Pavelito gives a great rundown of the history of U.S. imperialism in the region and moons the military base, to the music of Café Guancasco's amazing show at ERIC's 30th anniversary concert:

El Libertador has thankfully changed the title of a translation of an article of mine they republished in which they claimed María Otero worked for the CIA, a claim I never made. While I did not and would not state Otero works for the CIA, I'd still argue that it's an understatement to say that the position of the State Department, which she has been representing, needs improvement. I recorded this August 6th Telesur interview with Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs María Otero. In it she states that the problem of human rights is not a condition for readmission to the OAS.

In the morning of July 19th, I walked toward where I had remembered the Colegio de Enfermeras as being, near the Hotel Honduras Maya. I was completely wrong. Still suffering from sleep deprivation from two nights earlier, I stumbled around, unwisely lugging my laptop and everything else I'd brought from my week of travel to the north coast around the streets of Tegucigalpa. At a smaller luxury hotel, I asked the doormen if they knew where the Colegio was. They directed me to the ANEAH instead, but luckily I realized that and kept asking.

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Despite Aguan “Land Agreement”, Continued Repression in Honduran African Palm Oil Plantations
Written by Tamar Sharabi
Thursday, 05 August 2010 19:41

I stayed for a few days in Trujillo, trying to process some of the things I'd been seeing over the previous two months, and rest before my last few intensive days in Honduras and returning back to the States. I found one of those places that backpackers might look for online—not too expensive, out of town and pretty remote, right on the beach, all the right key "green" phrases, good directions. And it was beautiful...

A number of angry responses have come my way, based on a reprinted translation in El Libertador of my earlier article WOLA vs. Honduran Democracy, in which substantive changes were made to my original claims. I'm writing to publicly clarify here that I have never accused WOLA or María Otero of working for the CIA; I have only made arguments that I can back up with concrete evidence.

From: America.govCompList@STATE.GOV
Date: July 29, 2010 9:05:18 PM EDT
Subject: Under Secretary Otero Travels to Honduras August 3-4

Under Secretary Otero Travels to Honduras August 3-4

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
July 28, 2010

MEDIA NOTE

Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero's Travel to Honduras

Hey look! I got a write-up in the school paper (click title for original with links, formatting). This is now 10 days old, but as you can probably tell, I've had very limited internet access for the past few weeks. That changes tomorrow (phew!).

Anthropology Professor Analyzes Resistance Movement
By Ariana Stone
July 21, 2010

It was already hot and sunny when I awoke, and although I couldn't see it, I could feel the ocean nearby. A knight, brought back from California by the home's owner (the Cubans were renting it), stood guard on the porch:

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?