Exclusive: Honduran elections exposed

While most international news organizations took obedient dictation of the Honduras coup regime’s claims of more than 62 percent voter participation in the November 29 “elections,” authentic journalist Jesse Freeston did what real reporters are supposed to do: He went directly to the source, asked questions, took notes, and videotaped the evidence.
Freeston today publishes this [...]

Evo Morales: “Wherever a US base exists, there are military coups”

Telesur, September 13, 2009 - Bolivian president Evo Morales said this Sunday in Spain that wherever US military bases exists, so do coups. He asked the social movements of Europe and the world to help put an end to foreign military bases in Latin America.
“In Latin America, wherever a US base exists, there are [...]

We stand with the people of Honduras against the Coup d’état: LASC

The Organising Committee of the Latin America Solidarity Conference 2009 (Melbourne, Australia) and its supporting organisations strongly condemn the June 28 military coup against democratically elected President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and the violent repression that has been unleashed against the Honduran people.
President Zelaya was kidnapped and forcibly taken to Costa Rica on the night [...]

From Arbenz to Zelaya: Chiquita in Latin America

By Nokolas Kozloff, from CounterPunch
When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya two weeks ago there might have been a sigh of relief in the corporate board rooms of Chiquita banana. Earlier this year the Cincinnati-based fruit company joined Dole in criticizing the government in Tegucigalpa which had raised the [...]

Cuban counter revolutionaries supported the coup in Honduran

The well known counterrevolutionaries Carlos Alberto Montaner and Otto Reich —former sub-secretary of state under the Bush administration—, supported and gave advise during the coup against Manuel Zelaya in Honduras.
Cuban newspaper Granma (on 9th of July ) published information revealing a secret report sent from a European government, providing very detailed and convincing information about [...]

Solidarity rally with Honduras

Solidarity rally with Honduras Part 2-3
Solidarity rally with Honduras Part 3-3
Solidarity rally with the people of Honduras was held on July 4 in Melbourne. It was organised by the sponsoring organisations of the 2009 Latin America Solidarity Conference.
For more information please visit www.solidarityconference2009.org

President Zelaya due to return to Honduras

July 4, 2009
President Zelaya spoke to the People of Honduras via Telesur in the early ours of Saturday morning July 4
Zelaya announced that he would arrive at the International airport in Tegucigalpa on Sunday.
Below are sections of his speech. Translated by Roberto Jorquera
“My life is in the hands of the people of Honduras. By force [...]

President Zelaya forced to land in Nicaragua

10am AEST
By Roberto Jorquera
www.directaction.org.au
President Manuel Zelaya attempted to return to Honduras together with Miquel D’Escotto President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, however the airstrip was blocked and Zelaya was forced to land in Nicaragua. Zelaya flew in from Washington after a meeting of the Organisation of American States (OAS) that suspended the [...]

Call for Action in solidarity with Honduras

FOR THE REINSTATEMENT OF DEMOCRACY IN HONDURAS!
AGAINST THE COUP! IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF HONDURAS!
This is a call to all solidarity organisations and individuals to stand for democracy in Honduras and Central America.
Military dictatorships never again!
We demand the immediate reinstatement of Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras. Immediate stop to the repression against [...]

Press Release - Coup in Honduras (LASC 2009)

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The Organising Committee of the Latin America Solidarity Conference 2009 (Melbourne, Australia) condemns the June 28 military coup against democratically elected President of Honduras Manuel “Mel” Zelaya. The conference expresses our solidarity to the people of Honduras and demands the immediate reinstatement of the democratically elected President.
It [...]