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.
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.
