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6 July 2009 World Socialist Web Site Honduran troops on Sunday fired on anti-coup demonstrators outside the airport in the capital, Tegucigalpa, killing at least two and wounding many more. Thousands had converged on the heavily guarded airport to show support for...
Nikolas Kozloff, journalist and author of Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left. His previous book is Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. He blogs at senorchichero.blogspot.com JUAN GONZALEZ: Father Bourgeois, we’d like to bring...
From The Socialist Webzine Just two weeks after Iran exploded into protests over contested elections, scenes of angry demonstrators clashing with security forces were repeated in the Central American republic of Honduras. The National Congress accuses President Manuel...
A coup against Honduran president Manuel Zelaya has provoked protests throughout the country. The response of the armed forces, which have taken control, has been the imposition of a curfew and violence. Zelaya comes from the country’s right wing Liberal Party. He...
Sunday, July 5, 2009 DAY 8: COUP GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN ALL AIRPORTS IN HONDURAS TO IMPEDE PRESIDENT ZELAYA'S RETURN The de facto coup government in place in Honduras since last Sunday's coup d'etat has militarized the international airport outside the capital city of...
June 28, 2009 -- Caracas, Venezuela The text message that beeped on my cell phone this morning read: “Alert, Zelaya has been kidnapped, coup d’etat underway in Honduras, spread the word.” It’s a rude awakening for a Sunday morning, especially for the millions of...