Honduras Coup - Day 19 - July 16, 2009

• Zelaya on Route to Honduras; US Pumping Up Military Bases in Colombia
  By Eva Golinger - chavezcode.com - trinicenter.com : July 16, 2009
  Honduran Foreign Minister (constitutional) Patricia Rodas has announced that President Manuel Zelaya is currently on route to Honduras to reunite with the people in resistance to the coup regime, now on its third week.
  
  
• Juanes Cancels Oligarch's "Concert for Peace" in Honduras
  By Al Giordano - narconews.com : July 16, 2009
  
  
• Honduran minister calls for tougher action against post-coup regime
  By Xinhua - xinhuanet.com : July 16, 2009
  
  
• Pro-Zelaya protests grip Honduras ahead of talks
  By Simon Gardner and Gustavo Palencia - reuters.com : July 16, 2009
  
  
• Aide: Zelaya to set up government seat in Honduras
  By Associated Press - yahoo.com : July 16, 2009
  A top aide to Manuel Zelaya says the ousted president will set up government headquarters inside Honduras, from which he will lead the "final battle" against coup leaders.
  
  
• Zelaya's reinstatement not negotiable, mediator Arias says
  By Deutsche Presse-Agentur - monstersandcritics.com : July 16, 2009
  Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, designated to mediate in the Honduran political crisis, warned Thursday that the reinstatement of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was not negotiable. / 'Any solution (in Honduras) needs to include Zelaya's reinstatement,' Arias said in an interview with Costa Rican radio.
  
  
• Day 19: Peaceful Blockades vs. Coup Paralyze Honduras
  By Al Giordano - narconews.com : July 16, 2009
  
  
• Who's in charge of US foreign policy?
  By Mark Weisbrot - guardian.co.uk : July 16, 2009
  The coup in Honduras has exposed divisions between Barack Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton / The current stand-off in Honduras, in which the coup government headed by Roberto Micheletti is refusing to allow the return of elected president Manuel Zelaya, is raising questions about who is in charge of US foreign policy for the hemisphere.
  
  
• Coup in Honduras: the US Involvement
  By Annie Fox and Ray Phillips - politicalaffairs.net : July 16, 2009
  For this is the third attempt at a coup in those seven years. We all know that in this new age, the old powers that be (with the blessing of the US and the Bush administration) tried to overthrow Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution. It failed after three days, but that was only a temporary setback. Two years later the Right tried again and they were more successful in Haiti. In the poorest country in the region the Right (with the full backing of the US and Bush) managed to do what they had failed to do in Venezuela. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was awakened in the early hours of the morning on February 28, 2004 and forced onto a plane that took him to the Central African Republic. Now we see a repeat in Honduras; once again the leader of a democratically elected government is awakened in the early morning hours and put on a plane and flown to another country.
  
  
• Honduran Anti-Coup Rallies Tense
  Prensa Latina - radionuevitas.co.cu : July 16, 2009
  
  
• Who's in charge of US foreign policy?
  By Luis V. Teodoro - bworldonline.com : July 16, 2009
  Was that a US president speaking? The removal from office of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 28 was "illegal," said US President Barack Obama, "He was democratically elected," he said in a television interview, "and is the legitimate president of Honduras."
  
  
• Telesur covers the coup in Honduras
  By Zachary Lown - socialistworker.org : July 16, 2009
  The images currently coming out of Honduras are remarkable: Old women punching and cursing at soldiers as they storm government buildings to fortify the coup government; young men lying down on the road in front of military vehicles; multitudes of people from every social sector driving back tanks, throwing rocks at heavily armed soldiers, marching past military checkpoints.
  
  
• Re: "Washington and the Coup in Honduras: Here's the evidence!"
  By Lisa Gates - vheadline.com : July 16, 2009
  The International Republican Institute operates programs in Honduras with $400,000 in funding, not $1.2 million. In addition, IRI did not fund any "coup participants in Honduras."
  
  
• Chávez: US Department is behind Honduras coup
  By Carolina Contreras A. - eluniversal.com : July 16, 2009
  "This coup was perpetrated by the US Department of State. I have no doubt at all. Those Honduras militaries could not take a step without the approval of the militaries deployed in the US base which is in Honduras and without the consent of the Department of State," said Chávez.
  
  
• US Trade Associations Accused over Honduras
  inteletex.com : July 16, 2009
  
  
• Peace dimmed by coup in Honduras: UNGA president
  By Xinhua - xinhuanet.com : July 16, 2009
  
  

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