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Activistas en Washington, DC realizarán teatro callejero en Capitol Hill por aniversario del golpe militar en Honduras
WASHINGTON, DC .- Hoy día un grupo de activistas ubicados en Washington, D.C. pondrán una acción de teatro callejero en Capitol Hill para marcar el segundo aniversario del golpe militar en Honduras que ilegalmente sacó de su oficina el presidente elegido demorácticamente Manuel Zelaya, y para denunciar la represión violenta continúa a los movimientos sociales y la oposición política en ese país. Read more
Honduran police ignore rise in attacks on journalists, gays
By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers
PUERTO GRANDE, Honduras — In a nation with the highest murder rate in the Western Hemisphere, it’s perhaps not a surprise that someone armed with a 9 mm pistol opened fire last month on Franklin Melendez, wounding the radio journalist in the thigh.
What astonishes is what happened next: Police refused to go to the crime scene. Later in the evening, the three officers on duty also didn’t budge when the alleged assailant waved his gun out of a moving vehicle and threatened to shoot another reporter for the radio station. Read more
Journalists, Activists Targeted as Honduran Repression Grows
Democracy Now
Workers, students and activists have held a month-long general strike in Honduras to protest repression by the government of President Porfirio Lobo. Lobo came to power following elections under the regime of Roberto Micheletti, who seized power in a violent military coup against democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009. Honduras is one of the world’s most violent countries, with a homicide rate of four times higher than in Mexico, according to national statistics. We speak to Gerardo Torres, an independent journalist and a leading member of the National Front of Popular Resistance in Honduras. Gerardo Torres in Democracy Now (video)
Venezuela agrees to Honduras’ return to OAS
Colombia Reports
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was able to convince his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez to stop his country’s resistance to Honduras’ return to the Organization of American States by inviting Honduran President Porfirio Lobo to a lunch in Cartagena.
At the end of the meeting with Chavez and Santos, Lobo told reporters he had promised Chavez to submit to conditions that had impeded the country from rejoining the OAS. Read more