Despite the transfer of power to President Porfirio Lobo last month, grave human rights abuses targeting opponents of last year’s coup d’etat in Honduras continue unabated.
New Honduran President Porfirio Lobo named a “Truth Commission” to examine the June 2009 coup d’etatâas more murders and abductions were reported against coup opponents.
Gregoria Crisanta, an opponent of the local Marlin gold mine, was was freed by a campesino roadblock after being detained by police in San Miguel IxtahuacĂĄn, Guatemala.
The International Trade Union Confederation strongly condemned the murder of Pedro Antonio GarcĂa, a member of the MalacatĂĄn Municipal Workers Union in San Marcos, Guatemala.
As Porfirio Lobo began his term with police raids across Tegucigalpa, the resistance movement pledged to carry on the struggle to “refound” the country with a new constitution.
Guatemalan authorities issued an arrest warrant for former president Alfonso Portillo, after the US government requested his extradition to face money laundering charges.
The Honduran Congress voted to put off an amnesty for coup leaders until a new congress convenes after the president-elect Porfirio Lobo Sosa takes power later this month.
An investigation by the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) concluded that activist attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg planned his own assassination.
Honduran prosecutors filed charges against three military chiefs in the ouster of president Manuel Zelaya in Juneâbut Zelaya himself dismissed the move as a political “trick.”
Unknown assailants carried out an arson attack against the Garifuna-language Radio Coco Dulce at Triunfo de la Cruz on the Caribbean coast of Honduras.
A Guatemalan court issued warrants for two businessmen as “intellectual authors” in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg, who had warned that Presdient Ălvaro Colom sought his death.
Survivors of the 1989 US invasion of Panama marked the 20th anniversary with a protest at the old US embassy in Panama City, burning effigies of Barack Obama and Panama’s new president.
