6 August, 2009

Honduran police crackdown on student protests
AFP
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Police fired teargas and water cannons at some 3000 students who amassed in the Honduran capital on Wednesday to protest against the …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
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Human rights group sending delegation to Honduras to investigate …
Los Angeles Times
By AP WASHINGTON (AP) — A human rights group plans to send a delegation to Honduras to investigate alleged abuses during the country’s June 28 coup. …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire
/sns-ap-us-oas-honduras,1,4540853.story

Brazil Opposes Holding Elections in Honduras under De Facto Government
Monthly Review
Brasilia, 4 August 2009, ABN — The government of Brazil rejected on Tuesday the idea of holding elections in Honduras under the de facto government headed …
mrzine.monthlyreview.org/brazil050809.html

US appears to soften support for Honduras’s Zelaya
Reuters
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US policy on Honduras’ political crisis is not aimed at supporting any particular individual, the State Department …
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5744L120090805

Student helps build computer lab for Honduran children
Stamford Times
By LAUREN MYLO STAMFORD — On July 4, Robert Wyllie was in Honduras with a group of Latin American children celebrating the fact that the first computer …
thestamfordtimes.com/story/473011

2 US Reporters Freed from North Korea Jailing
Democracy Now
In Honduras, demonstrations continued Tuesday for the return of the ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Hundreds marched in the capital Tegucigalpa, …
www.democracynow.org/2009/8/5/headlines

US can end Honduras crisis in seconds: Zelaya
Reuters
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The United States can end the political crisis in Honduras in a few seconds and kick out politicians who led a coup in June,…
www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5740Z220090805

What Haiti Can Teach Us About Honduras
Wall Street Journal
Yet there are important lessons from Bill Clinton’s Haiti policy that hold for Honduras. One is that the US is more than capable of misjudging a …
online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529
70204313604574326431041619334.html

Why we’re going to Honduras
Socialist Worker Online
On August 8, Providence City Council member Miguel Luna and antiwar activist Shaun Joseph will travel to Honduras as part of a week-long International …
socialistworker.org/2009/08/05/why-were-going-honduras

Couple braves Honduran political unrest
Aiken Standard (subscription)
Sam and Roxanne Turnipseed’s lives are dedicated to spreading the word of God and have been called to Honduras. They joined the Honduras Agape Foundation …
www.aikenstandard.com/Local/0805Honduras

Creative-i / The Real News Network – Honduras: Where does …
By The Ed
The silence from Washington over the past month of human rights abuses from the de facto Honduran government becomes deafening when one considers that the US government holds both the ability to bring that regime down as well as a …
www.creative-i.info/?p=9491

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Don’t Forget Honduras
By William A. Jacobson
The economic and military sanctions imposed by the U.S. and international organizations with U.S. support are taking a toll on the Honduran economy. Violent protests continue by Zelaya supporters. Zelaya still is on tour trying to get …
legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/08/dont-forget-honduras.html

Jews sans frontieres: Honduras resistance call for international …
By Gabriel
The international reaction was forceful from a diplomatic point of view: Except for the Zionist regime of Israel, no other country in the world dared to recognize the military-business dictatorship imposed in Honduras.…
jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2009
/08/honduras-resistance-call-for.html

The Cautionary revelation of the apocalypse: Honduras won’t bow down
By apocalypse nowish
In a press release the temporarly Honduran president Micheletti have declared that Zelaya isn’t welcome back. At least not as long as there is threat about violence and he hangs out with his dictatorial buddies Ortega and Chavez in …
thecautionaryrevelation.blogspot.com/
2009/08/honduras-wont-bow-down.html

Creative-i / MEDIA ALERT: SIDING WITH THE GENERALS – THE …
By The Ed
A search for editorials containing the word ‘Honduras’ delivered 2 results. In fact there has been a single leading article on the Honduran crisis (in the Independent on June 30 – see below). Over the same period, a search
for UK …
www.creative-i.info/?p=9481

5 August, 2009

Honduras’s Zelaya Takes Return Bid to Mexico, Brazil
Bloomberg
4 (Bloomberg) — Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is trying to build support among the leaders of Latin America’s biggest countries for his return …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aQ0NV9OtupK4

In Mexico, ousted Honduran leader boosts bid to go home
Christian Science Monitor
Mexico City – Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya began another wave of travel this week to shore up support for his return to Honduras, meeting with …
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0804/p06s15-woam.html

Ousted Honduran president seeks support in Mexico
AFP
MEXICO CITY — Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya sought to drum up support in Mexico Tuesday for help to return to power, as tensions rose in…
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5ifOQsG9oFB8t_EZd1IUp3amtZFYA

Honduras Amnesty Won’t Stop Zelaya Fraud Charges, Lawmaker Says
Bloomberg
3 (Bloomberg) — The Honduran Congress doesn’t have the authority to protect ousted President Manuel Zelaya from fraud charges if he returns to the country, …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aAzhc5_FmdkY

OAS to send new mediation mission to Honduras
Xinhua
3 (Xinhua) — The Organization of American States (OAS) is planning to send another mediation mission to Honduras after its first mission ended without…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/04/content_11823153.htm

Honduras Travel Safety: Is it safe for tourists in the Central… Since the Honduran coup, tourists are being encouraged to avoid non-essential travel to the country.
honduras.suite101.com/article.cfm/honduras_travel_safety

H5N1: Honduras: Doctor is sixth H1N1 victim
By Crof
Honduras: Doctor is sixth H1N1 victim. Via La Tribuna, a sad story: Una doctora es la sexta víctima de la gripe A (H1N1). [A woman doctor is sixth victim of H1N1] Excerpt, with my translation: La agresividad de la influenza A(H1N1) …
crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2009/08/
honduras-doctor-is-sixth-h1n1-victim.html

Honduras “ Green Resistance (teaching, organizing, resisting)
By rm
Honduras. Yes, the crisis in Honduras regarding the coup (and, yes, Clinton and Obama, it is a coup) is ongoing. Here is a good site for up to date information on Honduras, from La Via Campensina …
greenresistance.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/honduras/

From Banana to Telecom Republic, Honduras Is Movin’ Up In The …
By Revolter
She finishes recounting how Carmona utilized his sketchy organization, Arcadia, of which Otto Reich has absolutely nothing to do with, to drag Zelaya, Chimirri and Hondutel through the mud until the Honduran upper classes were mumbling …
www.borev.net/2009/08/honduras_moves_up_from_banana.html

Stabroek News – Media crackdown in Honduras worsens – activist
By Stabroek staff
Daily News, Sports, Business, Entertainment and more from Guyana.
www.stabroeknews.com/2009/news/world/
08/04/media-crackdown-in-honduras-worsens-activist/

4 August, 200

Obama must help Honduras
guardian.co.uk
The slogan of the coup regime in Honduras, relentlessly promoted on state and private TV channels, is “Peace and Democracy”. …
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/
cifamerica/2009/aug/03/us-honduras-obama

ANALYSIS-Honduras coup leaders hunker down for isolation
Reuters
By Mica Rosenberg TEGUCIGALPA, Aug 3 (Reuters) – A month after President Manuel Zelaya was toppled in a coup, the Honduran politicians and business leaders …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN03525204

A look at efforts to extend term limits worldwide
The Associated Press
While they have failed in a handful of cases — including Honduras, Malawi, Nigeria and Zambia — most attempts have succeeded. Here is a look at some nations …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5
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Repression Escalates in Honduras As Coup Leaders Attempt to …
Huffington Post
While the mainstream press barely mentions the situation in Honduras now, just over one month after the coup, numerous reports are coming out of Honduras …
www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/
repression-escalates-in-h_b_250220.html

Honduras Truth and Reconciliation Forum to Convene in Copan
PR Newswire (press release)
3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — projecthonduras.com announced it will initiate an Honduras Truth and Reconciliation Forum as part of the 10(th )annual …
www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&
STORY=/www/story/08-03-2009/0005070796&EDATE=

Nine US & NATO Troops Die in Afghanistan
Democracy Now
Two more supporters of Zelaya have died in Honduras. A teacher named Roger Vallejo died of a bullet wound to the head after two days in a hospital’s…
www.democracynow.org/2009/8/3/headlines

INTERVIEW-Media crackdown in Honduras worsens – activist
Reuters
By Anastasia Moloney LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Dozens of Honduran journalists and human rights activists have been attacked or threatened with violence by …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL3722931

Suporters of ousted leader plan Honduras marches
AFP
TEGUCIGALPA — Supporters of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya plan to begin a five-day march on the country’s two main cities starting Wednesday, …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5hyaPRwpeelU9r6Ed5INUnCSXrG4Q

What Haiti Can Teach Us About Honduras
Wall Street Journal
The Honduran constitutional crisis is very different than the Haiti case, in that the Honduran military has never been in charge. …
online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529702043136
04574326431041619334.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Another supporter of Zelaya killed in Honduras – Democratic …
The oligarchical-military coup in Honduras represents an Obama-Clinton Administration strategy which is designed to push back the advances of democratically elected governments so that its imperial power can be maintained and …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3998044

The Chavez-Obama U.N. Plot Against Honduras “ USA Partisan 2009
By Hans Gruen
The Chavez-Obama U.N. Plot Against Honduras. Posted on August 3, 2009 by Hans Gruen. The “Responsibility to Protect,” also known as RtoP or R2P, is mostly the work of the World Federalist Movement, a group dedicated to world government …
usapartisan.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/
the-chavez-obama-u-n-plot-against-honduras/

Bloggings by boz: Crisis in Honduras 14
By boz
The big news is no news out of Honduras. Nothing much has happened over the past few days in Honduras. There is a steady hum of quotes by officials, protests, diplomatic discussions and accusations, but in the end, there has been no …
www.bloggingsbyboz.com/2009/08/crisis-in-honduras-14.html

OPINION Blog | The Dallas Morning News
By letterseditor
How is Honduras an ally? By sending us armies of unskilled day laborers? Isn’t their GNP based upon remittance from the USA? Watching flies get stuck on glue strips seems more important. Must be a slow news day. …
dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com
/archives/2009/08/no-sanctions-fo.html