Weekly News Update on the Americas Issue #1046, August 29, 2010 Click on the link above for these stories: 1. Puerto Rico: One-Day Teachers’ Strike Shuts Down Schools 2. Honduras: Cops Attack Striking Teachers, Again 3. Haiti: Camp Residents Continue Protests 4. Links to alternative sources on: Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa […]
August 24, 2010
Weekly News Update from on the Americas *1. Honduras: Unions Plan for General Strike Thousands of Honduran workers marched in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula on Aug. 18 to demand an increase in the minimum wage and to show solidarity with teachers who were in the 14th day of an open-ended strike. The protest–initiated by […]
July 27, 2010
CCR Statement and Open Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Readmission of Honduras into OAS July 27, 2010, New York – On July 30, 2010 the Organization of American States’ High-Level Commission on Honduras is expected to make recommendations to the OAS member states with regards to the readmission of Honduras into the […]
July 9, 2010
Coast Guard dispatching ships and personnel to Costa Rica to threaten Nicaragua By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer Jul 8, 2010, 00:20 (WMR) — After conducting its successful coup d’etat in Honduras against President Manuel Zelaya, the imperialistic Barack Obama administration is now bent on ousting Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega by massing a huge […]
July 2, 2010
Honduras delegation update (July 1st) Related Programs: Alliance for Responsible Trade Honduras Quest for Peace Fri, 07/02/2010 – 12:57pm by toml 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. This […]
June 30, 2010
One Year After the Coup, Rift Persists Between Washington And Latin America Over Honduras By Mark Weisbrot This article was published by The Guardian Unlimited on June 30, 2010. If anyone wants to reprint it, please include a link to the original. At dawn one year ago, on June 28, soldiers invaded the home […]
June 28, 2010
From day one, the brave and determined people of Honduras fought the coup and have been fighting for the last 365 days. This is a brief video tribute to people of the Honduran resistance and their determination to take their country back from the murderous thugs that kidnapped President Zelaya and violated their constitution. Below […]
June 28, 2010
Washington Elite Still Don’t Get Latin America – Will They Ever? By Mark Weisbrot This column was published by The Guardian Unlimited on June 26, 2010. If anyone wants to reprint it, please include a link to the original. In the film “Guantanamera,” the last by renowned Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the Yoruba creation […]
June 28, 2010
The Coup Is Not Over: Marking a Year of Resistance in Honduras Monday, 28 June 2010 09:07 At one point during the military coup in Honduras last year, a US representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) joked that Hondurans were living in a state of “magical realism”, a folkloric literary genre […]
August 31, 2010
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