Vice-President of National Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras  7/10/2009 Honduras Resists: "I am a Garifuna Honduran citizen. My name is Alfredo López, Vice-President of the National Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH). Well, we are here inTegucigalpa, immersed in the process of re-establishment of the constitutional order of the country."

Micheletti Tried to Change the Honduran Constitution 1985  7/10/2009 NarcoNews: "Members of Congress and politicians accuse Manuel Zelaya of trying to extend his term and change the Honduran Constitution, but what he tried to do was hold a non-binding opinion poll. Micheletti, on the other hand, did want to [extend the president's term and change the Constitution] 24 years ago."

Festival del Caribe abre puertas a la edición de 2010  7/10/2009 PL: "La ausencia de la delegación oficial hondureña, debido al golpe castrense perpetrado contra el presidente constitucional Manuel Zelaya, no impidió el homenaje a esa tierra y en particular a la cultura garífuna. Las muestras de solidaridad de los participantes y las condenas a la asonada militar se mantuvieron durante las jornadas."

Otto Reich and the International Republican Institute - Honduran Destablization, Inc.  7/9/2009 Counterpunch: "Another interesting lead comes via Bill Weinberg, a thorough and dogged journalist, founder of the Web site World War 4 Report and the host of WBAI Radio's thoughtful program Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade in New York. On Sunday, Weinberg posted an intriguing article on his Web site entitled "Otto Reich behind Honduras coup?" In the piece, Weinberg discloses that the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization, known by its Spanish acronym OFRANEH, has claimed that former U.S. diplomat Otto Reich and the Washington, D.C. based Arcadia Foundation were involved in the coup."

Two Cuban Counterrevolutionaries Involved in Coup against Manuel Zelaya  7/9/2009 Cuba Now: "Montaner and Reich were always in contact with coup plotters in Honduras either through phone calls or by means of intermediary agents, the article explains and adds that Montaner himself told coup leaders to resist all international pressure to prevent any attempt by President Manuel Zelaya to return to the country and to advance presidential elections, scheduled for the end of the year."

In Rare U.S. Broadcast, Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Discusses Coup, Costa Rica Talks, U.S. Role and More  7/9/2009 Democracy Now: "MANUAL ZELAYA:[translated] We only have humanitarian aid coming from the United States the U.S. held up military aid, our officials in Washington have been replaced because they left with the coup. They were changed yesterday. And all of the U.S.’s messages have been consistent with the firm condemnation of the coup and supporting democracy in Latin America."

Honduran people block roads in protest of coup regime  7/9/2009 Granma: "Thousands of members of Honduran popular organizations today blocked the highways at different points throughout the country on the eleventh day of demonstrations to demand an end to the coup regime and the return to power of President Manuel Zelaya. Demonstrations also took place in the eastern section of the capital and on the highway connecting the city with the eastern region of the country, principally the departments of Olancho and Paraíso, as well as San Pedro Sula, the country’s second-largest city."

Diputado habría peleado por droga  7/8/2009 ElSavador.com

We have to go on fighting, affirms first lady of Honduras  7/8/2009 Granma

US leaves Honduras to its fate  7/8/2009 Guardian: "This puts a heavy burden on the people of Honduras, who have been risking their lives, confronting the army's bullets, beatings and arbitrary arrests and detentions. The US media has reported on this repressiononly minimally, with the major print media sometimes failing even to mention the censorship there. But the Honduran pro-democracy movement has in the last few days managed to change the course of events. It is likely that Clinton's decision to finally meet with Zelaya was the result of the large and growing protests, and Washington's fear that such resistance could reach the point at which it would topple the coup government."

Ros-Lehtinen Proposes Amendment to Cut Funding to OAS - Funds would be re-routed to support the National Endowment for Democracy  7/8/2009 House Foreign Affairs Committee: “From its warm overtures towards the Cuban tyrants to its knee-jerk support of Manuel Zelaya, echoing the rhetoric and agenda of autocratic leaders like Chavez, Morales, and Ortega, the OAS is losing credibility as an entity that stands for democratic institutions, human rights, and the rule of law."

Honduras: What's Black and White and Gets the Red Out?  7/8/2009 NarcoNews: "The now-iconic photograph of the late 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, being carried by his friends to seek medical help moments after his shooting by gunmen during Sunday’s demonstrations in Tegucigalpa, was also published by the Honduran daily… Except that La Prensa chose to airbrush the young man’s blood out of the photo."

¿Comienzan a flaquear?: La golpista Corte Suprema de Honduras evalúa una "amnistía" para Zelaya  7/7/2009 Aporrea: "El legítimo presidente de Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, podría ser amnistiado por el Congreso Nacional de Honduras, lo que evitaría su detención al regresar al país, dijo a la agencia de noticias AFP el portavoz de la Corte Suprema de Justicia hondureña, Danilo Izaguirre."

Denuncia desde Honduras. Golpistas obligan a los pobres a marchar  7/7/2009 Aporrea: "Hoy martes 7 de julio del 2009 el estamento golpista está organizando a nivel nacional una manifestación de camisas blancas en defensa de la democracia. Sin embargo, decenas de personas han llamado a Radio Globo para denunciar que están siendo obligados por sus patrones para participar en esta manifestación. En Tegucigalpa, las empresas e instituciones que están obligando a su trabajadores se encuentran: Granitos y Terrazos, varias maquilas y la Alcaldía. También se denunció que hay buses en los barrios marginales de la capital para sobornar a los pobres y llevarlos a la manifestación. Una señora manifestó que “se les está ofreciendo un tiempo de comida y 100 lps en efectivo (5 dólares) por ponerse una camisa blanca”.

EEUU: El Senador Republicano John McCain organizó la visita de los representantes golpistas de Honduras hoy en Washington  7/7/2009 Aporrea: "El senador republicano John McCain, ex candidato presidencial en Estados Unidos, está detrás de la visita hoy a Washington de los representantes del gobierno de facto en Honduras. McCain, conocido por su dura postura contra Venezuela, Bolivia y otros países en la región considerados “anti-imperialistas”, ha organizado una “rueda de prensa” para los representantes golpistas a las 3:00 hoy en el prestigioso Club Nacional de Prensa en la capital estadounidense."

The Role of the International Republican Institute (IRI) in the Honduran Coup  7/7/2009 Chavez Code: "The International Republican Institute talks of “coup” in Honduras, months before. By Eva Golinger."

Micheletti Blinks: Zelaya's Return Not Barred from Costa Rica Mediation  7/7/2009 NarcoNews

Cuba: cultura solidaria en una Fiesta de fuego  7/7/2009 PL: "Los organizadores de la Casa del Caribe, enfrentados a una coyuntura inédita en tres décadas de existencia del encuentro, resolvieron con agilidad los vacíos por la ausencia de personalidades hondureñas y rearmaron sobre la marcha espectáculos artísticos y sesiones teóricas, talleres y exposiciones. Unos 11 países, representados en más de 300 participantes extranjeros, sumaron sus voces de condena a la asonada militar ya fuera en el Encuentro Internacional de Poesía o los espacios destinados a la religiosidad popular, la historia, la comunicación, la música, el teatro, narración oral y la artesanía. Aunque sin el colorido que debió aportarle una delegación de unos 240 artistas, intelectuales y autoridades hondureños, y la trascendencia de que la encabezara el propio mandatario, esta Fiesta del Fuego ya es histórica, insertada en una cultura de resistencia frente a poderes hegemónicos."

Venezuelan Solidarity Convoy Bound for Honduras Detained in Colombia  7/7/2009 Venezuela Analysis

IV Congreso MIGApartners en MIAMI  7/7/2009 YouTube: "General romeo vasquez Velasquez actual jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras Estara dando su testimonio en el IV Congreso MIGApartners, El Gobierno del Reino del 22 al 25 de julio del 2009 en MIAMI, FL. "

Preocupa en Honduras la vida de Luther Castillo  7/6/2009 Ahora: "Un comunicado enviado por los Movimientos Sociales en Honduras a Cubadebate, alerta sobre el peligro que corre la vida del doctor Luther Castillo, coordinador de la resistencia en ese país. Luther Castillo es uno de los jóvenes médicos graduados en la Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina en Cuba y uno de los fundadores del hospital para el pueblo garífuna de Honduras, que abrió el gobierno de Zelaya el 8 de octubre de 2007."

Same Old Globalizers and Torture School Grads - Honduran Coup to Venezuelan Coup  7/6/2009 Counterpunch

Honduran coup resistance growing  7/6/2009 Real News: "Military resorts to killing, numbers in streets double - even opponents of Zelaya join in."

Obama officials supported Honduras coup  7/6/2009 Wayne Madsen Report: "Although Honduran junta propaganda, aided and abetted by corporate-controlled media in the United States and other countries, is claiming that the ouster of Zelaya was "constitutional" because it was sanctioned by the country's Supreme Court and Congress, WMR has been informed by a top former official in Honduras that the Honduran Constitution, cited by newly-installed junta leader Roberto Micheletti in legitimizing the coup, has been suspended. A curfew has also been opposed by the junta. Our Honduran sources report that some 200 opponents of the junta have been detained and that some were badly wounded in attacks by police and military units. Nevertheless, WMR is informed that a popular mobilization against the junta is taking place across Honduras…"

Tragedy at Toncontin: Army Shoots and Kills Protesters, Tegucigalpa, Honduras  7/5/2009 MiMundo: “The armed forces have fired live rounds against unarmed civilians. For over five hours, the protesters behaved respectfully of the army and police. There had been no confrontations. No one had sticks or guns. The march’s organizers had even decommissioned stones from a few protesters. But the army shot at us just like that, in cold blood. There was no need to shoot! Yes, some had started to cut and remove the barbed-wire fence [so as to enter the landing strip], this cannot be denied. But it was not necessary to shoot civilians with live rounds. Once again, so that the people of Honduras will remain united: the blood of a martyr is the seed for many Hondurans who will stand up and remain firm against such de facto government – this government of delinquents. We are only following Article 3rd of our Constitution: ‘Nobody should obey a Government which has reached power by means of usurpation.’” -Cesar Omar Silva, television journalist for State-owned Channel 8."

Few Guatemalans Blame Colom for Murder  7/4/2009 Angus Reid: "Very few people in Guatemala think Álvaro Colom is guilty of the assassination of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, according to a poll by CID-Gallup. Only eight per cent of respondents believe the president is responsible for Rosenberg’s murder."

Dictador negocia salida de Honduras  7/4/2009 El Libertador

Honduras's de facto chancellor: "Obama is a little black man who knows nothing."  7/4/2009 Incakola News: "His precise words in Spanish were "Ese negrito que no sabe nada de nada". I decided to translate this as "that little black man who knows nothing" or "that little black man who doesn't know anything" to stay away from the controversial side of the statement and be as bland as possible. In fact the use of the word "negrito", i.e. the diminuitive of "negro", is very derogatory in nature and overtly racist in context; the kind of racism that would force the resignation of any public figure in the USA (for example). One mailer offered up the translation of "that know-nothing black boy" to get the proper feeling of the message implied by Ortez, and although it's extremely difficult to hit the translatory nail on the head in this case, I'd tend to agree that the offered translation captures the sentiment better than my deliberately bland version."

Honduran Chancellor: Obama is a little black man who knows nothing  7/4/2009 Majikthise

Honduras Coup Chooses Path of Rogue Narco-State  7/4/2009 NarcoNews: "One of the big backers of the coup d’etat has been an international terrorist network of ex-Cubans, who have financed the dirty work of jet plane bomber Luis Posada Carriles over the years and have set up business interests in Honduras. These forces are desperate now that Washington is making the moves to ease and end the embargo of Cuba. Investigative journalist Guy Jean-Allard reports, via TeleSur, that Ralph Nodarse – ex-Cuban owner of Channel 6 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras – and arms-and-drug trafficker Rafael Hernández Nodarse are knee deep behind he coup-plotters in Honduras. The latter aided and abetted Posada Carriles to hide out in Panama in 2004. There was likewise a strong nexus between the Honduras government and military and the 1980s Iran-Contra drugs-for-arms-for-Nicaraguan-paramilitaries scandal, where much of the illegal covert US cocaine smuggling operation was headquartered during the Reagan and Bush Senior presidencies. The government of Venezuela has accused that former State Department official and anti-Castro ex-Cuban Otto Reich is involved with the current coup regime in Honduras. Reich, at State during the 2002 coup in Venezuela, was the US official that called ambassadors from throughout Latin America into his office when the coup was taking place to instruct them that the US supported the coup and expected the same from them (that move backfired when Latin American nations delivered the first-ever rebuke to the US via the OAS). He was also at State in the mid-1980s heading up Latin American operations and has been strongly linked to the cocaine-smuggling activities then. Those who think that when the US cuts off funds, as it will surely do in the coming days, that the sanctions will starve the Honduran coup regime into surrender, are forgetting that in this asymmetrical world there are non-government entities – which is to say, organized crime, terrorist, and narco-trafficking organizations – that seek a safe haven in Central America, so important in the route between the South American coca plant and the noses of North America."

Honduras Coup General Was Charged in 1993 Auto Theft Ring  7/4/2009 NarcoNews: "General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, who appeared on stage this week with Honduran coup “president” Roberto Michiletti, and who ordered the kidnapping and forced deportation of P resident Manuel Zelaya last Sunday, was charged with grand auto theft in 1993, Narco News has learned. On February 2, 1993, the front page of the Tegucigalpa daily El Heraldo included this headline: “Eleven Members of the Gang of 13 Go to Prison”: “Eleven individuals arrested for their alleged participation in the theft of 200 luxury automobiles… were sent to prison yesterday… (including) Colonel Wilfredo Leva Caborrea and Major Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, accused as alleged participants…”"

The Honduras Coup: Is Obama Innocent? By Michael Parenti  7/3/2009 L'Info Decodee: "Fifth, Obama still has had nothing to say about the many other acts of repression attendant with the coup perpetrated by Honduran military and police: kidnappings, beatings, disappearances, attacks on demonstrators, shutting down the internet and suppressing the few small critical media outlets that exist in Honduras. Sixth, as James Petras reminded me, Obama has refused to meet with President Zelaya. He dislikes Zelaya mostly for his close and unexpected affiliation with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. And because of his egalitarian reformist efforts Zelaya is hated by the Honduran oligarchs, the same oligarchs who for many years have been close to and splendidly served by the US empire builders. Seventh, under a law passed by the US Congress, any democratic government that is the victim of a military takeover is to be denied US military and economic aid. Obama still has not cut off the economic and military aid to Honduras as he is required to do under this law. This is perhaps the most telling datum regarding whose side he is on."

Honduras: the Israeli Connection  7/3/2009 Middle East Reality Check: "That was then. This is right now: "A Latin American expert sent me this from a major newspaper in Honduras: "Buena noticia. Embajadas de Taiwan e Israel reconocen al nuevo gobierno de Roberto Micheletti." (Good news. The embassies of Taiwan and Israel recognize the new government of Roberto Micheletti.) ...Will death squads be roaming the land once more?"

Chavez: U.S. and Venezuelan Right Wing Support Coup in Honduras, a Challenge to Obama  7/3/2009 Venezuela Analysis: "The Venezuelan government has suspended oil shipments to Honduras until Zelaya is reinstated, Chavez confirmed. Venezuela has also called for an investigation of the coup by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and advocated possible multi-national military intervention if diplomatic means fail to restore Zelaya to power."

Spinning the Honduran Coup - Latin America Media Battle Continues  7/2/2009 Counterpunch: "Adriana Sivori, Telesur’s correspondent in Tegucigalpa, was in her hotel room speaking on the telephone to her network when ten soldiers arrived with rifles drawn. The men unplugged Telesur’s editing equipment in an effort to halt the network’s coverage of protests in support of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. When a soldier lightly slapped Sivori’s hand so she would hang up, the journalist grew alarmed. “They’re taking us prisoner at gunpoint,” she remarked. Sivori along with producer María José Díaz and cameraman Larry Sánchez were taken to an immigration office in a military caravan. There, the authorities beat them and demanded to see their Honduran visas. Shortly later, the journalists were released."

Behind the Honduran Coup - Why Zelaya's Actions Were Legal  7/1/2009 Counterpunch: "President Zelaya intended to perform a non-binding public consultation, about the conformation of an elected National Constituent Assembly. To do this, he invoked article 5 of the Honduran “Civil Participation Act” of 2006. According to this act, all public functionaries can perform non-binding public consultations to inquire what the population thinks about policy measures. This act was approved by the National Congress and it was not contested by the Supreme Court of Justice, when it was published in the Official Paper of 2006. That is, until the president of the republic employed it in a manner that was not amicable to the interests of the members of these institutions. Furthermore, the Honduran Constitution says nothing against the conformation of an elected National Constituent Assembly, with the mandate to draw up a completely new constitution, which the Honduran public would need to approve. Such a popular participatory process would bypass the current liberal democratic one specified in article 373 of the current constitution, in which the National Congress has to approve with 2/3 of the votes, any reform to the 1982 Constitution, excluding reforms to articles 239 and 374. This means that a perfectly legal National Constituent Assembly would have a greater mandate and fewer limitations than the National Congress, because such a National Constituent Assembly would not be reforming the Constitution, but re-writing it."

Detienen a miembro de Común Noticias  7/1/2009 Defensores en Linea: "Carlos Bueso , un joven de Comunicación Comunitaria (COMUN) está detenido en las celdas policiales de El Progreso, Yoro, acusado de sedición junto a seis personas más después de que las fuerzas de seguridad reprimieran una manifestación pacífica que la población de la zona realizaba este martes exigiendo el retorno del orden constitucional en Honduras."

Text of a lawsuit against the Honduran Govt - by Honduran lawyers  6/30/2009 Daily Kos: [English y español] "The Supreme Court released to the media the same day June 28 a press statement describing the decision issued by the Court of Administrative Litigation of Francisco Morazán, which ordered the suspension of the opinion poll called "Fourth Urn" and the seizure of ballot boxes, ballot papers and all material related to the so-called popular consultation. Needless to say, this court has no power to order the detention of any person, but the detention of citizen José Manuel Zelaya Rosales is without question. The court order in any case should be the product of a process defined by the Code Criminal Articles 417, Following and no doubt justifying the detention of any person in the republic of Honduras, means making it accessible to the competent judicial authorities, which in this case did not happen."

Showdown in Honduras: The Rise and Uncertain Future of the Coup  6/30/2009 Venezuela Analysis: "As one media analyst pointed out, while many major news outlets in the US, including theMiami Herald, Wall St. Journal and Washington Post, said an impetus for thecoup was specifically Zelaya's plans for a vote to allow him to extend his termin office, the actual ballot question was to be: "Do you agree that, during the generalelections of November 2009 there should be a fourth ballot to decide whether tohold a Constituent National Assembly that will approve a new politicalconstitution?" Nations across LatinAmerica, including Venezuela,Boliviaand Ecuador,have recently re-written their constitutions. In many aspects the changes tothese documents enshrined new rights for marginalized people and protected thenations' economies from the destabilizing effects of free trade and corporatelooting."

Crisis política en Honduras - Varios heridos en choque entre policías y manifestantes  6/29/2009 AFP: "Hay disturbios, la policía está reprimiendo... Se escuchan disparos.. Hay varios heridos", relató el reportero gráfico. "Los militares están disparando a discreción" para desalojar a centenares de manifestantes que se congregaron frente a la sede presidencial, dijo el reportero. "Hay heridos por todas partes: gente, militares, policía", relató el fotógrafo que definió el escenario como una "batalla campal".

Honduras: Un muerto, varios heridos y numerosos detenidos tras última arremetida de militares contra manifestantes  6/29/2009 Aporrea

Honduran coup tests waning US clout in Latin America  6/29/2009 CSM: "Mr. Tinker Salas says the crisis over use of the referendum has its roots in Honduras's cold war era constitution, which was written by the country's "liberal elites" and does not provide for referendums. "The referendum is the primary vehicle through which change has occurred in countries like Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, and the elites know it," says Tinker Salas. "They wanted to nip this thing in the bud." Given the international pressure now bearing down on Honduras, he adds, "they may have shot themselves in the foot.""

Two Military Battalions Turn Against Honduras Coup Regime  6/29/2009 NarcoNews: "Community Radio “Es Lo de Menos” was the first to report that the Fourth Infantry Battalion has rebelled from the military coup regime in Honduras. The radio station adds that “it seems” (“al parecer,” in the original Spanish) that the Tenth Infantry Battalion has also broken from the coup. Rafael Alegria, leader of Via Campesina, the country’s largest social organization, one that has successfully blockaded the nation’s highways before to force government concessions, tells Alba TV: “The popular resistance is rising up throughout the country. All the highways in the country are blockaded…. The Fourth Infantry Battallion… is no longer following the orders of Roberto Micheletti.” Angel Alvarado of Honduras’ Popular Union Bloc tells Radio Mundial: "Two infantry battalions of the Honduran Army have risen up against the illegitimate government of Roberto Micheletti in Honduras. They are the Fourth Infantry Battalion in the city of Tela and the Tenth Infantry Battalion in La Ceiba (the second largest city in Honduras), both located in the state of Atlántida.""

Emergency in Honduras-Letter To Minister Cannon  6/29/2009 Northumberland View, Canada: "During the past days, we have been in close contact with a number of our Honduran partners. All have expressed grave concern and indignation over the violent ouster of their country's democratically elected President by the Armed Forces. Partners in Tegucigalpa report a virtual state of siege in the capital including the presence of military tanks, power cuts and media censorship. Garifuna partners in Trujillo have informed us of a similar heavy military presence in their communities. In the town of Nacaome, where we support organizations engaged in rural development and the protection and promotion of women's rights, one of our partners told us "we fear for the lives of several community leaders" who are engaged in actions of peaceful resistance to the coup d'etat."

Honduran Students in Cuba Express Support of Zelaya  6/29/2009 Periodico 26: "Now, when I’m about to conclude my studies and return to my country to offer my services to our brothers and sisters of the garífuna ethnic group, who for many years didn’t have access to medical assistance, I’m deeply concerned that this situation created by the military coup d’ etat interrupts the public health program President Zelaya was carrying out along with other measures for popular benefit."

Sigue la represión contra manifestantes en Honduras  6/29/2009 PL: "En las cercanías de la Casa Presidencial, en esta capital, tienen lugar los choques más violentos contra miles de personas en resistencia cívica, de carácter pacífico. Aunque desde el domingo los golpistas decretaron el toque de queda, los manifestantes frente a la sede del Ejecutivo se mantuvieron en vigilia durante la madrugada."

Obama says coup in Honduras is illegal  6/29/2009 Reuters: "Despite Obama's comments, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the administration was not formally designating the ouster as a military coup for now, a step that would force a cut-off of most U.S. aid to Honduras. Under U.S. law, no aid -- other than for the promotion of democracy -- may be provided to a country whose elected head of government has been toppled in a military coup. "We do think that this has evolved into a coup," Clinton told reporters, adding the administration was withholding that determination for now. Asked if the United States was currently considering cutting off aid, Clinton shook her head no."

Zelaya anuncia que volverá a Honduras acompañado de Insulza  6/29/2009 TeleSur: "El presidente legítimo de Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, anunció este lunes que a tras su viaje a Estados Unidos, donde pronunciará un discurso ante la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU), regresará a su país, acompañado del secretario de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), José Miguel Insulza. Extendió una invitación a los Jefes de Estado que deseen viajar con él."

Honduras Defends Its Democracy - Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object  6/29/2009 WSJ: "That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress."

Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S.  6/28/2009 Facing South: "At least two leaders of the coup launched in Honduras on June 28 were apparently trained at a controversial Department of Defense school based at Fort Benning, Georgia infamous for producing graduates linked to torture, death squads and other human rights abuses."

Correction: Honduran Presidential Candidate Is Still Alive  6/28/2009 NarcoNews: "Luther Castillo, coordinator of Honduran social movements, in an interview with the Cuban television program Mesa Redonda, denied that the leader of the Democratic Unification Party, Cesar Ham, has been assassinated. Castillo also denied that Ham has been detained and said that he remains in a secure location, faced with the possibility of repression by the coup leaders."

Honduras's Zelaya says US helped thwart coup-paper  6/28/2009 Reuters: "Honduran President Manuel Zelaya told Spain's El Pais that a planned attempt to wrest power him was thwarted after the United States declined to back the move. "Everything was in place for the coup and if the U.S. embassy had approved it, it would have happened. But they did not ... I'm only still here in office thanks to the United States," he said in the newspaper interview published on Sunday."

Honduras supreme court 'ordered army coup'  6/28/2009 Telegraph, UK: "Today's events originate from a court order by a competent judge. The armed forces, in charge of supporting the constitution, acted to defend the state of law and have been forced to apply legal dispositions against those who have expressed themselves publicly and acted against the dispositions of the basic law," the country's highest court said."

Obama's First Coup d'Etat: Honduran President has been Kidnapped: Updates 1-17  6/28/2009 Venezuela Analysis

Guatemalan fears a tweet will make him a jailbird  6/26/2009 AP

Honduras: inminente violencia ante acaparamiento de tierras del pueblo Garifuna por Diputado del Congreso Nacional  6/26/2009 Biodiversidad en América Latina y El Caribe

Attempted Coup in Honduras?  6/26/2009 Daily Kos: [2 days before the coup] - "Well, my friend, Celeo Alvarez Casildo, who has a development organization in the coastal city, La Ceiba, aimed at the Garifuna populationcalled ODECO(and who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize this year for his efforts to organize the entire Central American Afro-descendent community), held a workshop on the constitution and the "Cuarta Urna" a couple of weeks ago. They concluded it was unnecessary and kind of stupid. Since the Honduran government has never really been trustworthy, the motives behind this are suspect."

The Fellowship, Governor Mark Sanford’s Secretive Christian Landlords On C Street  6/25/2009 Guanabee: "1984 The Fellowship brought former Salvadoran Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova to the prayer breakfast. In 2002, Casanova was found liable for the torture of thousands of civilians in the 1980s. Casanova attended the breakfast along with Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, then the head of the Honduran armed forces. Alvarez, later linked to the CIA and a secret death squad, became an evangelical missionary before he was assassinated in 1989."

¡Urgente! Se prepara Golpe de Estado en Honduras  6/24/2009 COPINH: "Con la fuerza ancestral de Iselaca, Lempira y Etempica se levantan nuestras voces de vida, justicia, dignidad, libertad y paz."

Presidente Zelaya liderará delegación hondureña a Festival del Caribe en Cuba  6/19/2009 AND

“Mel está en deuda con los garífunas”  6/19/2009 La Prenda, Honduras: "Céleo Álvarez Casildo, presidente de la Odeco, dijo que durante este gobierno no se les ha titulado las tierras donde habitan desde hace varias décadas"

Honduras to Cuba Fire Festival  6/16/2009 Radio Nuevitas: "Cuba has invited, for the first time, a Central American country to the Caribbean Festival, the 29th edition of which is dedicated to Honduras. That country's Garifuna culture is an expression of friendship and strength of regional people's identity. From June 3-9, this event will have its venue in the city of Santiago de Cuba, and share venues in Guantanamo and Granma provinces, where the guest country will be honored and its artists and intellectuals will entertain the Cuban people with Hunduran art and writing."

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