Honduran military police on patrol in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Photo: Karen Spring) teleSUR | May 25, 2015 The 1980s saw widespread political violence and countless forced disappearances in many countries in Latin America, and Honduras was no exception. Hundreds of political opponents of the 1980s U.S.-backed regime were kidnapped, tortured, and assassinated by the CIA-trained secret […]
Re-Militarizing Honduras By NICK ALEXANDROV | CounterPunch | February 13, 2015 Nearly a decade ago, a keen observer of Honduras produced a damning analysis of the country. “In a very real sense, Honduras is a captured state,” he began. “Elite manipulation of the public sector, particularly the weak legal system, has turned it into a […]
What Liberia is to shipping companies, Canada is for mining companies.
— Theresa Wolfwood, Director of the Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, April 12, 2013
Government propaganda is based on repeating that security has improved with militarization teleSUR | December 24, 2014 In Honduras, after one year of President Juan Hernandez’s term, there has been an increase in privatization, militarization and budget cutbacks in public services. It is expected this will continue next year, but social movements say that they […]
Weekly News Update on the Americas | December 8, 2014 A decree by Costa Rican president Luis Guillermo Solís authorizing payments to former banana workers sickened by the pesticide Nemagon became official on Dec. 1 with the measure’s publication in the government’s gazette. Under the decree the government’s National Insurance Institute (INS) will pay out […]
Maintenance workers at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa., airport shot and killed a bear and her three cubs.
By James Petras | October 31, 2014 The principal reason why Washington engages in military wars, sanctions and clandestine operations to secure power abroad is because its chosen clients cannot, and do not, win free and open elections. A brief survey of recent election outcomes testify to the electoral unattractiveness of Washington-backed clients. The majority […]
By Dan Beeton | CEPR | October 31, 2014 Karen Spring of the Honduran Solidarity Network writes that in a recent meeting … Juan Orlando Hernández (President of Honduras), Daniel Ortega (President of Nicaragua), and Salvador Sánchez Cerén (President of El Salvador) defined their nation’s [sic] interests in projects that would develop the [shared area […]
The principal reason why Washington engages in military wars, sanctions and clandestine operations to secure power abroad is because its chosen clients cannot, and do not, win free and open elections.
Communities lose out to oil palm plantations GRAIN | September 22, 2014 Palm oil is not something you would associate with a Mexican kitchen. But go to any supermarket in the country, and you will find countless products containing it. The country’s food system has changed immensely since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) […]
