On the evening of November 29, the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced that a technical error had impeded the “second verification of data” in the tallying of the day’s election results. The error had occurred despite repeated TSE claims that the efficiency of its tallying process would enable Honduras and the world to become acquainted with the country’s next president within hours of the closing of the polls. […]
"We wanted the constituyente so that the poor would finally have a voice with which to speak. In the past we were left on the fringe, not allowed to enter into society because if we ever tried they would break our nose with the door." -Juliana, grandmother, protestor, 80 years old. This six minute video talks with Hondurans in the streets about their thoughts on democracy.
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"I call myself a veteran Defender of Human Rights- it sounds better than old- and as I sit down to write this I feel ill at ease, perhaps because I have the idea that over the long process of the last few decades, we had achieved some small and relative advances in the area of Human Rights. Perhaps its because I always look towards the past in order to spy into the future and, of course, to check on the present ." -Bertha Oliva de Nativi of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras
What the Guaymuras Accords actually do most is create a space for the United States to recognize the legitimacy of the upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for November 29. With National Party front-runner Pepe Lobo likely to win (thanks to a campaign season in which any independent voices were sharply silenced by media censorship), the US also likely secures another puppet in the region who will be opposed to the progressive social, economic and political reforms being articulated and demanded by the country’s social movements. […]
In this documentary, Johannes Wilm shows his conversations with students fighting against the military coup in Honduras. Wilm went to Honduras to film the oppositionj to the coup in early August 2009, and he happened to be there on the 5th of August, when police clashed with 3000 students in the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH).
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Even as tireless Honduran protesters approach their 100th day of resistance, continuing to avoiding police tear gas and attend funerals of slain resisters, some facets of quotidian Tegucigalpa life continue under the dictatorship. Yet the literal writing on the walls deny the state of calm that the coup leaders claim exists and expose the state of exception that they impose. These photos capture the ongoing conversations in a shrinking space for expression. […]
"The people of Honduras and the popular movement have suffered a big blow at the hands of what we are calling a dictatorship, and which has been a criminal and repressive violation of human rights." Berta Cáceres, a leader with COPINH, the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras. COPINH is a leading organization in the National Front Against the Coup in Honduras. Berta has been around for years in the campesino struggle for land rights, but says that in responding to the repressive conditions imposed by the coup government, struggle in Honduras has been elevated to a new level. […]
A preliminary report drafted by members of the American Association of Jurists, the National Lawyers Guild, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the International Association against Torture affirms that the overthrow and kidnapping of President Manuel Zelaya was in fact a military coup. The report considers the lack of an independent judiciary in Honduras as part of the context in which this occurred and points to powerful economic and political groups opposed to social advances being made by Zelaya as the driving force behind the coup. […]
Nearly three months after being overthrown by a violent military coup, Honduran president Manuel Zelaya has returned to
Paulino, 42, is an ex-diver from Brus Laguna. He has been paralysed from the waist down for 11 years, after being exposed to such a high level of nitrogen that his nerve system shut down. He is one of hundreds and hundreds of young handicapped ex-divers along the coast. […]
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