Rights watchdogs warn that Swedish journalist Dick Emanuelsson is in danger following an article he wrote questioning official turnout projections in the Honduran general elections.
De facto Honduran president Roberto Micheletti Bain sent the National Congress a proposal to withdraw from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA).
Ramiro Rivera, a leader in the struggle against massive gold mining projects proposed by the Vancouver-based Pacific Rim company, was assassinated in Ilobasco, El Salvador.
The proposal by Porfirio Lobo, winner of Honduras’ disputed presidential election, for an “amnesty for all” involved in the coup undermines the rule of law, Human Rights Watch charges.
Walter Trochez, a well-known LGBT leader in Honduras and activist in the resistance against the coup d’etat, was gunned down by drive-by killers in central Tegucigalpa.
Students at North American campuses are demanding their universities drop licensing agreements with Nike unless 1,800 workers for Honduran contractors get back pay and severance packages.
In the wake of confused elections marred by widespread abstention, resistance leaders in Honduras vowed not to end the struggle launched June 28 when the military removed President Mel Zelaya.
On Dec. 4 the French wire service AFP reported that with 57% of the votes from Honduras’ Nov. 29 general elections officially counted, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) had revised its earlier turnout estimate down from 61.3% to about 49%…. Read moreHonduras: confusion wins in turnout dispute
Honduran de facto authorities announced that Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo Sosa of the right-wing National Party had won the presidency—but resistance leaders claim 70% abstentionism.
Thousands of campesinos blocked highways in Guatemala to press demands for new allocations to the National Lands Fund for renting farmland to be used by more than 100,000 families.
Soldiers are deployed across Honduras in an atmosphere of violence and repression as the coup-installed regime holds presidential elections that the civil resistance has pledged to boycott.
The OAS will send no election observers to Honduras because many member states do not recognize the vote. The de facto regime is meanwhile jamming the signal of opposition TV Channel 36.
