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By jennyaDecember 18, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHonduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

COFADEH Warns of New Escalation of Repression

According to Bertha Oliva, Coordinator of COFADEH, statements by dictator Micheletti accusing the resistance movement of committing the murder of 16 year old Rodríguez Cabrera are a portent of more blood, persecution and violence for the people of Honduras.

On Wednesday, the de facto President stated that “assassins of the Resistance” murdered

By jennyaDecember 17, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectEconomic Justice, Honduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Hooded men capture peasants in Sinaloa, Colón.

Four hooded men kidnapped Osman Alexis Ulloa Flores y Mario René Ayala Hernández, members the Unifed Peasant Movement of Aguan, MUCA.

By jennyaDecember 16, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHonduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Daughter of Controversial Journalist murdered in Tegucigalpa

Dec. 16, 2009 Last night the daughter of controversial journalist Karol Cabrera was murdered by unidentified individuals on a motorcycle. Cabrera works for Channel 8, a state channel which changed administration after the military coup detat on June 28^th.

By jennyaDecember 14, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectEconomic Justice, Honduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

CIPRODEH Denounces Assassination of Human Rights Defender

On December 4, 2009, human rights defender Walter Trochez, member of the gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans community and active member of the National Resistance Front was kidnapped and brutally beaten in front of the Obleisco Park of Comayaguela by four hooded men in a grey pick-up truck without plates. Months before, Trochez had denounced that a vehicle matching this description was monitoring his home and he had changed residence as a result.

On Dec.

By jennyaDecember 14, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreDisaster Response, Honduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Honduran Resistance Movement Member Decapitated in Recent Wave of Repression

A member of the Resistance Front against the Coup was decapitated Friday night presumably by the police under orders of the de facto regime. According to Andres Pavon, President of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CODEH), this murder is part of a wave of repression by the de facto government against members of the Resistance Front.

By jennyaDecember 11, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHonduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Honduras: Reject Amnesty for Abuses During Coup

(Washington, DC) – The proposal by Porfirio Lobo, winner of Honduras’ disputed presidential election on November 29, 2009, for an "amnesty for all" of those involved in the June coup d’état violates the country’s international obligations and undermines the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today.

By jennyaDecember 8, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHonduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Mercosur condemns illegitimate and illegal elections in Honduras

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — Mercosur, the South American trade bloc led by Brazil and Argentina, condemned the “illegitimate and illegal” elections in Honduras after the interim government and congress failed to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

By jennyaDecember 4, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHonduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Letter from President Zelaya to Presidents of Latin America

Presidente Zelaya sends letter to Latin American Presidents asking them to stand firm in the defense of democracy and not to recognize illegitimate elections, “Every time a legitimate, elected government is overthrown in America, violence and terrorism win a battle and Democracy suffers a defeat.”

By jennyaDecember 4, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreEconomic Justice, Honduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Tragedy of Honduras appears lost in news of troop escalation in Afghanistan

Dec.

By jennyaDecember 2, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHonduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

“Your only crime was walking down the street.”

As helicopters dropped tear gas canisters beside him, University of Montana senior Joseph Caldwell sprinted into his driver’s van, which sped him safely away from the smoke-filled streets.

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