Honduras’ congress has approved a measure that may allow referendums on once-taboo subjects like re-election and term limits, the hot-button issues behind the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in 2009. There is a measure of irony in the changes approved Wednesday night: Congress justified the removal of the leftist Zelaya in large part on […]
Judge Claudio Aguilar said Friday that he can’t hear the corruption case against ousted former head of state Manuel Zelaya, because Zelaya is now a high-ranking public official. Zelaya holds a seat in the Central American Parliament, a strategic move thought to hinder the ex-president from serving jail time because such a position could entitle […]
Ricardo Alfredo Martínez Castañeda, the former Minister of Tourism during the government of Manuel Zelaya, has been accused of the crime of tax fraud against the State. According to the prosecutor’s document, the Minister, Mr. Martínez, was also a representative of the company AeroHonduras S. A. As the Minister of Tourism, he was responsible for […]
President Porfirio Lobo Sosa is the only head of state from Latin America who was not invited to the inauguration of Brazil’s president-elect, Ms. Dilma Rousseff. 47 other heads of state in the region will be attending. The official reason for the exclusion is that Brazil does not recognize him as the “legitimate president”. A […]
A new WikiLeak cable written in May of 2008 suggests that some U.S. diplomats might not have been too distraught to see former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya go. The document, signed by then U.S. ambassador to Honduras, Charles Ford, laughs at Zelaya as “almost a caricature of the land-owner ‘caudillo’ whose goal as president was […]