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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 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 November 29, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectEconomic Justice, Honduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights

"I don't know how they are going to legitimate these elections…" –Bertha Oliva

29 November 2009

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS: The streets are empty, as are the polling places. The majority of activity outside of the polling places is at the kiosks whose existence–replete with illegal election propagando, balloons, and cheerful and helpful citizens–is meant to encourage and motivate people to vote in the face of what is already a clearly successful people’s boycott of elections.

By November 28, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreEconomic Justice, Honduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Reflections from QC Delegation – by Lisa Sullivan/SOA

I´m here with the Quixote Center delegation that has gathered 19 fabulous folks from around the US and Canada. Yesterday we met with many key leaders of the resistance movement – their leader Carlos H Reyes, lawyers, teachers, feminists and journalists. It was a crash course in what life and resistance for 5 months under a repressive regime looks like. We squeezed in back-to-back meetings from morning to night, before the leaders set off for their places of hiding for the upcoming ¨"event" on Sunday, refusing to use the word "elections".

By jennyaNovember 27, 2009Honduras Accompaniment ProjectEconomic Justice, Honduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Canada urged to reject "elections" in Honduras

A coalition of Canadian development, church, labour and human rights organizations are calling on the Canadian government not to join the US in recognizing the controversial elections to be held in Honduras on November 29—and are calling for further action to strengthen democracy in the Central American nation.

“The June coup d’état in Honduras—which overthrew a legitimately elected President—represents the most serious crisis in recent years for democratic governa

By November 27, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreEconomic Justice, Honduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

QC Election Delegation reports bomb explosion on bus route

Nov. 26, 2009 – A bomb exploded on a Catisa bus route between San Pedro Sula and La Ceiba at approximately 3:30pm today. The explosion occurred on a nearly empty bus right in front of the fire department. Fire fighters were able to respond immediately and report that the explosion was the result of a small bomb found in the luggage compartment of the bus. Fire fighters also report that a second bomb was also found in the luggage compartment that did not explode.

By tomlOctober 9, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreEconomic Justice, Human Rights

More repression at the U.S. Embassy in Honduras

The same day the ‘dialogue’ brokered by the OAS has supposedly begun- the police and army continue to repress people on the streets of Honduras without cause.

By tomlOctober 5, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreEconomic Justice, Human Rights

Crofton man calls attention to atrocities in Honduras

Just a few days ago, Nick Carroll was aiding poor and badly beaten residents in detention camps in Honduras, victims of the fallout from the military overthrow of its democratically elected president. The de facto military government suspended the country’s constitution and locked down the city following Zelaya’s return.

By jennyaSeptember 27, 2009Alliance for Responsible Trade, Nicaragua LibreEconomic Justice

Bill Quigley's street report from the G20

The G20 in Pittsburgh showed us how pitifully fearful our leaders have become.
What no terrorist could do to us, our own leaders did.

Out of fear of the possibility of a terrorist attack, authorities militarize our towns, scare our people away, stop daily life and quash our constitutional rights.

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