Militarism in Honduras
August 8, 2010 22:30 COFADEH

Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras.
Sanare, Venezuela June 21, 2010
Translated by Organización Política Los Necios

Both this Quixote Center delegation (announcement from an August 2 email) and that described in the previous post are great opportunities to be in solidarity with the Honduran people in their struggle for real independence on September 15th and beyond.

As we mentioned in our email on Friday, the Honduran accompaniment work and other Latin America programs currently housed at the Quixote Center will be transferring to a new home at the Nicaragua-US Friendship Office founded by Rita Clark D'Escoto.

Join the Central American Independence Day Delegation to
HONDURAS • September 14-22
CLICK HERE for pdf flier

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.

Click title for original in UDW with formatting and images:
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