Manuel Zelaya News

Honduran resistance and Latin America Published Nov 19, 2009 9:14 PM Excerpts from a talk by Berta Joubert-Ceci of Philadelphia to the WWP National Conference, Nov.

Tegucigalpa, Nov 21 News media closures, illegal detentions and militarization increase, portray todayA A-s panorama in Honduras just 8 days from the illegal elections called by the de facto regimen.

They then arrest thousands of people opposed to the coup, shut down and intimidate independent media, shoot and kill some demonstrators, torture and beat many others.

Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican known for his efforts to block influence domestic immigration and health-care issues, has scored a foreign-policy coup by helping to compel the Obama administration to shift its stance on strife-ridden Honduras.

Honduras' interim president says he will step down temporarily to allow voters to concentrate on the upcoming presidential elections.

Honduras' chief diplomat in Miami flips to page 117 of his nation's election manual and insists that his fellow countrymen living here must vote for their new president at the consulate in South Florida.

The Honduran army ousted and exiled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War, triggered by his bid to make it legal to seek another term in office.

The leader of the Honduran Congress says lawmakers will not decide whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya until after Nov.

Representatives of the Honduran resistance against the military coup in Honduras arrived in Los Angeles this week as the Obama administration appeared to be abandoning its support for deposed President Manuel Zelaya and acceptance of the June 28 coup.

Divisions over Honduras' political future are evident not only in the Central American country but also in South Florida as legal issues arise over elections.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was blocked from his attempt to fly home to Honduras on Sunday and at least one person was killed as soldiers clashed with his supporters at the airport in the capital city.

By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON - In a renewed effort to save a U.S.-sponsored accord to resolve the five-month-old political crisis in Honduras, the U.S. State Department Friday called on both sides to create a government of national unity "without delay" and on the Honduran Congress to "swiftly" consider the restoration of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The elections in Honduras under the conditions the coup created will only deepen the political crisis, warned Rasel Tome, an advisor of constitutional President Manuel Zelaya.

Assailants fired an anti-tank grenade toward the building housing ballots for the upcoming Honduran presidential elections, which are taking place under the shadow of a four-month crisis caused by a coup, police said Friday.

Poor Hondurans are going hungry and their sick children cannot obtain medicines as donors cut aid to the country following a June coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, doctors and aid workers say.

The United States led a high-powered diplomatic effort in Honduras Wednesday, aiming to secure a breakthrough in the talks between the de facto government of Roberto Micheletti and supporters of ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya .

The Organization of American States Permanent Council will hold an extraordinary meeting Tuesday to assess the situation in Honduras following the interruption of the process agreed by both sides to end the several months political crisis.

A senior U.S. diplomat flew in Tuesday to try to revive a U.S.-brokered pact between Honduras' deposed president and the coup-imposed government ahead of elections this month.

Honduran authorities said Monday that they have discovered a secret landing strip on property once owned by a slain congressman suspected of trafficking in precursor chemicals for methamphetamine.

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