Honduras: ‘Nothing will be the same again’ Federico Fuentes 11 October 2009
*What began as a coup aimed at deposing a millionaire landowner president, whose “crime” had been to gradually shift Honduras away from US control and implement mild pro-people reforms, has spurned on a mass resistance movement with the potential to revolutionise the country. * full article <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/813/41845> Honduras eyewitness; One-hundred days of struggle and no plans to stop Karl Cosser, Tegucigalpa 10 October 2009 *The people of Honduras continue to demonstrate against the illegal coup that overthrew elected President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya on June 28. October 5 marked the 100th day of struggle and 100 days without Mel, the real president of Honduras.* One piece of graffiti reads “100 days of struggle”, while protesters carried placards saying “100 days and the people are not silenced”. It is truly inspiring to see people take to the streets after 100 days of brutal repression from the coup regime, which a majority of Hondurans and other governments and international institutions do not recognise as the genuine government. Full article: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/813/41800 Honduras and the battle for the Americas Federico Fuentes, Caracas 10 October 2009 *US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterating Washington’s support on October 5 for the Arias Plan to resolve the Honduran crisis, which she hoped would “get Honduras back on the path to a more sustainable democracy”. But the plan would see Honduran President Manuel Zelaya return to his post and sit out the rest of his term without any real power.* Clinton said her government was concerned “there has been a pulling away from democracy, from human rights, from the kind of partnership that we would want with our neighbours”. If we remove the Orwellian jargon, what Clinton is saying is clear: at stake today is either the reaffirmation of US hegemony in a region it has long controlled via military dictatorship and puppet neoliberal governments, or the continued advance of a profound democratic movement for change sweeping the continent. full article <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/813/41801> -- A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias." — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism "The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?" — Jarvis Cocker ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
