Wed Jun 30, 2010 04:49 pm PDT
There is a lot of great analysis circulating on the military coup against Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. I do not see a need to re-invent the wheel. (See here here here and here). However, a few key things jump out at me. First, we know that the coup [...]

I think it's high time our U.S. Gov. just concentrated on the U.S. Screw these little Banana Republics and what not. They provide no strategic value (we have aircraft carriers) and no matter what puppet gov. these people are under, their people get screwed. Call me cynical, [...]

Before the final match of the 1938 soccer World Cup, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini offered his nation’s team a few words of encouragement: “Win, or die.” Italy won.
While Honduran President Porfirio Lobo took a softer approach when sending off his team last month, he didn’t have to remind players of the stakes in their [...]

Before the final match of the 1938 soccer World Cup, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini offered his nation’s team a few words of encouragement: “Win, or die.” Italy won.
While Honduran President Porfirio Lobo took a softer approach when sending off his team last month, he didn’t have to remind players of the stakes in their [...]

Mexico City –
Nearly one year on, the ouster of
continues to divide the region.
is skipping the EU-Latin America summit held today and tomorrow in Madrid to protest of the attendance of Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, who was elected following the ouster of Mr. Zelaya in June 2009.
and several other South American governments do [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – A Truth Commission with strong international support starts investigating the Honduran coup Tuesday, helping the country regain the recognition it lost when soldiers ousted
last year.
Zelaya backers call the commission a farce that cements Central America’s first successful coup in nearly two decades, and vow not to provide information to its [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – U.S. officials who voiced strong opposition to Honduras’ coup last June now say the ousted president acted recklessly, and in the months leading up to his overthrow took an “erratic and imprudent course of action.”
The comments from U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens mark the first time U.S. officials have so directly criticized [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – A shootout between rival street gangs battling for control of the drug trade killed nine people in northern Honduras overnight, an official said Sunday.
and began shooting, Deputy Security Minister Armando Calidonio said. People inside returned fire, and seven men and two women were killed.
and the rival Mara 18, Calidonio said.
[...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Two journalists have been shot to death in eastern Honduras, bringing to five the number of media workers killed in the Central American country this month.
Radio journalists Jose Bayardo, 52, and Manuel de Jesus Juarez, 55, were riddled with bullets late Friday as they drove on a highway in the rural [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Dozens of journalists took to the streets Monday in northern Honduras to protest attacks on their colleagues after gunmen killed a television journalist in a hail of bullets — the third such slaying in two weeks.
Nahum Palacios, director of a TV station in Tocoa near the
, was shot to death [...]