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HONDURAS: Activists Decry Suspension of Fundamental Rights
Local and international human rights organisations and left-wing legislators condemned the suspension of constitutional rights in Honduras during the night-time curfew, which tightened the state of siege in effect since President Manuel Zelaya was ousted Sunday.HONDURAS: Regime Faces International Isolation
In the midst of the international isolation faced by the new government named by the Honduran Congress to replace President Manuel Zelaya who was ousted Sunday, the courts issued an arrest warrant for the leader Tuesday.HONDURAS: Analysts Call Coup a "Return to the Past"
Sunday’s coup d’etat shows that in Honduras, democracy - which was restored in 1982 - is still hemmed in by the military’s alliance with the economic and political powers-that-be, according to local analysts.HONDURAS: President Overthrown in Military Coup
A group of at least 100 soldiers surrounded the residence of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya early Sunday morning, hauled him out of bed, took him to an air force base and put him on a plane for Costa Rica.HONDURAS: Referendum Row Rocks Democracy
Honduras is caught up in a crisis following the dismissal of the head of the armed forces for refusing to provide logistics and security for a non-binding referendum called by President Manuel Zelaya for Sunday, the legality of which is disputed by the courts and the opposition.AMERICAS: OAS Opens Doors to Cuba Without Conditions
After heated debate, the 39th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) decided Wednesday to lift its 47-year suspension of Cuba, without conditions.HONDURAS: Soldier, Sailor…Airport Builder?
Civilian tasks carried out by the Honduran armed forces seem to have overtaken their traditional role of defending the country and, in the past, quelling internal dissent. As well as engaging in mosquito control and forest protection, soldiers are now building a commercial airport.ECONOMY-HONDURAS: Stormy Outlook for 2009
The economic outlook for Honduras this year is far from bright. The government has failed in its attempts to sign a new letter of intent with the IMF, and growth is expected to slow down due to the global financial crisis, according to analysts consulted by IPS.
HONDURAS: Inventory of Mitch’s Cultural Destruction
When Hurricane Mitch thrashed Honduras and a large portion of Central America in 1998, the scale of the disaster clouded awareness that the winds and rains had also taken a heavy toll on cultural, artistic and historic heritage.
Inventory of Mitch's Cultural Destruction
Historians, restoration experts, filmmakers and geographers are researching and documenting the damage caused by Hurricane Mitch a decade ago to the cultural heritage of Honduras.HONDURAS: President Clashes with Traditional Elites
Some sectors of Honduras’s social and leftist movement, labour unions and other popular organisations are caught up in a revolutionary reverie fruit of President Manuel Zelaya’s strong ties with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez.HONDURAS: Government Advertising Allocation as “Subtle Censorship”
Government practices for allocating official advertising to the Honduran media include reward and punishment policies, payments to individual journalists, and even denial of access to public information - mechanisms that interfere with freedom of expression and the right to information, according to experts.HONDURAS: Joining ALBA ‘A Step Towards the Centre-Left,’ Says President
Honduras has joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), amid criticism from the business community and right-wing political sectors.HONDURAS: The Data You Seek Will Be Available – in 2018
In a highly controversial decision, the Honduran Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) has decided to keep from public scrutiny for 10 years key documents from the Finance Ministry and the tax collection authority.CENTRAL AMERICA: US Has Northern Triangle in Its Sights
Drug trafficking, migration, high crime rates and even a supposed Iranian presence was the cocktail of concerns raised by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on his recent tour of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.HONDURAS: Prosecutors on Hunger Strike against Corruption
Prosecutors in Honduras are on hunger strike to demand the dismissal of the attorney general and his deputy, for failure to investigate cases of corruption. Tension mounted when the president of Congress warned of possible intentions to break with the "constitutional order."HONDURAS: Death Threat Prompts Reporter to Flee Country
The news director of the Radio Cadena Voces (RCV) radio station, Dagoberto Rodríguez, fled Honduras Thursday after the police warned him that he could be killed by "sicarios" (paid gunmen) in the next 72 hours.HONDURAS-NICARAGUA: Sea Border Dispute Laid to Rest
Presidents Manuel Zelaya of Honduras and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua embraced at a border town late Monday to celebrate a legal ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague that put an end to a longstanding maritime border dispute between the two countries.
HONDURAS: Small Improvements in Hurricane Preparedness
With the 2007 hurricane season well underway, Honduras shows improved reaction capacity, but the country still lacks policies to reduce its vulnerability to natural disasters, such as preventing people from building in flood plains like those devastated nine years ago by Hurricane Mitch, say experts.
Small Improvements in Hurricane Preparedness
The aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in 1998 marked the beginning of some protection efforts in Honduras, but there is not yet a national policy for reducing the country's vulnerability to hurricanes.CORRUPTION-HONDURAS: International Aid Hanging by a Thread
The Honduran government of Manuel Zelaya has not been able to overcome the country’s reputation for corruption, to the extent that it is on the point of losing millions of dollars in aid from the Millennium Challenge Account, a fund set up by the United States to help extremely poor countries.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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