I got up painfully early and took a rapidito to the San Pedro train station. I'm still getting used to the idea of a centralized depot. Outside the train station, I learned that some guy was killed for assaulting a woman, and that a mulatta had stolen the woman in the bottom photo's baby (herself presumably not a mulatta). Seemed like an interesting detail to stick in the title. Should we look at all women of that description (potentially a majority of Honduran women) as potential baby snatchers?

ORTÉZ COLINDRES'S TONGUE AND THE OAS VOTE
Tuesday at 17:23
my translation

Sexual Diversity and Resistance

During the second half of 2009, after the Honduran people's initial reaction to the vile betrayal perpetrated by the Honduran oligarchy, the strongest popular organization in Honduran history was created.

In the very slow bus on the way to San Pedro on July 11th, somewhere near Siguatepeque, was a graffiti that somewhat dramatically read "dedo manchado dedo cortado" on the wall of a business called ESC Security Consultants. On the same piece of paper where I scribbled that down, thinking about the eternal security theme, I noted how recently three different friends had gotten uncharacteristically angry at me for being late- something that's hard to avoid when I'm doing fieldwork and reliant on other people's timeliness and transportation.

I've been on the road with little internet access, which has meant I've had little chance to write about all the big news from Honduras, let alone catch up on my notes. This does not mean really important things have stopped happening, nor does it signal a long term lapse or change in my priorities. I'll be back soon.

You can read this here, but you really should click on the link for the original in znet for proper formatting.

Written by Kevin Young
Monday, July 5, 2010

The most elementary facts are irrelevant unless they support the preordained narratives

Based on a presentation delivered May 1st at the Unitarian Universalist congregation in Arlington, VA.

Graphic Novel on Honduran Coup: Friday July 23rd @ BloomBars : Exhibit and Fundraiser, sponsored by Colectivo Morazán, Hondurans for Democracy and the Riviera Project

July 23 - 6:00-9:00 p.m.
BloomBars
3222 11th Street NW
Colombia Heights Metro

Join us this Friday to celebrate the transformative power of art in the face of overwhelming adversity.

The OAS (Organization of American States) will meet for its General Assembly on Friday, the 30th of July, as mandated by the Resolution agreed upon during its last Assembly in Lima, Peru, to address the Honduran crisis and decide whether conditions in the country allow for it to be readmitted to the Organization, from which it was expelled the 4th of July, 2009 as a result of the 28th of June coup that same year.

The now ironic special issue of La Tribuna, Saturday October 15, 2005:

PUBLIC LETTER TO THE CIVIC COUNCIL OF POPULAR AND INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS OF HONDURAS, COPINH

The truth will only come out through the people's struggle to defend life, liberty, and the rights of Mother Earth

Juan Almendares

Dear compañeros and compañeros

I send my affectionate, humble and respectful greetings this July 20th, day dedicated to Lempira, the first symbol of national liberation.

Let us celebrate life every day, whether we face pain, suffering or happiness!