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Obama administration's increased deportations

Up 50% from previous administration. "The thing is it hurts less 'cause he's nicer." Click for original in El Tiempo:

Lobo tries to form human right committee & no one shows up

One more from the annals of the de facto absurd:
A presidential commission will be created to defend human rights

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
President Porfirio Lobo Sosa confirmed yesterday that he will create a presidential committee for human rights that will have the participation of all the civil organizations that defend these principles.

Unsurprisingly atrocious country human rights report

It's not at all shocking that the State Department would use the Country Human Rights Report to whitewash the coup and provide justification for a tightening of neoliberal mechanisms of crime control (further criminalizing poverty and democratic dissent) in Honduras; it's exactly what I'd predicted after my meeting with Christopher Webster in which he smugly responded to my questions about human rights abuses prior to the elections by saying they'd look into them in the country human rights report. I wish I had more time here to break it down here. Meanwhile, have a look.

Lobo appoints SOA-trained military coup protagonist as head of telecom

You read right. General Romeo Vasquez Velásquez has been selected by U.S.-appointed Honduran president Pepe Lobo as head of the embattled Hondutel, which has been the central site of the fight over privatization. For anyone who said Lobo was better than Micheletti, hold on...he's just getting started. From a friend:

NACLA issue on Honduras

I have been traveling and am thus woefully behind in writing about various shocking developments (never say it can't get worse) in Honduras, and will get to that momentarily, ISA. In the meantime, have a look at this month's NACLA:

  • Current issue link [will presumably change at the end of the month]
  • Introduction: "Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup"
    My piece currently appears authorless, but is the one called "Message Control: Field Notes on Washington’s Golpistas." Reader, I hope you'll see fit to purchase the edition and/or donate to NACLA, which continues doing amazing work despite its shoestring budget.
  • Hillary Clinton Visits Guatemala & Honduras

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    HILLARY CLINTON VISITS GUATEMALA & HONDURAS
    March 6, 2010, by Annie Bird, Rights Action

    Juan Almendáres on the military threat to Bajo Aguán

    THREE EIGHTS (I / III)
    Juan Almendares

    The number eight in the vernacular means mess, three eights are three tangles, a horizontal eight in math represents infinity and three eights asleep and aligned imply an infinite maze.

    On 28 February 2010, three days after the appointment of new Chief of the Armed Forces, a story of 888 words highlighted in the newspaper La Prensa: "Guerrilla cell arms itself in Lower Aguan" whose source is, according to the article, a report from the Honduran military intelligence agency.

    The Cabrera nightmare continues...

    The story about the bereaved golpista journalist Carol Cabrera just keeps getting more absurd and tragic. When her 8-months pregnant 16-year-old daughter was assassinated by a soccer gang last December, she and Micheletti immediately went all over the national and international media claiming it was done by the resistance assassins (even his own police force had to shut him up). Micheletti did that mostly, I suspect, to take away from media attention of Walter Tróchez's assassination, carried out by his forces.

    UK Honduras Solidarity Newsletter March 2010

    Click image for 2-page pdf:

    Liberalism in the morgue--Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle

    The dark mass for those who have made a pact with the devil
    for Mayra and Rodil
    by Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle
    my translation

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