The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) are denouncing that today, Sunday, February 7 at 8 am, Caniel Martinez, who was in the offices of our organization received a phone call from the number 222-71-44 in which a woman told him, “Be careful there will be an attack against you, especially those of you who are in the street”.  Martinez states that when he asked the women who was calling she hung up the telephone.

Feb. 5, 2010 COFADEH

IQALUIT, Canada (Reuters) – Group of Seven countries have told earthquake-ravaged Haiti that any debts it owes them needn't be repaid and international lenders should do the same, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Saturday.

"The debt to multilateral institutions should be forgiven and we'll work with these institutions and other partners to make this happen as soon as possible," Flaherty said at press conference closing a two-day gathering of finance ministers from the G7 industrialized nations.

Read the entire article here.

Jubilee USA Welcomes US Government Support of Haiti Debt Cancellation

As G7 Finance Ministers Prepare to Meet, Treasury Secretary Geithner Announces Support to Cancel Debt and Provide Grants, Not Loans for Recovery

For Immediate Release February 5th
Jubilee USA Network

Read the original ABP article here.

By Fritz Gutwein
Friday, February 05, 2010

(ABP) -- The arrest and jailing in Haiti of 10 Southern Baptists on charges of kidnapping and criminal association is appropriate and consistent with gospel values.

Ahead of G-7 Finance Ministers Meeting, 94 Members of Congress Urge Treasury Secretary Geithner to Cancel Haiti’s Debt, Provide Grants instead of Loans for Recovery

For Immediate Release February 4, 2010
Jubilee USA Network

As Finance Ministers from the Group of Seven prepare to meet tomorrow in Canada, pressure grows for the leaders to commit to definitive cancellation of Haiti’s debts to international institutions.

On January 27, 2010 a new president assumed office in Honduras in what the resistance movement considers an institutionalization of the June 2009, military coup d’état. The Generals directly involved in the coup were granted immunity, reinforcing the culture of impunity that humans rights defenders have worked so hard to dismantle in Honduras.   

February 3, 2010 Fr. Joe Mulligan, a Nicaraguan-based priest is hoping that letters to President Obama and members of Congress can lead to more information being revealed about the fate of a fellow Irish-American Jesuit who disappeared in Honduras in1983.  Read his most recent article.

 Jan 27^th 2010 Tegucigalpa, Written by Chris Dadok

In the capital Tegucigalpa, buses and private cars surround the stadium as political party members, congressmen, international delegates, and mayors enter to attend the inauguration of the recently declared president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa.  Despite the high attendance close to 20,000, the stadium stands unfilled.  Outside on Boulevard Fuerza Armadas -passing under the bridges inscribed with political graffiti – over 200,000 Honduran teachers, small business owners, lawyers, youth, farmers, and many other employed and unemployed people march 5 kilometers across the city.  They are protesting what they see as corruption and an illegitimate government. The simultaneous rallies mark the divided nature in which the coup d’état has left Honduras.

Honduras: without democracy and without a President.  The Resistance continues.