Friendship Office of the Americas – Page 67 – A social justice organization that fosters solidarity between the peoples of Nicaragua, Honduras and the United States and pursues polices of peace and friendship.

By tomlOctober 30, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights

Executive Summary of COFADEH report on Human Rights Abuses

“Statistics and Faces of the Repression”
Violations of Human Rights in the framework of the coup d’état in Honduras.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras – October 22, 2009

I am a veteran human rights defender. As I prepared this second human rights report since the coup in Honduras, I have felt profound distress. Perhaps because I had begun to think that during the long process of the last decades, we had made some small advances in the area of human rights.
Perhaps it is because I look to the past in order to see the future, and to evaluate and to value the present – – that today, over 100 days since the fateful coup on June 28th, I realize that something has shaken the Committee of Families of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, COFADEH to the core, and nothing is the same. Immediately after the coup we knew that we had regressed 25 – 30 years, maybe more.

By tomlOctober 30, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights

National Resistance Front responds to an apparent agreement

Comuniqué No. 32
The National Front of Resistance to the Coup d’etát, facing the imminent signing of a negotiated agreement between the commission representing the legitimate President Manuel Zelaya Rosales and the representatives of the de facto regime, communicates the following to the Honduran people and the international community:

By October 26, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project

Misinformation and Lies in Congress

October 2009

What follows in italics is a letter received by a friend of the Quixote Center from Senator John Cornyn of Texas in response to her letter advocating respect for human rights and constitutionality in Honduras. I have responded below to Senator Cornyn’s reply, paragraph by paragraph, in an attempt to expose the misinformation being touted by some members of the U.S. Congress. This document may be useful to U.S. Citizens hoping to engage their representatives on Honduras.

Dear _______:

By tomlOctober 23, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights, Reports

COFADEH – Human Rights Report II, Nov. 2009

This report from COFADEH, the most prominent Human Rights organization in Honduras was released on October 22. It includes violations reported to them which happened between July 16th and October 15th. It documents 21 assassination, four of those assassinated were teachers. There were 4,234 denunciations of violation of fundamental liberties and there are 114 people who have been accused of sedition.

By adminOctober 22, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectNonviolent Action Documentation

"End the Coup" and "Close the SOA" crosses strapped to signs in heavily-trafficked areas

A group of individuals in Washington DC got together and posted approximately 100 crosses which bore the words "End the Coup" and "Close the SOA" in heavily trafficked urban areas, mostly near metro stops. Several crosses stayed up for a full week before they were taken down.

They used zip ties to quickly strap these home-made and hand-painted crosses into place.

By tomlOctober 22, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectNonviolent Action Documentation

Demonstration at PR firm representing Honduras' coup government, Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates

Washington DC – A large number of protesters representing different organizations which are opposed to the de facto regime in Honduras gathered in front of the offices of Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates, the DC based lobbying firm which has a contract with the government of Roberto Micheletti to clean up the image of the coup regime in the United States and internationally.

By tomlOctober 21, 2009Alliance for Responsible Trade, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights

The Honduran resistance: a giant awakes, a new hope is born

Juan Almendares
The military coup in Honduras of 28 June 2009 has been stripped of its democratic facade. The watchwords of the de facto regime that has emerged from the violence are: “God, Law and Order”.

By tomlOctober 20, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights

Honduras: A time of no time

Tom Loudon, Monday, October 19^th.

For the last week and a half, negotiations between President Zelaya and the coup government have dominated the news in Honduras. Last week, it appeared that a negotiated solution might emerge. However President Zelaya’s ‘absolute deadline’ of midnight October 15^th came and went and absolutely nothing changed. The ‘negotiations’ have the entire country suspended in a sort of time warp. Everyone waits for an outcome from the talks, which never emerges.

By tomlOctober 16, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectNews Flashes

7:00pm Friday, Zelaya's team rejects proposal of Micheletti

According to one of the negotiators of President Zelaya, he has just announced that he was rejecting as “absolutely inacceptable” the proposal of the de facto government that it be the Supreme Court which decides his restitution. At the same time they announced that the dialogue would continue.

By October 16, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreVideo

Fault Lines — Great Short Documentary on Honduran Resistance

Al Jazeera documentary on the Honduran resistance, in two parts.