Central America
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.
Mining and resistance in Central America: Canadian corporations at war against rights of indigenous peoples
Location
No Registration. Everyone welcome.
Presenters: Juan Carlos Jimenez, Megan Cotton-Kinch, organizers in the
Mining Injustice Solidarity Network.
Situation critical: Honduras coup resistance continues
The dictatorship in Honduras, which overthrew the elected government of Manuel Zelaya in a military coup on June 28, has stepped up its reign of terror.
A state of siege remains in place. The most recent targets of the repression have Radio Globo and Channel 36 -- the two main media outlets opposing the coup and giving the mass resistance movement in the Central American nation a voice.
The continual repression has affected the size of anti-coup protests.
However, the ongoing resistance has caused further cracks to open within the pro-coup forces as support for the resistance spreads.
'Everything is possible' with coup resistance in Honduras
The following is a presentation made by Carlos Torchia to a Sept. 26 Toronto teach-in on the mass resistance in Honduras to the June 28 anti-democratic coup d’état in that country. The event was attended by about 60 solidarity activists.
Toronto rally for Honduras
