Deposed Honduran President Mel Zelaya, speaking from exile to his own armed forces, said: “In the name of God, soldiers of Honduras… I beg and command you: do not repress the Honduran people!”
Thousands of protesters opposing expansion of the US military base at Vicenza clashed with Italian police over the weekend as world leaders gathered for the G8 summit.
Over 150 are dead and some 1,000 injured after Chinese security forces attacked a protest march by ethnic Uighurs, sparking widespread clashes in Kashgar, Xinjiang province.
Popular organizations in Honduras charge that ex-US under-secretary of state Otto Reich masterminded a campaign of “sabotage and disinformation” in the prelude to the coup d’etat.
The Honduran army placed military vehicles on the airstrip in Tegucigalpa to prevent President Mel Zelaya from landing—but the army’s top lawyer admitted that the military coup was illegal.
Honduras’ new foreign minister Enrique Ortez dissed world leaders who reject his coup-installed regime in contemptuous terms—calling Barack Obama a “little black man who knows nothing.”
Meeting in Washington, the OAS again demanded the immediate return of Mel Zelaya to power in Honduras—while Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega said the Honduran military is preparing a “blood-bath.”
Salvatore Mancuso, ex-commander of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), presented prosecutors with the names of 31 high-ranking military and police officers who collaborated in massacres.
Social organizations in El Salvador denounced the disappearance of Gustavo Marcelo Rivera, an anti-mining leader from the town of San Isidro, fearing a political motive.
Peru has approved Anglo-French Perenco’s contract to drill for oil in the Amazon—in the wake of a wave of unrest over government develop plans in the region that left at least 30 dead.
Some 4,000 US Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province—a remote area that is at the center of the country’s opium cultivation.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has dropped high-profile workplace raids that marked the Bush years—but so-called “gang” raids continue, with over 100 arrested in North Texas last week.
