Honduras Coup - Day 57 - August 23, 2009
- Military coups and US bases: The threat to Latin American democracy
By Australian-Venezuela Solidarity Network - greenleft.org.au : August 23, 2009
The coup d'etat carried out by the generals and their civilian front men in Honduras on June 28 poses an immediate threat to the Venezuelan revolution and the international Bolivarian movement for unity and social change throughout Latin America.
- KC women are convinced coup in Honduras was military
By Mary Sanchez - kansascity.com : August 23, 2009
Was Manuel Zelaya removed from office because he attempted a power grab, bent on reworking the constitution to allow for more than a single four-year presidential term? Or was his removal — as two Kansas Citians now firmly believe — a military coup in response to reforms that would help the poor of the Central American country?
- OAS Mission Arrives in Honduras Monday. Why?
By hondurasoye.wordpress.com : August 23, 2009
Virtually every step of the Honduran coup was worked out in a plan developed months ago with numerous contingency options drawn up for the few things the US and Micheletti would not be able to control. All that was left was to act out the specific steps as if nothing had been planned in the first place.
- OAS Mission Arrives in Honduras Monday. Why?
By hondurasoye.wordpress.com : August 23, 2009
Virtually every step of the Honduran coup was worked out in a plan developed months ago with numerous contingency options drawn up for the few things the US and Micheletti would not be able to control. All that was left was to act out the specific steps as if nothing had been planned in the first place.
- Honduras Reports Lack of Towns Named for Oliver North
By Belén Fernández - narconews.com : August 23, 2009
A local teacher named Francís Salgado met Al and me at the Bahia on Thursday to discuss strategies of resistance against the June 28 coup that ousted Honduran President Mel Zelaya. Salgado alerted us to alternative forms of control towers at the airfield next door, where he claimed the Honduran military had parked two empty buses in case Zelaya intended to make Trujillo the transit point for his return to Tegucigalpa.
- The Learning Curve of the Teachers vs. the Honduras Coup
By Al Giordano - narcosphere.narconews.com : August 23, 2009
They marched out of the assembly hall, clapping, cheering, and started their engines. More than eighty vehicles were counted as they noisily entered the street – honking horns, waving anti-coup placards out the windows - for the first of two afternoons, Thursday and Friday, of vehicular caravans against the coup regime. Up and down the main streets of Sabá they paraded while resistance coordinator Wilfredo Paz sat down with members of the Narco News team to talk shop.
- Honduran Coup: Cuban connection
By Miguel Angel Ferrer - indymedia.ie : August 23, 2009
It's well known that one of the largest supporters of the coup against Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, was a Cuban multi-millionaire named Rafael Hernández Nodarse; more commonly know by his alias "Ralph H. Nodarse." He is the owner of San Pedro Sula's most popular TV station, Channel 6, which has played a decisive role in the justification of the coup and in the campaign to support Micheleti and the other insurrectionists.
- Artists against Honduras Coup
By cadenagramonte.cubaweb.cu : August 23, 2009
Artists from Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela will gather in Honduras on Sunday for a free concert against the June 28th coup and to demand the restitution of the constitutional order in the Central American nation. Concert organizers said artists attending are fully aware of the urgent need of adopting a firm and common position against the coup.
- Military coups and US bases: The threat to Latin American democracy
By Australian-Venezuela Solidarity Network - greenleft.org.au : August 23, 2009
The coup, which overthrew Honduras' democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya, was a direct attempt to undermine ALBA, pave the way for an assault on revolutionary Venezuela, and enable Honduras to once again be used (as it was in the 1980s) as a launching pad for imperialist attacks on left-wing governments and movements in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
- Would-be Zelaya successor is Honduras coup's other victim
By Tyler Bridges - kansascity.com : August 23, 2009
Elvin Santos, a 46-year-old construction company executive with a political pedigree and a beauty pageant wife, seemed a sure bet to win November's election and succeed Manuel Zelaya as Honduras' president. All bets are off, however, following the June 28 coup that deposed Zelaya.
- Zelaya Supporters Unsatisfied with Rights Commission Report
By laht.com : August 23, 2009
Supporters of deposed Honduran President Mel Zelaya said they are not satisfied with a report issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which documents rights abuses in the country since an "interim" government was installed following a June 28 coup.
- Freedom parade cancelled
By Prensa Latina - dailynews.lk : August 23, 2009
The Honduran de facto regime leaders decided to suspend the celebrations to commemorate the 188th anniversary of the independence from the Spanish colonialism, with the pretext of A(H1N1) influenza infection risk, the local media said on Saturday.
- Honduras Update August 23, 2009
By peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com : August 23, 2009
There is now debate about the meaning of the declaration of the pro-coup Honduran Supreme Court yesterday rejecting any return of Zelaya unless he is put on trial for treason and abuse of power. This is being seen by some as the coup de grace to the mediation effort of Costa Rican president Oscar Arias.
- Zelaya 'would face trial if he returns'
By presstv.ir : August 23, 2009
On Saturday, the court said that Zelaya must keep in mind pending charges against him. The court has charged him with treason and abuse of power.
- Honduran supreme court threatens to put ousted president
on trial upon return
By Xinhua - xinhuanet.com : August 23, 2009
Honduran Supreme Court warned in Tegucigalpa on Saturday that if ousted President Manuel Zelaya returns home, he'll face trial on charges of treason and abuse of power.
- In Addition to Original Charges, 6 of 24 Political Prisoners to Face Charge of "Jeopardizing National Security"
By hondurasoye.wordpress.com : August 23, 2009
I'd say kidnapping the president by a military coup that has killed, maimed, raped, and tortured Hondurans is the essence of "jeopardizing national security."
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