Dana Frank
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 07:05
Since 2009 Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has helped depose a democratically elected president in a military coup, ousted part of the country’s Supreme Court and facilitated the illegal appointment of Honduras’ sitting attorney general. Yet the Barack Obama administration continues to champion Hernández as a key regional partner and wants to send even more money to shore up his regime.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 13:24
President Obama has just broken through the Cold War wall to normalize relations with Cuba. But elsewhere in Latin America, in Honduras, his administration is supporting a terrifying military takeover. For the first time in the 16-year history of the position, the country's president has just named an active-duty general from the Armed Forces, Julián Pacheco Tinoco, to be the country's new Minister of Security, with full jurisdiction over the domestic police. Pacheco's ascendance is just the latest in a dangerous militarization of post-coup Honduras.
Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 00:00
The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights of Honduras, an NGO, announced that it had received 5,000 reports of human rights violations last year in the country’s northern region alone.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 00:00
From a Latin American perspective, the Honduran resistance is historically new on many fronts.
Monday, March 22, 2010 - 00:00
People involved in the resistance were bursting with political energy, with an utterly new faith in their power. But they were also well aware of how dangerous the situation is.
Monday, November 30, 2009 - 00:00
Human rights abuses are rampant, freedom of speech is under attack, and the election process is in the hands of the very people who perpetrated the coup