Manuel Zelaya, the ousted ex president of Honduras never thought this picture would ever come back to hunt him.
This is the man, the UN, President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and of course Europe are defending?Manuel Zelaya, the ousted ex president of Honduras never thought this picture would... more
Widely-celebrated, US-brokered agreement looks to have strengthened coup instead of reversing itWidely-celebrated, US-brokered agreement looks to have strengthened coup instead of... more
Giordano: A month before elections, coup regime that once sought to kill time is now running out of itGiordano: A month before elections, coup regime that once sought to kill time is now... more
Honduran coup government continues repressive tactics on election day (Report from San Pedro Sula)Honduran coup government continues repressive tactics on election day (Report from San... more
Musician Amy Kuney shares her horrific, yet inspiring story about her transition from a missionary kid in Honduras to an artist pursuing her dreams.Musician Amy Kuney shares her horrific, yet inspiring story about her transition from... more
Non cominciano troppo bene i campionati mondiali di calcio, che inizieranno in Sudafrica l'11 giugno 2010. Polemiche feroci dopo la qualificazione della Francia, che batte l'Irlanda grazie a un evidente fallo di mano di Henry: oggi la FIFA ha ufficialmente escluso che la partita si possa ripetere. In Algeria 14 morti nei festeggiamenti dopo la storica qualificazione contro l'Egitto, quasi una guerra con giocatori algerini aggrediti e un procedimento disciplinare contro la Federcalcio egiziana. http://www.inaltreparole.net/it/sport/calciomondiali201109.htmlNon cominciano troppo bene i campionati mondiali di calcio, che inizieranno in... more
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended a tour of Latin America last week by calling for more countries to recognize the controversial, post-coup government of Honduras.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended a tour of Latin America last week by calling... more
Honduran coup regime's claims about 60% turnout at free and fair elections is revealed as fraud.Honduran coup regime's claims about 60% turnout at free and fair elections is... more
CIRIBOYA'S HOSPITAL GARIFUNA IS CLOSED
Yesterday at five in the morning, the Hospital Garífuna de
Ciriboya was invaded, by elements of the national police and
soldiers that broke in through a window. In the first
operation ,approximately fifteen soldiers and police
participated, which alleged to be participating in an
anti-narcotics operation.
This action on the part of coup
government of the Ministry of security and Defense, serves to
add itself to the persecution that is occurring in our country
against the national resistance to the coup d'etat. Days before
the Ministry of Health disqualified the hospital turning it
into a simple center of health, to the detriment of the
population garífuna and mestiza of the Municipality of Iriona.
The Hospital of Ciriboya is part of the project Luagu Hatuadi
Waduhenu, first popular hospital garífuna, which is a model
of medical attention in Honduras, taken care of by doctors
trained and graduated from ELAM (Latin American
Medicine School) in Cuba. The social function they are
fulfilling (the graduates of ELAM) in Honduras contrasts
sharply with the the majority of the Honduran trained
doctors, who have been reluctant to serve in the countryside
and remote areas of the country.
The Hospital of Ciriboya was
constructed with the support of unions of California and our
own efforts of the people of the garífuna villages, through the
leadership of Dr. Luther Castillo, who at present has been
one the organizers in the defense of the democracy and the
construction of a participatory government of our country for
all, which includes a constituent assembly .
The isolation in
which the garífunas communities live in Iriona and
Walumugu has been a favorite place used by the narcotics
traffickers in conspiracy with the elite, they are able to use
local people and the desolated areas to make their landings,
having logistical support of gangs associated to the national
elite. The complex phenomenon of the drug trafficking in
Honduras, on the North coast especially, has been going on
for several decades, without ,to this date, the determining
measures to change the course of the situation.
IT is public
knowledge who these people are, and of their untouchable
nature and their ties to the illicit business, those that persist
in using pseudo-clandestine plantations of African palm and
airports, but their economic power acquits them of any
crime. The closing of the hospital is a clear message sent to the
garífuna people, by their participation - especially of Dr.
Castillo and the personnel of the Hospital - in the resistance to
the coup d'etat.
For the OFRANEH the punitive action against the Hospital,
is one more of a sample of racism that prevails between the
followers of the coup participants, those that see the medical
support of the Cubans, as exemplary campaigns of
alphabetization which have been realized in some parts of the
country, and medicine with a social vision seems to threaten
the prevailing feudal regime in the country.
We ask ourselves
if there certainly exists " intelligentsia" between the security
forces, like those coming to search the hospital, with the
pretext that the day before an airplane had landed supposedly
unloaded drugs in the surrounding communities. For our
garífuna people, the closing of the Hospital of CiriCIRIBOYA'S HOSPITAL GARIFUNA IS CLOSED
Yesterday at five in the... more
TEGUCIGALPA--When Honduras qualified late Wednesday for its first soccer World Cup since 1982, the streets of the capital Tegucigalpa became a giant tailgate party.
Soccer fans leaned out of car windows, in bumper-to-bumper celebratory traffic, waving flags and yelling, "Si, se pudo!" or "Yes, we did it!"
But the question many Hondurans asked as they savored their soccer accomplishment was: "What effect will it have on the political crisis?
read the rest of this article at www.newamericamedia.orgTEGUCIGALPA--When Honduras qualified late Wednesday for its first soccer World Cup... more
My Father in Law (H. Paul Benham Sr.) started this mission years ago..(Now 82 yrs old)
The number of wells for the Honduras people they put in they stopped counting after 600 several years ago.......
The site is under reconstruction at the time.. But you can still see old news letters, and some photos..
My husband, and his father have recently returned from there.. helping to build an upper building on the local church he started.
They should be uploading the photos he took soon..
"When the poor and needy seek water and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst,I, the Lord of Israel will not forsake them" Isaiah 41:17My Father in Law (H. Paul Benham Sr.) started this mission years ago..(Now 82 yrs old)... more
Ever been to Yogyakarta, Indonesia? Maybe you should The village's magnificent Budhist temple puts it on this list, along with Bimini Islands, Bahamas; Roatan Island, Honduras; Stranja, Bulgaria; and Cartazano, ItalyEver been to Yogyakarta, Indonesia? Maybe you should The village's magnificent... more
In These Times reports that in the Honduran capital, labor union leader and nurse Vanessa Yamileth Zepeda, was killed in the beginning of February. Zepeda was a leader of Workers Union for the Honduran Social Security Institute. The administration of the newly inaugurated President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo has called Zepeda’s murder and other recent attacks common crime. But the Honduran resistance movement – mobilized since the June 2009 coup against then-president Manuel Zelaya – see it as a clear message.In These Times reports that in the Honduran capital, labor union leader and nurse... more
The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and air bases in Colombia.The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear... more
Editor's Note: Marcelo Ballve of New America Media will be covering the Nov. 29 elections from Honduras. This is a collaboration between NAM and the NewsHour.
Presidential elections this Sunday give Hondurans a chance to vote on their next leader, but may do little to clear up the political crisis that has gripped the small Central American country for five months.
"There is wide agreement that last week's presidential election in Honduras..." begins an editorial in Saturday's New York Times, "...was clean and fair." The editorial gives no hint as to whom all these people are that are in agreement, except for the 'official' data from the same regime that overthrew the elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, at gunpoint. The Times joins governments, commentators and editorial pages around the world that have fallen victim to the 'official' coup data. But, as this video shows, the proof of the fraud was sitting out in the open the whole time.
Produced by Jesse Freeston, on location in Honduras."There is wide agreement that last week's presidential election in... more
Less than a month into his term, Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is facing street protests, complaints of human rights violations, and criticism of the truth commission he set up to investigate last summer’s coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya.Less than a month into his term, Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is facing street... more
60 days of anti-coup protests show persistence in civil disobedience and little faith in int'l community60 days of anti-coup protests show persistence in civil disobedience and little faith... more
In a move that he said would lead to a return to power, Honduras' deposed president set up base near his country's border, urging soldiers to ignore an arrest order against him and shrugging off warnings that his homecoming could provoke violence.
Manuel Zelaya drove a jeep to Esteli, a town 25 miles south of the Honduran border, where he shut himself inside a hotel Thursday night to plan a strategy for reclaiming the presidency from the interim government that sent him into exile.
He said he would make a second bid to return home as early as Saturday, saying U.S.-backed mediation efforts had broken down. The interim government vows to arrest the president if he sets foot in Honduras, and imposed a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew along border areas.
The 56-year-old ousted leader, wearing his trademark white cowboy hat, was accompanied by the foreign minister of Venezuela, whose leftist President Hugo Chavez has been the most vociferous critic of the June 28 coup.In a move that he said would lead to a return to power, Honduras' deposed... more
Here is John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" take on this story:
Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food Co had severely criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of 60% in Honduras’s minimum wage, claiming that the policy would cut into corporate profits. They were joined by a coalition of textile manufacturers and exporters, companies that rely on cheap labor to work in their sweatshops.
Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America. I kept hearing people who claimed that it was a matter of record that Chiquita (United Fruit) and the CIA had toppled Guatemala’s democratically-elected president Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 and that International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), Henry Kissinger, and the CIA had brought down Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973. These people were certain that Haiti’s president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been ousted by the CIA in 2004 because he proposed a minimum wage increase, like Zelaya’s.
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The Los Angeles Times went to the heart of this matter when it concluded:
What happened in Honduras is a classic Latin American coup in another sense: Gen. Romeo Vasquez, who led it, is an alumnus of the United States' School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation). The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5)
All of this leads us once again to the inevitable conclusion: you and I must change the system. The president – whether Democrat or Republican – needs us to speak out.
Chiquita, Dole and all your representatives need to hear from you. Zelaya must be reinstated.
(3) “Chiquita admits to paying Colombia terrorists: Banana company agrees to $25 million fine for paying AUC for protection” MSNBC March 15, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17615143/ (July 24, 2009)
(5) “The high-powered hidden support for Honduras' coup: The country's rightful president was ousted by a military leadership that takes many of its cues from Washington insiders.” by Mark Weisbrot, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2009 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-weisbrot23-2009jul23,0,7566740.story (July 23, 2009)Here is John Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" take on this... more
