Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is not invited to the second Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean, with organizers saying his government should first be recognized by the OAS.
The National Resistance Front in Honduras issued a communiquĂ© charging that President “Pepe” Lobo is planning to lay off a large number of public employees and purge union leaders.
Four campesinos were wounded when security forces attacked members of the Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguán (MUCA) at a land occupation near La Ceiba, Honduras.
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’etat—as 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 Ixtahuacán, Guatemala.
The International Trade Union Confederation strongly condemned the murder of Pedro Antonio GarcĂa, a member of the Malacatán 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 June—but Zelaya himself dismissed the move as a political “trick.”
