About Honduras for Democracy
Honduras for Democracy is an independent, non-partisan Washington, DC-based grass roots organization that was created in July 2009 as a direct result of the June 28 coup d’état that replaced the democratically elected government of President Manuel Zelaya with an illegal, violent, and repressive coup regime – a throwback to the coup regimes of Latin America of the 1960’s, 1970s, and 1980s.
United Nations: Dismissal of Honduran judges sends an intimidating message
29 July 2010 (New York, NY) – The recent dismissal of three judges and a magistrate in Honduras, apparently because they spoke out during the political crisis that engulfed the country last year, sends a disturbing message to other jurists in the Central American country, three independent United Nations human rights experts warned today. Read More
Human Rights Watch: Ongoing Attacks Foster Climate of Intimidation in Honduras
(Washington DC) – Six months after President Porfirio Lobo took office, Honduras has made little progress toward addressing the serious human rights abuses since the 2009 coup, Human Rights Watch said today. Threats and attacks against journalists and the political opposition have fostered a climate of intimidation, while impunity for abuses remains the norm. Read more
Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel: Hungry Like the Wolf: Obama’s Legacy of Hope and Change in Honduras
In the first year of his presidency, the first year of the “hope and change” he promised to bring to the conduct of American affairs, Barack Obama countenanced — and abetted — a coup in Honduras that ousted a mildly reformist, democratically elected president and replaced him with a clique of thuggish elites who now rule, illegitimately, through repression, threat and outright murder. Read more
