Honduran Businessman killed after revealing U.S. role in coup
Coup planned by Honduran businessmen in an Arab Emirate
Saturday July 10, 2010 12:15 Red Morazánica de Información
"They could kill me for this”.
Tegucigalpa. 20 June 2010.
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Honduras delegation update (July 1st)
Witnessing Resistance in Honduras
Quixote Centre Honduras Delegation update July 1st, 2010
Caitlin Power Hancey, Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN)
The Honduran resistance movement is real—it is also strong, diverse, and decidedly non-violent.
Which “Truth” will the world support in Honduras?
Honduras delegation update – June 25, 2010
Just released letter to Clinton from 27 Congresspeople
Hot off the presses, there’s a new letter just out to Sec. of State Hillary Clinton on human rights violations in Honduras. It comes from 27 US congressmen who, contrary to the Secretary’s statements in Lima earlier this month, maintain that "political violence continues to wrack Honduras" one year after the June 28, 2009 coup. According to the legislators, they write to:
The National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) expresses it’s support for the Commission of Truth promoted by the Human Rights Platform of Honduras.
The National Resistance Front is looking for truth, the application of justice and the restitution for the victims who have had their human rights violated during the de facto regimes that were imposed by force subsequent to the military coup d’état on June 28, 2009.
ITUC Press Release on Escalating Violence
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION
Honduras: Violence and Human Rights Violations Escalate
Brussels, 15 June 2010 (ITUC OnLine): Honduras is immersed in a very worrying spiral of violence, and the international trade union movement remains on the alert for human rights violations. Being a trade unionist or part of the Resistance Front implies major risks in the Honduras of today. Various trade union and community leaders have faced death threats and attempts on their lives over recent weeks.
Clinton Urges OAS to Forget Coup, Readmit Honduras
Story From Upsidedown World by Rosemary A. Joyce and Russell N. Septak
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the Organization of American States (OAS) annual meeting in Lima, Peru on Monday urged countries in the hemisphere to readmit Honduras into the regional organization. The OAS suspended Honduras after the military coup which overthrew President Manuel Zelaya last June.
Summary of Central Points from the People's Climate Change Summit
The World People’s Climate Change Summit Agreement
Summary of Central Points May 2010
Foreign Ministry of the Plurinational State of Bolivia
Bolivian President Evo Morales to Deliver Results of People’s Conference on Climate Change to UN Sec Gen Ban Ki-moon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 6, 2010
CONTACT: MEGAN MORRISSEY – 202-365-6900 INGRID SABJA – 973-738-2301
New York – On Friday, May 7th, President Evo Morales of Bolivia will personally present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with the conclusions of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth, which was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia from April 20th to 22nd, 2010.
USAID Cooperation could be suspended
Today, U.S. Ambassador in Nicaragua, Robert Callahan asked the government of Nicaragua to provide an accounting of aid received from Venezuela and how it is spent. He warned that the United States may suspend aid over this issue
…Speaking to the press, the diplomat stated that in addition to the Waiver related to property issues, there is another Waiver required to receive aid that is related to budget transparency based on a law approved by the U.S. Congress, although he did not specify the law he referred to…