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.
Two Qeqchi Maya indigenous leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded near the site of a shuttered Canadian-owned nickel mine in Guatemala.
Jesús Canahuati, former president of the Honduran Maquiladora Association (AHM), protested that the coup regime’s two-day curfew alone had cost the country $50 million a day.
Honduras’ de facto government backed off from an emergency decree that barred protests and limited free speech after congressional leaders warned that they would not support the measure.
