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Update on the Americas: Puerto Rico Teachers’ Strike, Honduran Cops Attacking Teachers, and Haiti Camp Residents Continue Protests

August 31, 2010

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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 […]

Weekly News Update on the Americas: Honduras Strike, Peru Repression, Haiti’s Elections and Tense Homeless-NGO Relations

August 24, 2010

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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 […]

Russia Today Interview with Daniel Ortega: “The World is Changing, the US is Not”

August 23, 2010

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“The world is changing, the US is not” – Nicaraguan president Published 23 August, 2010, 09:46 Edited 23 August, 2010, 17:51 Washington has an expansionary policy in which Latin America is simply a backyard for US military bases, believes Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega. Yahoo StumbleUpon Google Live Technorati del.icio.us Digg Reddit Mixx Propeller In an […]

Ctr. for Constitutional Rights’ Letter to Sec. Clinton Concerning Readmission of Honduras to OAS

July 27, 2010

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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 […]

Coast Guard Dispatching Ships and Personnel to Costa Rica to Threaten Nicaragua

July 9, 2010

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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 […]

Honduras Delegation Update from the Quixote Center, July 1, 2010

July 2, 2010

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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 […]

Weisbrot: One Year After the Coup, Rift Persists Between Washington and Latin America Over Honduras

June 30, 2010

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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 […]

VIDEOS: A Tribute to the Brave People of the Honduran Resistance

June 28, 2010

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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 […]

Weisbrot: Washington Elite Still Don’t get Latin America – Will They Ever?

June 28, 2010

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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 […]

The Coup is Not Over: Marking a Year of Resistance in Honduras

June 28, 2010

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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 […]