At dawn on June 28, the Honduran military abducted President Manuel Zelaya at gunpoint and flew him out of the country. U.S. officials have acknowledged that we were negotiating with the Honduran military at the time of the coup. The Organization of American States (OAS), the United Nations General Assembly, and other international bodies have demanded the “immediate and unconditional” return of President Zelaya. On July 24th, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced President Zelaya’s attempts to return to his own country as “reckless”. President Zelaya visits Washington DC but President Obama will not meet with him.
All of this is our continued response to anti-American, anti-imperialist revolutionaries throughout the region. Honduras, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, and Uruguay have all tried to find their own way toward helping their populations. After Cuba’s successful challenge of United States dominance we feel a strong need to maintain the status quo in these other nations. Hugo Chavez, former president of Venezuela believed he was targeted by the United States.
This led Mr. Chavez to thus wonder, back in 2011, "Would it be so strange that they [in the U.S.] have invented the technology to spread cancer and we won't know about it for 50 years?" and then added: "I don't know but...it is very odd than we have seen Lugo affected by cancer, Dilma when she was [presidential] candidate, me, going into an election year, not long ago Lula and now Cristina....It is very hard to explain, even with the law of probabilities, what has been happening to some [leftist] leaders in Latin America. It's at the very least strange, very strange".
It's all connected and interconnected... thousands of children have been caught crossing the United States border. Mostly they are escaping the effects of United States policy in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
'It is very easy to pay people to commit murder': After the prominent Honduran Indigenous rights activist is killed, supporters seek justice.
More than 50 humanitarian and environmental groups from around the world called on Friday for an independent international investigation into the assassination of Honduran Indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in her sleep at 1am on Thursday by two unknown assailants.
"Mrs. Cáceres' case is the most high-profile killing within a growing trend in the murder, violence, and intimidation of people defending their indigenous land rights in Honduras," wrote the groups in their letter to the Honduran president.
Cáceres was a prominent leader in the Indigenous movement in Honduras against one of Central America’s largest hydropower projects, four enormous dams known as "Agua Zarca" in the Gualcarque river basin, the Guardian reported. The Indigenous group Cáceres founded, Civil Council for Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), has so far been successful in preventing the project from moving forward.
Cáceres was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her activism just last year.
Cáceres was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her activism just last year.
The UN has condemned the Honduras government for failing to protect her, and activists have accused the government of having a hand in her death. That would be 'our' military coup government that 'likely' has a hand in her death.
Student protesters took to the streets in Tegucigalpa on Thursday to mourn the widely beloved environmentalist's death, the Guardian reported, and the Honduran government, in power since a U.S.-backed coup in 2009, responded with riot police.
The Associated Press has repeatedly exposed ties between the Honduran police and death squads, while U.S. military training and aid for the Honduran security forces continues."
See Democracy Now Remembering Berta Cáceres, Assassinated Honduras Indigenous & Environmental Leader.
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