Honduras Military Coup to Preserve 1982 Constitution

Resistence to the coup is about the meaning of democracy and basic rights of the people

TEGUCIGALPA (Al Jazeera) – Honduras is a country divided by economic disparity, and members of the tiny group of families that hold the country in their powerful grip speak to Fault Lines.

Social movements are also mobilising in the streets, standing up to repression not just to bring their president back, but to re-found their nation on more equal terms.

Assembly to rewrite the Constitution of 1982  

COFADEH is unique in its kind not only because of the content of its work; it is the only organization that works the cases of the enforced disappeared in Honduras; but also because of the fact that since it´s start it has been an effort lead by women and this is has been very important for their struggle. To this day it are still women who lead and decide the past, present and the future of the organization; including daughters and younger sisters now of the disappeared.

Honduras Coup Resistence Movement for Democracy, Education and Empowerment

Adolfo Facusse Deported from US

(Honduras News) – At least nineteen people in Honduras learned that their visas to visit the United States, diplomatic and otherwise, had been revoked. Among these are Roberto Micheletti Bain, the remaining 14 justicies of the Supreme Court, Luis Rubi (Prosecutor), Carlos Lopez Contreras (Foreign Minister), Marcia Villeda (Congressperson), and Martha Alvarado (Vice Foreign Minister).

Several Honduran business people, whose names are not yet known, are also supposed to have received notices.

One other person found out by surprise, Adolfo Facusse, the head of the National Association of Industries (ANDI), a powerful business group thought to have helped finance the coup, was taken off his flight as he arrived in Miami and held by the ICE agents, and will reportedly be deported back to Honduras today.

Police tear-gas attack on human rights centre, Cofadeh