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!

The sharp increase in the number of children and youth in Honduras has unfortunately continued. In April 2010, the number of children and young people under the age of 23 who were killed on the streets of Honduras was 85, bringing the total number of killings recorded by Casa Alianza Honduras (CAH) since 1998 to 5380, as of April 2010.

Assassinations of journalists in Honduras a crime against press freedom everywhere
Committee in Solidarity With the People of Honduras, Solidarity Coalition for a United Latin America / Vancouver
July 12, 2010

Sudden rainstorms are intense here. This was a couple weeks ago, when the rain came from nowhere. You're actually seeing the car in front of us in one of the shallower parts of this dip.

Rather than go in order, with the backlog I have, I'm just going to throw up the rest of yesterday's pics here and do a better job of recapping the past two weeks after this afternoon's meeting with the auxiliary nurses in resistance. I got distracted.

As you can tell (if you've been following) I'm woefully behind on my notes. So I'm just going to post these photos from today, and add commentary later. It was a pretty impressive parade, and I hear last night's performance event was even better, with something like 2,000 attending, including, of course, Lady Gaga:

(if I only had time to translate this...)
¿QUE TAN DEMOCRÁTICA PUEDE SER LA DEMOCRACIA?

Representation, Resistance, and Indigenous Organizations, posted by RAJ yesterday
This weekend, the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular is reportedly holding elections for regional and national directors.

Not everyone is enthusiastic about the proposed election of representatives in an organization dedicated to advocating for participatory democracy.

The following (both English and Spanish) is from an anonymous email I received yesterday:

The news in Diario Tiempo about the disruption of the meeting that the president of the national congress, Juan Orlando Hernandez, held with oligarchs from San Pedro Sula clearly shows that the Rosenthal the family is AGAINST THE FRENTE NACIONAL DE RESISTENCIA POPULAR, FNRP (NATIONAL FRONT OF POPULAR RESISTANCE, FNRP), given that this powerful business oligarchy now realize that they cannot control the front for their own purposes, and that is the reason why they do not mention that those who interrupted the said meeting were FNRP protesters, with their FNRP flags, all in the name of the FNRP, including trade unionists conglomerated within the front, chanting FNRP slogans, and stating FNRP demands.