Rodolfo Padilla, mayor of San Pedro Sula, joined a growing list of candidates who have withdrawn from the Honduran elections to protest control of the process by the de facto regime.
Student activists blocked roads in Panama to protest what they called plans for US military bases. Authorities say the bases will be Panamanian, but part of the US-backed Mérida Initiative.
An editorial in the Honduran daily El Tiempo thanks the OAS for not recognizing the pending elections—and accuses the US of seeking a “happy end” at the cost of “constitutional order.”
The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) has launched an emergency drive for disaster relief after torrential rains caused massive and deadly flooding.
“I don’t want Afghanistan-style elections for my country,” said ousted Honduran President Mel Zelaya, as resistance leaders pledged not to allow polling in their communities.
With the collapse of the US-brokered political deal in Honduras, Obama is now in effect siding with the de facto regime—in contrast to nearly all Latin American governments.
The US and OAS are divided on whether to recognize the Honduran elections after the collapse of the Washington-brokered deal to solve the political crisis in the Central American country.
Manuel Zelaya asks Hillary Clinton “to clarify to the Honduran people if the position condemning the coup d’etat has been changed or modified” in response to State Department equivocation.
The National Front of Resistance to the Coup d’Etat in Honduras issued a statement calling the new pact “a popular victory,” while dissident voices denounced it as a “reactionary accord.”
Pressure from investors and widespread repudiation of legal justifications for the coup prompted the US-brokered agreement to return Manuel Zelaya to power in Honduras.
A US-brokered agreement to return Manuel Zelaya to power has been announced in Honduras—but already representatives of the coup regime are denying that Zelaya in fact will be restored.
Negotiators for deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya gave up on talks to end the political crisis, saying they were “worn down” by the intransigence of the de facto government.
