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November 17, 2009
San Francisco Chronicle
   Honduran Congress Will Rule on Zelaya After Vote -- Honduran lawmakers will not decide whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya until after upcoming presidential elections, the congressional leader said Tuesday, a decision that could undermine international support for the vote.
 
November 12, 2009
Democracy Now!
   US Criticized for Collapse of Honduras Deal -- In Honduras, the Obama administration is facing growing criticism for the apparent collapse of an agreement to resolve the Honduran political crisis.
 
November 09, 2009
Democracy Now!
   Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya: Talks Are Off with Coup Government After Deal Collapses -- Amy Goodman follows developments in Honduras, where an American-mediated accord to end the four-month political crisis in the country appears to be in shambles just a week after it was signed, and speaks to President Zelaya from the Brazilian embassy.
 
November 08, 2009
Upside Down World
   Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced in Honduras; Deal "Dead" -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead", after de facto leader Roberto Micheletti announced late Thursday that he had formed a "government of unity and reconciliation" without the participation of the deposed president.
 
October 30, 2009
Upside Down World
   Agreement to End Honduran Coup Marks Victory and Challenge -- On the night of Oct. 29, Honduras' de facto regime finally agreed to allow Congress to vote to "restore full executive power prior to June 28". Conceding to international and national pressure, the Honduran coup appears to be facing its final days.
 
October 12, 2009
Upside Down World
   Honduran Accords Hung Up on Zelaya's Reinstatement -- Talks between representatives of the coup regime and the constitutional government of President Manuel Zelaya reached consensus on eight of nine points yesterday. But the missing point is the same one that that has has held up any agreement to end the stand-off since Day One of the coup d'état over three months ago.
 
October 05, 2009
Upside Down World
   Washington Plays Both Sides on Honduran Coup -- The good news is that Washington has finally begun to take stronger actions on Honduras. The bad news is that the actions completely contradict each other, resulting in ambiguity, paralysis and infighting as the Honduran crisis explodes.
 
October 05, 2009
BBC News
   Honduras lifts emergency decree -- Honduras' interim leader has lifted an emergency decree imposed after the country's ousted President Manuel Zelaya returned to the country.
 
October 01, 2009
North American Congress on Latin America
   The Honduran Coup: The Specter of Democracy, and of the Past -- It’s ironic that Zelaya, a wealthy rancher and timber magnate elected on the ticket of the traditional Liberal Party, should have become a cause célèbre among social movements. But after coming to power in January 2006, he was pushed to the left by a variety of factors, worrying the Honduran elite.
 
September 30, 2009
Amnesty International
   Journalists in Honduras: "They know who we are" -- A journalist in Honduras recounts the hostile government shutdown of Radio Globo during the country's recent suspension of civil rights.
 
September 28, 2009
Yahoo News
   Coup-installed Honduras leader to revive liberties -- The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down Monday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by the end of the week.
 
September 22, 2009
DemocracyNow!
   Ousted President Manuel Zelaya Returns to Honduras in Defiance of Coup Government -- Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has made a dramatic return to his country nearly three months after the military coup that forced him into exile. On Monday, Zelaya reappeared in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, taking refuge in the Brazilian embassy. Speaking from the embassy’s roof, Zelaya said he had arrived after a lengthy trip, traveling sometimes by foot to avoid detection.
 
August 25, 2009
Human Rights Watch
   Rights Report Shows Need for Increased International Pressure -- The finding by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of widespread abuses in Honduras should compel the international community to take firm action, such as targeted sanctions, to resolve the country's ongoing crisis, Human Rights Watch said today.
 
August 23, 2009
Kansas City
   KC women are convinced coup in Honduras was military -- Two Kansas City women traveled to Honduras with Global Exchange on a fact finding mission to learn more about what has happened since the June 28, 2009 military coup.
 
August 20, 2009
DemocracyNow!
   Amnesty: Honduran Forces Using Arrests, Beatings to Punish Zelaya Supporters -- Amnesty International is accusing Honduran forces of beating and arresting supporters of the ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
 
August 15, 2009
Narco News
   US Ambassador Hugo Llorens Discloses Secrets of the Honduran Coup -- While awaiting the arrival of United States Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens to a meeting at the US embassy in Tegucigalpa Friday morning, Deputy Mission Chief Simon Henshaw spoke to an American human rights delegation from Global Exchange.
 
July 23, 2009
The Huffington Post
   Time for President Zelaya to Return to Honduras -- A month after the military ousted Honduran President Zelaya from his post, negotiations have reached a standstill and Hondurans across the country continue to condemn the coup and are demanding the return of Zelaya. It is not time for Zelaya to return and the U.S. government should help him do that.
 
July 08, 2009
guardian.co.uk
   Hondurans Resist Coup, Will Need Help From Other Countries -- The military coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras took a new turn when Zelaya attempted to return home on Sunday. The military closed the airport and blocked runways to prevent his plane from landing. They also shot several protesters, killing at least one and injuring others. Now, the Honduran coup resisters are seeking help from the international community.
 
July 06, 2009
DemocracyNow!
   Honduran Coup Regime Blocks Ousted President Zelaya’s Return -- One week after a military coup in Honduras, soldiers and riot police blocked the airport runway Sunday evening preventing ousted President Manuel Zelaya from returning to the country. Andres Conteris, who was at the scene, reports back.
 
July 06, 2009
Common Dreams
   Hondurans Pour into the Streets Demanding Zelaya’s Return -- "Can you believe this?" asked indigenous leader Berta Caceres. "Now they are killing our people. We need the international community to step in and stop the crazy people..."
 
July 05, 2009
Political Affairs
   No Press Freedom in Post-Coup Honduras -- The stifling of the press in a post-coup Honduras.
 
July 02, 2009
The Huffington Post
   Hondurans Call Out for Help from the International Community -- Our emergency international delegation to Honduras, organized from the United States by CODEPINK, Global Exchange and Non-Violence International, began its fact-finding mission in the wake of the June 28 coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya.
 
May 19, 2009
Global Exchange Reality Tours
   Seeing People for the First Time -- Ask me a little while ago and I'd tell you that all those picketing, poster-holding hippies might as well be complaining about how cold it is in January.
 
March 23, 2007
Rights Action
   MINING MISERY: GUATEMALA IS ONE OF MANY COUNTRIES THAT HAS ATTRACTED THE INVESTMENT OF CANADIAN MINING COMPANIES - BUT AT WHAT COST TO ITS PEOPLE? -- Outside Chichipate, Martín Col Caal, a 21-year-old subsistence farmer, is cobbling together a makeshift shelter, using tree branches and palm leaves, for his wife and two young children. About 200 other indigenous families are here in the grassy valley, dubbing their new home Barrio de la Revolución -- Neighbourhood of the Revolution. Today, a steamy day in September 2006, more than 3,000 indigenous people from Chichipate and El Estor have set up similar households on five different sites, defiantly claiming the land as their own, land they say was stolen from their grandparents in the 1960s. Skye Resources, a Vancouver-based junior mining company, which bought the land from Canadian mining giant Inco in 2004, has different plans for the site. With the price of nickel at a 19-year high, Skye intends to re-open the mine in 2009, with construction slated to start this year. The indigenous occupants say they are not here to protest the mine--they simply need the land to subsist. But one of the five groups is sitting on a nickel deposit. Either the mining company or the squatters will have to go.
 
October 13, 2006
Rights Action
   Hoduras Update: 514 Years of Indigenous, Black and Popular Resistance -- On (the infamous) October 12th, thousands of people and organizations participated in mobilizations and marches in different parts of Honduras to commemorate 514 years of indigenous, black and popular resistance. Far from limiting themselves to the continental day of action of the Cry of the Excluded, communities and organizations continue their ongoing work at the local and national level.
 
October 02, 2006
Rights Action
   Honduran Government Representative Threatens San Juan Community President -- The Patronato of the community of San Juan Tela (Durugubuty) and the community Lands Defense Committee denounce the intervention of Vice Minister of Culture Salvador Suazo the evening of Wednesday the 13th, when he arrived in our community, asking to meet with Jessica García, President of the Patronato and Wilfredo Guerrero of the Lands Defense Committee.
 
July 15, 2006
Rights Action
   First of two campesino political prisoner released. -- First of two campesino political prisoner released!!! After more than three years of illegal detention, including torture and continued attacks against the home community of the prisoners.
 
January 25, 2006
Rights Action
   African-descendant Garifuna communities suffer repression struggling against global tourist industry -- On January 15th, paramilitaries armed with illegal weapons opened fire on community leaders in the Garifuna community of San Juan de Tela, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Last November, Rights Action distributed an urgent action to support San Juan community leader Wilfredo Guerrero, whose home was the target of arson.
 
July 01, 2005
Rights Action
   HONDURAS: ONGOING STRUGGLES FOR INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS; ONGOING REPRESSION -- The third violent eviction of the community of Las Golondrinas was carried out on June 29 by State authorities and 'security' forces, who detained 10 community leaders and members. They have since been released, but it is unlikely that the repression against this community, located in the municipality of Marcala, department of La Paz, Honduras, will end with their release. This was the third violent eviction of Las Golondrinas, less than a month after the previous eviction on June 7.
 
June 29, 2005
Mother Jones Magazine
   MARCHING FOR LIFE: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSÉ TAMAYO -- A Honduran priest has organized a grassroots environmental movement to protest illegal logging and government corruption—with stunning results.
 


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