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January 27, 2010
CommonDreams.Org
   Honduras Swears in Porfirio Lobo as President -- Honduras has sworn in newly-elected Porfirio Lobo as President, after months of crisis over the fate of his ousted predecessor, Manuel Zelaya.
 
January 20, 2010
The New York Times
   Accord Reached to Let Honduran President Depart -- The president-elect of Honduras agreed on Wednesday to grant safe passage to the Dominican Republic for ousted President Manuel Zelaya next week, in a deal designed to offer a graceful exit for the deposed leader.
 
January 13, 2010
Upside Down World
   Honduras: Why do Garifuna community radios burn? -- A Honduran black fraternal organization denounces attack against their radio station.
 
January 11, 2010
The New York Times
   Honduras' Top Court to Hear Case Against Military -- Honduras' Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a request by the chief prosecutor to charge the country's top military commanders with abuse of power for sending President Manuel Zelaya into exile.
 
January 08, 2010
CommonDreams.Org
    CONTACT: CEPR Dan Beeton International Program Communications Coordinator 202-239-1460 Proposed Amnesty Serves to Whitewash Honduran Coup, CEPR Co-Director Says -- The international community should offer no support for planned amnesty for the perpetrators of the Honduran coup. Noting that both ousted President Manuel Zelaya and coup leaders previously agreed on a deal to resolve the crisis that did not include amnesty for crimes, CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot cautioned that current efforts to grant amnesty to the coup leaders would be merely an attempt to "whitewash the coup."
 
January 06, 2010
CommonDreams.Org
   US Envoy Meets Honduras Politicians Amid Stalemate -- A top US envoy met with ousted President Manuel Zelaya inside the Brazilian Embassy in a bid to resolve the political crisis set off by a coup more than six months ago.
 
December 16, 2009
Human Rights Watch
   Honduras: Investigate Murders of LGBT People -- The killing of an HIV/AIDS outreach worker on December 14, 2009, is part of a pattern of violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Honduras that seems to have accelerated in the turbulent months since the June 28 coup, Human Rights Watch said today.
 
December 15, 2009
Upside Down World
    Amid Repression, Mobilizing Against the Coup Continues in Honduras -- Hundreds of Hondurans marched in the capital city on Friday, demanding the return of elected President José Manuel Zelaya. Their numbers were small compared to massive demonstrations that occurred immediately following the coup, but the hundreds of people who marched in Tegucigalpa showed no fear in the face of deadly repercussions.
 
December 10, 2009
Upside Down World
   On Presidents and Precedents: Implications of the Honduran Coup -- For those who closely followed the coup and its aftermath, a tiny fear sat in the back of our minds. Eventually it was confirmed. As the State Department position shifted from condemning to condoning the illegal government, the outline of a bigger picture became clear. If this violent takeover were really to be approved by the US, it would mark a frightening new focus on the region.
 
December 07, 2009
Narco News
   Electoral Fraud Proved in Honduras: More than 50 Percent Did Not Vote -- While most international news organizations took obedient dictation of the Honduras coup regime's claims of more than 62 percent voter participation in the November 29 "elections," authentic journalist Jesse Freeston did what real reporters are supposed to do: He went directly to the source, asked questions, took notes, and videotaped the evidence.
 
December 06, 2009
Reuters
   Honduras' Zelaya to stay in Brazil embassy -- Honduras' deposed President Manuel Zelaya said on Sunday that he would stay in the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital for as long as Brasilia allowed him to and that he would be willing to talk to the new president-elect.
 
December 03, 2009
Common Frontiers Canada
   Canadian Eye-Witnesses Dispute Claims by Minister Kent Regarding Violence in Honduran Elections -- A delegation of Canadians who witnessed the recent elections in Honduras disputes the account of events in the recent media statement by Peter Kent, Canadian Minister of State and Foreign Affairs.
 
December 03, 2009
Winnepeg Free Press
   Congressional vote leaves Honduran leader trapped in the embassy, facing arrest or exile -- Congress voted Wednesday, December 2 not to reinstate ousted president Zelaya, bringing to an end hopes that he might be returned to power before the apparent President elect Porfirio Lobo is sworn in next month. Where does Manuel Zelaya go now?
 
December 02, 2009
Upside Down World
   Election Report From Honduras: The People Say “We Didn’t Vote!” -- Though the media is reporting record high turnouts for Sunday's election, no one is buying it. Hundreds of cars and people drove through the streets honking their horns, with flags, horns and music, yelling, "I didn't vote!" and showing their ink-less fingers, to show they had not been registered at a polling station where a finger print as part of your id is normally taken.
 
November 30, 2009
Democracy Now!
   Supporter of Coup Wins Election in Honduras -- In Honduras, a prominent supporter of the coup has won the nation’s presidential election.
 
November 29, 2009
CommonDreams.Org
   Selling Out Democracy in Honduras: The U.S. and the Honduran Election -- Honduras' November 29 election has been rightfully scorned as a sham by political leaders across the hemisphere. With the exception, that is, of President Obama.
 
November 28, 2009
Rights Action
   Honduran Military Shoots Man On Eve Of “Free And Fair” Elections -- “This is how they kill people in this country...like dogs. And they can do this because we, the Honduran people, stay silent. We can’t continue like this – we have to stand up.”-- Mother of shooting victim, Angel Fabricio Salgado Hernandez.
 
November 28, 2009
Rights Action
   Honduran Military Raids Campesino Organization Day Before The Elections -- On November 28, heavily armed members of the national police, military and criminal investigation units under the coup regime raided the Honduran farm organization COMAL (Alternative Community Marketing Network) in Siguatepeque, in Comayagua.
 
November 27, 2009
Upside Down World
   U.S. Groups That Supported Coups in Haiti and Venezuela Will Observe Elections in Honduras -- The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI), organizations that receive funding from the U.S. State Department, are planning on sending delegations to observe the November 29 elections in Honduras. The IRI is a group that has supported the ouster of democratically elected presidents in Haiti and Venezuela in recent years.
 
November 25, 2009
San Francisco Chronicle
   Honduras vote to sideline president, enshrine coup -- Sunday's election will likely accomplish what the plotters of a coup set out to do five months ago: end the political career of leftist President Manuel Zelaya and replace him with a more moderate leader from Honduras' establishment.
 
November 23, 2009
Toward Freedom
   Honduras: Regime’s Nov. 29 Electoral Circus Rejected -- In an attempt to give itself a democratic cover, the coup regime, which has silenced critical media, detained thousands of opponents and killed or disappeared dozens of others, is planning to organise national elections on November 29. Zelaya and the FNRG have called for a boycott of the poll.
 
November 23, 2009
Toward Freedom
   Honduran Dictatorship Is A Threat to Democracy In the Hemisphere -- Should other countries recognize the results of a dictatoship's election, to be held on November 29th? Latin America says absolutely not; the United States is saying, well, "yes we can"- if we can get away with it.
 
November 20, 2009
Honduras Resists!
   United States backs illegal elections in Honduras – Betrays process to restore Constitutional order -- In declaring that it will recognize the coup regime sponsored elections on November 29th without prior restitution of Constitutional order, the United States has embolden the coup regime, betrayed a lengthy negotiation process and endangered the lives of millions of Honduran citizens who are committed to democracy, human rights and the rule of law who will boycott elections they consider to be illegal.
 
November 18, 2009
United Students Against Sweatshops
   Campus Labor Rights Watchdog Wins Breakthrough Victory as Russell Athletic, Under Pressure from Universities, Recognizes Apparel Workers’ Union, Opens New Factory -- Nearly 100 major universities & colleges severed ties with U.S-based athletic clothing supplier until an agreement was reached putting all employees back to work. The unprecedented agreement opens the door to the unionization of apparel workers in all Fruit of the Loom factories in Honduras.
 
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.
 


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