Honduras

The agreement between Nike and Honduran workers marks a “coming of age for the student anti-sweatshop movement.”read more

A year after the coup in Honduras, the Obama administration, to its shame, has thrown itself fully behind the country’s ongoing repressive regime.read more

Her shameless embrace of Honduran President Pepe Lobo puts the United States on the side of human rights abusers again.read more

This looks and smells like traditional U.S. policy toward Latin America. It is a policy that traditionally supports power-hungry elites that control most of the wealth at the expense of the majority of the population.read more

As the original date for the Honduran elections, November 29, approaches rapidly, it’s clear that a free and fair election is impossible: The legitimate president, Manuel Zelaya, remains a near-captive in the Brazilian Embassy in the Honduran capital, military repression rages throughout the country and a leftist candidate, Carlos Reyes, is still recovering from a brutal beating by the coup government’s minions.read more

Obama has let the Honduran coup continue by letting the State Department heap scorn on Zelaya.read more

President Obama needs to assert control of U.S. policy toward Honduras.read more

The Obama administration deserves praise for its response to the coup in Honduras. It sends a hopeful signal that Washington’s traditional support for such undemocratic power grabs has ended.read more