Manuel Zelaya Should Be Returned To Power, Say Latin American Leaders
ESTORIL, Portugal — Honduras should return ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power, leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal said at a sum...
ESTORIL, Portugal — Honduras should return ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power, leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal said at a sum...
Dana Frank | Posted 11.26.2009 | World
President Obama should refuse to recognize the results of the upcoming Honduran election and bring an end to the embarrassing isolation of the United States from the rest of the world.
Nikil Saval | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
Why is it that Latin American governments can recognize the threat to democracy in Honduras while Washington cannot?
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
The Obama team brokered the accord in Honduras, and got a commitment from the coup leaders. If they go back on it, how much will the Obama administration's word be worth on anything else?
AP | ESTEBAN FELIX | Posted 10.31.2009 | World
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A U.S.-brokered agreement that could return ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power was sent to the Honduran Congress on...
guardian.co.uk | Rory Carroll, Latin America Correspondent | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Honduran soldiers have blasted recordings of pig grunts and other sound effects at the embassy in which the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, is holed ...
Greg Grandin | Posted 11.28.2009 | World
The Venezuelan president believes that what the right fears most about Obama is his attempt to rehabilitate the idea that "public policy" can solve social problems, as opposed to the market.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
The United States has been the only major country to maintain an ambassador in Honduras throughout the dictatorship, and has also maintained a deafening silence about the repression there.
AP | MARCOS ALEMAN | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Baton-wielding soldiers used tear gas and water cannons to chase away thousands who demonstrated outside the Brazilian E...
AP | FREDDY CUEVAS | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Deposed President Manuel Zelaya made a dramatic return to Honduras' capital Monday, taking shelter from arrest at Brazil...
McClatchy | Tyler Bridges | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
CARACAS, Venezuela �" Honduras' de facto government remains dead-set against the return of Manuel Zelaya as the country's president, in defiance of ...
BBC | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
The Honduran interim government says it will go ahead with presidential elections in November, even if results are not recognised by other countries....
AFP | Posted 09.24.2009 | World
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras's Supreme Court has rejected a Costa Rica-brokered deal that would have restored ousted President Manuel Zelaya to p...
Conn Hallinan | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
The story most U.S. readers are getting about the coup is that Zelaya was deposed because he tried to change the constitution to keep himself in power. That is a massive distortion of the facts.
AP | MORGAN LEE | Posted 08.24.2009 | World
EL PARAISO, Honduras — Ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a symbolic step into his homeland Friday, vowing to reclaim his post a month after so...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics
Most disturbing is that Obama has been silent in the face of repression by the Honduran coup government, which has shot and killed demonstrators, closed down radio and TV stations and arrested journalists.
Associated Press | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Honduras' interim leader said Wednesday he is willing to step down if it helps end his country's political crisis, condi...
AP | FREDDY CUEVAS | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Tuesday that the Honduran people "have the right to insurrection" against t...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
It is clear that Hondurans won't be getting any help from the United States, so the rest of the world will have to scream bloody murder about the violence and repression going on there.
UN Dispatch | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
The Weekly Standard calls it a "Coup for Democracy." The National Review, "A Counter-Coup." But Ciff Kincaid wins the award for most unhinged reaction...
New York Times | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Last week I asked my friend Julia what she thought about the coup d'état that deposed our president, Manuel Zelaya. Julia owns a mercadito, an old-fa...
The Real News | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
The 'golpistas' (coup leaders) are the polical-economic ruling class and are afraid of losing their power to an increasingly engaged citizenry.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
"Can you believe this?" asked indigenous leader Berta Caceres. "Now they are killing our people. We need the international community to step in and stop the crazy people..."
AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya vowed Monday to widen protests and block trade nationwide as the deposed le...
AP | CIARAN GILES | Posted 12.01.2009 | World