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Honduras: When Engagement Becomes Complicity

by Laura Carlsen | Mar 15, 2012

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Honduras on March 6 with a double mission: to quell talk of drug legalization and reinforce the U.S.-sponsored drug war in Central America, and to bolster the presidency of Porfirio Lobo.

The Honduran government issued a statement that during the one-hour closed-door conversation between Biden and Lobo, the vice president “reiterated the U.S. commitment to intensify aid to the government and people of Honduras, and exalted the efforts undertaken and implemented over the past two years by President Lobo.”

Carbon Blood Money in Honduras

by Rosie Wong | Mar 9, 2012

With its muddy roads, humble huts, and constant military patrols, Bajo Aguán, Honduras feels a long way away from the slick polish of the recurring UN climate negotiations in the world’s capital cities. Yet the bloody struggle going on there strikes at the heart of global climate politics, illustrating how market schemes designed to “offset” carbon emissions play out when they encounter the complicated reality on the ground.

Honduras: While Corruption and Repression Mushroom, Justice Rots on the Vine

by Mark Engler | Feb 15, 2012

The United States deserves some of the blame for the human-rights disaster that Honduras has become.

An Inconvenient Truth in Honduras

by Rodolfo Pastor Campos | Apr 7, 2011

At the same time that the police and the Honduran army were brutally repressing popular protests of teachers, students, and resistance members for the sixth day in a row, Julissa Reynoso was greeting Honduran President Porfirio Lobo at the presidential palace. According to the press release issued by the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Reynoso was there to recognize President Lobo’s achievements regarding national reconciliation, human rights, and the return to democracy in Honduras.

WikiLeaks IX: Wires Show U.S. Embassy Actually Got It Right on Honduras

by Michael Busch | Dec 1, 2010

WikiLeaks’ Honduras documents exemplify the positive side of American diplomacy.

Honduras and a Divided Latin America

by Robert White | Dec 7, 2009

Amid general rejoicing that the worst may be over, many Hondurans fear that the coup’s success represents a threat to the future stability of a democratic state

Honduran Coup: The U.S. Connection

by Jennifer Doak, Conn Hallinan | Aug 5, 2009

While the Obama administration was careful to distance itself from the recent coup in Honduras — condemning the expulsion of President Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica, revoking Honduran officials’ visas, and shutting off aid — that doesn’t mean influential Americans aren’t involved, and that both sides of the aisle don’t have some explaining to do.

Electoral Hypocrisy in Latin America

by Juan Masullo | Aug 5, 2009

Honduras has been violently crumbling into a state of political crisis since the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya on June 28. The disaster Honduras faces today stands in stark contrast with the political climate in Colombia, even though they have faced similar situations.

Honduras: A Broken System

by Lynn Holland, Emily Schwartz Greco | Jul 24, 2009

President Manuel Zelaya and his opponents now in charge in Honduras remain in a standoff. Inside the country, supporters of both sides are waging mass protests, while concerns continue regarding media censorship. This crisis provides an opportunity to look more closely at the Honduran political system and how it “broke.” Even more importantly, it’s a chance to consider what life is like for the average Honduran and how the United States impacts that small Central American country.

School of Coups

by Roy Bourgeois, Margaret Knapke, Emily Schwartz Greco | Jul 22, 2009

The day after Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was deposed, President Barack Obama cautioned against repeating Latin America’s "dark past," decades when military coups regularly overrode the results of democratic elections. Obama went on to acknowledge, in his understated way, "The United States has not always stood as it should with some of these fledgling democracies."