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small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians
enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and
take him into exile. They then arrest thousands of people opposed to
the coup, shut down and intimidate independent media, shoot and kill
some demonstrators, torture and beat many others. This goes on for more
than four months, including more than two of the three months legally
designated for electoral campaigning. Then the dictatorship holds an
"election."
Representatives of the Honduran resistance against the military coup
in Honduras arrived in Los Angeles this week as the Obama administration
appeared to be abandoning its support for deposed President Manuel
Zelaya and acceptance of the June 28 coup.
The four Hondurans, traveling overnight after four months of street
resistance and state repression, displayed the diversity of the new
social movement born in the wake of the June 28 coup. Their first
meeting was hosted by Carecen, an agency long supportive of Central
American immigrants.
Less than two weeks after U.S. diplomats announced a historic agreement to reverse a coup in Honduras, the accord is in danger of collapse and both Honduran officials and U.S. lawmakers are blaming American missteps for some of the failure.
TEGUCIGALPA - Ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya said Friday a deal aimed at ending the country's months-long crisis had failed after the interim leader announced a government without his participation.
"Practically speaking, we have decided not to continue with this theater of Mr Micheletti," Zelaya said, speaking on Radio Globo.
"The international community will have to see what measures" to take after the agreement faltered, he added. A Zelaya aide had earlier said the deal had "failed."
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Ousted President Manuel Zelaya is asking the Obama administration why, after pressing for his reinstatement, it now says it will recognize upcoming Honduran elections even if he isn't returned to power first.
In a letter sent to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, Zelaya asked Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton "to clarify to the Honduran people if the position condemning the coup d'etat has been changed or modified."
Last Friday an agreement was reached between the de facto regime in Honduras,
which took power in a military coup on 28 June, and the elected
president Manuel Zelaya, for the restoration of democracy there.
The interim government of Honduras
yesterday appeared to have succumbed to international pressure as it
agreed a deal that could pave the way for the return of the country's
deposed president, Manuel Zelaya.
Victor Rico, the secretary of
political affairs at the Organisation of American States, said an
agreement had been reached to leave an opening for the reinstatement of
Zelaya – ousted in a military coup in June – by creating a
power-sharing government.
Ms. Magazine's inaugural cover featured President Obama in Superman pose, ripping open his suit coat and dress shirt to reveal a T-shirt that proclaims: "This is what a feminist looks like." Photoshop tricks aside, Honduran women need this to be true. They need the Obama administration to fully grasp the plight of Honduran women and their families and act decisively on their behalf.
TEGUCIGALPA – Honduran troops blared loud music and animal
noises Wednesday at the Brazilian embassy to intensify pressure on
deposed President Manuel Zelaya, as talks on the months-long crisis
stalled.
Members of the Organization of American States (OAS)
meeting in Washington criticized the pressure on the embassy and
apparent delaying tactics by the de facto leadership.
How long can the Honduran crisis drag on, with President Manuel Zelaya,
ousted in a military coup more than three months ago, trapped in
Tegucigalpa's Brazilian Embassy? Well, in early 1949 in Peru,
Víctor Haya de la Torre--one of last century's most important
Latin American politicians--sought asylum in the Colombian Embassy in
Lima, also following a military coup. There he remained for nearly six
years, playing chess, baking cakes for the embassy staff's children and
writing books.
