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 Carlos Reyes, [...]

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 decades [...]

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 overthrew [...]

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 to Secretary [...]

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 the [...]

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 medical help moments [...]

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 after the [...]

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 to [...]

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“.  IKN
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