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18-Month Struggle To Free Honduran Political Prisoner

August 22, 2019 By Erika Engel, Collingwoodtoday.ca ,
In an apartment in Honduras’ capital city Tegucigalpa, a husband and wife played chess together for the first time. It might seem an ordinary scene - boring even - but it’s an experience both feared would never happen. Edwin Espinal has been separated from his wife since they were married, after becoming a prisoner in a maximum-security detention centre in Honduras. His life has been threatened by criminals and he has battled disease, infection, and malnutrition. He was charged with inciting terrorism - a charge so loosely defined in Honduran law, it has been condemned by the United Nations.

US-Trained Honduran Police Get Midievel

August 18, 2019 Adrienne Pine, Mintpress News. , , ,
Tegucigalpa, Honduras -  “It’s sad how the United States is supporting this corrupt government,” Honduran political prisoner Edwin Espinal told MintPress News immediately after his release from prison, where he had spent 19 months. Edwin’s case — and the medieval violence to which U.S.-trained police in Honduras tried to subject me — perfectly illustrate the often lethal repression that has fueled the migrant crisis. After hours of police hurling stones and tear gas at student protesters last week, young children gathered the aluminum scraps from the ground to sell, underscoring that the poverty brought on by U.S.-backed neoliberal measures has gone hand-in-hand with police violence in fueling the human-rights catastrophe at the heart of the central American exodus.

Protests And Repression Continue in Honduras

August 15, 2019 Staff, Resumen ,
This new round of protests are a continuation of struggle undertaken by the Honduran people to reject the Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH) government, accused by courts in the United States of allegedly receiving money from drug trafficking to fund his election campaign. The main thrust of the protests is calling for the immediate resignation of JOH and that he should brought to justice for corruption and impunity he has spread in the country. Social leader Salvador Zuñiga said protests are stronger every day to demand the ending of what he called a narco-government.

Protests In Honduras Intensify As President Implicated In Drug Trafficking

August 15, 2019 Greg Wilpert, Real News. , , ,
The protests against Honduras’s President, Juan Orlando Hernandez, which have been going on for several months now, are showing no signs of letting up. If anything, they have been intensifying ever since it became known last week that Hernandez was involved in a conspiracy to use drug trafficking money to support his 2013 presidential election campaign. That is, on August 3rd, the television channel Univision published a report that cited documents related to his brother’s drug trafficking trial in the United States. According to these documents, Hernandez’s brother, Tony Hernandez, has been involved in drug trafficking since 2004. As a drug trafficker, he funneled $1.5 million to the presidential campaign of his brother.

‘Fuera JOH’: Honduras Protests, Police Respond With Violence

August 8, 2019 From Daniel Langmier, Honduras Forum Switzerland. , , ,
Protests are happening daily now calling for the president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, to resign. Here is a compilation of reports provided by The Honduras Solidarity Network we received last night. Honduras lived through another day of protest and the participants suffered more repression by the JOH regime. The international press started to cover this new wave of protests. The Honduras Solidarity Network denounces three injured students at least one by bullets, in Tegucigalpa. In San Pedro Sula, the police threw tear gas into buses transporting university students. UNAH dean Francisco Herrera called it "a barbaric act". The Platform for the Defense of Education and Healthcare calls for new protests today including one in front of the MP demanding the issuance of an arrest warrant against JOH and his family.

Hunger Strike In La Tolva Prison In Honduras

August 7, 2019 Staff, Afgj.salsalabs.org , ,
On Monday August 5, Honduran Political Prisoners Edwin Espinal, Raúl Álvarez and Rommel Herrera started a hunger strike inside of La Tolva maximum-security military run prison in order to protest the unjust, inhumane and dangerous conditions they have been subjected and that have put their lives at risk. The Honduran Political Prisoners have been joined by a broad section of the Honduran social movement led by the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, who organized a rolling fast outside Honduran Public Prosecutor’s Office from August 5-9.

The End Of A Cocaine-Fueled Presidency? Juan Orlando Hernandez Faces Regime Change In Honduras

August 6, 2019 By Adrienne Pine, Mintpressnews.com , , ,
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — Flanked by ministers and military and police leadership, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez — embattled after being slapped with new drug trafficking allegations in the U.S. — held a press conference on the night of Saturday, August 3rd to declare his innocence. The accusations against him include funneling cocaine profits into his re-election campaign and shielding his brother and other drug kingpins from prosecution.

“The US Got Scared” Voices Of The Resistance In Post-Coup Honduras

July 22, 2019 By Alexander Rubinstein, Mintpressnews.com , , ,
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — MintPress News went to Honduras and spoke with a number of leaders of the Honduran resistance amid a 66-day uprising over a neoliberal austerity deal reached between the government as the country marked the 10-year anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup d’etat. Last Thursday, the Honduran government passed a privatization law, the run-up to which had triggered uprisings challenging the mandate of President Juan Orlando Hernandez and protesting the implementation of a privatization deal reached with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — a deal kept secret until this week.

Honduras Erupts On Eve Of 10th Anniversary Of Coup

July 2, 2019 Greg Wilpert, Therealnews.com ,
GREG WILPERT It’s The Real News Network and I’m Greg Wilpert in Baltimore. Just when the people of Honduras are marking the 10-year anniversary of the coup d’état that forced then President Manuel Zelaya from office, Honduras is in turmoil. Protests have been taking place almost constantly for the past two months against government decrees to impose austerity and cutbacks in the education sector and in healthcare. Increasingly, the government has brought out the country’s military to repress protesters because the police have often joined these protests as well.

Ten Years Since The US-Backed Coup In Honduras

July 1, 2019 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org , , ,
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the US-backed coup that overthrow the elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, who was dragged out of the presidential palace in his pajamas by armed troops, bundled onto an airplane and flown out of the country. This event ushered in a decade of unending repression by a succession of extreme right-wing and deeply corrupt governments.

Honduras: Ten Years Of Coups And Neoliberalism

June 26, 2019 Katu Arkonada, La Jornada , , ,
Riot control police in Honduras have called off a three day work stoppage demanding better food and pay hikes, but they warned, they are not going back to repress thousands of demonstrators who are in the streets demanding President Juan Orlando Hernandez to quit. Popular mobilizations have been following one another in Honduras. Now, 60,000 doctors and teachers are struggling against a political system that is trying, at the orders of the International Monetary Fund, to privatize health and education. There is so much people’s support in those demonstrations that the National Police joined the strike...

Why Hondurans Set Fire To The US Embassy

June 18, 2019 Alex Rubinstein, Thegrayzone.com , , ,
The streets of Honduras were filled with protesters and clouds of tear gas as the month of June began. The national police fanned out through the country to crush the protests with heavy-handed tactics at the direction of President Juan Orlando Hernández, the US-supported neoliberal leader who won power in elections marred by documented fraud. As the protests peaked, fire was set to the doors of the American embassy in the capital, Tegucigalpa, in an apparent act of retribution against the United States for its role in propping up the widely unpopular president.

The Roots Of The National Strike In Honduras: An Interview with Bayron Rodríguez Pineda

June 14, 2019 Beth Geglia, Nacla.org , , ,
As the 10-year anniversary of the coup d’état in Honduras approaches, Hondurans are entering into their second week of a national strike that has shut down main highways throughout the country, drawn massive street mobilizations, and reignited calls for the president’s resignation. Led primarily by teachers and doctors under the leadership of the national Health and Education Defense Platform (La Plataforma), the strikes represent staunch opposition to the Juan Orlando Hernández government’s reforms to the health and education systems.

300 US Southcom Troops Arrive In Honduras To Teach ‘Humanitarian Assistance’

June 8, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , ,
Another Southern Command brigade of U.S. Navy and Marine soldiers arrived in Honduras this week as part of what the U.S. Embassy in Honduras has called "a multi-national disaster response task force" released Tuesday. Some 300 members of the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Southern Command (SPMAGTF-SC), more widely known as Southcom (or in Latin America as Comando Sur), will work together with their Latin American and Caribbean counterparts to improve response to disasters and “other crisis situations” as well as strengthen international security forces throughout the region.

“This Is A War Against The Honduran People”

May 22, 2019 By Zoe PC, Peoplesdispatch.org , ,
Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández announced on May 6 that the country had arrived at an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a 311 million dollar loan. He stated that the agreement would help support the growth of Honduras’ “privileged” economy which continues to outshine the rest of the economies in the region and it would help “support social mobility” for the most vulnerable in Honduras. His comments are seemingly out of touch with reality as 65% of Honduras’ population lives in poverty with over 40% in conditions of extreme poverty.
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