Central America

Honduras: maquila owners call for intervention

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.

Central America

Honduras: will maquilas survive the coup?

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.

Central America

Zelaya back in Honduras?

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.

Central America

Honduras: resistance plans election boycott

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.

Central America

Honduras: US deports coup supporter

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.

Central America

Guatemala: charge nine in attorney’s murder

Guatemalan and UN authorities arrested nine suspects in the murder of attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg. The search for the “intellectual authors” is ongoing, authorities said.

Central America

Honduras: students protest plans for draft

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.