Development is the Donut. And NGOs are the Hole.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 20:29 — AP

I wrote this (unfinished) post last early August. I had plans to seek more data, tidy it up and publish it in a more reputable venue, but it's six months later now and time to let this one go. Enjoy.

Psst...wanna buy a drone? Marco Cáceres' company's peace-promotion

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 14:06 — AP

Honduras Weekly, Marco Cáceres' evangelical golpista soapbox disguised as a newspaper is now publishing primarily reprints, including the ever-trustworthy Drug-War cheerleaders at InSight. Meanwhile, the USAID and DoD-funded sex-offender socio is busy back home in Virginia at Teal Group, helping prepare Honduras for even more democracy than it got from the "Good Coup" by marketing drones (doubtless coming soon to the Moskitia).

Oaktown event

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 10:42 — AP

I have a chapter in this book (coming out in November) with some interviews from Honduran activists.
Speak Out Now presents…

Current Struggles in Latin America

El Comando de los Drones: Comando Sur, Injerencia militar en America Latina, espionaje y bases.

Mon, 02/04/2013 - 08:00 — AP

Perhaps the most awesome video I've been featured in yet.

Murders of Young People on the Rise in Honduras

Sun, 02/03/2013 - 11:50 — AP

An anonymous journalist writing about the Honduran mess who remembers a coup happened:
Murders of Young People on the Rise in Honduras
EFE. January 31, 2013

Hondurans under the age of 23 are being murdered at the rate of 76 a month, compared with 45 youth homicides monthly in 1998, the Honduras branch of Covenant House says in a report released on Thursday.

Navy Special Forces Help Honduras Form Counter Trafficking Force

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 12:47 — AP

Woe to the peoples of the Moskitia. From SOUTHCOM's main propaganda site:

Navy Special Forces Help Honduras Form Counter Trafficking Force

US Southern Command/Public Affairs Office
30/01/2013

Rep. Johnson & 57 colleagues (58 total) call for investigation into DEA killings in Honduras

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 11:22 — AP

Rep. Johnson, 57 colleagues call for investigation into DEA-related killings in Honduras
Contact: Andy Phelan at 404-593-9126

Jan. 30, 2013

Rep. Johnson, 57 colleagues call for investigation into DEA-related killings in Honduras

Members call for review of counter-drug operations affecting Afro-Indigenous communities

Honduras "no longer functioning"

Sun, 01/27/2013 - 19:48 — AP

Honduras can't pay its bills, neglects services is the title of the Huffington Post's version of Alberto Arce's latest article. NBC is more blunt, with its Honduras 'no longer functioning' after plunging over fiscal cliff. But Honduras hasn't been functioning for a while (in the sense meant here).

With the Help of the US Military, the Persecution and Manhunt of Campesinos Continues

Sun, 01/27/2013 - 10:48 — AP

Translation of yesterday's MUCA communique (below) from Greg McCain:

The wave of persecutions of the peasants of the Bajo Aguán is lived day to day. Today Tiburcio Diaz (57), a business partner of La Lempira cooperative belonging to the Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguan (MUCA), was arrested by members of the Police at 3:00 pm on his way to the livestock area in the same settlement.

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