Exerpt: AMY GOODMAN: What reports, Mr. President, do you have of the human rights situation right now in Honduras—the murders, the beatings, the bombings? PRESIDENT MANUEL ZELAYA: [translated] There are thousands of prisoners. There are illegal entries without search warrants into homes. Civilian rights have been denied. There’s a state of siege. There is not …
Monthly Archive: July 2009
Jul 28 2009
The United States Finally Gets It
Two GOP lawmakers returned from a weekend trip to Honduras with a heightened understanding of the presidential crisis there — and a proposal for its resolution. Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) told The Hill that a presidential candidate from ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s own Liberal Party gave the visiting congressmen the proposal, which Bilbray is going …
Jul 28 2009
Government Visas Revoked
Washington is reviewing the revocation of several Honduran officials’ diplomatic visas. Today alone, the visas of Tomas Arita, the Supreme Court Justice, and Jose Alfredo Saavedra, the President of Congress, along with two other officials, visas were taken away. Interestingly enough, Tomas Arita happened to be the signing official on the order of detention that …
