Honduras Coup - Day 178 - December 22, 2009
- From Isis Obed to Walter Trochez - Death is not in vain
By hondurasresists.blogspot.com : December 22, 2009
Honduras Resists preface: In recent days repression in Honduras has continued to escalate. With the eyes of the corporate press off of Honduras, the extreme right, who has seen Honduras as a strategic staging ground for their counter-offensive against the rise of grassroots alternatives to capitalism in Latin America, is now attempting to eliminate the unexpected consequences of the coup. The Honduran government, with financing and collaboration from the U.S. and from the extreme right throughout the hemisphere, has resorted to extreme force, disappearances and assassinations.
- High Abstention confrmed Honduran Electoral Court
By prensa-latina.cu : December 22, 2009
Figures from the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) released on Tuesday confirm a high abstentionism in elections held under the de facto regime in Honduras on November 29. According to TSE, the total number of votes, including valid, blank and void, reached 2.30 million of an electoral roll of 4.60 million, which reflects an abstentionism of 50 percent.
- Murder of Gay Rights Activist Shows Another Honduras Crisis
By commondreams.org : December 22, 2009
Walter Tróchez spent a lot time at Honduras police stations and morgues: he was the HIV-positive gay activist who got the call every time a transgender sex worker was murdered on the streets of Honduras. / His phone rang often. Human rights advocates say up to 18 gay and transgender men have been killed nationwide -- as many as the five prior years -- in the nearly six months since a political crisis rocked the nation. Activists say the spike illustrates a breakdown in the rule of law in a country already known for hate crimes.
- Honduras: The Coup That Never Happened
By Tyler Shipley - socialistproject.ca : December 22, 2009
"When the media goes quiet, the walls speak." — graffiti in Tegucigalpa.
What strikes a visitor to the Honduran capital most immediately in this moment is the degree to which the social and political conflict that has erupted since the golpe de estado (coup d’etat) on June 28th is actually written on the walls, the fences, the rockfaces, bridges, errant bits of siding, abandoned buildings, and even the concrete upon which one walks. Though the discourse in the international press is muddled and misinformed, the situation in Honduras is very obvious to those who are here – as a quick taxi ride around Tegucigalpa demonstrates. / Honduras has been long dominated by a handful of some ten to fifteen wealthy families. Everyone here knows their names – Facusse, Ferrari, Micheletti – and now they are scrawled on walls everywhere, next to accusations of golpista (coup-supporter) and asesino (assassin). These oligarchs used to be satisfied by controlling the economy and buying off the politicians, but they now increasingly insist upon exercising direct political control themselves, and their names show up more and more in congress, in the supreme court and now even in the executive branch.
- Honduras: The Coup That Never Happened
By Tyler Shipley - socialistproject.ca : December 22, 2009
"When the media goes quiet, the walls speak." — graffiti in Tegucigalpa.
What strikes a visitor to the Honduran capital most immediately in this moment is the degree to which the social and political conflict that has erupted since the golpe de estado (coup d’etat) on June 28th is actually written on the walls, the fences, the rockfaces, bridges, errant bits of siding, abandoned buildings, and even the concrete upon which one walks. Though the discourse in the international press is muddled and misinformed, the situation in Honduras is very obvious to those who are here – as a quick taxi ride around Tegucigalpa demonstrates. / Honduras has been long dominated by a handful of some ten to fifteen wealthy families. Everyone here knows their names – Facusse, Ferrari, Micheletti – and now they are scrawled on walls everywhere, next to accusations of golpista (coup-supporter) and asesino (assassin). These oligarchs used to be satisfied by controlling the economy and buying off the politicians, but they now increasingly insist upon exercising direct political control themselves, and their names show up more and more in congress, in the supreme court and now even in the executive branch.
- Honduras' Zelaya refugee at Brazilian embassy for 3 months now
By xinhuanet.com : December 22, 2009
Monday marked the third consecutive month of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's stay at the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital.
- Zelaya: US recognizes him as 'the only Honduran President'
By buenosairesherald.com : December 22, 2009
"The US is still admitting that I am the only head of state Honduras has," Zelaya expressed at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he lives as a refugee since September 21st. According to Zelaya, Llorens described Hondura's general elections -held in November 29, in which Porfirio Lobo turned out to be the elected president- as "portraying no legitimacy to state that the elected president is able to manage the country's administration in peace."
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