Honduras Coup - Day 266 - March 20, 2010

• The real threats to democracy in the Americas
  By quotha.net : March 20, 2010
  On March 10, the U.S. House Sub Committee on the Western Hemisphere held a hearing to chart the course of their agenda in Western Hemisphere over the coming year. On March 12-15, the National Popular Resistance Front in Honduras (FNRP) held a national meeting to pave the way for a Honduran Constitutional Convention, even in the wake of last June's military coup and constant killings of FNRP activists.
  
  
• Canada's Long Embrace of the Honduran Dictatorship
  By socialistproject.ca : March 20, 2010
  Peter Kent recently returned from a three day trip (February 17-20) to Honduras, proudly declaring the mission a success. As Canada's Minister of State for the Americas, Kent is the Tory government's point person for Canada's growing political and economic interests in the region. Honduras has become an important focus of those interests, since the military coup last June against the moderately left-leaning president, Manuel Zelaya, swung the country sharply back to the right. Ignoring the ongoing abuses of human rights in the country under the new coupist presidency of Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, Kent has been following through with his promise to promote the normalization of the country's relations with the rest of the hemisphere.
  
  
• FIAN: Urgent agricultural reform is needed
  By hondurashumanrights.wordpress.com : March 20, 2010
  The inadequate agricultural policy launched after 1992 led to the enactment of the Modernization and Development of the Agricultural Sector Law, which is the cause of a deepening poverty in the rural sector and the violent conflicts that are increasingly taking lives.
  
  

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