May 8 photos of teachers' hunger strike, Tegucigalpa Mon, 05/09/2011 - 17:22 AP
http://quotha.net/node/1760 ----------------------- http://quotha.net/node/1759 Hondurans Demand Closing of School of the Americas Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:44 AP INSIDECOSTARICA.COM | CENTRAL AMERICA NEWS BRIEFS | Sunday 08 May 2011 Hondurans Demand Closing of School of the Americas<http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2011/may/08/centralamerica11050801.htm> Tegucigalpa - Over 100 Honduran and U.S. people gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa to demand the closing of the School of the Americas. According to press reports, demonstrators urged government officials and civil society organizations to prevent more Honduran soldiers from being trained at that base. Catholic priest Roy Bourgois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch, led the protest. The School of the Americas was founded in 1946 and operated in Panama until 1984, when it was moved to Fort Benning, Georgia, in the United States. As of 2004, Honduras had sent nearly 3,566 soldiers to train at the School of the Americas, many of whom applied in this Central American country the torture skills learned there. The high-ranking officers who took part in the coup against President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009 trained in what is also known as School of Assassins. --------------------- http://www.soaw.org/component/content/article/78/3692-statement-of-soa-watch-delegation-to-us-embassy-in-honduras Statement of SOA Watch Delegation to US Embassy in Honduras<http://www.soaw.org/component/content/article/78/3692-statement-of-soa-watch-delegation-to-us-embassy-in-honduras> [image: PDF]<http://www.soaw.org/component/content/article/78/3692-statement-of-soa-watch-delegation-to-us-embassy-in-honduras?format=pdf> [image: Print]<http://www.soaw.org/component/content/article/78/3692-statement-of-soa-watch-delegation-to-us-embassy-in-honduras?tmpl=component&print=1&page=> [image: E-mail]<http://www.soaw.org/component/mailto/?tmpl=component&link=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zb2F3Lm9yZy9jb21wb25lbnQvY29udGVudC9hcnRpY2xlLzc4LzM2OTItc3RhdGVtZW50LW9mLXNvYS13YXRjaC1kZWxlZ2F0aW9uLXRvLXVzLWVtYmFzc3ktaW4taG9uZHVyYXM%3D> (español abajo<http://www.soaw.org/component/content/article/78/3692-statement-of-soa-watch-delegation-to-us-embassy-in-honduras#español> ) May 6, 2011 We are a delegation of the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WATCH that has come to Honduras to learn about the current situation of human rights in the country. SOAW previously came to Honduras immediately following the June 2009 coup orquestrated by SOA graduates General Romeo Vásquez and General Luis Prince Suazo. We return to get first hand information about the human rights situation in the country under the regime of Porfirio Lobo. In our six days in Honduras we have met with professors, students, farmers, workers, religious leaders, journalists, human rights defenders, family members of victims of political assassination, international observers, as well as with organizations of environmentalists, the LGBT community, women, unions and teachers. Our visits have taken place in Tegucigalpa, El Progreso, Ceiba, Trujillo, Tocoa and communities of the Lower Aguan. [image: honduras]We find ourselves profoundly concerned by the grave and widespread situation of human rights violations, the involvement of government security forces, and the total impunity that reigns in the country. The severity and extent of repression of the Lobo regime in recent months exceeds that of the first weeks under Micheletti. Extrajudicial executions, violent repression of protest, death threats and harrassment are being methodically implemented to halt resistance to government efforts to offer Honduras to the highest bidder, as is evident in the Honduras is Open for Business conference currently taking place. We found clear complicity between government officials, security forces and the private corporate sector in their bid for the land, skills, labor and natural resources of Honduras. We note that sectors of society that have been especially affected by this violent repression are journalists, human rights defenders, teachers, small farmers, members of the LGBT community, union leaders, students, and women. The Lobo regime is illegal and should not be recognized by the United States, nor by the Organization of American States. As U.S. citizens we are concerned that our government has allowed this illegal regime to continue through multiple sources of U.S. financing. We are especially concerned about our government´s direct responsibility for increased militarization of Honduras, resulting in the killing, repression and harassment of citizens of Honduras who struggle for dignity and for democracy. We therefore call on our government to : - Immediately suspend U.S. assistance to the military and police - Insist that the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa publicly denounce violence and threats against defenders and activists - Pressure the Honduran government to end abuse by official security forces by suspending, investigating and prosecuting those implicated in human rights violations. - Insist that the Honduran government be pressed to vigorously implement the measures recommended by the IACHR to protect human rights defenders and journalists. - End U.S. military presence at and funding for the Palmerola, Guanaja, and Caratasca bases Adrianne Aron Fr. Roy Bourgeois Sherrill Hogen Ken Jones John Lamperti Karina Macias Mary Anne Perrone Gail Presbey Joan Reidy Lisa Sullivan --------------------- Goldcorp, Honduran Regime Cover up blood & urine testing and poisoning at San Martin Mine <http://quotha.net/node/1758>Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:43 AP Rights Action - May 9, 2011 Goldcorp Impunity Watch in Honduras THE REAL COST OF GOLD IN HONDURAS: GOLDCORP & HONDURAN REGIME COVER-UP BLOOD & URINE TESTING & POISONING AT "SAN MARTIN" MINE BELOW: Article by Karen Spring and Grahame Russell - Please re-distribute this information all around - To get on/off Rights Action's listserv click here<http://www.rightsaction.org/> - What to do: see below ------------------------------ THE REAL COST OF GOLD IN HONDURAS: GOLDCORP & HONDURAN REGIME COVER-UP BLOOD & URINE TESTING & POISONING AT "SAN MARTIN" MINE By Karen Spring and Grahame Russell, Rights Action, April 27, 2011 Going back to at least 2007, Goldcorp Inc. and the government of Honduras have known about and covered up information about blood poisoning and health problems caused by Goldcorp's open-pit, cyanide leaching "San Martin" mine in the Siria Valley, department of Francisco Morazan, central Honduras. This mine is operated by Goldcorp's subsidiary Entremares. - AP's blog <http://quotha.net/blog/1> - Login<http://quotha.net/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F1758%23comment-form>or register<http://quotha.net/user/register?destination=comment%2Freply%2F1758%23comment-form>to post comments - Read more <http://quotha.net/node/1758> Craig Kelly, from the State Department to straight-up golpista propagandizing (not much of a shift) <http://quotha.net/node/1757>Mon, 05/09/2011 - 10:00 AP Craig Kelly lauds the level of reconciliation in Honduras May 6, 2011, Tatiana Paz Morel (transl. VC) The North American states that an event like HOB couldn't be organized without reconciliation. San Pedro Sula, Honduras "It is a great pleasure to return to Honduras under these conditions of optimism and to see the great progress that the country has achieved". So began the ex Undersecretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs for the United States, Craig Kelly's participation in Honduras Open for Business. Kelly currently is the Vice President of the company, The Cohen Group. - AP's blog <http://quotha.net/blog/1> - Login<http://quotha.net/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F1757%23comment-form>or register<http://quotha.net/user/register?destination=comment%2Freply%2F1757%23comment-form>to post comments - Read more <http://quotha.net/node/1757> Raw notes from inside HOB <http://quotha.net/node/1756>Sat, 05/07/2011 - 17:21 AP [Note: these are not presented as any sort of an analysis; just a laying out of the way discussion was framed in the *golpista*'s terms themselves, and of the country vision and the national plan (decree 286-2009). This comes from Colectivo Morazán, reporting from the inside] - AP's blog <http://quotha.net/blog/1> - Login<http://quotha.net/user/login?destination=comment%2Freply%2F1756%23comment-form>or register<http://quotha.net/user/register?destination=comment%2Freply%2F1756%23comment-form>to post comments - Read more <http://quotha.net/node/1756> Online Action <http://quotha.net/node/1755>Sat, 05/07/2011 - 17:03 AP Click on this link<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/727/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6686>to send a message your Representative and urge him/her to sign two important Congressional sign-on letters related to human rights in Latin America. The first is a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging her to pressure the Honduran government to end human rights abuses in Honduras. The second is a letter to President Barack Obama requesting him to issue an executive order closing the SOA/WHINSEC. 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