Our Special Brand of “Democracy” in Iraq

by Scott Creighton 499 potential candidates have been striken from the ballots for the upcoming March 7th ”elections” in Iraq. Why? Because they were alledged to have ties to the now defunct and illegal Baath Party. You see, the Baath Party was primarily a socialist political organization and having them around in positions of power wouldn’t be helpful [...]

Honduran coup regime launches brutal crackdown

by Bill Van Auken, WSWS In an attempt to suppress the growing popular resistance to the regime installed just over a month ago by the June 28 coup that overthrew Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, police and troops carried out a brutal crackdown against demonstrations in the capital of Tegucigalpa Thursday. … Among those arrested was [...]

A Chance for Real Democracy in Honduras

by Kevin Coleman, ICH Honduras is changing. In 1981, Ronald Reagan imposed democracy from the outside, yielding a constitution that minimized the participation of the citizenry in the decisions of their government and a process that repressed and decapitated the social movements—led by workers, peasants, and students—who sought to have their voices heard. Nearly three [...]

Human Rights report reveals brutal repression in Honduras

by Rafael Azul, WSWS In negotiations held over the weekend, deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya agreed to a proposal by Costa Rican President Óscar Arias that, as a price for his returning to office, accept a government of “unity and national reconciliation” that would essentially make him a powerless puppet of the very forces that [...]

Ex-Clinton aides advising Honduran coup regime

by Bill Van Auken, WSWS Ever since the military abducted President Manuel Zelaya at gunpoint on June 28 and expelled him from the country, the Obama administration has cast itself as a steadfast defender of “democracy” in Honduras. The real nature of that defense has become somewhat clearer with the news that key former aides [...]

Honduras: US-backed mediation legitimizes military coup

by Bill Van Auken, WSWS The talks convened in the Costa Rican capital San José on Thursday with the purported aim of resolving the political crisis unleashed by the June 28 coup in neighboring Honduras, are shaping up as a farce. The apparent object of this fraudulent exercise is to legitimize the military overthrow of [...]

Honduras: What’s Black and White and Gets the Red Out?

(The Coup that Wasn’t – coup supporting newspaper in Honduras airbrushes blood from photo…) by Al Giordano, The Field CubaDebate has an illuminating find regarding the coverage of the crisis in Honduras by the pro-coup newspaper, La Prensa. The now-iconic photograph of the late 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, being carried by his friends to seek [...]

A Coup is Not a Coup. A Not-Coup is a Coup.

by Keven Coleman, History News Network On Sunday June 28th, the Honduran military kidnapped their president, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, and flew him to Costa Rica in his pajamas. In doing so, the military enforced an unconstitutional and undemocratic transfer of power from the Honduran left to the right. The international community immediately and unanimously condemned [...]

The Honduran coup: A warning to the working class

by Bill Van Auken, WSWS Since the June 28 coup by the most right-wing sections of the ruling elite, backed by the US-trained military, Honduran workers have waged an implacable struggle against the imposition of an illegitimate and repressive regime. Over 60,000 Honduran teachers have carried out an indefinite strike since June 29, the day [...]

Honduran troops kill anti-coup demonstrators at Tegucigalpa airport

by Barry Grey, WSWS Honduran troops on Sunday fired on anti-coup demonstrators outside the airport in the capital, Tegucigalpa, killing at least two and wounding many more. Thousands had converged on the heavily guarded airport to show support for deposed President Manuel Zelaya, who flew from Washington DC earlier in the day in a bid [...]

President Zelaya is set to return to Honduras Today

by Scott Creighton and just for some more background on Micheletti’s Cabinet selections: Meet Enrique Ortez, the man given the job of Chancellor of Honduras (basically foreign minister) by the usurper Micheletti… “But he went for more by defining President Barack Obama of The United States as “that little black man who doesn’t know anything“.  [...]

Honduran Coup: Target Left?

by Roger Burbach, CounterPunch The coup against Manuel Zelaya of Honduras represents a last ditch effort by Honduras’ entrenched economic and political interests to stave off the advance of the new left governments that have taken hold in Latin America over the past decade. As Zelaya proclaimed after being forcibly dumped in Costa Rica: “This [...]

CNN video shows Honduran troops shooting protesters’ bus tires

“As part of its media strategy to claim public support, the coup regime of Honduras is impeding coup opponents from assembling to demonstrate against the coup. Here, CNN captures coup soldiers shooting out the bus tires 120 km from Tegucigalpa to deter arrival of protesters to the capital.” read more at TruthDig, here.

Honduras under siege

“Bertha Oliva: Coup leaders are reviving despotism of the 80s in bid to crush participatory democracy.”

Coup “President” Installs Nephew as “Mayor” of Honduras’ Second City

by Al Giordano, NarcoNews The Oligarch Diaspora shouts, again and again, in its flailing attempt to convince the Honduran people and the world that its coup d’etat was somehow legitimate, “we want democracy!” Well, here’s a powerful example of the kind of “democracy” they apparently want.