Associated Press- Bullets flew as U.S. helicopters swooped toward a river boat. Honduran national police rappelled to the ground and locals scattered after loading close to 1,000 pounds of cocaine. Now reverberations from a drug raid that locals say killed four innocent people are being felt from the sultry jungles… read more »
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Tag Archives: Honduras
May 16, 2012
Abducted Honduras reporter Alfredo Villatoro found dead
BBC- Honduran journalist Alfredo Villatoro has been found dead on the outskirts of the capital, Tegucigalpa, a week after he was abducted. Mr Villatoro, a radio reporter, was dressed in a police uniform, Security Minister Pompeyo Bonilla said. He had been kidnapped by a gang of young men on his… read more »
May 11, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL News Blast: On Mother’s Day in Havana and Washington
In the U.S., Mother’s Day is a hallmark of our spring calendar, so we wanted to wish a happy holiday to every mother who reads and enjoys the weekly blast. As you will read below, the organization called Save the Children has released its annual Mothers Index Rating and has… read more »
April 27, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL News Blast: Florida’s Foreign Policy and the eternal cynicism of the sunshine mind
In Florida, relations with Cuba are serious business. Ask Miami Marlin’s manager Ozzie Guillen, publicly shamed and forced to apologize to save his job for talking about Fidel Castro’s longevity. Or worse, ask Airline Brokers Company, a Coral Gables-based travel provider that recently helped fly 340 pilgrims to Cuba for… read more »
April 13, 2012
CUBA CENTRAL Newsblast: Flashback/Fast Forward: Obama, Cuban Docs, and the Summit of the Americas
As President Obama makes his way to Colombia for the Summit of the Americas – “to tout his trade record and convince millions of Hispanic voters back home he cares about the region,” as Reuters tartly reported – we found ourselves thinking back three years when he last attended this… read more »
March 15, 2012
Bloggings by boz: Congress questioning security aid for Honduras
Seven US senators signed a letter to Secretary Clinton asking that the State Department update them on investigations into human rights abuses in Honduras. Twenty percent of the US assistance is to be held up if the State Department does not certify that progress is being made. Separately, and receiving wider attention, 94 members of Congress signed a letter calling for a full cutoff of all aid to Honduras’s police and military. The Congressional letter also asks for updates on specific cases of human rights violations and for information about how the US embassy is working to comply with the Leahy provisions that prohibit the US military from working with or assisting military units that commit human rights abuses.
February 15, 2012
Prison Fire in Honduras Leaves at Least 300 Dead, Official Says
AP – Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates, authorities said Wednesday. Lucy Marder, chief of forensic medicine for the prosecutor’s office, said early Wednesday some 356 people on the prison roster are unaccounted for among 852 prisoners…. read more »
February 7, 2012
UN Expert On Human Rights Defenders Visits Honduras
Press Release, OHCHR – The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms. Margaret Sekaggya, will visit Honduras from 7 to 14 February 2012. “The purpose of the mission is to evaluate, in an objective and impartial manner, the situation of human rights defenders in Honduras,” Mrs. Sekaggya… read more »
January 26, 2012
NYT OP-ED: In Honduras, a Mess Made in the U.S.
Dana Frank, New York Times-It’s time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become. Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup that deposed Honduras’s democratically elected president, José Manuel Zelaya, the country has been descending deeper into a human rights… read more »
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