Honduras: resistance debates next steps

Leaders of the resistance against the coup in Honduras are debating whether to boycott the November elections if constitutional order is not restored by then.

Honduras: business sector gets nervous

Honduran business elites are divided on whether to keep backing the coup regime as fears grow that the country’s participation in CAFTA will be suspended.

Honduras: economy could “quickly buckle”

Honduran economist Alcides Hernández warns that if sanctions are imposed on the coup regime, “a country as poor as ours would quickly buckle.”

Honduras: resistance continues despite repression

Strikes and protests continue in Honduras despite a pattern of repression documented by an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights delegation.

Honduras: Xiomara Castro de Zelaya calls for continued protest; rights abuses documented

Xiomara Castro, wife of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, called on followers to continue marching in support of her husband—as an Amnesty International report documents brutal repression.

Zelaya: Obama against coup —but “not the chief of the empire”

Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, speaking to reporters on a visit to Lima, asserted that “Barack Obama is the president of the United States, but not the chief of the empire.”

Honduras: coup regime admits deporting Zelaya was “error” —but repression goes on

Coup-installed Honduran President Roberto Micheletti for the first time admitted that forcing the deposed President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country, instead of arresting him, was a mistake.

El Salvador: another anti-mining activist shot

A leader in the movement opposed to re-opening the El Dorado goldmine in northeast El Salvador is in stable condition after being shot eight times in the back and legs.

Honduras: repression continues; Obama acquiescing in coup?

Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya clashed with soldiers and police in the capital Tegucigalpa in two days of unrest throughout the city Aug. 11 and 12. Security forces fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of thousands and… Read moreHonduras: repression continues; Obama acquiescing in coup?

Obama and the Honduran coup: our readers write

A majority of our readers think Obama was not in on the coup d’etat in Honduras, but maybe the CIA was anyway.

Honduras: unions start open-ended strike

The three main Honduran labor federations held a march in Tegucigalpa marking the start of an open-ended general strike against the coup-installed de facto government.

Honduras: generals plead case on TV; deadly repression grows

The five generals who lead the Honduran armed forces made a rare TV appearance to deny the use of “death squad” tactics—days before another protester was assassinated in a stabbing attack.