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The US Supreme Court Judgment: A Challenge to World Bank’s unfettered immunity

31 March 2019 - by Sushovan Dhar

The verdict is finally out. On 27 February, in a historic 7-1 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that international organizations like the World Bank Group are not above immunity and can be sued in US courts. This was in (...)
For Indigenous Peoples, Megadams Are ‘Worse than Colonization’

16 March 2016 - by Philippa de Boissière , Sian Cowman

These mega-projects expropriate land, spoil environments, and pollute democracies. Berta Cáceres gave her life resisting them. Early in the morning of March 3, Berta Cáceres was assassinated. They can displace communities, destroy the local (...)
Mexico, March 9, 2016

Justice for the Civil Counsil of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the family of Bertha Cáceres and Gustavo Castro

10 March 2016 - by COPINH

Early in the morning on Thursday March 3rd, our Honduran comrade Bertha Cáceres and Mexican Gustavo Castro were attacked in the town of La Esperanza, Honduras, where Bertha sadly died and Gustavo Castro was injured. Since that time, Gustavo (...)
INTERNATIONAL JOINT STATEMENT

International condemnation of the murder of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in Honduras

8 March 2016 - by Planet Earth

Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader and spokesperson for more than 20 years of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras - Copinh), was murdered on March (...)
One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong Despite US-Supported Coup

29 June 2010 - by Bill Quigley, Laura Raymond

One year ago, on June 28, 2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was awakened by gunfire. A coup was carried out by US-trained military officers, including graduates of the infamous US Army School of the Americas (WHINSEC) in Georgia. President (...)
Pepe Lobo, Imperialism and the Resistance

Consolidating the Coup in Honduras

13 February 2010 - by Tom Gordon, Jeffery R. Webber

A country of sharp inequality and class polarization, Honduras recently returned to the frontlines in the battle for Latin America’s soul. The terrain of struggle has shifted on multiple occasions over the last seven months, following the (...)
Honduras. National Resistance Front: Elections were a farce, new regime will not be recognized, struggle for constitutional assembly continues

Communiqué Number 41 of the National Front of Resistance against the Coup d’etat The National Front of Resistance against the Coup d’etat, to the Honduran people and the international community communicates: 1. The complete failure of the (...)
Media Coup in Honduras

29 November 2009 - by Jérôme Duval

The media claim the defence of democracy as their battle cry. But it is clear that for some, there are two types of democracy. In this case democracy means the representation of capitalists. The media prefer to discredit a definition of (...)
Honduras: An Improbable Solution

3 November 2009 - by Atilio Boron

Has the political crisis in Honduras been resolved? Although a window of opportunity has opened, every indicator suggests that there is not a lot of room for optimism. It’s worth recalling what we said here before when the coup d’etat took (...)
Honduras. Spoiling Manuel Zelaya’s homecoming

1 October 2009 - by Mark Weisbrot

Now that Manuel Zelaya has returned to Honduras, the coup government – after first denying that he was there – has unleashed a wave of repression to prevent people from gathering support for their elected president. This is how US secretary of (...)
October 2 : International Day of Solidarity with the Honduran people

International Day of Solidarity with the Honduran people: against the State Coup, for the restitution of democracy and the Constituent Assembly Outraged by the State coup in Honduras and the repression of the Honduran people carried out by (...)
Honduras : Political persecutions and detentions and state of emergency after 42 hour of curfew

25 September 2009 - by Patty Adams

POLITICAL PERSECUTIONS AND DETENTION * EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE BY POLICE AND MILITARY * STATE OF EMERGENCY: PEOPLE LACKING FOOD AND WATER AFTER 42 HOUR CURFEW * POLICE STATE September 23, 2009 Democratically-elected Honduran President Manuel (...)
Interview with Honduras resistance leader: `The US is sustaining the coup’

During an August 17-19, 2009, international seminar on the economic crisis hosted by the Party of Liberty and Socialism in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Green Left Weekly/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal journalists Kiraz Janicke and (...)
Perhaps this is why nothing is being done in Honduras…

17 August 2009 - by Al Giordano , Bill Conroy

A taxpayer funded US foreign aid agency, chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, earlier this year inked a multi-million dollar contract with a company controlled by one of the ringleaders of the recent coup d’état against the (...)
Global Day of Solidarity and Action with Honduras

Today, Tuesday August 11, the people of Honduras need you to take action. Today, tens of thousands of Hondurans conclude a seven day march across the country protesting the coup d’état that occurred on June 28th. Marchers from all parts of the (...)
Honduras : Marche du 11 août (1/2)

12 août 2009 - par Jérôme Duval

Quelques photos de la marche du 11 août qui vient de Intibuca, La Paz et Comayagua pour converger avec 3 autres marches sur Tegucigalpa. Certains ont fait plus de 180 km sur 6 jours. On a fait les derniers 20 km avec (...)
International Mission denounces the brutal repression of pacific demonstrations

The International Mission for Solidarity, Accompaniment and Observation to Honduras denounces the Honduran de facto government’s (led by coup leader Roberto Micheletti) brutal repression of thousands of people protesting pacifically today against (...)
With Honduras, with all of Latin America

26 July 2009 - by Asamblea bolivariana

We, the undersigned social, political and solidarity organisations, faced with the ongoing coup d’état in Honduras and the imperialist project of installing military bases in Colombia whose objective is to throttle the hope for liberty and (...)
Honduras: The futility of the coup

10 July 2009 - by Atilio Boron

History is repeating itself and will very likely end in the same way. The coup d’état in Honduras is a re-issue of that which was carried out in April 2002 in Venezuela and that which was aborted in the face of an explosive reaction from several (...)
The CADTM denounces the coup orchestrated by the reactionary oligarchy in Honduras and demands President Zelaya’s return to power

On Sunday 28 June Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras, was sequestrated then expelled by the army. The CADTM condemns this coup orchestrated both by reactionary sectors of society (the army, the oligarchy, the Church, the judiciary power, the (...)
Press Release

The CADTM denounces the coup orchestrated by the reactionary oligarchy in Honduras and demands President Zelaya’s return to power

8 July 2009 - by CADTM

On Sunday 28 June Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras, was sequestrated then expelled by the army. The CADTM condemns this coup orchestrated both by reactionary sectors of society (the army, the oligarchy, the Church, the judiciary power, the (...)
Does the US back the Honduran coup?

2 July 2009 - by Mark Weisbrot

The military coup that overthrew Honduras’s elected president, Manuel Zelaya, brought unanimous international condemnation. But some country’s responses have been more reluctant than others, and Washington’s ambivalence has begun to raise (...)
We are all Honduras, We resist!

30 June 2009 - by World March of Women, REMTE

The World March of Women and the Red Latinoamericana Mujeres Transformando la Economía join all feminist organizations and social movements from Honduras to condemn and strongly reject the military coup against president Manuel Zelaya Rosales, (...)
Solidarity with the Honduran Members of La Vía Campesina and with the People of Honduras

29 June 2009 - by La Via Campesina

For the past few months the grassroots organizations of Honduras, together with President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, have been promoting and preparing for a national consultation of public opinion on possible constitutional reforms, to be carried (...)
Military Coup in Honduras

29 June 2009 - by SOA Watch

A military coup has taken place in Honduras this morning (Sunday, June 28), led by SOA graduate Romeo Vasquez. In the early hours of the day, members of the Honduran military surrounded the presidential palace and forced the democratically (...)