Honduras: right-wing propaganda machine in pro-coup offensive
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.
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.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya charged that “there are death squads” operating in in the country that the world doesn’t know about.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has reportedly taken refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, and is calling for resistance leaders to converge on the capital.
Two Honduran presidential candidates announced that they will not participate in the Nov. 29 general elections unless ousted President Manuel Zelaya is returned to power.
Honduran business leader Adolfo Facussé was deported after flying to Miami, apparently the casualty of a State Department decision to revoke visas of those involved in the coup d’etat.
Guatemalan and UN authorities arrested nine suspects in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg. The search for the “intellectual authors” is ongoing, authorities said.
Thousands of students marched in the northwestern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula to protest plans by the coup-installed regime to reinstitute compulsory military service.