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.
A poll by the DC-based Greenberg Quinlan Rosner firm found that 60% of Hondurans disapproved of the June 28 removal of President Manuel Zelaya from office, while only 38% approved.
Legal experts are challenging a Law Library of Congress report claiming that the overthrow of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was in accordance with Honduras’ 1982 Constitution.
The Guatemalan coast guard, with assistance from the US Navy, seized a small submarine carrying a record 10 tons of cocaine—likely the largest drug bust the country has seen.
President Alvaro Colom agreed to meet with indigenous leaders after a wave of Dia de la Raza roadblocks around Guatemala. A 19-year-old protester was killed by police gunfire.
The seventh ALBA summit in Cochabamba concluded with resolute support for ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya—and an agreement to form a new international currency.
The number of planes smuggling cocaine through Honduras has surged since the US suspended drug cooperation in the wake of the coup, the de facto government reports.
A UN human rights panel warns that the Honduran coup regime is hiring mercenaries from Colombia, as a Bogotá daily reports that ex-paramilitaries are being recruited.
Supporters of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya warned that a crackdown on opposition media could derail talks aimed at resolving the country’s political crisis.
Otto Reich and Roger Noriega, architects of US policy in Central America in the 1980s, are leading a congressional and propaganda drive in support of the Honduran coup regime.
Did Manuel Zelaya really claim that Israeli mercenaries are poisoning him with high-frequency radiation waves? (And could it really be true?)
Adolfo Facussé, president of the National Association of Industries of Honduras (ANDI), is proffering a proposal for a multinational intervention force in the Central American country.
