Category Archives: Not Hiding in Honduras

Manuel Zelaya fractures femur, receives surgery in DR

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Sabina Becker

An x-ray of Manuel Zelaya’s femoral-head fracture, as reported in Contrainjerencia today. Here’s the story: On Saturday, Dominican surgeons operated successfully on the former president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, for a broken femur, which he suffered in a fall on … Continue reading →

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Honduras: 190 years of independence, and still a banana republic

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Courtesy of YVKE Mundial, an anniversary that could have gone a whole lot better: On the 190th anniversary of the independence of Honduras, former president and now co-ordinator of the Broad Front for Popular Resistance (FARP, in Spanish), Manuel Zelaya, … Continue reading →

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What? The Honduran coup isn’t over yet?

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Nope: Honduran police have turned professional arsonists. Their targets: Honduran peasant villagers. Their employers: Big illegal landowners who refuse to recognize the campesinos’ land claims under a 12-year-old agrarian reform law. Their enemy: President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in 2009 by … Continue reading →

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Manuel Zelaya returns; Honduras coup revisited

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Sabina Becker

This marks the first step in the reversal of the Honduran coup of 2009. Mel is back, and dialogue is ON, babies: Part 1 of several; keep clicking through for the rest. Note that Mel’s plane is one from the … Continue reading →

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Honduran coup benefits Mexican drug gangs

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Sabina Becker

The Honduran people? Not so much… Surprise! Fascism is great for crooks, lousy for law enforcement. It’s not just democracy that suffers.

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The rumors are true!

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Sabina Becker

Anthony dropped this in the comments on my FLFB entry yesterday. Talk about unexpected! Pepe Lobo WAS in Colombia yesterday…and coincidentally (or not so), he was there when Chavecito was, too. So the three of them–Lobo, the ‘Cito, and Juan … Continue reading →

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Wikileaks: The fun begins

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Oh boy, that Wikileaks data-dump that came out today is yielding some nuggets. Here’s some truly disgusting (and very in-character) dirt on the US State Dept. and its activities in Latin America… The digital page of the Spanish newspaper El … Continue reading →

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Viva Evo, FU CIA!

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“If the press is a nest of thugs, let the walls speak!”Need a laugh this dreary Monday morning? Have I got the giggles for you… Bolivian President Evo Morales had a blunt message for the visiting U.S. Pentagon chief on … Continue reading →

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Honduras coup redux: Bananas in pajamas, part 2

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Sabina Becker

So who says history never repeats? First the robber barons of corporate media oust a legitimately elected president of Honduras, and now they threaten to do the same with a more dubious one who still follows in his predecessor’s footsteps … Continue reading →

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Cry me a river, Pepe Lobo!

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“Te-goosey-goosey-galpa–Knock ‘er down and scalp ‘er!Up hers! H’ and your ass!Nobody will halp ‘er!”–from The Sheep Look Up, by John Brunner. Sung to the tune of “Goosey Goosey Gander”. Well, well, well. What have we here? Democracy NOT “restored” in … Continue reading →

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