Quest For Peace
Death Threats against COFADEH Personnel
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.
Tags: State Terrorism against the resistance movement contradicts discource of reconciliation
Feb. 5, 2010 COFADEH
Take Action to Stop Impunity in Honduras
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.
Jesuit Priest seeks FOIA regarding disappearance 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.
More Hondurans Protest Inauguration than Attend
Jan 27th 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.
Declaration of the Hemispheric Social Alliance on Honduras
Honduras: without democracy and without a President. The Resistance continues.
Honduran Coup d’état, a ‘win’ for the U.S.?
January 27, 2010
Today, Pepe Lobo will be inaugurated as the new President of Honduras in what many consider to be an institutionalization of the coup d’état which took place seven months ago. Lobo comes to the Presidency as a result of a highly disputed election process carried out by the coup regime. The elections, which have been widely condemned as illegitimate were boycotted by a large percentage of the Honduran population.
Video: Repression in Honduras
Wed, 01/27/2010 - 11:44am | 
Anonymous Haz un click para español. This powerful video was made by Cesar Silva, a publicist who before the coup in Honduras worked for Channel 8, the State Television Channel. He made this video in collaboration with Edwin Renán Fajardo Argueta. Once the coup happened, and Channel 8 was no longer directed by the Zelaya government, Cesar continued his work as a journalist, but as an individual in collaboration with Edwin.
Honduras’ Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo: Another Disaster for Central American Democracy Waiting in the Wing
by COHA Senior Research Fellow Adrienne Pine
Tomorrow, January 27th, as the world’s eyes continue to be riveted on the unfolding disaster in Haiti, Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo will be installed as Honduras’ president, succeeding de facto president Roberto Micheletti. Lobo, a supporter of the June 28th military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, was chosen in a November election held under conditions of qualified state terror. As the majority of Hondurans boycotted the elections, and dozens of candidates for lower offices withdrew, the vast majority of countries around the world classified the ballot as illegitimate.
Honduras Repressed / Honduras Reprimido
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