An Amnesty International delegation will be traveling to Honduras between November 24th and December 4th to assess the human rights situation in the context of the political crisis. The delegation plans to meet with a range of individuals including local human rights organizations, journalists, and prosecutors to discuss and document the state of human rights […]
Members of the Los Angeles-area electoral board that will oversee local voting in the Nov. 29 Honduran presidential election have been sworn in by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras. There are 10 people on the board, with representatives from six Honduran political parties. “We’re working to organize the entire election process in Los Angeles,” […]
The U.S. envoy to Honduras, Craig Kelly, reiterated today support for the elections of November 29th as part of the solution “to the crisis in Honduras”. “An important part of the solution to move forward are the Honduran elections,” said the Undersecretary of State who arrived in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday. “Nobody has the right to […]
The following is an interpretation and translation of an article appearing in the Honduran Newspaper, “El Heraldo”. The original article (spanish) can be read here. A solitary Manuel Zelaya, a refugee without power in an embassy of another country, has decided he will not comply with the agreement that his own delegates signed. The former […]
PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC From the Desk of Mr President Tegucigalpa, November 14, 2009 S. E. BARACK OBAMA U.S. PRESIDENT Washington D. C. Dear President Obama: When we met for the first time on July 8 with the Secretary of State Clinton after the coup was left clear to me and to the world the […]