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  • 18 February 2010 | |

    Helpless Wetlands

    Honduras: authorized projects threaten wetlands and communities

    Only 24 hours after Lobo took office, his administration was already granting new environmental permits for projects on wetlands which are part of the environmental richness of Honduras, threatening species and communities. Read more

  • 2 February 2010 | |

    Discipline and Punish

    Repression in Honduras remains unpunished. Interview with Juan Almendares

    The repression against the organizations and peasant communities resisting the coup and who defend the right to their lands in Honduras has intensified after the inauguration of Porfirio Lobo to continue the de facto regime that ousted José Manuel Zelaya. Read more

  • 27 January 2010 | |

    Zelaya leaves Honduras. Lobo takes office

    On Wednesday, like many other times since the coup d´etat took democracy away, the Honduran people will go to the streets of Tegucigalpa. But this time, they will do so to say goodbye to ousted president Manuel Zelaya, who will leave the country today on his way to Dominican Republic. Read more

  • 21 January 2010 | |

    Back on air

    Reconstruction of Garifuna community radio prepared in Honduras

    On January 6, the Honduran community radio Faluma Bimetu, of the Garifuna community was set on fire by unknown gunmen who seized the transmission equipment. Read more

  • 8 December 2009 | |

    Breaking the fence

    Interview with Francisco Molina of Friends of the Earth Honduras

    The media is trying to send a message of calm in Honduras, which clashes with the testimonies of the people who manage to break the silence to report on the political and social crises in the country, where the public liberties are still violated. Read more

  • 1 December 2009 | |

    More abstentions than votes

    Lobo is elected President in illegitimate Honduran elections

    On Sunday night, the Honduran media declared cattle producer Porfirio Lobo Sosa as the winner of the presidential elections, in a questioned electoral process. According to official figures he obtained 56% of the votes in the elections, which had 70% of abstentions, according to the Front of Resistance to the Coup D'Etat. Read more

  • 25 November 2009 | |

    Electoral Sham

    Massive resignation of candidates and growing street militarization in Honduras days before the electoral sham

    The Honduran elections scheduled for next Sunday are a sham. The international community announced it will not recognize the process for being illegitimate. Shipments of repressive supplies acquired by the de facto regime are entering the country. Hundreds of politicians have withdrawn their candidacies 'en masse', while the constitutional president is still refuged in a foreign embassy. The resistance is already thinking of new struggle strategies for the “day after”. Read more

  • 13 November 2009 | |

    Authoritarianism Lab

    Juan Barahona explains that the coup in Honduras is not an isolated case, but a regional experiment

    The situation in Honduras has not changed, even though that the media in favour of the coup, and even the US government, are trying to spread the idea that the elections that will take place in the country in November will mark the end of the political crisis caused by the dictatorship. Read more

  • 9 November 2009 | |

    Help From My Friends

    Mesoamerican peoples prepare political action in solidarity with Honduras

    Some of the most important social organizations from Mesoamerica will carry out, simultaneously, a political meeting in solidarity with the Honduran people and against the coup forces in two border points of the country from November 20th to the 22nd in El Florido, Guatemala and Las Manos in Nicaragua. Read more

  • 9 November 2009 | |

    Known Vote

    Electoral process continues under Honduran dictatorship

    Outraged. This is how the people who oppose the coup in Honduras felt when the US government announced they will support the elections to be carried out in November in Honduras, even though these are held under the dictatorship led by Roberto Micheletti. Read more

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