United Students Against Sweatshops announced an agreement with Russell Athletic of Atlanta to rehire 1,200 workers it laid off when it closed its Honduras plant after the workers joined a union.
Four were arrested at Ft. Benning as thousands marched in pouring rain to protest the US Army School of the Americas on the 20th anniversary of the murder of six Jesuits in El Salvador.
Panama’s National Police used tear gas to allow cattle company bulldozers to destroy the Naso indigenous settlement of La Trinchera on contested land in Bocas del Toro province.
A Sandinista party member was killed and an undetermined number of Liberal Party opposition followers injured in clashes between rival demonstrators on highways around Nicaragua.
Rodolfo Padilla, mayor of San Pedro Sula, joined a growing list of candidates who have withdrawn from the Honduran elections to protest control of the process by the de facto regime.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.
