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Canadian mining companies: Development or Exploitation?

June 29, 2011
| We speak with Grahame Russell of Rights Action on the environmental destruction, indigenous dispossession and human rights violations by Canadian mining companies operating in South America.

25:51 minutes (23.68 MB)
Columnists

Demanding an end to violence and repression in Honduras

While most in the United States were recognizing Memorial Day with a three-day weekend, the people of Honduras were engaged in a historic event: the return of President Manuel Zelaya, 23 months after he was forced into exile at gunpoint in the first coup in Central America in a quarter-century. While he is no longer president, his peaceful return marks a resounding success for the opponents of the coup. Despite this, the post-coup government in Honduras, under President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, is becoming increasingly repressive, and is the subject this week of a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, signed by 87 members of the U.S. Congress, calling for suspension of aid to the Honduran military and police.

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Eye-witness account of resistance and repression in Honduras

October 24, 2009
| Steve Steward is with CoDevelopment Canada. He was in Honduras for several days in September and brings this report.

15:31 minutes (14.2 MB)
Columnists

President Zelaya and the audacity of action

Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president of Honduras, is back in his country after being deposed in a military coup June 28. Zelaya appeared there unexpectedly Monday morning, announcing his presence in Tegucigalpa, the capital, from within the Brazilian Embassy, where he has taken refuge. Hondurans immediately began flocking to the embassy to show their support. Zelaya's bold move occurs during a critical week, with world leaders gathering for the annual United Nations General Assembly, followed by the G-20 meeting of leaders and finance ministers in Pittsburgh. The Obama administration may be forced, finally, to join world opinion in decisively opposing the coup.

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